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Mary Malmros wrote:
Can you name a jo kata where one end of the jo is the "spearhead"? That is, where the same end is used to thrust or strike with throughout the kata?
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Somehow I fail to recognize the need to use
only the pointed end of the yari. Why do you consider I cannot thrust with the blunt end?
Anyhow,
31 no Jo thrust mostly with one end, except for a couple of movements (directed to uke's face, so...).
Roku no Jo thrusts with the sharp end only.
1, 2, 3, 5 no Kumijo always use the same side... I can continue. I won't.
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Mary Malmros wrote:
(It's also worth noting that even if this story is true, jojutsu existed long before aikido, and jojutsu does not distinguish between the ends of the weapon.
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And the connection between Jojutsu and Aikido / Aikijo is?
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Mary Malmros wrote:
If we're doing yarijutsu in disguise, then let's use an actual yari...if that's what we're doing, which I doubt)
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Do it. By all means. I already posted the picture of O Sensei doing it. It's well documented that O Sensei derived his Aikijo partly from the modern Jukenjutsu he studied while serving. And I reckon a Juken shares a couple of similarities with a Yari.