Quote:
Jakob Blomquist wrote:
Saito M. and Ueshiba K. certainly did practice together... in Iwama after the war. O-sensei had retired to Iwama and so his deshis had to go there for direct training with him. Tohei K, Ueshiba K, Shioda G, Abe and Saito all trained together there under the tutelage of the founder.
/J
|
By practice together, I mean come up through the ranks and struggle and experiment with each other on how the techniques are supposed to work. When O'Sensei retired to Iwama, he gave over the day to day operation of honbu to Ichidai Doshu. He was/had to be accomplished in his own right to run/teach at the dojo for the other senior students to follow him.