The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feeli…

- Toshitsugu Takamatsu

The heart of taijutsu is important and only through training will one polish that heart (like a gem) and understand true taijutsu.

- Toshitsugu Takamatsu

When I was taught the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu Kihon Gata, there were in this engendering of fundamental form the eight methods. *I was told that this …

- Toshitsugu Takamatsu

Let him cut your skin, and you cut his flesh. Let him cut your flesh, and you cut his bones. Let him cut your bones, and you cut off his life

- Toshitsugu Takamatsu

For taijutsu, the flexibility of the legs is the most important factor, not the strength of the legs.

- Toshitsugu Takamatsu

The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than delivering strikes and …

- Toshitsugu Takamatsu

Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.

- Toshitsugu Takamatsu