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Techniques with armor?.....WTH(eck)? By Hudson69 - 04-15-2009 09:22 AM
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Was skulking (I love that word) around the forums and for whatever reason I was reminded of a technique taught in my Budo Taijutsu class in the last couple of months. It involved a inside to outside block/jodan uke followed up by a ski step/forward drift shuto/chop to the throat. I questioned the instructor about this common but awkward stance/block (you squared off with your opponent) and was told that the horse stance and block were from one of the several Samurai schools and that this technique was used by ninja in fuedal times when the warrior would wear full armor.
To make a short question long; how many techniques are out there like that in BBT and what are they? I am trying to separate armored v unarmored techniques since while I do wear a level IIIA vest every day of work I do not wear armored gauntlets and other heavier level pieces of protection (if I have to put on my kevlar or level IV hard armor than things are really bad and I H2H is probably a distant consideration)?
On another note is it just me or have several Shidoshi-Kai level instructors been dressing up as Samurai lately for covers of their books and what not?
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Was skulking (I love that word) around the forums and for whatever reason I was reminded of a technique taught in my Budo Taijutsu class in the last couple of months. It involved a inside to outside block/jodan uke followed up by a ski step/forward drift shuto/chop to the throat. I questioned the instructor about this common but awkward stance/block (you squared off with your opponent) and was told that the horse stance and block were from one of the several Samurai schools and that this technique was used by ninja in fuedal times when the warrior would wear full armor.
To make a short question long; how many techniques are out there like that in BBT and what are they? I am trying to separate armored v unarmored techniques since while I do wear a level IIIA vest every day of work I do not wear armored gauntlets and other heavier level pieces of protection (if I have to put on my kevlar or level IV hard armor than things are really bad and I H2H is probably a distant consideration)?
On another note is it just me or have several Shidoshi-Kai level instructors been dressing up as Samurai lately for covers of their books and what not?
Read More ... or click reply below.
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