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- From: la@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Lewis Alderton)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Aikido : jo vs. spear
- Message-ID: <BxwrrD.Fp1@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:57:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.184646.11795@cs.brown.edu>
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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??
- >
- > -- Ted --
- As far as I know, the 31 jo kata was developed from a (some) spear
- kata. It's my guess that O' Sensei moved from spear to jo as a
- safety move (c.f. ken to bokken).
-
- Did O' Sensei ever actually use a spear against an opponent in a
- kata? Certainly Saito has changed (minor alterations) the 31 kata
- to accomodate a Uke.
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