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gathered by Mark Jackson
Revision 1.0 13-May-2003
1. Choku (straight) Tsuki (thrust)
2. Kaeshi (twisting/reversal)
Tsuki (thrust)
3. Ushiro (rear) Tsuki (thrust)
4. Tsuki (thrust) Gedan (low position)
Gaeshi (turning)
5. Tsuki (thrust) Jodan (high
position) Gaeshi (turning) Uchi (strike)
6. Shomen (head or front) Uchikomi
(striking practice)
7. Renzoku (repeating) Uchikomi
(striking practice)
8. Menuchi (strike to head) Gedan
(low position) Gaeshi (turning)
9. Menuchi (strike to head) Ushiro
(behind) Tsuki (thrust)
10. Gyaku (opposite side) Yokomen
(side of head) Ushiro (behind) Tsuki (thrust)
11. Katate (one hand) Gedan (low
position) Gaeshi (turning)
12. Katate (one hand) Toma (far
reaching) Uchi (strike)
13. Katate (one hand) Hachi No
Ji (figure eight) Gaeshi (turning)
14. Hasso (upper guard position)
Gaeshi (turning) Uchi (strike)
15. Hasso (upper guard position)
Gaeshi (turning) Tsuki (thrust)
16. Hasso (upper guard position)
Gaeshi (turning) Ushiro (rear) Tsuki (thrust)
17. Hasso (upper guard position)
Gaeshi (turning) Ushiro (rear) Uchi (strike)
18. Hasso (upper guard position)
Gaeshi (turning) Ushiro (behind) Harai (low center)
19. Hidari (left) Nagare (flowing
or transition) Gaeshi (turning) Uchi (strike)
20. Migi (right) Nagare (flowing
or transition) Gaeshi (turning) Tsuki (thrust)
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1.
Choku (straight) Tsuki (thrust)
This is the basic thrusting movement that is featured in many
of the kumijo. Start in basic posture, hidari hanmi, with the
jo resting on one end vertically on the mat immediately in front
of your left foot.
Hold the jo with your left hand. Reach down with your right
hand to grasp the jo below your left hand. Your left hand should
lift the jo as you do this. Slide your right hand down to the
end as you bring the jo to a horizontal position, tsuki no kame.
Slide the jo through your left hand back and then forward, swinging
your right hand up to the front of your center. Both feet slide
forward as you lower your posture during this forward thrust.
2. Kaeshi (twisting/reversal) Tsuki (thrust)
This is actually a counter to a thrust from your opponent. Start
in left posture as for the first jo suburi. Grasp the top of
the jo with your right hand, thumb downwards. Bring the jo up
in a circular motion as you move to your left with your left
foot, bringing your right foot around to remain in hidari hanmi.
As you move, thrust the jo forward to your opponent's center,
your left hand on top of the jo.
3. Ushiro (rear) Tsuki (thrust)
This is a thrust against an opponent who is behind you. Start
in basicposture as for the previous suburi, bringing your right
hand to the top of the jo, thumb upwards. Lift the jo placing
it along the underside of your left forearm while sliding your
left foot back beside your right. Step back with your left foot,
thrusting the jo straight to your rear and turning your body
to your left as you do this. Don't turn all the way around to
the rear,just turn the hips and the head enough to see the imaginary
target.
4. Tsuki (thrust) Gedan (low position)
Gaeshi (turning)
This is the first of two combinations of movements which incorporate
the first jo suburi. Start in hidari tsuki no kamae, holding
the jo horizontally in your left hand with your right hand at
its base, your feet in left hanmi. Perform choku tsuki (first
jo suburi), sliding your feet forward.
Slide your left hand towards the front of the jo, and step backwards
and to the right, remaining in left posture as you push the
jo back past your right side through the right hand. Your left
hand should end up in front of your right shoulder. Turn your
hips to the left, stepping forward with your right foot, and
bring the jo around at knee level to strike at your opponent's
lower legs. Your right hand should be behind the jo pushing
it round to make contact.
5. Tsuki (thrust) Jodan (high position)
Gaeshi (turning) Uchi (strike)
This combination introduces the striking techniques which
are to follow in the next five suburi. You Start in hidari tsuki
no kamae. Perform choku tsuki, sliding your feet forward. Move
backwards and to the right, still in hidari hanmi, bringing
the jo up to protect your head (sliding your right hand up to
your left). Let go with your left hand and turn the jo over
your head counterclockwise so that the butt of the jo is facing
forward. Grab the butt of the jo with your left hand in preparation
for a shomen uchi strike. Step with the right foot and perform
shomen uchi, striking down onto your opponent's head.
6. Shomen (head or front) Uchikomi (striking
practice)
Start in right posture holding the jo in front of you
with your left hand at the end of the jo and your right hand
a quarter of the way up. Step back with your right foot, raising
the jo above your head, pointing it towards the ceiling and
angled slightly back. Your left hand should be just above your
forehead. As you step forward with your right foot, bring your
hands down and forward, striking with the jo to your opponent's
head.
7. Renzoku (repeating) Uchikomi (striking
practice)
Start in right hanmi and perform shomen uchi komi (sixth jo
suburi). Having performed the strike in right posture, move
your weight forward on to your right foot and bring your hands
up to the front of, and just above, your head with the jo pointing
to your right as you step with the left foot. Make sure your
entire body is protected by the jo. Bring the jo around your
head clockwise and make hidari shomen uchi to complete the suburi.
Your left foot is forward but your hand is forward on the jo.
8. Menuchi (strike to head) Gedan (low
position) Gaeshi (turning)
Start in right posture and perform shomen uchi komi.
When the strike is completed, extend your right hand to the
end of the jo, sweep it back to your left side and move back
and to your left. Step forward with your left foot. Bring the
jo round in a strike to your opponent's knee, keeping your left
hand behind the jo to give power to the strike.
9. Menuchi (strike to head) Ushiro (behind)
Tsuki (thrust)
Start in right posture and perform shomen uchi komi.
As the strike is completed, slide your right hand to the forward
end of the jo, turn your hips to the left and perform a thrust
to the rear as in ushiro tsuki. Don't turn all the way around
to the rear, just turn the hips and the head enough to see the
imaginary target.
10. Gyaku (opposite side) Yokomen (side
of head) Ushiro (behind)
Tsuki (thrust)
Start in right posture as if you had just completed shomen
uchi komi, bringing your hands up to the front of, and just
above, your head with the jo pointing to your right and step
forward with your left foot. Perform hidari yokomen uchi. Bring
your left hand to the front end of the jo, turning your hips
further to the right and perform ushiro tsuki to your right
side at chest level.
11. Katate (one hand) Gedan (low position)
Gaeshi (turning)
This is the first of the suburi which features one-hand grip
and uses wrist movement. Start in hidari tsuki no kamae, sliding
your left hand to the forward end of the jo. Push the jo back
through your right hand, bringing your body back and to the
right as in the fourth suburi. Both hands should now be at the
forward end of the jo. Take a long step forward with your right
foot, sweeping the jo forward across an imaginary opponent's
face, holding it with your right hand only and catching it with
your left hand to the side of your head on the left side after
the sweep is complete finishing in a defensive position. The
far end of the jo slightly elevated and your right hand is next
to your left temple.
12. Katate (one hand) Toma (far reaching) Uchi (strike)
This movement is used to extend the jo forward to reach a considerable
distance past your normal fighting range. Start in hidari tsuki
no kamae and draw the jo back over your head to your left with
your right hand, resting the forward end of the jo on your left
forefinger/thumb cleft and the back end of the jo resting on
your left shoulder. Draw your weight back onto your right foot.
As you start to swing the jo around with your right wrist, commence
stepping forward with your right foot, swinging the jo at your
opponent's head and around to be caught by your left hand down
by your left hip. Your right wrist should form a straight line
with your forearm and the jo at the end of the suburi.
13. Katate (one hand) Hachi No Ji (figure
eight) Gaeshi (turning)
This incorporates a double wrist action to loosen your wrist
and serves as the precursor to the hasso techniques that will
follow. Start in left posture. Hold the jo in your right hand
on your right side (about six inches from the toes of the right
foot), the end of the jo resting on the mat. Turn your wrist
forward, raising the jo and, while stepping forward with the
right foot, sweep the jo across your imaginary opponent's face.
Catch the jo high on your left side in your open left hand.
Swing your hips back to the right, changing posture into hidari
hanmi while stepping back with your right foot as you push the
jo across to your right with your left hand. Spin it around
your right wrist, catching the short end in your left hand,
beside your head on your right side. The two strikes form a
figure 8 in front of you. The figure 8 should be fairly horizontal
and the right elbox should be kept fairly flat.
14. Hasso (upper guard position) Gaeshi (turning) Uchi (strike)
The next five suburi all incorporate the hasso technique which
consists of rapidly twirling the jo from a forward position
around your wrist and up to above your right shoulder beside
your head, as you do to complete the thirteenth suburi. Start
in right ken no kamae, sliding your right foot back to your
left foot as you extend your left hand forward and upwards,
letting your right hand slide a little further towards the center
of the jo. The left hand pushes the jo as if you're parrying
a thrust. As you step back with your right foot, push sharply
down with your left hand on the jo to swing it down and up to
your rear. The jo rotates around your right wrist. Grasp the
bottom end of the jo with your left hand as it comes to a vertical
position at the right side of your head in hasso no kamae. Start
to step forward with your right foot as you bring the jo up
over your head changing the grip with your right hand, and complete
your step forward as you strike with shomen uchi in right posture.
15. Hasso (upper guard position) Gaeshi
(turning) Tsuki (thrust)
Start as in the previous suburi twirling the jo to assume hasso
no kamae. From this point, extend your left foot forward, bringing
the jo down so it's parrallel with the floor. Push the jo through
your left hand perform a straight thrust in reverse position
(gyakute tsuki). Slide your right hand forward and perform hasso
gaeshi once more, pushing down on the jo with your left hand
so that it rotates around your right wrist. Let go with the
left hand and bringing your left foot back a little to finish
in hasso no kamae. The jo pointing toward the ceiling over your
right shoulder. Place the left hand back on the bottom of the
jo.
16. Hasso (upper guard position) Gaeshi (turning) Ushiro (rear)
Tsuki (thrust)
Start as in the previous suburi by twirling your jo to assume
hasso no kamae. From the vertical, let the jo fall forward until
it is parallel with the floor, catching it with your left hand.
Extend your left hand to the tip and thrus the jo to your right
rear (migi ushiro tsuki). Finish with your hips facing to the
right.
17. Hasso (upper guard position) Gaeshi
(turning) Ushiro (rear)
Uchi (strike)
Start as in the sixteenth suburi assuming hasso no kamae. Turn
your hips further to your right and strike down and around to
your rear with a round sweeping blow, keeping your feet in the
same position as they were in hasso no kamae. Drop your weight
onto your knees. The strike is to an opponent's knee standing
behind you. Your right hand should push the jo from behind.
18. Hasso (upper guard position) Gaeshi (turning) Ushiro (behind)
Harai (low center)
Start as in the previous suburi assuming hasso no kamae. Turn
your whole body to the rear, sweeping your right foot back and
around while swinging the jo in a sweeping strike to an imaginary
opponent who is standing behind you. You end up facing 180 degrees
from the direction you started in left hanmi.
19. Hidari (left) Nagare (flowing or transition) Gaeshi (turning)
Uchi (strike)
These final two suburi are designed to help improve your body
movement as they incorporate a flowing combination of strikes.
Commence in ken no kamae (right posture), stepping back with
your right foot to perform shomen uchi komi (sixth suburi).
As the strike is made turn to your left, pivoting on the balls
of your feet, bringing the jo around as you extend your left
hand forward to catch it. The jo should now be over your head
in a guard position. From here, rotate the jo counterclockwise
around your head with the right hand. You should now be facing
your rear with the left hand over your forehead and the jo pointing
back and slightly up. Step forward with the right foot and perform
right shomen uchi strike.
20. Migi (right) Nagare (flowing or transition)
Gaeshi (turning)
Tsuki (thrust)
Commence in ken no kamae, stepping forward with your left foot
to perform gyaku shomen uchi (like the second step of the 7th
suburi). As you complete the strike, step back and round with
your right foot, turning to your rear to block across your head.
Lower your hands into hidari tsuki no kamae and perform hidari
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