Your basics, hard or soft, are the roots of and the key to learning advanced budo.

DISCOVER:

• How to TEST basics
• How to choose the ideal “Proper” FORM
• How to vary and TRANSMUTE basics
• How to draw PRINCIPLES from VARIATIONS

With examples from Aiki, Karate, and Seiken Budo, this study is an introduction to and a summary of 15+ years of work in Sogo Budo. From the book by the same name.

CONTENTS:

I. a FOUNDATION is slowly and meticulously constructed

• Introduction
• Two Sets of Basics
• TESTING
• PROPER FORM
• VARIATION

II. the resulting SPIRE is minimal and functional

• Between Variation & Principles
• PRINCIPLE
• TRANSMUTATION