Angry white pyjamas
Angry White Pyjamas is a book written by Robert Twigger about his time in a one-year intensive program of studying Yoshinkan aikido.
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- Be warned I'm mostly going for the "other interesting stuff" copout here:
○ The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
○ The Cuckoo's Egg (Clifford Stoll) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
○ Angry White Pyjamas (Robert Twigger) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_White_Pyjamas
○ Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Keith Johnstone) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impro:_Improvisation_and_the_T...
○ What If? (Randall Munroe) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_(book)
○ The Inventions of Daedalus (David E.H. Jones) - https://archive.org/details/inventionsofdaed0000jone
That last one is sadly out of print now but fairly easy to obtain secondhand - if you like Randall Munroe's `What If?` books then this is likely to appeal to you too.
- It's amazing to me how some of these techniques are part of certain cultures already.
Case in point:
In the book Angry White Pyjamas [0], the author is British and living in Japan.
He is going through the Tokyo Riot Police training which involves a lot of aikido training. He is also teaching English to high school students.
He points out that the techniques used for training aikido worked well with the students as well.
Specifically:
- show the technique
- have someone try out the technique
- talk about what they did well and what they didn't do well
- have everyone else practice
Highly recommend the book btw if you are interested at all in Japan, martial arts, living abroad etc.
- Robert Twigger (the author) is an interesting fellow: he started as a poet but soon developed a fascination for adventure, working as s bodyguard, explorer and getting involved in lots of odd stuff.
I read Angry white pyjamas (about his year studying Aikido in Japan's thoughest dojo) - I am an Aikidoka myself and I think he missed something during his practice, but he can surely write entertainingly.
