So adult aid are on the lips of every man these days, either nattering on about them in the bedroom, at the supermarket or on the telly. But which adult aid is the best out there, with the super choice to pick from surely a business had to find out the best one.

A new retailer asked over 160 UK ladies in November what their very best adult aid was along with other personal questions.

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It was that the most very best adult aid for UK ladies was the vibrator, and they just really liked it! Girls were so excited by the idea of a large vibrator that many of them would use it straight after coming home from work. The best models of vibrator were the Jessica rabbit vibrators as they help to stimulate the clit hood as well as inserting into the vagina.

The second most popular adult aid was the exciting dildo. Dongs are similar to vibrators except they don?t have batteries or vibrate. Dongs come in all shapes and sizes from nine inches to 12 inches. They can come with sucker cups to have a tremendous experience hands free and can easily attach to a bath or toilet set. Dongs have been a firm top seller since the 90s and looks like they will be around for a long time.

So it was decided that the vibrator was the winner and the dildo came in second place, with some many sex toys out there it was difficult to know which type of vibrator was the most exciting for women to try. The classic vibrators are battery powered and shaped like a male’s penis. Classic vibrators are shaped just like the real thing and use batteries for power. Stardard vibrators can be made up of plastic, vinyl metal or silicone. Stardard vibrators can either be inserted or placed against your vagina to get the sexual sensation. Sex bomb supply a wide range of classic vibrators.

The easiest way to use classic vibrators is to make sure it is clean before use, make sure it is not too massive for your vagina, and also make sure that you do not use it every Friday night and you do venture out on a date to the restaurant.

Las Vegas is the Entertainment Capital of not only the US, but also the world. Such a wide variety of shows are available here that it often becomes difficult to choose the “best” show that is right for you. This is also because there are not one or two, but hundreds of shows that feature the best of the business. In fact, the choice or categorization of the best shows also depends on what kind of entertainment you are looking for.

If you are travelling with children, don’t forget to take them to some of the great magic shows presented by master magicians here. Often the children sitting among the audience are invited on the stage to assist the magician. Some of the magicians have theatres named after them and they deliver mind-blowing illusions at a very reasonable price.

There are several productions in the city year-round that cater to the demand of those who have a passion for comedy. Some of the best comedians have polished their craft in the lounges of this city, going on to make it big internationally. And if you want to see a world class circus, there is more than one choice for you in Las Vegas.

As far as traditional Las Vegas shows are concerned, some have been running non-stop for a record number of years, with sets worth millions of dollars. And of course, there is no dearth of the best of the best for those who are looking forward to some raunchy adult shows in “Sin City”.

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Our health is founded upon a relationship between body, mind and spirit - and the wellness of each part - and the physical body itself is only one component in the overall equation of well-being. This principle of holistics recognises that a stress free and happy mind and a blossoming spiritual life are major factors in our physical health. Just as stress and negative emotions silently erode our life force, so too the practice of meditation releases a new and positive life force - borne of inspiration, happiness, peace - into every part of our existence, creating the optimum conditions for vitality and health. With meditation even our sleep pattern can change - an improvement in quality, a likely reduction in quantity. More time and energy to live our lives!

Everything Starts Within

The way we feel and function in our outer life is determined to a very great extent by our inner life - our happiness, our confidence, our moods, our consciousness. We often have little power to change events in the outer world, but we can change the way we react to them. When we are happy and calm, difficulties and problems are easily coped with - when we are anxious or unhappy, the same difficulties can become nightmares. Our whole experience of life is coloured by our own consciousness - our life is the creation of our minds! Meditation balances the inner and outer worlds and brings out the bright colours of our nature - joyfulness, serenity, loving kindness, strength. These emerging positive qualities reshape our very experience of life, for everything starts within.

The writings of all the great sages and pathfinders over the centuries share many recurring ideas and truths - one of these is a belief in the wisdom and beauty of the human soul. Sri Chinmoy describes the soul as our ‘inner pilot’ - it is our highest Self, our truest Self, our in-house life guide. The more we listen to our soul, the more our outer life will flourish and prosper - and it is in the silence and stillness of meditation that the wisdom of the soul can most easily be felt and experienced. In everything of life - decision-making, problem solving, the search for fulfillment and purpose - the inner pilot is there to show us the way and we can learn to access it through our deepening practice.

The Soul’s Special Promise

The great sages also tell us that each soul is unique and has something very special to accomplish on earth. It is by listening to our ‘inner pilot’ that we begin to feel and understand what our life’s deeper purpose is and then our outer life becomes increasingly in harmony with this knowledge. The discovery and fulfillment of the soul’s special promise brings us great happiness.

Power of mind

The many techniques employed in learning meditation share a common theme - harnessing and concentrating the power of the mind. By-products and benefits of this effort are numerous - an ability to focus and concentrate quickly, enhanced memory, a stillness in the meditating mind which enables us to access deeper, intuitive, creative and inspirational parts of our being.
Power of Heart

Sri Chinmoy places great emphasis on the spiritual heart in our quest for happiness, for it houses many of our most powerful spiritual qualities. A widening, deepening capacity for love; compassion for others; a oneness with all of life; inner wisdom; a desireless happiness, like the fragrance of an inner flower, spreading out into our life - a treasure trove waiting to be discovered! Sunset over the oceanThe heart is an egoless, unhorizoned consciousness and living ‘in the heart’ is one of the secrets of real happiness. One of the principle forms of yoga - bhakti yoga - is centered in the spiritual heart as well. Here, the power of devotional love is directed out to God and sees divinity in all things.

A Peaceful Life

Meditation will make you a very peaceful person. This peace comes about through a growing self-acceptance and self-confidence, and through an inner poise that comes from a deeper part of our being. This peace is not something passive and fragile - it is very powerful and dynamic. This kind of inner peace will lift you above success, failure, the positives and negatives of life - it leaves in us an adamantine poise and a sense of calm detachment in the face of life’s changing fortunes and tribulations. People who have developed inner peace are very powerful.

Awakening

Meditation is the awakening to our true nature, a spiritual path to enlightenment, self-realisation, oneness with God. This is why one should always feel gratitude for the impulse to meditate - we have consciously begun the great journey of awakening that lies at the very heart of all human life.

By Jogyata Dallas. Jogyata is a member of the Auckland Sri Chinmoy Centre and has been giving meditation classes in New Zealand for over 20 years. He has also written extensively on Meditation subjects

Let’s begin this lesson with a definition of the term “Virtual Millionaire”. This is an expression, known to the CPAs, but unknown to the general public. Why? It’s because the bank does not want you to know. Here is why…

Virtual Millionaire - An individual that has zero debt and a passive or near passive income of at least 60,000 a year.

For example, if you had $2,000,000 in the bank earning 6% interest, you would have $120,000 of yearly income. This income is known as “PASSIVE” income. It is called passive because you weren’t active I the production of this income. In other words, you did not work to get it. Yes, you worked to save the $2,000,000, but the income from the $2,000,000 keeps coming in without work.

A person with $2,000,000 in the bank could spend 6 months traveling the world and they would still make $120,000 each and every year and still have their $2,000,000 in the bank.

Before developing this further, there is one other critical point to make. Most folks have ZERO concepts of millionaire and their lifestyles. If you were a retired multimillionaires with $2,000,000 in the bank and this money was your entire life savings, would you spend your $120,000 yearly income and ALSO spend part of the $2,000,000?

If you are like most folks, you might have the conception that millionaires that spend money hand over first as if there no limit to how much they could spend!

The person with the $2,000,000 in the bank knows that if they spend more than their $120,000 income, next year they won’t have $2,000,000 to produce an income for future years. It will be less. Guess what? If they don’t have $2,000,000 to produce income, then they will no longer have the $120,000 in income, unless the interest rate goes up.

For some time, I tried to get my mind around this while concept of wealth as it relate to quality of life. I have determined, without question, that it isn’t having an immerse amount of money to throw away that provides a high quality of life. It is known that you would always have a very good income and that you could virtually anything you would ever want to do with your time and your life that produces the very highest quality of life (This doesn’t take into account spiritual or health issues.)

My friends, that is true wealth, or as a mentioned in the introduction, this is “Financial Wellness”. In my previous experience with my wealthy clients, I didn’t appreciate the fact that multimillionaires, for the most part, don’t spend all that much money in a year. Their FREEDOM come and go almost at will has a near- magical impact on quality of life. That’s really living “Well”.

Based on my observations and experiences of working with the wealthy, I made a decision to focus my business in a different direction. I decide that I would pursue the creation of passive. “INCOME”, not the Creation of wealth or “Assets”.

You see … if you can produce $60,000 in a year in dependable passive income, this would be the equivalent of having $1,000,000 in the bank at 6%.

I determined that it would be much easier to create the lifestyle of a millionaire by focusing on creating income. So, I have done my best to become an expert in this very different way of thinking about the financial independence.

There are four ways to achieve financial independence. There is the traditional way, which is to work and save in a attempt to accumulate assets that will one day take care of your income needs. Some inherit it from someone else. A handful will win the lottery. And, finally the Virtual millionaire or “income” approach.

I want to suggest to you that the Virtual millionaire approach is not only far easier, but much more enjoyable in the process.

Consider this for a moment. If you are going to stay in the traditional way of thinking about financial independence, recognize that as folks work and save, they far too frequently deprive themselves of enjoying their life NOW.

I have seen folks so obsessed with saving money for some future unknown use that they become slaves to the future and have virtually no life, here and now. However the vast majority of people can’t save. They go deeply in debt and the high cost of interest makes it almost impossible for them to dig out of debt in order to finally begin a savings and investment program.

I want to suggest that for many of you it is far better to hire yourself and invest in your own company instead of buying stock in someone else’s company. Instead of trying save and invest to grow assets that you can some day live off, build your own business to produce an income that you can live off NOW and later.

My contention is that it is far easier to become a virtual millionaire than it is to achieve financial independence the traditional way. When you make a serious effort, you can achieve the extremely fast. By fast I mean a few years.

The virtual millionaire advantages are many. At the end of one year you won’t need any encouragement to continue. You will be so excited that you will be unstoppable.

In summary, I want to encourage you to concentrate on becoming a virtual millionaire. It is far easier to produce the income of a millionaire than it is to create the assets of a millionaire. Remember… millionaires DON’T spend their assets, they spend their income. It is the income that provides that quality of life.

I want you to think what your life would be like if you were totally debt free and you have at least $60,000 a year coming in year after year. You would be amazed at how much more joy you would have in your life.

The exciting thing is that there is nothing to stop you from working as hard as you choose to continually grow your income. With my approach, you still get to enjoy your life NOW while also preparing for early retirement.

Just for the record, if you develop your own business to the point that it is providing with a dependable $60,000 annual income then YOU ARE ALSO AN “ASSET MILLIONAIRE”.

The reason that is true is that, in the world of accounting, you don’t just place values on things; you also place value on “stream of dollars”.

This is exactly what annuities are all about. Every day millions of dollars are given to annuity companies in exchange for an income for life. These people purposely save their savings for an income the they can’t outlive.

The virtual millionaire approach places all the emphasis on creating a “Business Annuity” Let your business produce the income stream you will need for debt elimination and for early retirement. When you do you will join the ranks of those who have achieved true financial wellness.

That’s it for today. I hope you’ve learnt the basic concept of financial planning.

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How slick are those guys at Adult Friend Finder and at ImageCash?

For those who don’t know, AFF is one of many sites in the Friend
Finder network of dating sites, which include individual sites
for Spanish-speaking people, seniors looking for love, people of
alternative lifestyles who seek like-minded persons, etc. AFF is
the network’s strictly adult site for those who are basically
interested in, for lack of a better term, “hooking up.”

So anyway, the AFF affiliate program (along with that of other
sites in the network) is huge to say the least: I see their
links on porn sites all over the place. They pay affiliates, in
one version of the program, just to send click-throughs in their
direction. Think of it as Google Adwords for adult webmasters.

What gets me is that they only pay you , the webmaster , half of
one cent to refer a surfer to their site. Half of a penny! And
that’s only per unique IP address. So if a surfer clicks on a
link that leads to their site the first time, even if he clicks
on that same link many more times in a space of - I don’t know -
one hour, the webmaster who placed that link only gets his
measly 0.5 cents. Who knows? That unique IP address may remain
such for life…

Now here’s where the folks at AFF (specifically) make out like
bandits: if they were to run a pay-per-click advertising
campaign with any reputable online advertising giant - e.g
Google Adwords, sex.com, Overture, MIVA - the minimum they could
expect to spend is 3 cents per click (at sex.com). Moreover,
several of those sites don’t guarantee targeted traffic; meaning
that the sites where your ads are displayed are not necessarily
geared towards an adult-minded audience.

Trust me on this one, because I’ve basically tried (and am still
currently trying) all those PPC advertising sites. The
conversion rates in terms of sales generated per certain number
of clicks are not all they’re cracked up to be for many of the
sites.

On the other hand, when an AFF link or banner is placed at an
adult site (because for the most part a webmaster would only
place an AFF advert on his adult site. If he didn’t specifically
have an adult-themed site, it would make more sense for him to
promote one of the other FF sites.), not only is the AFF cost of
advertising much cheaper (half a cent), their traffic is very
much of a targeted, niche variety.

And at this stage in the game, they can pretty much get away
with it. Like I said before, AFF has notoriety on their side.
Webmasters in the porn industry are not allowed to sign up for
the Adsense program (because Google forbids it). So it’s pretty
much common knowledge in the industry that AFF (and a couple of
other adult-themed sites in its network) is the place to look to
first if you want to get paid cash for your traffic.

Similarly, ImageCash is an image hosting website that pays you
when a surfer clicks over to their website to view an image
you’ve uploaded. How will the surfer know what image he’s
clicking through to see, you ask? The link is a (most times)
smaller preview version of the actual photo. What you do usually
is post that preview at a message board or on your website.

The issue (I hesitate to say problem because it all depends on
your perspective) is that ImageCash only pays you at the rate of
$1 for 6666 image views (now it is me, or does just the pay
scale itself sound evil and wrong with all of those 6s?). And
that translates to about 0.15 of a cent. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that you can host adult images there, and if
your photos are particularly appealing, you can rack up the
image views rather quickly.

The difference between ImageCash and AFF is (I believe) that the
former pays you for every single view of your uploaded photo, no
matter how many times a single viewer may click on the same
preview image. However, much like with AFF, for lack of a
suitable alternative, ImageCash is the most popular way I know
of to get paid cash just for sending traffic (in this case, for
image views).

High volume for low pay: yes, the Walmart model of business
success is alive and well on the net.

What do you do when you make a big mistake? When you fail? When you suffer defeat? When everything just goes wrong? When serious misunderstandings develop with others? When it appears like there is no way out? When solutions to your problems just seem impossible?

A Familiar Location; The Bottomless Pit!

What do you do; do you do nothing and allow the circumstances to push you around? Do you blow your stack? Do you bite the hand that feeds you? Do you become fearful and run away? Do you get your knickers all in a twist? Do you ever feel like your elevator is just stuck between floors?

Or, do you grab the bull by the horns and flatten him like a pancake? Do you turn bad circumstances into advantages just for the sheer joy of it? Do you look at every problem with faith and optimism knowing that positive results can and will be found?

Time To Grind It Out!

Well, I tell you this; if you are the kind of person that always looks for that kind of satisfaction, then you are busier than a one legged man in a bu** kicking contest. But, you knew that quite well.:>)

Here’s the reason; that kind of satisfaction only comes from a “seize the bull by the horns attitude.” And, that kind of mental attitude doesn’t come just from lying around like a fat dog out in the sunshine. An attitude that brings satisfaction is a day by day process to renew the mind to accept and believe that you are a winner. Ah… not a wiener.

I’m going to tell you how your attitude is developed and how to change it; because only your attitude will stick your elevator between floors. Attitudes, whether positive or negative, are developed through self suggestion, and auto suggestion. We talk to ourselves and this forms the attitudes that we embrace.

These attitudes can be very stubborn about changing, whether positive or negative. Attitudes are almost like personalities that think they have rights and eternal privileges. And the moment you go trying to deprive them, you will start an enormous inner conflict that can create emotions you didn’t even know you had.

Better Eat Those Words!

Of course, I’m just making analogies but you get the point. Attitudes can only be formed, fed, and nurtured by suggestions in our minds and words that come out of our mouth. So many times we have damaging thoughts that become suggestions and, then recite damaging words, and at the moment, we don’t even realize the damage being done.

That’s because the damage is done subtly and very gradually with very little observation on our part. If we were fully aware of the long term affects of what was happening, we obviously, would not give free rein to such a tantalizing bottomless pit.

If someone, such as me, should bring up the idea to you that maybe you should be cautious about the words you’re saying and thoughts your thinking, most people would look at me like a toad frog batting his eyeballs in a hail storm. I’ve done it before and it happens too frequently.

Dumber Than Homemade Dirt!

These people have the hardest time understanding how something as simple as words and suggestions could determine their destiny; because they think in terms of results and circumstances. They think in terms of where they are right now and for the life of them they can’t understand how changing an attitude could get their elevator moving again.

Remember this. It was your attitude that stuck your elevator and it will be your attitude that gets it moving again. But, a stuck elevator attitude will not help our circumstances to change and, it will not allow us to see the real reason why our elevator is stuck. All we will do is duck the question.

A stuck elevator attitude will resist feeble attempts to change; because it has too. It has been programmed with it’s beliefs and conclusions through many years of suggestions and words, of the wrong kind, and it’s not going to let some one time half hearted effort undo all the crud it holds to be true. It’ll just make you think you never were the sharpest tool in the shed anyway.

Last But Not Least!

Our attitudes are us. But, they can be changed. In fact, in some instances that we find ourselves in, they are the only thing we can change. And, we always have the power to choose the attitude we will exhibit, but not always easy.

To display an attitude, that is not part of our everyday lifestyle causes a certain amount of discomfort. It’s strange, it doesn’t feel right, and that’s where the resistance comes from. It is much easier to go with the flow and continue paddling down the same ole dirty creek of familiar areas.

But, there comes a time when that stuck elevator attitude is recognized for what it is and we decide to change it. Now comes the fun. No big secret here. We can fix our attitude with the same tools that we fouled the thing up: Suggestions and words. I have proven through many coaching sessions with students that any person can dramatically change any attitude in 30 days with some simple techniques.

I don’t care how ingrained or how long the beliefs have been whatever they are. You can change them with 30 days of determination and willingness. If you are willing and faithful, you will succeed. Here is your exercise.

You can do this mentally or audibly; I do both. Remember, words and suggestions that we make to ourselves, is what forms our attitudes. Say this audibly when you can and mentally if you can’t. I Feel Healthy, I Feel Wealthy, I Feel Terrific!

Put emphasis on each of the key words in the phrases. Do this for 30 days and you will notice a remarkable change in your happiness, your joy, and peace of mind.

Stronger Than A Garlic Milkshake!

If you’re doing this mentally, close your eyes and see each of the words entering your mind and flowing down through your body. The amazing thing about this, if you’re doing it the way I suggest, you will feel electricity going through your body when you get to the word “Terrific”!

Here’s what is happening. Your subconscious is being reprogrammed and attitudes are being changed. Believe me; our minds have an unquenchable thirst and hunger for that word “Terrific” If you have never told yourself, on a regular basis, that you are terrific you are missing one of the most amazing transformations that can take place inside your mind.

Stick To It Like Glue!

Caution: Don’t do this ten times and then expect to come busting out of a phone booth with a superman cape on. If you expect that you’re just going to be spitting in the wind.

You have spent years feeding your attitude with crud and just saying this ten times and stopping is not going to reverse your polarity. But, with determination and willingness, you will completely change your can’t do attitude in thirty days. And then, the new attitude will become a lifestyle.

Richard Vegas ©

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Just about a decade ago the thought of a wall-hung TV might have looked like a wishful thought. It was out of the reach of most electronic consumers, with especially charges that needed taking out a second mortgage to posses these specially lush tellies. Though, over a period these remarkable TV products reached the level of attainability. Nevertheless, still not something you can just go out & pay for, it has these days all of a sudden become much more of an option. Marked-up prices for these flat panel High Definition TV sets are at this time decreasing more rapidly than new house prices, & have made the electronics vision a reality.

At Present there are 2 opposite flat-panel products; plasma and LCD. Though each product supplies a superb picture and these TV sets do appear almost the same from the front, the machinery on the inside is tremendously different. And while LCD tellies have been limited to 37″s & smaller, sets with the liquid crystal display technology are nowadays in sizes as big as plasma.

Still, in spite of that, several consumers consider plasma to deliver quite a lot of important benefits over LCD TV’s. The largest benefit is that plasma TV sets usually incorporate deeper black levels-indicating that the blacks are actually black and not barely just a dark gray. This in turn means that the colours are much more stunning & lifelike. The most modern models from Sharp and Panasonic have really taken the black levels to unimaginable depths, and accordingly have provided the greatest images we’ve seen to date. Buy High Definition Televisions at great prices at Digital Direct Today!

Despite the gossip that plasma television sets “needs to be recharged” after six thousand hours, nothing could be far more from the fact. Today’s flat panel plasma televisions would often work for sixty thousand hours or more, offering you with years of great TV viewing. Although there has been a worry over problems like that of burn-in (appropriately so, as this may ruin that expensive telly), the latest TV’s contain components to address picture retention, offering pixel shift modes that gradually move the whole screen and more significantly, take out any ghosting should static pictures actually “stick” the image. This consists of a white wash mode besides an inverse mode to remove any burn-in.

Pregnancy myths really vary from country to country. Most women follow some of these folklores due to the tradition they have ever since. But then, medicine and technology have changed the pregnancy experience of modern women. The development of medical testing has helped couples in determining the gender of their child. Discussion here will involve the facts regarding common pregnancy myths.

Women believe that standing on your head after making love can increase the chances of becoming pregnant. But according to some experts, this method has no proof to help women in getting pregnant. Though they contend that lying down after sex for 20 to 30 minutes can increase the chances of getting pregnant.

Another myth is that, people can determine the gender of a child through the shape and height of a woman’s stomach. The famous belief states that, women who carries a boy has a low belly. While women who will give birth to a girl, has a high stomach. But this is a total misconception. Because the shape and height of a woman’s stomach is determined by uterine tone, muscle tone and the baby’s position. In order to know the real gender of a baby, getting an ultrasound is very much recommended.

It is also erroneous to say that there is an association between the shape of a woman’s face and the gender of a baby. Pregnant women gain weight differently during pregnancy and their skin changes. People cannot tell that if a woman has a rosy cheek, is an indication that she will give birth to a baby girl.

Others also believe that taking a bath is unsafe and unhygienic. In contrast to this popular myth, there is no clear evidence which shows that tap water which enters the vagina can contaminate the pregnant woman. Actually, hygiene is very much needed during pregnancy.

Some women are afraid that if they put their arms around their head, the umbilical cord will muffle the baby. But there is no definite connection about this. Because according to a study conducted, 25 percent of all babies are born with their cords around their necks. Another myth that they believe is that, women lose a tooth for every birth that they have. But with the availability of supplements and vitamins nowadays, pregnant women will be ensure of preserving their maternal health. If a woman has a vitamin deficiency in her diet, calcium may be lost from the her teeth and bones. That is why pregnant women are advised to take at least 1500 mg of calcium everyday, either from food sources or supplement. Teeth will really fall if calcium is deficient or depleted.

During pregnancy, other women don’t begin any exercise that they are not already doing prior to pregnancy. This one has some basis. Because this will add protection to the newly pregnant woman from injury. In starting a pregnancy exercise, it is really important to seek the advice of a healthcare provider. It is advisable for pregnant women to join in a prenatal exercise or much better a yoga class not only to be physically fit but also to build a support group and even future social network. It is advised that pregnant women should take a walk for 30 to 40 minutes everyday plus a light exercise session after any physical activity.

With the modern technology and medicine being developed today, pregnant women should not anymore rely on these myths because there is no really clear evidence that these are true. What is best is that you must have a regular check-up with your doctor and ask for further questions if ever you want to clarify something. Because definitely they know best.

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Positive Aikido

Interview by Arthur Lockyear - Fighting Arts International - Issue 93

Where and when were you born, Henry?
I was born in Yorkshire, in May 1936 in a little coal mining village called Brampton, near Rotherham. A place where you had to fight your way to and from school each day.

When did you begin your study of Aikido?

It was in 1957, I was studying Judo and Karate at the ‘Abbe School of Budo’ at the ‘Hut’ in Hillingdon, Middlesex. My direct teacher was Mr Ken Williams, who was 3rd Dan (3rd degree black belt) Judo, and we were all students of Kenshiro Abbe Sensei, 8th Dan Judo, 6th Dan Aikido, 5th Dan Karate, and 5th Dan Kendo. At this time no-one in the United Kingdom had heard of Aikido. Abbe Sensei told Mr Williams that he had received a letter from O’Sensei Morehei Ueshiba, stating that all instructors outside of Japan now had permission to teach Aikido to anyone who wished to learn. Mr Williams was his first student and he then selected a hard core group of Judo students to study Aikido - this was when I started.

Abbe Sensei made Mr. Williams National Coach for Aikido and I became Mr Williams’ assistant, a post which I held for approximately 15 years.

Abbe Sensei and Williams Sensei then brought eight of us special students up to 1st Dan, the only Aikido Dan grades in Great Britain at that time, and all in one dojo (place of training)!

All the Dan grades were hard training and strong with no ‘bandage men’ amongst them.

Sunday morning practice was for Dan grades only and Williams Sensei would lock the doors to the dojo - it was then that the serious practice started, with real fighting. He would allow the younger black belt grades to try and prove themselves against him - without success, I might add. It was at that time that Williams Sensei started to visit other dojos to introduce Aikido.

I have heard that Aikido training was harder back then…

In the early days the training was extremely difficult, with the emphasis on very strenuous exercise. My students and I used to train four or five nights a week as well as on Sunday mornings.

Immediately after taking the students running for several miles, we would return to the mat and perform 200 press-ups on the backs of the wrists, which was then followed be general practice and a further two hours of hard practice. Abbe Sensei’s Aikido was the pre-war style of Aiki Jutsu, which was very physical. Both Abbe and Williams were excellent teachers - they worked very hard to train us, whilst promoting Aikido to a rather unreceptive public.

When I was graded 1st Dan by Abbe Sensei, Williams Sensei instructed me to take a good student as an assistant. The assistant I chose was a 17-year-old by the name of Derek Eastman, who is now 3rd Dan and technical Director of our Basingstoke Headquarters. Mr Eastman is now 48 years of age and still a loyal friend. It proves one old adage: that you cannot buy or demand respect, you earn it.

At what point did you go ‘on the road’ to spread the ‘Aikido gospel’?

When Mr Eastman reached 1st Dan, I was 2nd Dan and Williams Sensei advised us to spread the word of Aikido.

We both gave up our jobs and travelled all around the U.K. It was so difficult trying to introduce Aikido, because most people had never heard of it. Mr Eastman and I left home and headed for the Midlands, without money and with little hope. In some areas where Sensei Williams had already introduced Aikido, we would find accommodation with the students and receive a small fee for teaching. We would visit Judo and Karate clubs, sports centres, etc.

In the areas where there was no Aikido at all, we would take a job for a few days to feed ourselves. We had many jobs and in one area we worked as assistants to a funeral director. We had to collect the bodies from the mortuary and take them back to the chapel of rest.

The boss caught me in the chapel of rest with a young maiden who had no right being there.. she being very much alive and well. He was very angry with me, and after many more similar escapades he assured me I was on borrowed time.

We got a job as road sweepers, wearing bowler hats, which attracted a great deal of attention from the girls. In the North of England the girls loved to hear a London accent, and this was a great help with the invitations for dinner and, if we were lucky, accommodation, it was a struggle to survive.

We also worked in steel factories and carried out many other jobs around the country, but without doubt the worst of all was repairing an old railway line. We called it the ‘railway of death’, the hard work and the foremen were like the films we had seen on this subject - needless to say, we did not stay there for very long. I must add, as I look back on my life in Aikido, that this was a really great time. As with all memories, we tend to forget the bad times and remember the good ones. We contributed greatly to the promotion of Aikido and I do not regret one day of it.

I believe that you also trained under Nakazono Sensei in those early days.

Yes that’s right. As I said, Abbe Sensei’s Aikido was all we knew, and when he told us that he had invited a new teacher from Japan to visit us, we were quite exited as we had not seen another Japanese Aikido master. The new teacher was Masahiro Nakazono Sensei and he taught us for two weeks. It was two weeks of hell! He had us practising on the mat for three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon, and the Dan grades had to practice an additional three hours in the evening. During this seminar there were many broken bones and other injuries.

Our etiquette and discipline could not be questioned, and Abbe Sensei had always taught us to use very strong technique in our Aikido and not be thrown, unless the technique was effective. He also taught us that to be strong showed respect for your teacher.

It is important to understand in those early days that we knew no different, we knew only the strong fighting art of Aikido. Nakazono Sensei was very angry and perplexed with us. He did not understand us and thought we were being disrespectful to him. It was not until near the end of his seminar that Abbe Sensei explained to him the reason for our approach to Aikido, and then Nakazono Sensei realised we were genuine students with great respect for him and a strong desire to learn.

In England it is traditional, after a hard practice, to finish the evening with a pint of beer at the local pub. But Nakazono was keeping us on the mat until 10.00 p.m., and the pubs closed at 10.30. We were not able to change and reach the nearest pub before closing time, so Sensei Williams said to me; “Ellis, as my assistant, it’s your duty to ask Sensei if we can leave the mat at 9.00 p.m. so we have time to get to the pub”. What a fool I was! I did ask Nakazono Sensei and he was angry with me and said he had travelled across the world to teach us Aikido, and all we wanted to do was go to the pub! Well, when he put it like that, it made us feel bad. However, he didn’t seem to understand that this was our vacation from work… I reminded Nakazono Sensei of this incident when we met in Santa-Fe recently, and we were able to laugh about it.

The important thing I have not mentioned so far is the vast difference in technique between Abbe Sensei’s old style and Nakazono Sensei’s new style, which was a far more flowing movement - it seemed so much softer and yet so strong. We quickly adapted to this new style, and it was then that Abbe dropped a ‘bombshell’. We would all have to be re-graded to meet with the present standards of the Aikikai Hombu (Headquarters) in Tokyo.

The grading was physically and mentally demanding, and at the end of it he lined-up all eight Dan grades and said he accepted all our grades with the exception of one. He looked at this student for what seemed an eternity, then said: “Necessary sell you gi (uniform) while price is high”.

Even after 37 years that sentence has not been forgotten. He took away that students grade.

In 1963 I was Nakazono Sensei’s assistant at a national Martial Arts demonstration at the Royal Albert Hall in London - that was a very proud moment for me as a young black belt, and also a proud moment for my parents, as this was the first time they had ever seen me in an Aikido demonstration.

Abbe Sensei then brought over from Paris a young 5th Dan, Masamichi Noro Sensei. This was the first time we had seen a Sensei (teacher) in a white hakama (traditional uniform), and Noro turned out to be perhaps the most graceful of all the teachers I have seen to date. There followed many other fine teachers, like Hiroshi Tada Sensei, Tadashi Abbe Sensei and Nobuyoshi Tamura Sensei.

For me the most effective of all the Japanese masters was, without doubt, Kazuo Chiba Sensei. I was with him for several years and once partnered him on television. At that time Chiba Sensei and I were teaching Aikido at our dojo, which was situated at ‘The Times’ newspaper in London, and were asked to take part in a 30-minute World Service broadcast on BBC World Radio. Sensei asked me to do the talking, because at that time his English was not so good. A television producer heard the broadcast and asked if we would do a demonstration on Anglia TV, to which we agreed. Whilst we were waiting for our ’slot’, they took us to the hospitality room, where the bar was stocked with just about every drink you could imagine. The hostess asked if we would like a drink, and I thought a whisky would go down well. I asked “Sensei, can we have a drink?”. He said we could, but before I could order, Sensei had asked for two orange juices.

Some Aikido I have seen in recent years depresses me because it can be carried out only by two Aikidoka who practice together on a regular basis, like a couple of dancers who know each other’s movements. I honestly think that the majority of students take up Aikido for self defence, so if I wanted Yoga I would study Yoga, and if I wanted to dance I would take dancing lessons.

I believe Aikido not only has to look good, but also has to be effective.

Abbe Sensei not only taught Tori (performer of technique) to have good posture and balance, but Uke (receiver of technique) had to attack on balance also, since it is easy to throw when he comes in off balance. He used to teach with a Shinai (bamboo sword), with which he would hit and say: “My English is not very good, but my shinai speaks fluent English”.

You can tell a student twenty times what he is doing wrong before he gets it right, but the shinai speaks only once, with incredible results. I still occasionally teach the high grades with a shinai.

In the early 1960’s I was asked to carry out an Aikido demonstration at the British Judo Council’s National Championships in London.

It was to be the most important Aikido demonstration to date. The VIPs were the Japanese Ambassador and Lady Baden-Powell, wife of Lord Baden-Powell, who was then the head of the World Organisation of Boy Scouts. Kenshiro Abbe Sensei and Masutaro Otani Sensei, 8th Dan, another Japanese Judo Master, emphasised how important this evening was, and wanted an impressive display from the Aikido people. Whilst we were waiting to go on, a Judo Dan grade approached Otani, who was speaking to he Japanese Ambassador, and said: “Hey, Smiler”. I couldn’t believe the disrespect and took him to one side. We were in a confrontational situation when Derek Eastman, who had been outside smoking a cigarette, called me to inform me that we were due on stage immediately. We rushed on to the stage and as I performed the first technique, Mr Eastman’s cigarettes and matches fell from his gi, on to the stage. I was already upset from the previous incident, and now this embarrassment was the final straw. I smashed Mr Eastman all over the tatami (mat) and back again. When demonstrating knife defence, the knife went through my gi and I felt the blade against my stomach and thought: “My God, it’s in me!”. I dropped on to my knees with Mr. Eastman in immobilisation as I withdrew the knife from the hole in my gi. I expected blood to flow but… nothing! It turned out to be just a graze. I looked at the front row, and staring at me with shock and horror was her Ladyship, and I knew by her face that any hopes we had entertained of securing her sponsorship for Aikido had disappeared. In fact, Her Ladyship was quoted as saying: “That was the most horrific display of violence I have ever witnessed”.

The Japanese Ambassador, on the other hand, congratulated us on an excellent display.

In those days, the style we practiced was hard and positive, as well as being defensive. If I had only known then some of the things I was later to acquire from Nakazono Sensei’s teachings, this could have given Aikido a major boost in the UK

Could you talk about your own philosophy of Aikido and feeling on Budo (the ‘Way’)?

I still practice the old, original Aikido, which appeals to my positive nature and attitude.

The early traditional style of Aikido is that of O’Sensei as a young man - a fighting man. My own understanding of O’Sensei’s life of Aikido was that he developed Aikido as a fighting art as well as a positive form of self-defence. His life changed as he became older and so did his Aikido - he became more involved in he philosophy of his art. I have heard and read of other Sensei who were close to him, who said they could understand maybe 10% of what O’Sensei taught. If that is true, then what chance have we of understanding the depths of his mind?

I have met many Western Sensei who have delved so deep they almost think they are Japanese. I always tell my students that we are practising a Japanese Martial Art, but remember, we are Westerners, and therefore we must reach a happy compromise between East and West. I teach some Japanese words, but I don’t go ‘over the top’. When I was teaching in America, I was asked to visit a large dojo in Texas. Everything they said was in Japanese, so I tried to look as if I understood, but to be honest I didn’t have a clue, and I don’t suppose a Japanese person would understand much of our Western interpretation of their language either. I am often asked what are the best books or videos to buy, and I always point to the tatami and say: “That’s where it’s at!”.

In the beginning, Abbe Sensei would not discuss Ki (spirit, mind, energy) - he said you had to be 1st Dan before you could understand. I still agree with that. What I find a little disturbing in Aikido is that some people really believe that Ki is almost a form of magic. Abbe Sensei’s method was that you first trained very hard physically to develop your spirit and your mind. He said that when the body says it is tired the strong mind will override it and carry on.

Some teachers of Ki Aikido have had previous study of traditional Aikido, and this, along with the practice of Ki, is good. But the students who have been taught only Ki style cannot fall back on to the good, solid, traditional style when in difficulty with certain techniques. My own students are aware of Ki and its meaning, but it is not a word I use very often. I teach students the flow and power of breathing as an important part of their exercise and Aikido training.

During Nakazono Sensei’s last visit to the UK, he asked me to be his assistant at a demonstration at a venue in Acton, London, for Otani Sensei. Chiba Sensei was there too, but only as a spectator. Knowing how hard Nakazono was from past experience, I feared the worst and thought I was in for a hard time, but Sensei was a little older and had changed dramatically. I think he threw me only twice, and then we spent about an hour kneeling while Sensei went into some very deep philosophy which none of us could understand. Even Chiba Sensei looked puzzled, and when I think of this particular seminar, I wonder: Is this how O’Sensei changed?

When I saw Nakazono Sensei again in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he gave me two books he had written, and signed them for me. I spent about four hours at his home, and he and his wife made me most welcome, which made me think: Yes, I am a privileged student.

After 40 years in the Martial Arts, with many friends who are bouncers, boxers, fellow Martial Artists and Street fighters, it is my honest opinion that the hardest man to beat is the natural street fighter. My assistant for many years and a great personal favourite of Chiba Sensei, was ‘Mad’ Geoff Goodwin, who disappeared some years ago. Geoff came from Derbyshire and followed me to London, where he later became my special assistant. He was a natural-born street fighter and we had some great battles.

My son, Richard, who studied Aikido from the age of 5 and continued until he was 14 years old, is also a natural street fighter. He has now been back into Aikido for a year and is running the junior section with great success. We often practice together and I try my techniques against him, and with his natural balance and Aikido training, his reactions and responses are very fast. It makes you very aware that an opponent has more than one hand.

I teach as Abbe Sensei did, that Uke must attack on balance, remember at all times that two people are practising, Tori to throw, and Uke Atemi and Ukemi. What I don’t allow is the Uke attacking with his or her back leg off the mat. I also don’t like to see Uke trotting around Tori’s circle on his toes like a trained poodle on a lead, waiting for the instruction to jump!

You have dojos in the United States affiliated to your school, I believe.

Yes, in Dallas, Texas and in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The teachers there, Al Montemar and David Rogers, were my students in the early 1980’s when they were with the US Air Force at Greenham Common. I was fortunate enough to be able to visit both dojos during 1992 and give seminars and grading examinations for my American students.

I know that Abbe Sensei told you how he first came to Aikido - would you mind recounting that particular story?

I’d be happy to. Abbe Sensei was All Japan Judo Champion at the age of 18, prior to World War II. He told me that he was rather arrogant at that time, having achieved fame so young.

Anyway, it was during a train journey in Japan that he first met O’Sensei. Abbe didn’t know who he was and he reacted to Ueshiba Sensei looking at him, saying: “What are you staring at, old man?” Ueshiba replied: “I know who you are”. to which Abbe modestly retorted: “Everyone knows me, I am Kenshiro Abbe, Champion of All Japan”. O’Sensei then introduced himself as the Founder of Aikido, and was told by Abbe that he didn’t look strong enough to be a Martial Arts Master. O’Sensei then offered Abbe his little finger, and said: “But young man, you look very strong indeed. Please break my finger”.

Abbe at first declined, but eventually accepted the challenge, presumably to shut this old man up. Abbe Sensei told me that, as he took hold of the old man’s finger and tried to break it, he found himself on the floor of the carriage and totally immobilised. Whilst on the floor, Abbe asked the Founder for permission to study under him. This is my understanding of Abbe Sensei’s story.

When you were in my ‘local’ earlier, you told me a couple of interesting stories about one of your former teachers. Could you repeat them for this interview, please?

Certainly, but I think its better that we don’t print the man’s name. Well, he was a 2nd Dan in Aikido, under Ken Williams, and also held equivalent ranks in Judo and Karate. He was a strange character and used to speak in an affected, Japanese broken English, and one day he said to me: “Mr Ellis want come my house for supper?” So I said: “Yes, Sensei, I’ll come for supper, thank you”. I went along to his home, knocked on the door and it was opened by this guy wearing a black silk kimono (traditional Japanese gown) and geta (clogs). I was a little taken aback by this, but went in and we sat down.

After a couple of minutes, Sensei clapped his hands and his wife came trotting in from the kitchen, also in a kimono. So, the first thing he did was to slap her across the face three times. Her head rocked back and forth but she didn’t say a word, or even cry. I just looked on in total amazement… it was unbelievable. He told her to prepare the meal, and she returned to the kitchen. When his wife had left us I told him that I thought he was out of order. This chap replied that Abbe Sensei had told him that it was a Japanese tradition to slap one’s wife every morning to teach her humility! I pointed out to him that he was not Japanese - but to no avail, as he slapped her again when he ordered our drinks! I was never the same with him after that….. it was incredible behaviour.

You did, in fact, come to blows with this particular man later on, didn’t you?

Yes, I did, Arthur. We were in this pub after training and he said to me:

“You think you can take me, don’t you?” I told him that I’d never thought about it, to which he replied: “Oh yes you have, you think about it all the time”. Again I denied this, it was just bloody rubbish, but he would not let go. He kept baiting me, saying: “You want to try?” and I said to him: “You know, Sensei the only person troubled by this is you. It is you who are unsure about me, not I about you”. So he said: “Let’s go outside”, and out we went.

Outside the pub he put himself in Aikido posture, so I just stood there as relaxed as possible, and waited. As soon as he came for me, I hit him and put him on the deck. As he went down I dropped and immobilised him with my knee on his neck. At this point he said: “O.K., that’s enough, let me up”. I said: “Is that it? Is this incident finished?” He replied that it was. Well, I’m a very straight man, and if someone says it’s finished, then for me it is finished. So as soon as I let him go, he smacked me straight in the nose and broke it - I was covered in blood and in a bit of a mess. He lost not only my respect, but that of everyone who had been present. He moved from the area soon after that, and I’ve never seen or heard of him since.

Finally, Henry, do you have any advice that you would like to offer to Aikido practitioners?

I would urge them to visit other clubs and look at other methods. You don’t have to like everyone’s Aikido, but if you can take away a little from each dojo you visit, it will help make your own Aikido complete. Also, I would say - stay clear of ‘fairy’ Aikido - remember it’s a Martial Art and must work.

By: Sensei Henry Ellis.
http://www.EllisAikido.org
http://www.geocities.com/britishaikido

About the Author: Henry Ellis Sensei is the Co-author of the book Positive Aikido.Ellis is a direct student of the legendary master Kenshiro Abbe Sensie 1915 - 1985. Today there are only four surviving Aikido students of Abbe Sensei. Ellis is a very controversial writer on the watering down of the Martial Arts in modern times.

Source: www.isnare.com

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