Zitat von
Gozo Shioda. Aikido Shugyo, pg. 63
The next to go forward was Mr. Zensaburo Akazawa. Mr. Akazawa was my sempai at the dojo and he followed the teachings of Ueshiba Sensei faithfully. He devoted himself solely to the practice of shiho nage. And since he did Aikido exclusively, he didn’t know anything about the ways of Judo practitioners. On the contrary, since his daily training only consisted of squeezing as much as he could out of shiho nage, outside of this one technique he had almost no other moves. Practically speaking, you would expect it to be difficult for him to put up a good fight against a 4th dan in Judo.
And yet, as K came in to grab him, Mr. Akazawa took hold of K’s wrist, spun around and shifted his body, and executed a beautiful shiho nage. A dull snap came form K’s elbow, which had been locked against itself. His elbow was completely destroyed and he couldn’t even execute a breakfall.
From a practical point of view you might think, “What’s the use of practising only one technique over and over again?” But as Mr. Akazawa has shown us, by devoting himself to mastering shiho nage - the most fundamental technique - before anyone knew it, he had, in the process, acquired the very body movements that are essential to Aikido.