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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.
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.
Aikido was created by Morihei Ueshiba (植芝 盛平) (1883–1969), referred to by some aikido practitioners as Ōsensei (Great Teacher). [13] The term aikido was coined in the 20th century. [ 14 ] Ueshiba envisioned aikido not only as the synthesis of his martial training, but as an expression of his personal philosophy of universal peace and ...
Hip throw (腰投げ, koshi-nage) aikido's version of the hip throw. Tori drops his or her hips lower than those of uke, then flips uke over the resultant fulcrum. Figure-ten throw (十字投げ, jūji-nage) or figure-ten entanglement (十字絡み, jūji-garami) a throw that locks the arms against each other (The kanji for "10" is a cross ...
Aiki-jō practice can help uncover errors in the student's empty-handed aikido technique, and provides an opportunity to apply the principles of aikido in different situations. Saito codified three sets of techniques, the first being twenty suburi (solo cutting exercises), the second being ten partnered forms, and the third being two kata (solo ...
Another initial weapon used to teach both control and the basic precepts of utilizing a weapon with Hapkido techniques is the Jung Bong (police baton sized stick), techniques and defenses against the 35 cm short stick (Korean: 단봉; Hanja: 短棒; RR: danbong), a walking stick or cane (ji-pang-ee; 지팡이), and a rope are introduced in ...
Japanese wooden staff "bō" weapon made in the shape of a walking cane, 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) tall and 15 cm (5.9 in) circumference Two Japanese bō; one is 140 cm (55 in) tall and 15 cm (5.9 in) in circumference in the form of a walking stick, the other is 180 cm (6 ft) tall and 1 in (25 mm) in diameter in the form of a staff.
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.