From KINAWAN BUBISHI
by Fernando P. Camara
In my article "Analysis of the Bubishi" I classified the basic, technical, and particular teaching
of these figures, but in the present article
I intend to go a little deeper in this research. We can divide
the 48 figures in the following elements:
1,Basic blocks:
Figures 25 (mawashi-uke tora-guchi), 32 (crane fist chudan soto-uke), and 37 (closed fist chudan uchi-uke)
seem to exist only to remember the basic blocks
used by the school represented in the Bubishi.
The jodan-uke block occurs in figures and is performed
with both hands (augmented or as X-block).
Here it is used to defend a strike above
the head or a hair grab. This block is naturally completed with a front kick in the groin of the adversary.
2. Hand strikes:
These techniques used along the 48 figures
are performed with four fingers (nukite), one finger (ippon-nukite), crane bunched fingers
(kakushiken), palm hand (teisho ate), punch (seiken or hiraken?), hammerfist (kentsui), elbow (ushiro hijiate),
chokes with fingers and squeeze of testicles and biceps with the fingers.
Training of the fingers should be
encouraged in that system.
3. Kicks:
Front kick is the only kick showed and the kicker
always loose (figures
5, 12, 21, 26.
Note that figures 21 repeat figure
12). This show us that kicks were not considered good technique in that school, and perhaps it were used only as a complement of some defense techniques.
4. Kyusho jutsu:
We have also figures
where the purpose
is to call the attention for specific painful points
and how it should be manipulated. These
are showed figures
14 (insertion of triceps above the elbows),
16 (armpits), 30 (side of the thorax),
and 40 (intercostal space below niples). Vital points showed
along the 48 figures are testicles, throat,
eyes, jaws (side),
and carotids (see figure
31).
There are not strikes
to back, legs, or arms in the 48 figures.
This is an example
that "36 kyusho" or "sichen" doctrines were not important, what is important is if the technique works or not.
5. Lethal
techinuqes:
Most of 48 figures
techinques are dangerous, but one of them is particularly lethal: breaking the neck of someone in a close
fight (figure 4 and 7, that are the
same technique). This is a easy technique, but extremely dangerous and not should
be teaching in regular classes.
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