Posted 2014-06-20 15:18:50 by Jerry Green
Editor Quentin Cooke met Robert Frager Sensei, 7th dan, who had studied with O Sensei, the founder of Aikido. Frager Sensei had a wonderful aura of calm and deep wisdom and as they talked about this and that, he said casually ‘It's such a shame that there is no one out there who is capturing the wonderful stories that arise out of aikido.'
This book contains over 80 aikido stories from everyday life, collected from around the world. . The range of ways and circumstances in which people have used what they have learnt on the mat to deal with whatever life throws at them is simply amazing. Some stories are very short and make a simple point, and others are more profound, but they all serve to inspire and motivate and will serve to entice others to understand the benefits of aikido practice.
All proceeds from the book will go to Aiki Extensions, the international charity based in the USA, that seeks to encourage Aikido students to extend the principles they learn on the mat into the world at large, and which undertakes worthy projects using aikido as a tool to help the less fortunate.
To order the book, <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TvDuMmEJU1nodftrU7VePWYJrkR0VimIb68v6pTMci4/viewform
">click here</a>.
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