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Aikido Talks: Conversations with American Aikidoists by Susan Perry & Ronald Rubin

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Aikido Talks contains interviews with prominent American Aikido students and teachers, who describe their experiences with Aikido's legendary founder, discuss Aikido's philosophy

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Binding	Paperback
Publisher	Arete Press
Country of Origin	USA
Number of Pages	203
Pubilcation Date	2002
Condition	New

Product details

Aikido Book
by Susan Perry & Ronald Rubin
Interviews of prominent Aikidoka
Experiences with Founder
Great read

'On the Back' of Aikido Talks

Aikido Talks contains interviews with prominent American Aikido students and teachers, who describe their experiences with Aikido's legendary founder, discuss Aikido's philosophy, explore the warrior spirit, and relate Aikido to such diverse fields as play therapy, law-enforcement, Taiko drumming, and community building. More than a "martial arts" book, Aikido Talks reveals how Aikido, as a martial art and spiritual discipline, has changed the lives and thoughts of 20 extraordinary people.

From this book:

"The movements of Aikido are like something out of a beautiful dream. God knows, I don't get it right all the time! But those moments when I don't have to think at all, when I'm just there in the eternal present and everything is harmony, are truly transformative." - George Leonard

"At [a demonstration] at Hong Long University, I told a 16-year-old Jud student to come at meany time with a real knife. I told him that we might both get hurt but that I felt the demonstration and to show what a real, unrehearsed situation would be like. He lunged in to stab me. I cab see him now. Th sun shone on the knife just like we were on a movie set. All the spectators drew in a their breath and let it out with a great shout when I took him down." - Virgina Mayhew

"O-Sensei would call some of us up as ukes, have us push against a bokken he was holding, and show that we couldn't move his arm. One time, when he called for ukes with a sweeping motion of his hand, I said to myself, What the hell, I'll go for it." I came in between two people who were already pushing on his bokken, and I was really trucking by the time I got there....But, when I hit that bokken, it was hitting a building. It shook me right down to the soles of my feet. I remember that feeling to this day - one of the biggest surprises in my life." - Terry Dobson

Suan Perry and Ronald Rubin, the Chief Instructors of Musubi Dojo in Southern California, are the editors of Aikido Today Magazine

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