Bo Sit-ups and Push-ups

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• Shihan
• Nishiuchi
• tutorial
• martial
• arts
• roku
• kobudou
• shaku
• bo
• staff
• kobudo
• okinawan
• weapons
• bunkai

[jrk987]

How about showing us a backhand spring while holding a bo staff like jackie chan does?

[hempev]

@jrk987 Um, no, I don't think so - Shihan won't be doing that kind of acrobatics.

[SagaraSouske]

Thank you for the very useful techniques.

[Visionary0001]

Side Note: (If anyone cares.) This guy was probably born in Russia or the Ukraine, but came to USA as a young child. His accent indicates that his first language was Russian and he still speaks it fluently, but that he started speaking American English in Elementary school as a young child, and has the full vocabulary, pronunciation, phrasing and diction of a USA native.

SERGEI BRIN of Google fame speaks with this same, small trace of a Russian accent.

[hempev]

@yuryf Actually, we use gyaku kiba dachi, which in our dojo is called kihon zuki dachi, for kihon zuki, whether lower or upper ranks (our class is done in traditional Japanese style, with all ranks together). Although our karate class is doing all the pushups "empty handed" (as opposed to with a weapon in kobudo class), when we do a pushup that lifts the hands off the ground, we add the word "karate" to the name (or "kobudo" with weapons). Zuki is perhaps a better name for them!

[hempev]

@yuryf We use push-ups for jodan workout, not gedan, since we have other exercises for that - "Standard" position is shoulder width at floor contact for both hands and feet. Narrow and wide are done with the hands only, and of course, banzai is above the head. Since our other exercise work on chudan, keeping the entire body in line whether down or up is enough core work for this section.

[yuryf]

@LV99MasterMonk a seiken zuki in japanese simply means (forward punch) meaning you are not stepping in and throwing a lead side punch or a back side punch, think of it like stationary basics, usually done in a sumo stance, natural stance for lower belts. so a seiken push up can only mean "a simple forward push up like you always do and know" lol... hope that helps!

[yuryf]

@hempev in my dojo we are actually taught to keep the feet together when doing push ups... now your body has formed a triangle rather than a square causing more stabilizing (reflecter) muscles in your stomach and abs to work more, also your arms feel the strength more because they need to compensate for the fact that you are now a three-legged table rather than a four-legged one. thats just us, you do yours the way you are told and taught. :)

[hempev]

@Visionary0001 I can only assume you mean the white guy at the beginning - Shihan Nishiuchi speaks only Japanese and English.

[Visionary0001]

This guy is fluent in RUSSIAN, also. It comes through in his pronunciation. He seems to know is stuff, though.