Thread: Uke Substitute
View Single Post
Old 03-01-2011, 10:38 PM   #31
David Orange
Dojo: Aozora Dojo
Location: Birmingham, AL
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,511
United_States
Offline
Re: Uke Substitute

Quote:
David Skaggs wrote: View Post
When practicing with a weapon do you see where the weapon is actually a substitute for an uke?. What you do with the weapon you can also do with an uke.

dps
That's really more or less a backward summation. You use your body as if you were holding a sword and use your te gatana as swords, cutting your opponent. Maybe if you said, "What you do with the weapon you can also do "to" an uke"....

Anyway, you don't use the uke as if he were your sword, but as if you are doing kenjutsu to him, while actually unarmed....

"That which has no substance can enter where there is no room."
Lao Tzu

"Eternity forever!"

www.esotericorange.com
  Reply With Quote