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- From: dpipes@spica.srg (Dave Pipes x4552)
- Subject: Re: Aikido : jo vs. spear
- Organization: just me
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 13:55:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.135542.18958@srg.srg.af.mil>
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- In article <1992Nov17.184646.11795@cs.brown.edu> tac@cs.brown.edu (Ted A. Camus) writes:
- >
- > 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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- From what I've seen of the European spear styles - some of the old combat
- manuals have spear work in them - the butt of the spear is very useful in
- close combat. It can be used to hook an opponents spear shaft or part of
- the body, or as a club. I think it reversing the shaft is most useful in
- situations where your weapon in constrained - a press or a closing rush.
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- David Pipes
- robear@digex.com
- >
- > -- Ted --
- >
- >==========================================================
- > Ted Camus Box 1910 CS Dept
- > tac@cs.brown.edu Brown University
- > tac@browncs.BITNET Providence, RI 02912
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