“Kicking leaves you momentarily on one foot, and for that moment you are in a very weak position. If you were to be swept off your feet, you would be finished. This is why lifting your feet off the ground is crazy.”

As quoted in Aikido Shugyo (1991) by Gōzō Shioda, p. 79

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