Okinawan Kobudo by Andrea Guarelli

Author:Andrea Guarelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2015-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Take note that Okinawan Kobudō also includes some weapons that have base handling in common with the bō. These weapons, which we will illustrate later on, are: the ēku (sunakake-bō or kai), the nunti-bō, and the chōgama. These four weapons must be studied separately.

SCHOOL PROGRAM

The bō is the fundamental weapon of the style—it gives the base for the other weapons, most of all the long weapons and it has the widest technical background. This background is made of: fundamentals, kata, and exercises in pairs. The katas of this weapon are also in the other weapons school of Okinawa, although often with names and techniques that are very different. This fact recalls the stylistic differences between the same kata in karatedō in the different schools: Passai, Sanchin, Sēsan, etc. These differences are unavoidable if we consider the limited dimensions of the Okinawan island, which increased the possibility of contact between various teachers of each epoca.

The didactical program of the Matayoshi style includes these techniques:

Hojoundō (bō-jutsukihonwaza): in Japanese hojo 補助 means “to help” and undo 運動 “movement”. So the term hojoundō indicates the entirety of the movements that help the learning of the base techniques. The bō study includes three progressive hojoundō made of five sequences of one or more technique: six single techniques and nine combinations.

These hojoundō were created in 1970 by master Shinpō Matayoshi when, at the founding of the Ryūkyū Kobudō Renmei, he decided to systemize the teaching program and the rank passages. With the help of his more valuable students and extrapolating the techniques from the katas, he composed the hojoundō of bō, sai, tunkuwa, and nunchaku.

Techniques have to be repeated alternating right and left, going ahead and going back.

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