Excerpt from an interview with Henry Kono

You've been practicing for a long time.

Practice doesn't mean anything. What O-Sensei was thinking is important. He was basing his moves on an unseeable matrix we can't comprehend. Everybody thought he could do these things because he had 65 years of practice. I didn't look at it that way. For me, what he knew was important. Not everybody looked look at it that way.

[Henry shows me a quote from Sugano Sensei, which says: "It was as if O-Sensei was doing aikido while everyone else was doing something else."]

So what were we doing?! What we were doing on the mat wasn't what he was doing."

Showing me another quote from Bob Nadeau's article in Aikido Today Magazine, which says: "Once O-Sensei told me one day clearly and emphatically that the truth of aikido could be caught in a very short moment of time. If you catch the secret," he said. "You can do what I do in three months."

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