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Thanks for watching!

If I say it myself I really enjoyed this teaching session, as I felt I was showing Saito senseis art of breaking down the technique would make him happy.n

@@Tony_Sargeant I believe you! Great to see that you faithfully carry his teaching!

Thank you.

I was looking at this form so. many years ago and thought why not post it. Someone. may think it can help them find the way of where they are going, just as it helped me when I most needed it.

@@Tony_Sargeant I hope that it will inspire others too, even if it is only to look for what it was in tai chi that helped you. What is it within tai chi that students miss when on the tatami? The chance to connect properly with themselves, controlling self to the exclusion of attempting to control others. The founder of aikido suggested that we never become the attacker. I sense tai chi teaches this. Let's hope those who watch, will become those, who do.

Love you r words and thought.s on it.

Glad you think so! I. did wonder if to show it as it was so long ago with me teaching Tai-Chi. It changed my aikido thinking for the better.

@@Tony_Sargeant You did an excellent job and I can feel your centre moving not the hands alone or feet. It was very very well interconnected!

Yes, when I. used to perform this, I was in another dimension.

I thank U for watching the films.

Oh so right you are. I try to do my best and as I followed him around the world, I felt I got the best of him. as when I went to Iwama he hardly said anything, yet around the world he knew 'Westerners wanted everything explained." I miss him dearly and he. asked me to keep his and O'Sensei's aikido safe. Like you it is hard when numbers are falling and the. rubbish is gaining.

I thank you, for your words.

Most welcome

All the best

So nice of you

It is great to know that those around the world can benefit from my films and hopefully learn better Aikido.

You're welcome 😊 I hope I can give to everyone who wishes to watch and improve.

You find ways of thinking out load and I hope this will help others to hear what you find within the films. All we can do is give and hope what words do not say the eyes will answer.

@@Tony_Sargeant On my way home from a pub lunch today, I thought again. weapons are there to change the body, so it is said. If we listened to our body we would find out how. Normally, we don't, I didn't. Then through tai chi I found the mechanism to connect whole body and found it applied to aikido, and I had missed that 'connection' for far too many years. Walking in the sunshine, I connected with imagined ken and jo suburis, the whole body connection is there. The weapons are indeed a gift of the great 'secret'. Our fault lies in using the weapons with the external in mind and not the internal connection and control which is freely available ... when you 'know'. Every small discovery I make, brings an excitement, and I look forward to the next. This is why the path is long - all the way to the end. My advice to others would be, find the mechanism of whole body connection, then you will see it in others and understand how they are performing much better. As will you.

We are too busy to listen; we are so busy trying to find the answers that it takes years to slow down and realize we cannot find them by trying. Not many will ever reach that level of understanding, but those who do will like you. Enjoy the ride, walk from the Pub, or just walk freely and let Aikido become the Sun Shining from us rather than to us.

I find it some days better than others. It is a very smooth technique and needs lots of concentration to keep it flowing and Uke under control.

I give all i can in hopes that others will also give their best to Aikidoka, and hope the world will become a better place with us showing love and not to fight.

Thank U for your 'Very kind words.'

A student asked me for help, which made me make the film. As this week has been low for me due to health issues, I thought it possibly the best time to talk about it. Thank U for your words.

Thank you I am glade you like wartching my films.

Thank you.

Glad it was helpful! I am still learning how much we miss even when we are doing it. The answers can hide from us, but I live in hopes that each time I try this way of working I will learn more and open the doors to understanding.

@@Tony_Sargeant Even your reply opens the gates of possibilities, definitely tai chi has allowed me to discover more than when engaged in aikido practise, as there is more time to find the internal connections and engage consciousness. The sense of elbows always going away from you isn't necessarily taught in aikido but makes a huge difference to whole body connection. I'm trying to apply things like this to the aiki jo and ken. I have found it makes it more powerful but with less strength involved. I'm sure this is a useful gate ! But who knows? For elbows going away from you, think morote dori kokyu ho, it is a perfect example. Thank you for all your years of teaching.

I am also convinced that we can change and power to points we wish to stop the Uke and defy angels by thought alone. Somehow my body has the confidence that if i` think of an angle change I am then locked into that position and they cannot move or escape the angle. But I may now be going beyond what. keeps us sane?

@@Tony_Sargeant It makes sense to me, Our consciousness guides our body to carry out that function without the tension of any muscles countering our effort. I find it valuable and interesting because it takes me beyond previous limits, and not because it would assist me in self defence, just the excitement of continual discovery is enough. If you think that is odd, today we looked at pushing people using their skin not their bones. Sounds insane but it actually works. I'll stop there and let someone else have a say. Richard

Makes sense to me, but I am perhaps. 'also Mad'.

Yes, so many want it spelt out for them, but in my opinion, those who have to look and take what they see are the ones who get it deeper inside of them.

@@Tony_Sargeant I agree with you!

Totally agree.

Thank U for watching.

I do nopt quit understand your point. Please send me a link to you showing the Kata with what you consider correct feet and body alignment. As when doing the Kata's one should think of Suburi and not a dance. This is the way Saito sensei taught us and blocks and strikes should be the delivering of these Suburi's. Your point I need to see to comment. I am not saying you are incorrect, just stating my point of view as you are. Thank you for writing in.

I truly think that what one learns from 'Many years' of doing Aikido is that it forges us as better people and we look at each situation with clearer eyes. "But" and there is always that BUT. In my case my human self took over and the fuze was light and that was from deep within myself and it was at that point I realised that we are all just who we are, and that does not change even if we think and fool ourself we have. Thanks for your thoughts on it and taking the time to watch, all four or just this one.

Thanks for your comments and as it is almost at the end 18.25 I am not sure what part U are specifying for me to re-look at. Sadly looking at my own work I think I look a little 'Sloppy doing it' and it makes me want to do it again, so I may revisit this suburi. Hopefully I cover the Hasso better elsewhere. Thank you again for taking the trouble to look. and comment. We must all keep training as a beginner and hope we can gain from each others pointers.

I love your comment about the glass as it never entered my head due to Saito Shihan teaching me to have Zanshin all the time and not just do a 'Dance with the. Jo."

Wow, thank you, I have always try to show. what Saito sensei taught me as each year seeing him over twenty year around the world he like everyone changes but his basics never did;. He was adamant that O-Sensei would scold him from the grave if he altered what he had been taught. If I can go some way to keeping this style alive I shall do my best and thank all those who are trying to do the same located around the world that had the pleasure of being taught directly by himself.

Yes they are. But they are also vERY old now but still. good. They R better on wooden floors but, no one complains they R too hard to. take Ukemi on. The new Tatami also comes in different thicknesses and depending on what the floor covering is then it will depend on what Tatami one buys. Well. thats what we did when we bought them 30 years ago. It was for my Dojo with wooden floor. Hope this helps.

@@Tony_Sargeant Thank you!

I thank U for watching.

Thank U. Very kind words.

Sorry I should say, the new discoveries were actually teachers that are good.

I love reading your theory on it all, but my quick answer is "One never knows how one will act until the situation they are ut in, so my words are from memory of the happenings and its more a story than what other should do" Unless I am reading. your comments incorrectly? Answering the time of how long one has trained I personally think we learn to 'Not fight'. and that what time in Aikido. gives us, but who knows art what level one will. panic? In 1982/3 the UK had very few who knew the 31 Jo Kata or. any weapons apart from books and film from Saito sensei, so it was mostly do it hoping one was correct, and. as for. the 'Anti-kata' well never knew it then. Like I say it was all exciting and also humbling to think I knew nothing when I thought I did. Hope. this covers at least some of your questions? Thanks for taking the time to write and watch.

It could be Farther Christmas. Ha,ha

Thanks for watching! I always hope that we can give to each other.

You are very kind for saying these words. I know that we must "All help O-SEnsei" the best way we can to make the world a better place. To me we speak different languages but we all hope and dream for the same rewards. To become better people.

Well said! I cannot add more words as between us we have been touched by the founders art in such a way we will never need to search to find our goal. All we have to do is keep training as ;A Student"

I agree!! ❤😊

Thank you for taking the time to say.

Glad you think so! My belief is that we should give and try to make those who are truly searching for O-Sensei's Aikido to understand that not enough time is given to the detail.

Wonderful! I only wish others would not make excuses and do more to keep the fitness at a level that one requires to be their best at all martial arts, as well as the health benefits it brings with doing it.

I totally agree, and one that I hope keeps training.

To answer in reverse. No I do not believe one can ever be ready for what springs out at any given moment until it does. "Why." How is one feeling that time and did one see or sense it coming? The only answer I can offer as the years roll by is: either act fast and crush such treat or talk your way out of fighting. I have done both and to date each one was the correct one to keep myself safe. Perhaps a question that can never be answered only by the one who survives. To me aikido has so mnay gems to offer one in life; the question of defeat is one not now days in my thinking. Thank you for sharing your personal findings. It has inspired me to read it.

@@Tony_Sargeant Many thanks for your answer! It makes sense to me.

I love to hear when others use their skills to use whatever it takes to improve their Aikido mastery. Well done and the path only gets better by doing so.

I made the comment and well done for making your own improvisations to advance your study.

My pleasure! Thank you for watching.

Thank you for your kind words.

Us too!

yes I can understand why you would say that. But after many years of training I do believe that what my Master said to me was true. "Tony the technique is strong you do not have to be." How many years one must train is what no one knows before this can happen. Thanks for your thoughts.

Yes I love them and miss them all. Such dedicated students and now sadly being forced in a downward direction that seems to have put all our trips there on hold for many years. They will keep training and this we can be grateful to have met and part of their journey.

And half my age if it helps you in your point.