The Aikido Biography of Sensei Henry Ellis

The Aikido Biography of Sensei Henry Ellis Henry Ellis and Derek Eastman - 2000Henry Ellis was bo May 3rd 1936 in a hard coal mine town in Yorkshire, northe England. This was before the war, the United Kingdom, and grow as a child during the austere war years of 1940? S Henry has never met all the hard times and difficult, as the discipline, the son of a difficult extraction of the coal face. Henry does not realize that this life lasts, with a strict discipline that we are well positioned for the years 1956 come.In join the Abbe School of Budo in the now famous Hut Dojo. His first appearance was in martial arts of Judo. After a year of Judo, Henry was the great master Kenshiro Abbe Sensei Aikido show that only recently was introduced to United Kingdom (1955). Henry Joined Aikido section in 1957, while continuing with his studies.TheHutDojo1957 Judo, Aikido and Judo students. First row of Abbe Sensei and Williams K Sensei.The Hut was a hell for all Dojo Dojo Hell? S. The discipline is very strict and very few continued study. This was the only Aikido dojo in the United Kingdom. Abbe Sensei and Williams Sensei taught a shinai with words, but the shinai is wasted if the student has received all the attention. Abbe Sensei said so many times that his English was bad, but his excellent speech shinai English.Henry mounted and with the discipline of an error routine that received a blow with the shinai, or between 100 and 200 press-ups on the back of wrists. In the third kyu Henry was promoted to personal assistant to Williams Sensei, then tour the UK, with its captain, the first seminar of Aikido in the United Kingdom in the city center, near StoneHenge.Henry devices Sensei Ellis and David Wae Sensei demonstrate Shih - nage. Basingstoke Dojo 1986When Henry first came to give the instructions to take an assistant, the assistant was Derek Eastman, who is still associated with the Ellis Aikido Schools.Of this group has become the first eight grades dan (black belt), these are Only been Aikido dan grades in the United Kingdom. Henry was the first teacher to introduce Aikido Aikido in the British school system in the early sixties the first sixties.In Ellis and Eastman, instructions for Williams Sensei has traveled to the United Kingdom teaching Aikido and Judo clubs for free. He worked a couple of days here and there for a meal and a bed, often sleeping in the car, in an effort to promote the arts to all who would give them the opportunity to teach and demonstrate. The two spent a year? On the road? . Ellis Eastman has studied Kendo and his best friend Tomio Otani Sensei the British National Coach for Kendo. They, in tu, taught Tomio Aikido.At hours Harada Sensei was teaching his ShotoKai Karate Dojo in the refuge. Harada Sensei studied with Henry, Henry in his use of Karate Aikido and Harada Sensei in his movement using Aikido Sensei Karate.Harada last was ranked 5th in 1957 by the founder of mode karate Gichin Funakoshi. Harada Sensei had developed the art of Karate ShotoKai. When asked why 5th dan remains as it is today, Harada answered? Any type of the above 5. Dan is totally pointless?. This was very impressed with Henry, now sick of hearing so many self-appointed teachers called selfish self aggrandising care over securities which the martial art they represent. Ellis and Eastman agreed to follow the Harada Sensei? S stands and has the highest level in the Ellis Schools of Traditional Aikido to 5 with dan.Henry Mikita Ellis Nakazato SenseiHenry has studied personally with many of the most important principles of Aikido, the names. Sensei? Kenshiro Abbe S? Williams K - Tadashi Abe? Nakazato Mikoto - Misamachi Noro? Tamura N? Kobayashi? Kazuo Chiba few.Henry is a name to proud of this expansion of the United States Alamogordo in New Mexico and Dallas Texas.On December 17 2004, issue of the book? Positive Aikido? was very pleased, after almost 50 years of war Arts.Henry Ellis C / o Author: Positive Aikido