Speaking of your teaching, your instruction, what is it you want your younger, beginning students to walk away with. They obviously don't have the length of training and don't understand what Aikido can offer to the same depth as your senior students, so what do you emphasize with your beginning students. Aikido is also movement, so you have to know omote and ura, irimi and tenkan your directions, I guess front and back, just the basic exercises, those are the basic foundation. Put those movements together and you have a technique. The fascinating thing about Aikido is there is an unlimited number of techniques depending on the people.
Slight differences make techniques look different.
But knowing a lot of techniques is not the object. I try to emphasize understanding the basics and the advanced techniques will come. Anyone is welcome to take weapons from the beginning. Aikido is a very weapons-oriented martial art and it is important to move to higher levels of understanding Aikido. I use the weapons now mainly as tools, tools for understanding Aikido because I think that as a weapon you won't use these anymore.