- Aikido Book
- by Robert Twigger
- Paperback book
- Aikido Training
- Great read
Angry White Pyjamas Description
A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan.
Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese highschool girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he'd never been fit. In a bid to escape the cockroach infestation and sweaty squalor of a cramped apartment in Fuji Heights, Twigger sets out to cleanse his body and his mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts, and the brutally demanding course of budo training taken by the Tokyo Riot Police, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained dogis and fractured collarbones.
In Angry White Pyjamas Robert Twigger skilfully blends the ancient with the modern - the ultra-traditionalism, ritual and violence of the dojo (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the twenty-first century - to provide an entertaining and captivating glimpse of contemporary Japan.
'On the Back' of Angry White Pyjamas
'Brilliant...
everyone should read it' Tony Parsons, Late Review
Adrift in Tokyo, translating obscene rap lyrics for giggling Japanese schoolgirls, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he wasn't fit and he wasn't brave.
In a bid to escape further physical decline, Twigger sets out to cleanse his body and his mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts, and joins the Tokyo Riot Police on their year-long, brutally demanding course of budo training, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained dogis and fractured collarbones.
In Angry White Pyjamas Robert Twigger skilfully blends the ancient with the modern to provide a captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan.
'Here is a cult book all right, which could do for Japan and the martial arts what Hornby did for Highbury and the football terraces' Frank Keating, Guardian
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