For me it's one of the best looking weapons simple yet unique and the katas seem very adaptable to different weapons such as staff or even swords would love to learn kobudo but there's no dojos near me
You're right, and if you think about the heft of an oar and the type of wood it is usually made with the concept makes a lot of sense. Its hand and stout..and like a baseball bat makes and effective improvised club
Great demo with Hanshi Inoue, Sensei Okawa and Okubayashi with whom I have had the good fortune to train with in Japan and Okinawa as recently as last November 2019.
What I don’t get is this, why on earth would an individual, in a combat scenario, flip the rochin from the point end to the blunt end?! It seems to me that one would always want to keep the point…pointed at the attacker and not a one’s self. In addition, under combat conditions flipping the rochin is just begging to lose hold of it.
seems the blunt end is normally used for hitting with, while the spear end is purely for thrusting. It might make sense against an armoured opponent? I personally prefer matayoshi kobudo's machete instead of the rochin anyway
Yeah, the kata the guy shows isn't very interesting and doing the same blocking move with both the shield and the spearhead seems kind of weird, I'd imagine you'd have separate ways for using the shield to defend against attacks from different directions.
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An oar may look ridiculous as a weapon, but a certain swordsman did actually use an oar in his most famous duel and killed his opponent with it.
For me it's one of the best looking weapons simple yet unique and the katas seem very adaptable to different weapons such as staff or even swords would love to learn kobudo but there's no dojos near me
Musashi
It seems silly, until you get whacked upside the head with one.
You're right, and if you think about the heft of an oar and the type of wood it is usually made with the concept makes a lot of sense. Its hand and stout..and like a baseball bat makes and effective improvised club
Wish Okinawan Kobudo was like that in my area.
Great demo with Hanshi Inoue, Sensei Okawa and Okubayashi with whom I have had the good fortune to train with in Japan and Okinawa as recently as last November 2019.
Jeez thatz pretty cool sea turtle shell as a shield..
This is a great demo of The style, so glad this is here after out seminar in Okinawa in Nov 19.
What I don’t get is this, why on earth would an individual, in a combat scenario, flip the rochin from the point end to the blunt end?! It seems to me that one would always want to keep the point…pointed at the attacker and not a one’s self. In addition, under combat conditions flipping the rochin is just begging to lose hold of it.
seems the blunt end is normally used for hitting with, while the spear end is purely for thrusting. It might make sense against an armoured opponent? I personally prefer matayoshi kobudo's machete instead of the rochin anyway
3:11 Does anyone know who he is ?
If you referring to kama demo - that's Toshio Okabayshi.
Donde esta Geese Howard :v
I personally love the Kama and bo staff, but I don't really like the Tinbe Rochin
Yeah, the kata the guy shows isn't very interesting and doing the same blocking move with both the shield and the spearhead seems kind of weird, I'd imagine you'd have separate ways for using the shield to defend against attacks from different directions.
Pity because often you have more than one 'spear' and use it to throw into the opponent.
Not sold on the turtle shield, micro spear combo.
Well…..
it’s not really truly real weapons fighting
In fact, in Okinawa back in the The 1970’s this is …… “ drama”
The birthplace
るろ剣の右水がいる笑