If you want to go further, IMO, you need discard the notion that the techniques of aikido have any sort of real world, 1-to-1 relationship with fighting or engaging someone with skill and start training in the core body skills that Aikido (Ueshiba's aikido) was supposed to build in us. Once you have some level of those skills then get out and test those skills against people who don't want to fall and are intent on making you fall. How far down that rabbit hole you choose to go is a matter of just how much you want to vet those skills.