Year of manufacture: 1997
Author: Robert Twigger
Genre: Martial arts. Aikido Yoshinkan
Publisher: Harper Collins, Amateur translation
Format: PDF
English language
ISBN C-688-17537-6
Number of Pages: 158
This is an autobiographical book about how a samurai is made from the modern Western 30-year-old university-stained, scholarly ophthalmic poet. Without high and superfluous words. Day after day, he goes to the Yoshinkan Aikido school, to the Kidotai training group, to the Japanese special forces police. He walks, because he promised himself to go through a full year's course, by all means. Here the black belt has surrendered to him, and everything is here Every day the author prays destiny, that nothing breaks and does not break, because the pace of training is such that missing a few days is equivalent to a blockage. For the same reason, one of the most terrible punishments is when you are expelled from classes. With broken elbows, bloody knees, people sit in the corner of the dojo and look at the activities of others, so as not to miss anything.
Amazing, absolutely emotionless reflections on the "arrangement" of pain. The pain is different ... and make friends with her (not love, but understand, understand, and use yourself for the good, since there is) is not an easy task. However, it is theoretically absolutely insoluble. Either there is an experience, or it is not, and there is no understanding.
Maybe it's the honesty and frankness of the author that bribes. He does not even try to lie, which is very grievous when Gozo Shioda, the founder of the Yoshinkan school, died of old age in the middle of their course. This news for a group of special forces was a real holiday. After all for the whole week of rest it was possible to heal the ruptured skin on the knees and "pimples" - so affectionately called the vertebrae with the skin erased from continuous falls.
The pupils had to keep a diary every day. Apparently, the whole story is just artistically crafted such a diary. But this is not a dry retelling of the acquired skills and fractures. Quite the opposite - Twigger lives a full life with all the delights and troubles of the life of a gaijin (ie a Japanese alien). Teaching Japanese girls to English at school, trying to get married to extend their visas, pretending to be 19-year-olds, to take an X-ray photograph of someone else's health insurance, etc. Stunningly described is the scene of the beating of two Englishmen by a completely unknown Australian from a gang of local punks armed with knives.
Aikido was not needed. It's all about being calm, guys.
Sadomasochism ends almost suddenly. The black belt, the diploma of the end of the course of "thugs" and ... the author suddenly discovers that he can not live without "that" life, when all subsystems are working at the limit when life has TASTE. And here comes an unexpected job offer ...
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