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This book, an in-depth look at Ellis Schools of Tradtional Aikido's special brand of technique, strategy, philosophy as well as unique history, has taken about 15 years to compile, but will soon be offered in print by
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The production of Positive Aikido has gone through numerous stages. The hand-drawings describing each of
positive techniques in traditional Aikido were begun in 1987 with
intention of providing new students with a reference guide - at
time to be photocopied for students in
USA and later possibly for
UK students as well. That plan however, never took hold as more and more drawings were produced. The drawings of
first four groupings were finished in 1991 and in 1993,
second four groupings were added, along with some transcripts from a recorded conversation between Sensei Ellis and Rogers on a long roadtrip between Dallas, Texas and Alamogordo, New Mexico. Rogers made his 1st Dan during that trip, and Positive Aikido picked up a lot of its histories and background information. Still, it was no more than a bunch of papers cobbled together from various sources.