Angry White Pyjamas

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. The book is set in Tokyo in the mid-1990s. Twigger is living with two friends in a tiny apartment near central Tokyo. They all decide to enrol at the Yoshinkan Hombu Dojo in order to get fit and break out of their sedentary life-style. Soon after beginning regular training, Twigger decides that the only way to truly experience aikido is to do the Yoshinkan Senshusei course, a gruelling 11-month program to train up instructors of Yoshinkan aikido. The course...
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Author:Robert Twigger
Genre:Autobiography, Biography, Sociology
Number of editions:3

Author of Angry White Pyjamas

Robert Twigger
Robert Twigger
Age:47
Birthplace:Brno

Robert Twigger is a British poet, writer and explorer. He lives in Cairo, Egypt. Twigger was educated at Balliol College, Oxford University. He first began to study engineering, but after six weeks switched to politics, philosophy and economics. His attendance record was poor, and he left...
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