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Old 12-30-2015, 10:36 AM   #26
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Re: Origins of Yoshinkan bokken/jo techniques?

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Fwiw though...Saito could be calling these routines awase because they are practiced from tips-touching distance
My understanding is that these are called awase not because of the maai but because the partners blend with each other as opposed to training "by the numbers" - a preliminary step for the awase practice.

More here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geIIkMkG4Jw

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Old 12-30-2015, 03:02 PM   #27
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Re: Origins of Yoshinkan bokken/jo techniques?

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Ha! Thanks for that, answers my implicit question "who is it who calls these moves awase?"

This also serves as an example of why insisting that some use of a Japanese word is wrong inevitably leads to embarrassment.
Two sides to that coin, neh? I think the point is to quote Sportin' Life from Porgy and Bess "It ain't necessarily so..." That's all...

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Old 12-31-2015, 12:52 PM   #28
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Re: Origins of Yoshinkan bokken/jo techniques?

Without the kanji, it's hard to say exactly which "awase" is meant, but all the senses of the word that I could find had to do with joining, blending, matching, etc. None had anything to do with encounter distance, or with something being basic vs. advanced.

FWIW.

Incidentally, one of the possible alternatives is 合わせ. I'm sure a few of you will recognize that first character...

Katherine

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Old 12-31-2015, 04:07 PM   #29
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Re: Origins of Yoshinkan bokken/jo techniques?

http://youtu.be/JiitN2309Xo

Taigi 29 from Ki Aikido, for comparison. More in common than I expected, and yet a very different flavor. Nage pretty much holds the center line.

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Old 01-01-2016, 09:28 AM   #30
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Re: Origins of Yoshinkan bokken/jo techniques?

Here is an observation: I found a video for Chiba's sansho (which are some really great Aiki weapons kata) which indicated that thirty odd basic forms must be learned before doing them. The video of of Saito's awase that David posted above says that the awase forms are prerequisites for kumitachi.

So you teach abstracted techniques first, then put them together into kata in some aiki weapons traditions.

Fwiw older koryu, in particular Shinkage ryu schools but this probably applies to older Shinto ryu schools as well, do it the other way around. Long kata sequences are taught first. Exposition of single techniques takes place in later kata, or in sidebar conversation with the instructor.

Learning and practicing the longer kata first gives the trainee lots of opportunity to internalize a context for the basic movements by the time they are pulled out and analyzed.
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Old 03-19-2019, 03:33 PM   #31
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Re: Origins of Yoshinkan bokken/jo techniques?

This is a good read on the matter:

http://aikidotakemusu.org/en/article...letter-aikikai
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