| DeejayIgor | Date: Tuesday, 2011-11-22, 2:33 PM | Message # 1 |
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| Disarming an attacker using a "sword taking" (太刀取り tachi-dori?) technique.
Weapons training in aikido traditionally includes the short staff (jō), wooden sword (bokken), and knife (tantō).[31] Today, some schools incorporate firearm-disarming techniques. Both weapon-taking and weapon-retention are sometimes taught, to integrate armed and unarmed aspects. Others, such as the Iwama style of Morihiro Saito, usually spend substantial time with bokken and jō, practised under the names aiki-ken, and aiki-jō, respectively. The founder developed much of empty handed aikido from traditional sword and spear movements, but the practice of these movements is not just for the purpose of giving insight into the origin of techniques and movements, but primarily serves to reinforce the concepts of distance, foot movement, presence and connectedness with one's training partner(s).
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