I
was just reading an article from the HUE Journal of Humanities, Social and
Natural Sciences, Vol. 22 No. 2, September 2019. It was titled ‘Talking with
the Senior Practitioners of the Martial Arts: Hiroshi Kinjo’ ,written by Masatosho
Taya and translated by Mark Tankosich.
“From the Outside Inward” and “Toride”
Kingo
feels that with Sensei Hanashiro’s guidance his eyes were open with regard to
karate. After
that he pursued his training independently.
“I
felt that maybe I had finally begun to grasp the whole picture with karate. I wasn’t
sure, but I kind of vaguely thought, ‘There are stages.’
“First,
in all cases you block the opponent’s
punch in whatever way, without thought. Then you sweep it (it away). All such
sweeps in karate are from the outside inward. You always
sweep [the opponents’ limb] in such a way that you’re on his outside. After sweeping you seize. And then, after you’ve seized, you apply a joint reversal
technique. The use of such techniques is called toride.
“This
is the complete process of karate.”
I
find this an interesting explanation. I had worked up my own analysis of what a
complete karate technique was back in 1980.
I
referred to it as my unlocking principle:
I called it the Unlocking Principle
for me. Basically it stated that for any movement a block/strike
could have a strike following and whichever combination was used resulted in a
downing of the opponent (explosive striking, locking or takedown).
Apparently
we saw such in similar lights.
Or
as James Bond would put it 1) Happenstance 2) coincidence 3) Enemy Action.
But
I don’t wait to make light of this, just show that there is a similarity to my
own studies.
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