Re: Flying solo
For books, I used to recommend poeple start with Spirit of Aikido by K Ueshiba.(despite the techniques in the middle of the book).
Check out almost any of John Stevens' books.
Kodo - Ancient Ways is about training.
Dave Lowry does a good job on traditional Martial Arts training.
That should get you started.
As far as shadow training - or walking through a techniques without a partner. If you are doing this to try to get repitions in of proper movement, you should also consider walking through the ukemi for each technique.
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