Aikido Body, Mind and Spirit: The Further Teachings of Alex Essani

By Nick Waites

Over the course of Aikido training a student will inevitably encounter many difficulties. For instance, practice partners may be 'difficult' or even deliberately obstructive, advice from senior students or teachers might be contradictory, practice principles may seem to be incomprehensible or unattainable, confidence in instructors may be questioned, and so on. Following the same general format as "Aikido, Iron Balls and Elbow Power", "Aikido Body, Mind and Spirit" explores a range of these problems and questions from the point of view of a student training with a fictional Aikido master instructor called Alex Essani. The conversations between Ian, the student, and Alex Essani, the teacher, are inventions that serve to examine training principles, practices and problems. In this book Ian is introduced first to further ideas regarding Aikido practice in the dojo, building on the lessons he learned in "Aikido, Iron Balls and Elbow Power". Subsequently he is encouraged to explore rather less pragmatic ideas relating to mind and spirit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0953884856
• ISBN13: 9780953884858
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"