Essential reading for internal skills (aiki) training

In my opinion you won't get much information out of any book, or even what is written online unless you are familiar with the skills already

Hunter Lonsberry wrote: In my opinion you won't get much information out of any book, or even what is written online unless you are familiar with the skills already

No argumment there but are there any books that you've found useful *after* getting hands on with Ark and others?

...rab

Rabih Shanshiry wrote: No argumment there but are there any books that you've found useful *after* getting hands on with Ark and others? ...rab

No, the best information seems to be online. As discussed before, it seems that many of the translators didn't have an understanding of internal skills so they may have misunderstood what the intent of the original writers were.