Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons From The Tokyo Riot Police
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688175376 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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"His fine eye for eccentricities makes this an entertaining travelogue."-- "The Observer""A frantic, very funny, urban quest." -- Simon Garfield, "Mail on Sunday"
Guided by his roommates, Fat Frank and Chris, he sets out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts and joins the Tokyo Riot Police on their year-long, brutally demanding course of budo training, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained "white pyjamas" and fractured collarbones. In this entertaining book, Twigger blends the ancient with the modern--the ultratraditionalism, ritual, and violence of the "dojo" (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs, and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the 1990s--to provide a brilliant, bizarre glimpse of contemporary Japan.. Guided by his roommates, he set out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts and joins the Tokyo Riot Police on their year-long, brutally demanding course of budo training, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained "white pyjamas" and fractured collarbones. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is drawn into the world of Japanese martial arts, joining the Tokyo Riot Police on their yearlong, brutally demanding course of budo training, where any ascetic motivation
In 1997 he spent four months in Indonesia, attempting to capture the longest snake in the world. In 1991 he went to Japan, studied traditional martial arts, and completed the course for the Tokyo riot police. After many setbacks and adventures, his team succeeded in capturing a python twenty-six feet long -- almost certainly a world record for a snake currently in captivity. In 1996 Twigger trained as a bullfighter in Spain, went looking for bona fide zombies in Haiti,
Eye of the Budoka Erik Olson As a newly minted ShoDan in Shiho Karano Karate, I have to be skilled in knowledge as well as technique. To that end, I've been reading a number of books about the martial arts. One part of that genre are the autobiographical accounts of Budo practitioners. I want to gain deeper insight through what others have experienced, learned, and how they c. Nice glimpse of the real Japan and of Aikido Curiosity #3 I live in Japan, have studied the language for several years and am asked often by visitors what books I'd recommend to them to get acquainted with the country. Angry White Pyjamas is one of the top recommendations I'll make from now on. It is fun, and in a usually unbiased way portrays Japanese society as it is: bizarre and surprising to the west. Keep in mind he's a poet AK I picked this book up in a library when I was mentally preparing for a trip to Japan. Starting with the subtitle "A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police", I was hooked. There are plenty of martial arts books where the writer tries to show off what a great warrior he is, and plenty of instructional books. This is not one of