True Aikido Stories

                      

                                                          Kenshiro Abbe Sensei - 1915 - 1975

                                 " Trying to Catch the Wind "

This story by Henry Ellis is told in the Aikiweb ``Columns number 15``.
It is a part of the group of stories in " It Had to Be Felt " - where direct students are invited to tell of their experiences with some of the legends of Budo.

Henry Ellis, one of the first of five black-belts for Aikido in the in the UK in the 1950s,  recalls his teacher Kenshiro Abbe Sensei, a man that taught Aikido as a Martial Art, without a no touch throw or multi coloured ribbons in sight. Breathing through ones toes was a fantasy yet to be experienced.

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