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Hidden in Plain Sight: Tracing the Roots of Ueshiba Morihei's Power
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Ellis Amdur's writing on martial arts has been ground-breaking. In his first book, Duelling with Osensei, Amdur threw down a gauntlet to practitioners, that the moral dimension of martial arts is expressed in acts of integrity, not spiritual platitudes and deification of fantasised warrior-sages. In his second book, Old School, he applied both academic rigour and keen observation to offer the reader as close a look as words can provide to some of the classical martial arts of Japan, leavening his writing with vivid descriptions of some of the actual practitioners of these wonderful traditions.
Hidden in Plain Sight contents:
The Chinese Connection.
The Birth of Daito-ryu.
A Unified Field Therapy: Aiki and Weapons
Aikido is Three Peaches.
Hidden in Plain Sight.
Circle, Square, Triangle: How to Be O-Sensei in Sixteen Easy Steps.
Epilogue
In this volume, Admur has radically reworked his iconoclastic essays first published on the website of Aikido Journal. Here, he attempts to establish the existence of something all but lost in Japanese martial arts - a sophisticated type of training, encompassing mental imagery, breath-work, and a variety of physical techniques that offered the practitioner the potential to develop skills sometimes viewed as nearly superhuman. Commonly referred to as "internal training", and usually believed to be the provenance of Chinese martial arts, Amdur asserts that not only was it once common among many Japanese martial traditions, but elements of such training still remain, passed down in a few martial arts - literally "hidden in plain sight".
Ellis Amdur's writing on martial arts has been ground-breaking. In his first book, Duelling with Osensei, Amdur threw down a gauntlet to practitioners, that the moral dimension of martial arts is expressed in acts of integrity, not spiritual platitudes and deification of fantasised warrior-sages. In his second book, Old School, he applied both academic rigour and keen observation to offer the reader as close a look as words can provide to some of the classical martial arts of Japan, leavening his writing with vivid descriptions of some of the actual practitioners of these wonderful traditions.
Hidden in Plain Sight contents:
The Chinese Connection.
The Birth of Daito-ryu.
A Unified Field Therapy: Aiki and Weapons
Aikido is Three Peaches.
Hidden in Plain Sight.
Circle, Square, Triangle: How to Be O-Sensei in Sixteen Easy Steps.
Epilogue
In this volume, Admur has radically reworked his iconoclastic essays first published on the website of Aikido Journal. Here, he attempts to establish the existence of something all but lost in Japanese martial arts - a sophisticated type of training, encompassing mental imagery, breath-work, and a variety of physical techniques that offered the practitioner the potential to develop skills sometimes viewed as nearly superhuman. Commonly referred to as "internal training", and usually believed to be the provenance of Chinese martial arts, Amdur asserts that not only was it once common among many Japanese martial traditions, but elements of such training still remain, passed down in a few martial arts - literally "hidden in plain sight".
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