From Module X in our new Ki Aikido course In Iwama, Ueshiba Sensei was looking after the wife of one of his students who had died. It turned out, however, that she had begun seeing the boss of the local yakuza gang. It had become something of a...
Josh Gold
Morihei’s Ueshiba Juku, Launchpad of a Martial Arts Career, by Stanley Pranin
Early in my career as a researcher into the life of Morihei Ueshiba, I was misled by two prevailing myths concerning the history of aikido. The first was that Daito-ryu jujutsu was merely one of a number of older...
