Baltimore Aikido

Today’s goal: Leverage your skills to be the light not the darkness in other people’s lives.

Morihei Ueshiba would often lecture at length speaking of Shinto gods - but the lectures weren't about Shinto, they were about Aikido, expressed using Shinto language and imagery. Many people failed to understand this, and much of Morihei Ueshiba's technical explanation went ignored and misunderstood.

Morihei Ueshiba would perform various rituals before training, such as rowing (included in the Rites of Spring graphic) that can also be seen in Shinto rituals.

But they weren't about Shinto either.

They were specific physical and technical internal power development and dantian development exercises for Aikido.

Many people failed to understand this, and much of Morihei Ueshiba's technical instruction went ignored and misunderstood.

*Facebook image resolution is limited, you may be able to view the image more clearly here:

https://imgur.com/a/LUiFcv4

Are you making up sword stuff without formal training? If so you might be making basic errors without realizing it.

This is a good example of the problems in Aikido weapons:

https://youtu.be/yrbg85-ffDo

Basically, you get a lot of folks making up sword stuff without any real formal training, and they end up making a lot of basic errors without even realizing that they're doing.

FWIW, I'd include both Morihei Ueshiba and Morihiro Saito in that group.

Here's the post that's being referred to in the video:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1821dzqoEV/

It also inspired the discussion here:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B3TNRbtN2/