Re: Te
"...In Yagyu Shinkage-ryu, we use Muto style which means fighting without a sword. Even though you opponent attacks with a sword, you fight back with bare hands and defeat him. That is what it is...
Today we can see that technique in Aikido and Karate. In novels, it is often called Shiken Shirahodori...you see scenes where a man takes an opponent's sword by his hands in the same pose as praying.
But in reality, as I said earlier like in Aikido and Karate, you get close to your opponent's body quickly and like Sekishusai Yagyu knocked Ieyasu over with his bare hands at a match, you get really close to your opponent and overthrow him."
Senior Instructor Yagyu Masakizaka Kenzen Dojo
from DVD Samurai Rebellion, Special Features
In Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere the authors list Morihei Uyeshiba as having studied fencing - Yagyu School, under Master Masakatsu Nakai (1903)
Today, people talk of weapons work and bare-handed techniques as if they were two separate things.
Last edited by tedehara : 10-12-2005 at 11:34 AM.
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