Flying Crane
Sr. Grandmaster
What does “doing well” even mean in this context? Aikido is not a business that needs to continually expand its presence globally so that it can keep paying quarterly dividends to its shareholders. People will keep doing it. Sometimes fewer people, sometimes more, depending on trends and fads and whatever the flavor of the month is that is currently capitalizing on the short attention span of the general population. The flavor of the month is welcome to those people.While I think membership has declined, it does still seem to be doing relatively well, compared to more esoteric arts.