Kazuo Chiba Shihan

How Times have Changed in Almost 70 years of UK Aikido

" No matter your pretence, you are what you are, nothing more. " Kenshiro Abbe Sensei.

I have studied at length with many high ranking Japanese teachers / Legends. Most memorable were Kenshiro Abbe - Mutsuro Nakazono - Kazuo Chiba . ( Tada - Kobayashi - Noro - K Williams -Ichimura - Tamura - Harada - Karate - T Otani - Kendo) Jei Nakazono.

I think back to a time when there were only five dan grades for Aikido in the whole of the UK, I was proud to be one of them.

I seriously never thought there would become a time when teachers would grade themselves or much more pathetic to be graded by their own students.

I can imagine when I was a child and all the kids in my class at school getting together to promote the teacher to `` Professor ` we would have got, and deserved a thrashing with the cane.

There are so many now calling themselves 7th or 8th dans and I believe some higher still. I have to ask the obvious question, do they really compare themselves to Kenshiro Abbe Sensei and Chiba Sensei to name a few ??

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

New Amazon Book now Available. In card-back £12-95p.

KENSHIRO ABBE SENSEI 1915 - 1985 - The Forgotten Budoka

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Published by Amazon 20th - May - 2021
Compiled by the Martial Arts researcher Abdul Rashid.

This new book is a thoroughly researched and detailed, documented history, including a personal interview with Henry Ellis one of the last surviving direct students of Abbe Sensei from the 1950s.

A new book published by Amazon Books -. This book is an in-depth look at the life and times of this legendry man of Budo, from his childhood to his time as a captain and Brigade Commander in the Imperial Japanese Army during WW2 - his time at the Busen - Butokukwai - His competition successes in front of the Japanese Emperor, his defeat of the great Judoka Kimura also his time in the UK and Europe. This will complete our `library` of British Martial Arts history as associated to the influence of Kenshiro Abbe Sensei 8th dan Judo - 6th dan Kendo - 6th dan Aikido - 6th dan Ju-Kendo.

The following Amazon Book titles may be of interest to the student and teachers who value the true origins of British Martial Arts. " The Founding of Ju-Jitsu - Judo - Aikido in the United Kingdom " --- " British Aikido History " --- " Kenshiro Abbe Sensei the Forgotten Budoka " --- " Positive Aikido " by Dave Rogers --- " The Life - Giving Sword " the life of K Chiba by Leise Klein.

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" British Aikido History " - the book-Amazon release March 12th 2021

"British Aikido History" This new book tells the history of Aikido from its 1955 earliest UK origins, old photos - stories - anecdotes - interviews - This book by two of the last surviving pioneers Henry Ellis and Derek Eastman, their personal stories and reminiscences will give the reader a taste of the atmosphere of those days when Aikido was virtually unknown to the western world.

`British Aikido History ` available from March 12th 2021 on Amazon. The book is published in two versions, Black and white - cost; £6-35p - USA $7-65 or the coloured version cost £27-31p

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Kazuo Chiba Sensei 8th dan

The Life - Giving Sword (Click )

This blog was created to help preserve the memory of Kazuo Chiba Sensei 05/02/1945 - 05/06/2015 - Chiba Sensei a direct student of OSensei who came to the UK in 1966. Henry Ellis and Derek Eastman left the `Hut Dojo` in 1967 to join Chiba Sensei as assistant for five years and remained associated until his passing.

I strongly recommend the new book by Liese Klein Sensei a long time student of Sensei, Liese is the only person authorized by the Chiba family to author the book " The Life- Giving Sword ".

This new book is now available on Amazon. 537 pages of fascinating and compelling reading.