The Spiritual Foundations of Aikido Book by William Gleason Vulkan Facing the Close (Tempo and

Facing the Close (Tempo and Pace) — Using chest opening and closing

Ability to hit with more force

inheriting the techniques and spirit of Issei Uechi and Sankichi Uehara

Chudan Tsuki (Middle-level Thrust)

The Spiritual Foundations of Aikido Book by William Gleason Vulkan Facing the Close (Tempo andMorihei Ueshiba, who founded Aikido early in this century, intended that his martial art would give form to profound spiritual truth, and lead to a unification of the world's peoples. He saw Aikido not as a fighting method or as a competitive sport but rather as a means of becoming one with the laws of universal order ki, or life energy. Unfortunately, the subtleties of Ueshiba's teachings, veiled in the esoteric terminology of Shinto, can be puzzling