Tuesday, 24 May 2022

  The BAB Controversy in Brief.

In the year 2000 - the senior British Aikido Board executives conspired and colluded to change the factual documented history of British Aikido, as two of the pioneers of that history, Henry Ellis and Derek Eastman have made every effort to protect the proud lineage and legacy of Kenshiro Abbe Sensei from 1955.
The aim of this blog is simply to hope and trust that no other Aikidoka will be treated as disrespectfully as these original pioneers of Aikido were treated by the 2000 BAB executives, whose conduct was beyond shameful as it was corrupt, the BAB were ordered by the executives of `Sport England`  to issue Ellis with a written apology. 

The then chairman, one Toni Davis, stated " We the British Aikido Board are not the custodians of British Aikido History, we therefore have no interest in same". 
Please note;
It should be noted that Ellis and Eastman who were founder members of the BAB, have no dispute or issues with the present day BAB executive board. We sincerely would like to see the BAB become the organisation that we all worked tirelessly to create in its infancy from membership of the MAC to the later creation of the BAB. The MAC meetings were represented on behalf of the BAB by Ms Shirley Timms and Derek Eastman.
Blog Admin;  Henry Ellis.


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NEW VIDEO - A Video for all Budoka


The Founding of JuJitsu - Judo - Aikido in the United Kingdom   

  CLICK   The above YouTube video heading the live link will take you to the video of the history of the arrival of the martial arts to the UK from the late 18th century - The video is narrated by Abdul Rashid with many photos and much factual in-depth research. This video is based on the now popular and highly credited book of the same name. The UK visiting Japanese masters from pre - WW1 and post WW2 were - Yukio Tani - Kaneo Tani - Seizo Yamamoto - Taro Miyake - Sadakazu Oyenishi - Akhitaro Ono - Gunji Koizumi - Matsutaro Otani - Kenshiro Abbe - Mutsuro Nakazono - Kazuo Chiba.

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The British Aikido Lineage Tree

The British Aikido Lineage Tree
British Aikido Lineage comes directly from OSensei Ueshiba by Kenshiro Abbe Sensei to the UK in 1955..Photos in decending order are: OSensei ~ Kenshiro Abbe ~ K Williams ~ L- E Dollimore. R- D Williams- below - L- H Ellis -R - H Foster..below L to R - L Ballard - P Dowden -D Eastman - T Jones - R Reynolds...below the first Japanese teachers in order - M Nakazono - T Abe - M Noro - TK Chiba..The Lineage tree shows all the early teachers both British and Japanese. Click ~ British Aikido History site.

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Aikido in the UK - The Beginning !