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- From: ftit@enthymeme.engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: difference between quarterstaff and jo?
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:23:34 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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- References: <C1681q.Ln6@math.uwaterloo.ca> <C1697x.35r@apollo.hp.com> <1993Jan21.173301.2106@bnr.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan21.173301.2106@bnr.ca>, mholden@bcarh786.bnr.ca (Mark Holden) writes:
- |In article <C1697x.35r@apollo.hp.com>, stave@apollo.hp.com (Joel H. Stave) writes:|> In article <C1681q.Ln6@math.uwaterloo.ca>, gamiddle@math.uwaterloo.ca
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- |This brought something to mind (for you Star Trek fans out there). There
- |was one episode of the "Next Generation" where Riker and his father
- |get into a match of "Ambo Jitsu" (spelling?),
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- Right, from the Spanish "ambos," meaning that, um, both people are
- fighting and emphasising the no-cheap-shots-allowed philosophy of the
- art.
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- | which his father claimed as the
- |ultimate of the martial arts. They used some futuristic bo or something
- |(blinking lights, made low humming sounds as it was swung, etc), and their
- |eyes were shielded.
- |
- |Does this art have any existence, or is it just some futuristic decendent
- |of current art forms (ie., jo-jitsu)?
- |
-
- Of course. It's derived from Giant-Q-Tip-Wrestling as practiced on the
- American Galdiators (tm) show.
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- Disclaimer: I've only seem American Gladiators once, for the laughs, at
- a friend's house, for the laughs, OK?
-
- |Mark
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