Picked up a book in the dojo where my Chinese Medicine practice is, 'The Secrets of Aikido'. As far as I could tell the secrets are that for all his martial talents, Ueshiba was just a bit insane; and that if what he was doing was aikido, then nobody else has ever done aikido. Anyway the book has a chapter titled shugyo - constant training. There are no secrets to butokuryu aikijujutsu, there's just constant training. So happy Australia/ Invasion day, we train as usual.
謨賀新年
Another year of training is here. We'll be back at the dojo Tuesday January 12.
Here's this year's sumo Dezuiri ceremony at Meiji Jingu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_GEDx4n0YE