enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Yawara - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawara

    A single dumbbell-shaped yawara stick. The yawara is a Japanese weapon used in various martial arts.Numerous types of jujutsu make use of a small rod, made of wood, that extends somewhat from both ends of a person's fist which is known as a yawara.

  3. Stick-fighting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick-fighting

    Stick-fighting, stickfighting, or stick fighting, is a variety of martial arts which use simple long, slender, blunt, hand-held, generally wooden "sticks" for fighting, such as a gun staff, bō, jō, walking stick, baston, arnis sticks or similar weapons.

  4. Bōjutsu - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bōjutsu

    Bōjutsu (Japanese: 棒術, lit. 'staff technique') is the martial art of stick fighting using a bō, which is the Japanese word for staff. [1] [2] Staffs have been in use for thousands of years in Asian martial arts like Silambam. Some techniques involve slashing, swinging, and stabbing with the staff.

  5. Japanese martial arts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_martial_arts

    In Japanese martial arts, "initiative" (先, sen) is "the decisive moment when a killing action is initiated." [20] There are two types of initiative in Japanese martial arts, early initiative (先の先, sen no sen), and late initiative (後の先, go no sen). Each type of initiative complements the other, and has different advantages and ...

  6. List of Japanese martial arts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_martial_arts

    Aikido; Araki-ryū; Ashihara kaikan; Bajutsu; Battōjutsu; Bōjutsu; Bujinkan; Byakuren Kaikan; Chitō-ryū; Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu; Enshin kaikan; Gensei-ryū ...

  7. Jō - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jō

    Japanese jō, 127.6 cm (50.2 in) tall and 15 cm (5.9 in) in circumference, made in the form of a large walking stick. A jō (杖:じょう) is an approximately 1.27-metre (4.2 ft) wooden staff, used in some Japanese martial arts. The martial art of wielding the jō is called jōjutsu or jōdō.

  8. Naginata - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naginata

    The 30 cm to 60 cm (11.8 inches to 23.6 inches) naginata blade is forged in the same manner as traditional Japanese swords. The blade has a long tang ( nakago ) which is inserted in the shaft . The blade is removable and is secured by means of a wooden peg called mekugi (目釘) that passes through a hole ( mekugi-ana ) in both the tang and the ...

  9. Jōdō - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jōdō

    Jōjutsu has also been adapted for use in the Japanese police force, who refer to the art as keijō-jutsu (警杖術), or police stick art. Aiki-jō is the name given to the set of martial art techniques practiced with a jō according to the principles of aikido, taught first by Morihei Ueshiba then further developed by Morihiro Saito , one of ...