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Nathan gidney (p00kiethebear) wrote:
O sensei himself said "I have opened the doorway to aikido, but when i look back, no one is following me"
Plenty of peope had taken o sensei's aikido and turned it into their own before he died.
Regretably...
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There are also many instances of Ueshiba M. encouraging people to develop their own Aikido. Personally I see nothing regrettable in that at all - in fact the whole idea of Shu Ha Ri requires it.
By not following I am sure he meant those that emulated his movements as an old man but did not go through the hard training he did.
Regrettably.