From: comptec92024@camins.camosun.bc.ca
Subject: Re: Arnis Basics (Re: Single Stick)
Organization: Camosun College
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:07:23 GMT

In article <RweNXB2w165w@tz.ucs.sfu.ca>, johankha@tz.ucs.sfu.ca (e_mou) writes:

>  
> So, in the yokomen-uchi version, what was the followup?  Kote gaeshi?
> I understand that in SCA you can't do anything that might actually hurt 
> the other person; jointlocks, throws, etc. are out.  
>  
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=+++++

Last question first. Jointlocks, throws and kicks etc. are not legal in SCA
style heavy combat. Not only are they concidered dangerous to those people that
they are being applied to (think about being throwen when you are carrying
another 30 lb of equipment) but concidering the type of protective equipment we
have for the hands it would be dificult to get a good grip.

It has been a while since I have done any Aikido, so I will simply try and
discribe one the techiques that I thougth was simular and you can give a name
if any.

The techinique starts with me in the front stance, my left leg in front, right
leg back at about shoulder width. The attacker strikes a blow to the my left 
side of my head. The blow is traveling downwards from my left temple to my
right hip. My right hand moves out in a crossing cutting block which moves in a
cicular path from my shoulder to the attackers weapon and back to my torso
under my left arm. This path is in a plane that is at 90 deg. to the plane that
the attackers weapon is traveling in. The idea is attack the attackers weapon
an direct it down and away from my body. At the same time my left is being
extended so that my left hand can grab the attackers right wrist (the attacking
wrist). The left hand is being extended in a natural grab, that is plam down
and fingers pointing away from my body. I grab the attacking hand so that my
palm over lies the back of his hand and my thumb over lies his thumb. Control
is gained by pressing his thumb against the weapon and by rolling my hand so
that my palm points in the direction that I am faceing. The attacker arm is
being extended down and to the side of his body, his hand is being rotated so
that the palm is faceing back and his thumb pointing down. It is importaint to
keep the opponent arm extended away from his body. 

While you been doing this with your left arm your right arm had not stopped
moveing. Your right hand should have been following teardrop path in and away
from your body and should be strikeing tha attacker on his right elbow, into his
short ribs or into his face.

I now begin to raise my left arm, continueing to rotate my left hand so that my
palm faces in the same direction that I am looking and the attacker arm is
under tension. I can now step my right leg under and past the attacker arm
swiftly rotateing from my right to my left until I am faceing in the same
direction as my attacker is faceing. My hips and shoulders should be in the
same plane as his. My left hand pull his right arm down from above my right
shoulder in arc that passes between my left hip and his body at all times
keeping his arm extended and under tension. At the point when my left hand
passes my hips I strike to the right elbow and step my right leg forward
parallel with a line drawn from his right hip to his left shoulder at the same
time strikeing from my left shoulder to the back of his head. I then pull his 
right arm back and up then forward in a plane that cut the same line from his 
right hip to left shoulder and useing his right arm as leverage throw him away 
from me along that same line that extends between his hip and shoulder.


I beleive the wrist control is a "sankajio" and then a step under to "kaiten"
the strikes and blocks are stick work. Note that the controls and throws would
be compleatly illegal in SCA heavy combat.


Mackenzie.
( I hope this came out readable, its the 3rd time (sometimes I hate the editor 
on my system) I have tried to post it, so 3rd time lucky )

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