Quote:
Henry Ellis wrote:
Sit on the mat, place your hands behind you, turn the hands palm up, now raise your arris off the mat, try it, you may even enjoy it  |
For those of you out there wondering what this 'arris' is to raise off the mat, may I provide a little lingustic background:
'arris' is a shortened version of Aristotle (a greek martial artist
)
Aristotle sounds like 'bottle'
'bottle and glass' is old Cockney rhyming slang for 'arse'
So what Sensei Ellis is saying is, now raise your bottom off the mat!
regards
Mark