Thought I would share an article I got today, since it has some relevance to this (the parts about Gozo Shioda).
http://blog.aikidojournal.com/2012/0...y-david-lynch/
Some might say he is not practising O Sensei's Aikido (or rather, how it was at the very end, where as far as I understand it was much less strict and "violent", and much more "flowey"), but nonetheless, one can certainly not say that his Aikido didn't have a martial direction and value to it.