suatu ketika disaat kita memutuskan untuk memilih aikido sebgai olah raga beladiri yg kita pilih mungkin salah satu dari ribuan alasannya dikarenakan bahwa dengan beljar aikido maka kita dapat mengendalikan EGO kita sendiri, tetapi apkah benar dgn Aikido EGO tsb dpt diminimalisir dri diri kita atau bahkan dihilangkan ( hanya anda sendiri yg dpat menjawabnya ), mungkin kita pernah mengamati dimana seharusnya semakin tinggi suatu tingkatan maka selayaknya EGO itu dpt kita kendalikan bukan malah EGO yg mengambil alih diri kita, dan selayaknya pula ketulusan dalam menjalin silahturahmi itu datang dari hati bukan hanya sebuah ucapan manis dibibir saja.

Learning through Teaching
By Haruo Matsuoka sensei
I have learned many things through my teaching experience. When you want to improve your Aikido technique, you should understand the importance of teaching. Teaching goes beyond techniques and knowledge of Aikido. It is something that improves you spiritually.
For example, if you have some students, and you think about how you should do something to help them improve, then you must think about how to teach them. At that time you can create and discover new ideas such as new techniques or fundamentals of techniques. Your teaching attitude is “take care of your students.” The most important thing is for the instructor to have a spirit of self-dedication when teaching. If the instructor has an arrogant attitude that is selfish and authoritative, the instructor cannot create and discover new ideas in this process.
This is an important concept. When the instructor wants to improve his technique, he must change his attitude. That means to understand and practice this spirit of self-dedication. It is difficult to teach your students. You share with them all you know. Therefore, you need to have perseverance, patience, and generosity. You may think that teaching will not improve you, but it is training your heart, and at the same time, there is some discovery of techniques. Keep in your mind that, through this process, you are improving spiritually. Keep working on it.

Aikido is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as "the Way of unifying (with) life energy" or as "the Way of harmonious spirit." Ueshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to defend themselves while also protecting their attacker from injury.

Aikido is performed by blending with the motion of the attacker and redirecting the force of the attack rather than opposing it head-on. The aikidoka (aikido practitioner) "leads" the attacker's momentum using entering and turning movements. The techniques are completed with various throws or joint locks. Aikido can be categorized under the general umbrella of grappling arts.

Aikido derives mainly from the martial art of Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu, but began to diverge from it in the late 1920s, partly due to Ueshiba's involvement with the Ōmoto-kyō religion. Ueshiba's early students' documents bear the term aiki-jūjutsu. Many of Ueshiba's senior students have different approaches to aikido, depending on when they studied with him. Today aikido is found all over the world in a number of styles, with broad ranges of interpretation and emphasis. However, they all share techniques learned from Ueshiba and most have concern for the well-being of the attacker.

The word "aikido" is formed of three kanji:

• 合 - ai - joining, harmonizing
• 気 - ki - spirit, life energy
• 道 - dō - way, path