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I dedicate this book, and my life’s work, to my students.

As always, I dedicate this book to my loving and patient family.

—Sensei Phong Thong Dang

As always, first I must dedicate this book, our third together, with my deepest respect and humility, to my aikido sensei, Phong Thong Dang. His technical precision and expertise are exceptional. His patience with his students demonstrates and illustrates a deep compassion and desire to communicate and perpetuate his life’s work and the shared passion and vision of aikido founder O’Sensei Morihei Ueshiba. It is truly a humbling honor to train under such a man, a legend in martial arts, to share in his vision and be entrusted with assisting in presenting this knowledge, as limited as my understanding may be and as inadequate as my words are. “Sensei, Domo Arigato Gozaimashita.”

I dedicate this work to all the people I have ever had the honor and pleasure to train with. The hours we have spent in sweat and in laughter have contributed greatly to this work and to my life. What they have given me freely I have tried to pass on as freely and completely as it was given. I hope that in some small way these works will help those training partners I will never meet but who share a similar journey.