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Since "project deviant" kind off went off half-assed I decided to change in other ways. I will be starting Aikido as of next week three nights a week. I am familiar with Aiki concepts and techniques at fundamental level but I have never taken proper Aikido before.

The stuff I used to take was a very mixed martial art that took concepts mainly from aiki juijutsu, wing-chun, and philipino kali. It was a very practical combat system.

Studying Aikido is about a lot more than just self-defence:

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This link provides a very detailed history of the Life of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido by his son Kisshomaru Ueshiba. There is just a ton of information on the site about Aikido.

I have always had a laypersons interest in Zen. It is quite obvious Morihei Ueshiba really got to the root of the meaning of zen although he was not a zen monk per se. Budo or 'The Way Of the Warrior' is just another path to the same place. He just grasped "It". If there were an "It" to grasp. Hee Hee!