I have recently had my fourth seminar with Minoru Akuzawa. I am still trying to process all my thoughts about what he can do and what he teaches. I am deeply impressed by the body skills he shows, unlike almost anything I have felt in 16 years of aikido. However, and this is no criticism to his teaching skill, I wonder whether or not what he can do is the result of his methods or that his methods are an attempt to transmit something that is unique to him alone, in the same way that we constantly discuss Takeda, Ueshiba or Sagawa. He has rooting, sticking, neutralizing, discharging and penetrating power, all seemingly without engaging normal musculature, and with zero perceptible wind-up. I think this is aiki in action.
Consider fully , act decisively
Alec Corper