About Ralph
The author currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches world politics and aikido. An aikidoka since 1969, he is a sixth dan in aikido. He originally trained for fourteen years in the Aikikai style. More recently he has trained in the style of Yoshinobu Takeda, a leading student of Yamaguchi-sensei (who was an instructor at the Honbu and the proponent of a movement-oriented, collaborationist training method with a deeply spiritual rationale).
His e-mail address is: rpettman@unimelb.edu.au