Morihei Ueshiba - The Last Video (1969)

Morihei Ueshiba O-sensei in action on the mats of the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in Tokyo. The footage in question was taken at the beginning of 1969. Morihei Ueshiba took his last class on March 10, 1969, after which he was diagnosed with cancer of the liver and hospitalised. He died shortly after on April 26, 1969.
Although terminally ill with cancer, at eighty-five years of age he showed more physicality in his performance than anyone could expect in the case. Even in his last public demonstration, people fell like skittles in a muffled, almost magical atmosphere.
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Almost all the merit and uniqueness of Aikido lies in the final part of Morihei Ueshiba's life, in the incomprehensible union of martial performance and spiritual wisdom, where one affects the other and vice versa. His direct teaching has little or nothing technical in a martial sense. One percent of it, maybe. The rest is pressing enthusiastic spiritual guidance. His teaching is almost entirely allusive.
It is quite clear that martial technicalism is pushed into the background to make way for a revolutionary and disruptive sense of Budo that feeds on other things.
These things, generally, did not please his successors, and there was a way, even though in formal deference, of manifesting that dissent: the often-spoken mention that Morihei Ueshiba was a kami, something unattainable.
Studying Bannen Aikido, the Aikido of recent years, requires a reversal of approach, shifting the focus of attention from techniques and their details, to something that is also technical, which is never talked about on the Aikido mats. In the very word Aiki is contained the nourishing milk of Aikido, that which brings together the old and the young, the expert and the beginner, stitching together the opposites.
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[@alvinvida1282]

I can't explain why or how, but everytime I watch any O-sensei Ueshiba documentaries, he reminds me of Star Wars Jedi Grandmaster Yoda..

[@M0SSl]

I believe that Morihei was an ispiration for Yoda image. I remember someone told this. Maybe Lucas himself

[@christianboddum8783]

@@M0SSl Yes, Lucas has talked about it 😉

[@luisjoseve]

where , when?@@christianboddum8783

[@user-kk7eb9xq4n]

@@christianboddum8783 Interesting. I would love to hear more about that story. Can you give any source? Thx

[@EyeOfTheVeda]

I have also heard that Lucas was inspired by O sensei, but never seen anything to verify it. Might have been thru his mentor Joseph Campbell, who likely was aware of O Sensei.@@user-kk7eb9xq4n

[@user-sy5gs6gt8f]

What a Jedi, a pity there is no light saber combat in here.

[@NatureIskatel]

Sensei do not kill humans. Paradise

[@teodisk6337]

Wie sehr ich diesen Mann verehre !!!!!!

[@tonykuli]

Beyond technique

[@user-xb2ru3rf4z]

Cela s'apparente à un jeu d'enfant,pourtant à y voir la profondeur de la technique, c'est purement scientifique

[@fahmikadaffi5873]

sin lam ba

[@fredricclack7137]

👁️ Seidokan ☯️ 2 appreciate Aikido 1 must Experience Ki/Qi flow & extension from a True Master technician! 🥋

[@jb6368]

Cancer of liver,,was he a drinker?

[@therannetwork]

"For as long as I’d known Sensei he has had a weak liver but I heard that
his troubles began during the affair in Mongolia. When he went there
with Onisaburo Deguchi they were captured by mounted bandits and
were dangerously close to losing their lives. The bandits’ leader
apparently told him that if he drank a full bucket of salt water in one
gulp he would spare their lives. Sensei drank every last drop of the salt
water and his party was saved. However, he has had liver trouble ever
since."
Shioda, Gozo, Aikido Shugyo, Shindokan Books, 2002

[@christianboddum8783]

After the atomic bomb the people had to get some medicine (can't recall the name) and many got cancers and liver issues after that. Nishio sensei was one, though he also had a history of hitting the bottle after training, so that did help either....

[@vladimirpoutine7522]

I like the history and all but lets be honest, he's not really doing anything. Not just here, but in all the older videos. This art is pleasing to the eye, but not a useful tool on the street.

[@jeremymanson1781]

O'Sensei came from a fighting arts background. However, with Aikido, he specifically designed an art that aimed to protect practice opponent(s). The focus of this art was self development. There are many many full on combat arts available. Aikido is not one of them.

[@aguilabet1294]

@@jeremymanson1781 Entonces no es un arte marcial, solo un ejercicio físico

[@vladimirpoutine7522]

@@jeremymanson1781 If that's true then I don't disagree. It's a visually pleasing art.

[@jeremymanson1781]

@@aguilabet1294 yes and no 🌻 Some of my Aikido Sensei have told us Aikido is not a 'martial art' in the usual understanding of that term. The ultimate goal is to be spontaneous and formless. And Aikido is non-competitive and has no 'rules'. The ideal is that when conflict arises it is resolved without any kind of clash.
This is simply a 'direction of travel', as in reality, very few attain this and if conflict arises of course we first look after ourselves and worry about the aggressor very much as an after-thought!

[@aguilabet1294]

@@jeremymanson1781 Si no tiene utilidad para el combate no es un arte marcial. En la guerra o la supervivencia tambien se corre, pero en un corredor no es una artista marcial. Los escritores tambien narran las guerras, pero eso no los hace artistas marciales . No se puede confundir a la gente, para hacer prevalecer un punto solo por interes propio.

[@medk]

C'est du foutage de gueule.

[@stevedows8501]

Tohei sensei better

[@curtrod]

grown men pretending, pitiful

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@curtrod ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS

[@privatesalsa1700]

Angry white pyjamas

[@joespina3019]

Japanese jujitsu. It works superior to. comparing. aikido 👋💪💯