[av_four_fifth first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] One night, early last week, I was browsing through Someya-Sensei’s book “Kakushibuki jutsu Nyumon”, and discovered a section with techniques\u00a0that looked very familiar to\u00a0skills I learned about 30 years ago during Wado-ry\u00fb karate-jutsu class (I never learned those in Shotokan or Gensei-ryu). I am referring to the Shuto jutsu (\u624b\u5200) techniques, explained from page 50 and up. Today, I decided to explore and dissect some of the techniques from the still images in the book. These techniques are very close to tegatana or te-waza in older forms of karate. After a while, I realized that the techniques contain footwork that is rare in modern karate-do, much more relaxed and shorter than in most Japanese karate. Some of the footwork and hand techniques almost look more like they were\u00a0inspired by methods such as those from\u00a0Motobu-Sensei, going back to the Okinawan origin of karate-jutsu (or kenpo) rather than karate-do. Besides seeming very effective defensive techniques,\u00a0they also feel like they were intended to prepare hand and arm, as well as hip and foot for working with Shoken-jutsu and other\u00a0Kakushi buki. Although I only explored a few techniques, we will definitely incorporate these skills into the Saskatchewan Keikokai curriculum, as recommended by Otsuka-Sensei. I find it fascinating that there are always new doors opening in the world of Budo, sometimes hidden in books, other times hidden in plain sight. [\/av_textblock] [\/av_four_fifth] [av_comments_list] [av_social_share title=’Share this entry’ style=” buttons=” share_facebook=” share_twitter=” share_pinterest=” share_gplus=” share_reddit=” share_linkedin=” share_tumblr=” share_vk=” share_mail=”][\/av_social_share]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This session was about exploring Shutojutsu from one of Someya-Sensei’s book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n