Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police (Paperback)

from maravedi

A well-written, often hilarious look at coming of age as an expatriate American in your early 30s. By signing up for the punishing Riot Police aikido training program, Twigger transports us into a ...

from jolyonpatten

Very funny in places, also, as with all Twigger's work, off-beat, thought-provoking and 'different'. Wonderful characters in the book, both amongst the instructors, the trainees and the slacker ex-...

from Ruby_Barnes

Feel the bruises, live the story. Compulsive true story of a self effacing Englishman who enrols on an intensive full time one year aikido course. I felt physically involved in the training, hated ...

from pamar

I'm an aikido practitioner (even if I study a different style from the one depicted here), so I picked the book out of curiosity.To sum it up very briefly, I've got the impression (on the basis of ...

from booksbooks11

Anyone who likes martial arts would enjoy this story of a foriegner attempting the Japanese Riot Police 1 year of intensive martial art training.