Aikido for everyone

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Tamotsu Fukuda (1931-2020), a direct student of O-Sensei told:

There are skinny people, fat people, tall people, and short people. Everyone should become strong in their own way. The old (elderly) and the handicapped (including the injured) can become strong by doing the techniques that they are capable of. That is what Aikido is all about. Such people may not be able to participate in karate or kendo matches, but they can participate in aikido demonstrations.
Aikido instructors are supposed to raise such students.
Fukuda Sensei and Raman Bekarevich


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