Aikido: Ueshiba still active from the grave!

**sui generis** · Posted On: 12/02/2006 5:33am

Yeah fellas,

this is one of the most retarded things ever:

A bunch of Austrians created a new style of Aikido called Aikiom Aikido.
The special thing about it is, that it is called the improved version of Aikido, directly by the founder, M. Ueshiba ... who is dead for ages.
And no, they dont claim to have found the secret scrolls of the real Aikido or the long lost master-student of the founder ... they say, the received transcendal messages from Ueshiba by "channeling" [some para-psycho hocus pocus]. :icon_redf :bs:

On their hp is a quote from Ueshiba from July 2006 :new_silly [http://www.ki-shin-tai.com/ueberaikiomaikido/index.html - it is all in German]

Hopefully this becomes a new trend in bs-ma, so we can have many more improved styles, directly by the dead founder.

**Shinshoryu** · Posted On: 12/02/2006 5:42am

Could someone translate the "founder's" celestial message?

**Beatdown Richie** · Posted On: 12/02/2006 5:51am

He said

Originally Posted by Morihei Ueshiba

Connect to your heart and the divine ki, control neither your thought nor your technique, but let the ki flow, and the true aikido will come to light.

He also said

Originally Posted by aikiom-aikido.com

Feel your attacker's intention even before he has moved. Blend with him and defeat him mentally. Control neither your techniques nor your mind, but become one with the divine ki, and the true aikido will come to light.

Not too profound, if you ask me...

**Beatdown Richie** · Posted On: 12/02/2006 5:52am

BTW, sui generis, you don't hang out on www.kampfkunstforum.de, do you?

**sui generis** · Posted On: 12/02/2006 5:53am

Originally Posted by Shinshoryu

Could someone translate the "founder's" celestial message?

Ok, will give a rough translation:

"Verbinde Dich mit Deinem Herzen und dem göttlichen Ki, kontrolliere weder Deine Gedanken noch deine Techniken, sondern lasse das Ki fliessen und das wahre Aikido wird zum Vorschein kommen."
(übermittelt von Meister Morihei Ueshiba am 15.Juli 2006)

means something like:

Unite yourself with your heart and your divine ki, neither control your thoughts nor your techniques, just let the ki flow and the true Aikido will reveal

**sui generis** · Posted On: 12/02/2006 6:01am

Originally Posted by Beatdown Richie

BTW, sui generis, you don't hang out on www.kampfkunstforum.de, do you?

Surely I do - I am the guy right above your post in the Aikido thread there :smile:

**Shinshoryu** · Posted On: 12/02/2006 6:13am

Originally Posted by Beatdown Richie

He said

He also said

Not too profound, if you ask me...

Seems to me like a potpourri of the Founder's thoughts, with the priceless addition of "...control neither your techniques nor your mind...". They seem to insist a lot on that.

**vigilus** · Posted On: 12/02/2006 6:52am

Hey is this like when a singer dies me manages to come out with new records somehow?

**Rock Ape** · Posted On: 12/02/2006 8:16am

2pac managed it so I don't see why Ueshiba should be any different.

**leere_form** · Posted On: 12/02/2006 10:06am

Eine weitere essentielle Notwendigkeit ist die Bereitschaft, altes Wissen/alte Techniken vergessen zu können/wollen.

"another essential necessity is the readiness to want to forget (or to be able to forget) old knowledge and old techniques"

lol.

yup, they're cutting edge, those aikido guys.