Mitsugi Saotome was part of the last cohort of uchi deshi who lived and trained at Hombu Dojo while Morihei Ueshiba was alive. He immigrated to the United States in the 1970s, where he has lived ever since, and built an Aikikai-affiliated organization of dojos, the Aikido Schools of Ueshiba. In October of 2023 Saotome Sensei went to Japan to teach and visit. His last stop was Kumamoto City, where he taught at the Aishinkan's annual October bridge seminar. At the seminar banquet, Saotome Sensei, now 86 years old and still very strong, shared some thoughts, starting on what it means to be a student in the Aikido Schools of Ueshiba, but ultimately on what the purpose of Aikido training is.
A note about the subtitles: Sensei is not a native English speaker, but English is his preferred language. I did my best to capture his words as he chose them, with only a few attempts to interpret.
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