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- From: tac@cs.brown.edu (Ted A. Camus)
- Subject: Aikido : jo vs. spear
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.184646.11795@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:46:46 GMT
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- There is something I have always wondered about the jo. Biographies of
- O'Sensei note that he studied Hozoin ryu spear, but not the jo (although
- there is mention of Daito-ryu "stick fighting"). When we study aikijo,
- are we really imitating the movements of a spear rather than a jo, just
- as a bokken is not a bokken but a katana? In aikijo kata we have far
- fewer end-reversals than in jodo kata, to the extent that one might
- suspect that they were just thrown in at some point (of course unlike
- the jo the spear is asymmetric, one would rarely if ever want to reverse
- the position of the spear head). Comments??
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- -- Ted --
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