Well, continuing with my reanalysis of traditional
aikijo techniques, here are the suburi and drills relating to uchi (strikes).
As discussed previously, these jo drills are designed to be used for 2 person practice, where the same sequence applies to both sides, however one starts mid-way through the sequence.
Here are the suburi:
And here is drill 1:
And here is drill 2:
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Well I'm on 2 weeks holiday - to spend time with the kids. I've been getting up early and practising jo in the park.
I started training in
aikijo in 1990 under my instructor, but it has evolved a bit, influenced by some of the tenshin shoden katori shinto ryu that my instructor started in 1996 and also my Chen-Pan Ling internal and shaolin arts.
While I like the austerity of katori shinto ryu, I much prefer the flow of aikijo. What I've tried to do is take the 2...
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