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chillzATL · 05-15-2012, 10:42 AM

It seems to me that the big issue in this thread really comes down to quality vs rank in which case you just do your own thing. The aikikai doesn't offer much beyond legacy and organizational recognition, but if the concern is quality then you just ditch them and do your own thing.

A lot of crap gets heaped on the post-war guys for making "Modern Aikido" but Ueshiba had as much a hand in that as anyone. For every "this is not my aikido" story there's two pictures of him letting kids kokyunage him, smiling the entire time or quotes of him talking about how aikido is for everyone, young, old, kids, cats, dogs, sharks with lasers. It should be quite obvious that in his later years, aikido was no longer just about the martial application of aiki. Doing aikido became more important than being able to do something with aikido.

05-15-2012, 10:42 AM	#66
chillzATL Location: ATL Join Date: Jul 2000 Posts: 847 Offline	Re: Benefits of the Aikikai It seems to me that the big issue in this thread really comes down to quality vs rank in which case you just do your own thing. The aikikai doesn't offer much beyond legacy and organizational recognition, but if the concern is quality then you just ditch them and do your own thing. A lot of crap gets heaped on the post-war guys for making "Modern Aikido" but Ueshiba had as much a hand in that as anyone. For every "this is not my aikido" story there's two pictures of him letting kids kokyunage him, smiling the entire time or quotes of him talking about how aikido is for everyone, young, old, kids, cats, dogs, sharks with lasers. It should be quite obvious that in his later years, aikido was no longer just about the martial application of aiki. Doing aikido became more important than being able to do something with aikido.