I175 Deuling With O-sensei: Grappling with the Myth of the Warrior Sage
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In Dueling With O-sensei Ellis Amdur takes an unflinching look at many of the ideas and myths that can be heard in modern budo dojos. With a background of some 30 years of training Aikido, 13 of which were in Japan, plus years as a crisis intervention specialist and a social worker, Amdur can talk about the most difficult and troubling questions of budo not as theory, but as problems he has had to deal with and find resolutions for. From the airy ideal of katsujinken, the sword that gives life, to the sometimes brutal fact of abuse within the dojo, to the love and honor of his teacher Kuwamori Yasunori. I can think of no book that looks so realistically at the "philosophy" that people often discuss over beer after practice. This is one of the few books that I really feel everyone who thinks of themselves should read.
Table of Contents
Forward by Meik Skoss
Aiki: A State of the Union-------------------------pg 1
Aiki is Not Always Pretty--------------------------pg 9
The Use of Weapons in Aikido Training--------------pg 21
A Conversation with Daito Ryu's Other Child--------pg 31
Atemi: Striking to the Heart of the Matter---------pg 41
So How Tough Do You Want to be When You Grow Up?---pg 49
Toward Simple Moratily-Or How Come Something So Fine
Sometimes Turns So Ugly------------------------pg 61
Otoko (Manhood)------------------------------------pg 87
There Is No Such Thing As Tenkan...
without Irimi---------------------------------pg 103
Hiding in the Shadows of the Warrior---------------pg 111
Life as a Movie------------------------------------pg 125
Setsuninto-Katsujinken-----------------------------pg 141
Tenchi: Head in the Clouds, Feet in the Muck-------pg 151
Did You Ever Meet O-sensei? O-sensei Who?----------pg 167
The Knights of the Mouldy Rope---------------------pg 177
Oniisan (Elder Brother)----------------------------pg 205
Afterword------------------------------------------pg 215
220 pages. Paperback. English Language.
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