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- From: osan@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mr. X)
- Subject: Re: Finishing techniques
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.163830.13974@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com
- Organization: Twilight Zone
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:38:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.151849.3615@crash> jfrost@crash.cts.com (Julian Frost) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.004930.13723@cbfsb.cb.att.com> osan@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mr. X) writes:
- >>>
- >>>leverage.
- >>
- >> What's this about the writs? Ugg... kote gaeshi is NOT a wrist
- >> technique, but one for the forearm. What is practiced widely
- >> these days is a corruption, and is easily escaped.
- >
- >Hang on a minute!!! Kote Gaeshi is not a wrist technique??!! Sounds
- >like you should study some more Japanese!! "Ko" = Little, "Te" =
- >Hand, "Gaeshi" = Twist... Japanese call the wrist the "Little Hand",
- >or "Kote", so "Kote Gaeshi" means "Wrist Twist". Another name for it
- >was Kote Hineri, both Kote's mean wrist!
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- "Kote" == forearm
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- "Tekubi" == wrist, Te == hand Kubi == neck
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- Kote is likely idiomatic, like tekubi. I have never heard of the wrist
- referred to as kote.
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- -Andy V.
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