home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!liuida!d90eridy
- From: d90eridy@odalix.ida.liu.se (Erik Dyrelius)
- Subject: Re: difference between quarterstaff and jo?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.100528.5078@ida.liu.se>
- Sender: news@ida.liu.se
- Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
- References: <C1697x.35r@apollo.hp.com> <1993Jan21.004613.22288@ida.liu.se> <1993Jan21.162043.6032@cs.brown.edu> <C183n4.8Mz@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 10:05:28 GMT
- Lines: 21
-
- gamiddle@math.uwaterloo.ca (Guy Middleton) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan21.162043.6032@cs.brown.edu> tac@cs.brown.edu (Ted A. Camus) writes:
- >And the jo I was originally asking about (our "daijo") is 5'6" long.
- >We also have a shorter "shojo", at 4'0". I don't know why they are those
- >particular lengths.
-
- Well, I can only speak for the jo used in jodo, since that is what I've been
- training (although only a few times). In training we used it in kata against
- bokto and it was mostly an introduction/orientation to jodo. It is a very
- dynamic weapon and I would love to train a little but unfortunatly there
- seems to be an acute shortage of senseis (at least in Sweden :-)).
-
- /Erik
- --
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | dyrelius@robin.lysator.liu.se (d90eridy@und.ida.liu.se) |
- | |
- | Listen to me just hear me out, if I could have your attention; |
- | just quieten down for a voice in the crowd. |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
-