Hojo-jutsu seminar
Last weekend a few of us visited our fellow buyus in Croatia to attend a Hojo-jutsu seminar.
This is quite a rarely taught part of our art, as far as I noticed. This is the second time I managed to attend a seminar focusing on how to tie up others the way we do with the Easter-ham.
We went by my ex-instructor's car (however I feel quite strange when I say ex-instructor - I still feel very close to him and he will always remain my instructor). Despite my worry over how our "common" journey to Croatia will be, it was quite a pleasant weekend. We had good conversations about human relationships.
Anway, back to the seminar:
After we arrived, changed and entered the dojo I saw a pile of all sorts of ropes with all kinds of nasty-looking endings. A real delicacy for a sneaky girl like me. There were many girls by the way - more than usually are at D's seminars. So the guys were happy this weekend :-)
As a start D talked about the origin of Hojo-jutsu and about some other historical facts. He did not go too deeply into this part as we had a lot of things ahead to do and the time was very limited.
After the theoretical part we were taught how to carry the ropes and how to wrap them, so that they don't hinder in our movements, still we can easily pull them out and use if necessary. Then we started knotting, first just very basic knots, and then basic tie-up methods, applied to hands, ankles, to both hands and ankles, to neck and other parts of the body. Yes, to @ss as well :-).
By the end of the first half of the second day we covered all the most important basic tieing methods. At first I had to concentrate hard on when, how, and from what direction to make the knots, but after a little while I managed to quickly pick up what D. demonstrated and could do the knots fairly easily.
I was especially happy with learning that famous choking tie-up, when you are bent backwards and your feet are tied together, also your wrists, behind your back, and both your tied feet and hands are connected with the rope, which is in addition looped around your neck. So if you try to move your feet and hands, the loop gets pulled more around your neck.
At the end of the second day we had a taste of how to work with the rope during a fight. What D empahized is that we should never try to use the rope, but rather rely on our taijutsu, and be happy if there is an opportunity to control things with the rope. You have to kind of forget about the rope, just move and soon you will realize that the opponent looks like a (nice, smoked-smelling) Easter Ham.
This principle is very much alike to what H. Sensei told us in Japan during a training of knife-fight. He said we should not intentionally use the knife. The stabs and cuts should happen by themselves, arising from the situation. It's hard to describe with words, but it was easy to understand when he demondstrated it. Let the "toy" work by itself.
Anyway, summing up the seminar I have to say it was a real delicacy for me. I really did not know anything about Hojo-jutsu - now at least I know what I need to work on. After returning to Hungary a Hungarian buyu asked me whether or not I would have attended the seminar if I had a very detailed DVD. I said yes, indeed. It's one thing to see the rope on someone, and another to feel them almost cutting your flesh. Then you can really know what you can and can not do or how it can confuse you in a fight when your opponent is "armed" with a rope.
Since all the Hun guys had Hun partners, I had to pick unknown partners (which I like to do at foreign smeinars btw). So during the two days I've been working with 3 guys and a girl, all of them Croatian. It was nice to experience their kindness. The guys I've been working with made some (I guess) funny comments in Croatian whenever I was busy tieing up one of their mates. It seems that they liked it, too :-)
Well, if I think about women and men and ropes and ties... this is really an exciting issue :-D
This is quite a rarely taught part of our art, as far as I noticed. This is the second time I managed to attend a seminar focusing on how to tie up others the way we do with the Easter-ham.
We went by my ex-instructor's car (however I feel quite strange when I say ex-instructor - I still feel very close to him and he will always remain my instructor). Despite my worry over how our "common" journey to Croatia will be, it was quite a pleasant weekend. We had good conversations about human relationships.
Anway, back to the seminar:
After we arrived, changed and entered the dojo I saw a pile of all sorts of ropes with all kinds of nasty-looking endings. A real delicacy for a sneaky girl like me. There were many girls by the way - more than usually are at D's seminars. So the guys were happy this weekend :-)
As a start D talked about the origin of Hojo-jutsu and about some other historical facts. He did not go too deeply into this part as we had a lot of things ahead to do and the time was very limited.
After the theoretical part we were taught how to carry the ropes and how to wrap them, so that they don't hinder in our movements, still we can easily pull them out and use if necessary. Then we started knotting, first just very basic knots, and then basic tie-up methods, applied to hands, ankles, to both hands and ankles, to neck and other parts of the body. Yes, to @ss as well :-).
By the end of the first half of the second day we covered all the most important basic tieing methods. At first I had to concentrate hard on when, how, and from what direction to make the knots, but after a little while I managed to quickly pick up what D. demonstrated and could do the knots fairly easily.
I was especially happy with learning that famous choking tie-up, when you are bent backwards and your feet are tied together, also your wrists, behind your back, and both your tied feet and hands are connected with the rope, which is in addition looped around your neck. So if you try to move your feet and hands, the loop gets pulled more around your neck.
At the end of the second day we had a taste of how to work with the rope during a fight. What D empahized is that we should never try to use the rope, but rather rely on our taijutsu, and be happy if there is an opportunity to control things with the rope. You have to kind of forget about the rope, just move and soon you will realize that the opponent looks like a (nice, smoked-smelling) Easter Ham.
This principle is very much alike to what H. Sensei told us in Japan during a training of knife-fight. He said we should not intentionally use the knife. The stabs and cuts should happen by themselves, arising from the situation. It's hard to describe with words, but it was easy to understand when he demondstrated it. Let the "toy" work by itself.
Anyway, summing up the seminar I have to say it was a real delicacy for me. I really did not know anything about Hojo-jutsu - now at least I know what I need to work on. After returning to Hungary a Hungarian buyu asked me whether or not I would have attended the seminar if I had a very detailed DVD. I said yes, indeed. It's one thing to see the rope on someone, and another to feel them almost cutting your flesh. Then you can really know what you can and can not do or how it can confuse you in a fight when your opponent is "armed" with a rope.
Since all the Hun guys had Hun partners, I had to pick unknown partners (which I like to do at foreign smeinars btw). So during the two days I've been working with 3 guys and a girl, all of them Croatian. It was nice to experience their kindness. The guys I've been working with made some (I guess) funny comments in Croatian whenever I was busy tieing up one of their mates. It seems that they liked it, too :-)
Well, if I think about women and men and ropes and ties... this is really an exciting issue :-D
1 comment:
I AM GLAD THAT YOU HAVE ENJOYED HEH HEH HEH ;-)))
Dean
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