Re: Yoshinkan Basic Stance
Yoshinkan basic stance stresses the center-line of the body, with the hips in perpendicular position to the sagittal plane, in my opinion this is a body-training position.The hanmi-kamae with the hips turned, that is more common, is a more flexibel position for entering and moving, also hito-emi.
Sword-kamae are different from spear-kamae. So the different orientations in kamae are due to the different weapons that are used in Aikido, mainly jo and bokken.
In the kamae that is used in spearfighing, left hip is turned forward, that's why in our jo-training our kamae is with the shoulders and hips on one line.
I think Ueshiba tried to find a kamae to unite body and weapons, the kamae he developed in Iwama was different from earlier times, may be that is why saito senseis kamae is different from shirata senseis.
In Karate there are also different kamae in use, also within one style, for various purposes.
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