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While in Hawaii, O’Sensei was gracious enough to teach a few classes and give several lectures. Naturally, Suenaka took full advantage of the situation, attending as many classes and lectures as he could, as well as those conducted by Tohei Sensei who, having spent some seven years planting the seeds of aikido in America, had accompanied the Founder there to see the seeds bear their first fruit. Suenaka’s first glimpse of O’Sensei was at one of these lectures, during which the Founder demonstrated first-hand the heart of aikido, manifested in the spiritual power of ki. Suenaka vividly remembers the demonstration:

“O’Sensei stood there and put his hand, straight-armed, on this guy’s head, like he was blessing him, and then, boom!, the guy just crumbled, straight down to the ground. Then O’Sensei put his finger on the side of the guy’s head there on the mat, and the guy couldn’t move. Then he turned the guy over on his stomach and laid the back of his head on the middle of this guy’s back, like he was laying on a pillow. He told the guy to get up, and the guy couldn’t move! Now, I looked at that and I thought, ‘This is awesome!”’