Sports: Positive Aikido the Book

Positive Aikido the Book

Written by Henry Ellis

Positive Aikido

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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 repparttar 144924 world's leading publisher of martial arts material.

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The production of Positive Aikido has gone through numerous stages. The hand-drawings describing each of repparttar 144929 positive techniques in traditional Aikido were begun in 1987 with repparttar 144930 intention of providing new students with a reference guide - at repparttar 144931 time to be photocopied for students in repparttar 144932 USA and later possibly for repparttar 144933 UK students as well. That plan however, never took hold as more and more drawings were produced. The drawings of repparttar 144934 first four groupings were finished in 1991 and in 1993, repparttar 144935 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.

In 1999 however, with repparttar 144936 advent of digital photography, Sensei Rogers decided to augment repparttar 144937 drawings with some digital photos and possibly put together a proper booklet for students in all repparttar 144938 Ellis Schools. The photos however, required some supporting text - and there was a lot of other material which needed to be conveyed as well. The transcripts were re-written and cleaned up and repparttar 144939 photos were digitally processed for repparttar 144940 first four forms. During another visit to New Mexico, Sensei and his assistant Anita Wilson along with Sensei's son performed repparttar 144941 demonstrations needed for repparttar 144942 last four forms. Later, repparttar 144943 first four forms were re-shot with Sensei Rogers and one of his first USA students, Jeff Glaze of New Mexico. By this time, Positive Aikido was being developed as a book.

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The difference between junior golfers and adults is usually strength and not flexibility. I have personally worked with hundreds of junior golfers and I have watched in amazement as a very short period of time of doing strength exercises has yielded increases in their golf drives of as much as a whole 50 yards.

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