Japanese method that uses the jo (long stick), practiced at Tokyo's Waseda and dojo less known and as abroad. It is assumed that this art was invented by the great man of sword Muzzle Gonnosuke about 400 years ago, after a meeting of wooden swords won by the legendary Miyamoto Musashi. According to this tradition, Gunnosuke went to the Shinto shrine, and after a period of purification, meditation training and created the art of jo, mixing techniques with spear and sword with other minor technical fighting.
He called his style Shindo Muso-ryu and sfidò still Musashi. This time Gunnosuke organized a defense and penetrated the strategy of the two swords Musashi.
It is assumed that Gunnosuke has continued to train until it has perfected the twelve base hits and blocks that are the heritage of modern technical jojutsu and that he later combined into 70 advanced techniques. These basic techniques are often used in kata (form exercises) with wooden swords, bokken, against jo. These include kata shots rights (honto-uchi) and rain (uchi-gyaku) on the upper body, reaction techniques blocking (hiki-otoshi); hand straight (kaeshi-tsuki) and reverse (gyakute-tsuki); strokes rights (tsuki-hazushi) and circular (maki-otoshi), pressure of the body (kn-tsuke); thrust of the body (kure-hanashi); rotation of the body (tai-atari); parades and a half blocks body (do - harai-uchi); misuse move and blocks (tai-hazushu-uchi). The modern study of jo, known as jodo (via the stick), which usually is completed by other arts and weapons such as heavy stick (tanjo), sickle-chain (kusari-range) shot fast as in karate, and how projections in kempo in judo and aikido. The jojutsu well adapted for the purposes of the police, refers to koibo soho, or art of stick police. For further study: The arts combat Asian Donn F. Draeger and Robert W. Smith 1969.

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