Ni-Cho Tan-Bo - Part 4

[juanmanuelcoria79]

is it any kata about these weapon?

[hempev]

@juanmanuelcoria79 Funny you should ask - Shihan did not have one, but one of his students, a shihan in kempo and sensei in kobudo in Holland, has created one - it uses many of the moves in the hojoundo, but I don't have a video of it.

[ShionKreth]

I think the tanbo is pretty interesting, most of the other demonstrations I've seen are all with just one though, looks pretty heavy having the two like that.

[hempev]

@ShionKreth Shihan isn't using heavy sticks in this clip - you can use anything from heavy maple down to rattan or bamboo, because even a light one can do the job if it is also strong enough to take impact.

[dirtyfighter34]

why is this guy teaching escrima/kali in his karate class? is he trying to pass it off as 'traditional' Okinawan tan bo? It's not. Clearly from this video they're from the Matayoshi Kobudo lineage, and they don't teach escrima as far as I remember.

Okinawan tanbo doesn' t look like that, he's using rattan cane, Okinawans use hardwood tanbos.

[hempev]

@dirtyfighter34 He uses the striped sticks because they are more visible in movement, not because of what you expect tan bo to look like (usually just a roku-shaku-bo cut in half). Since he has trained with Matayoshi Shinpo, it shouldn't be surprising to be similar, but he trained even longer with Kinjo Takashi sensei, who was also a student of Matayoshi sensei, but has his own ryu.

[ronin752]

@dirtyfighter34

The Okinawans often only show kata, they tend to not share the meaning of the kata with westerners. However, I find that if you do the empty hand blocks, with the tanbo or the escrima in your hand, you have what appears to be kali/escrima. All they are really doing here is a middle block and a low block. So what makes you think that this is not Okinawan. The Okinawans share very little with westerners. Besides, I believe that the Filipino and Okinawans..

[ronin752]

@dirtyfighter34

Have cross culturally influenced each other.

[ronin752]

@dirtyfighter34

How far did you get in matayoshi kobudo?

[BrokenRhythmMoneyB]

thank you for having uploaded the video ;) great tutorial :D

[kumitekiddotcom]

I didn't know he did any new videos until now. I like the older ones better, the crap in the background is kind of distracting.

I see he speaks slightly better English in these videos than the older ones as well! Easier to understand some of his explanations.

[asimpson1]

We teach the short staff as the first weapon at the studio I study at, however we base ours more off of Escrima, since my instructor learned a lot of the short staff techniques he knows from Dan Instanino (I know his last name is not spelled right)

[hempev]

In our dojo, our main weapons are roku-shaku-bo, nunchaku, tuifa/tonfa, sai, kama, ieku; those half-bo are not taught early on in our style - I've heard them mentioned only in passing.

[nunchakuproKoreamanh]

thanks for uploading but ive noticed that when i picked up fighting sticks ive made my own style and ive alrdy found these moves out same with tonfa and bo lol thats wut i like about some weapons in bushido they would work in a fight cuz its not flashy and u no u could find fighting sticks almost anywhere and tonfa from cops lol well nunchaku flashy is part of how u use them like to switch stances etc thanks for uploading

[FredDude27]

uhm..what?

[sabakimsg]

Is this a traditional Okinawan weapon?

[hempev]

The bo is, and if you break a bo in half you have these, so I guess they are traditional, but we don't practice this in our dojo - I think this is an "additional weapon".