The Secret Art of Old Karate "Throwing Feet and Dance Cutting"

2020-06-19  Motobu Ryu site

  

In an article last week, Asato Ahn cited a statement about the art of foot, but Asato also said: 

  

Modern translation 

  

There are various uses other than kicking, such as the foot of the foot (ingeashi) and the dance (Fumikiri). In this way, the use of the foot is different from time to time. 

  

In the quote above, Asato says that there is a secret technique of the foot other than the kick. It is "foot throw" and "jumping". It is a word not found in modern karate terms, but what are these techniques specifically? 

  

The foot is probably the use of the foot used in the throwing technique. In the headquarters Gotente, the other party's foot may be caught and thrown at the time of the throwing technique. 

 

  

  

Kiyoyoshi Uehara, Manzage, 1963. 

  

When introduced in the video, it is the following technique. 

  

  

  

In addition, as seen in the following video, there is also a usage to break by hooking the other party's foot. 

         

    

 

  

  

Judo also has techniques such as ogai cutting, but in fact, there is a description in Tobe Ryohei's Oshima Writing (1762) that the minister also used a technique similar to this foot. 

  

  

Modern translation 

  

One year ago, a man named the Master of Union Art [Which seems to be a Kenpo described by Takebishi] brought a large number of disciples and came to Ryukyu from China (Qing). The technique is the art of holding down the milk by one hand in the left and right hands, using the technique with the other hand, and making 扨 feet work well. It is said that even if the person of the great power is forcibly exchanged, it was defeated as it is though the public minister was a person who looked very thin and weak. 

  

According to the above, there is no description that the minister actually used the thrust and the kick. He showed off his throwing technique, and at that time he used 扨 a foot technique called "sasuashi" to defeat the opponent. 

  

The "combination" of the union art is the state in which it was gripped by each other. In other words, like modern karate, it is a different kind of martial art that ends in a kick from a state away from each other. It is not possible to say whether the foot of the public 扨 and Asato is the same kind, but there is a possibility that 扨 foot was handed down to the old class karate as a secret art. 

  

What is Fumikiri? I think that the leap crossing is a guess character of the railroad crossing, but the level crossing has the following meaning. 

  

(2) Kick strongly on the ground for jumping. "-The timing is not right." 

  

Source: Dairibayashi Therefore, it might be a word which refers to the use of the foot at the time of jumping or the jump itself. Motobu Asaki was able to jump over the stone wall by one hand on the stone wall which was about my height. In addition, in the headquarters Goten hand, "stick high jump...."