Originally Posted by
LoneTiger108
It's one thing, like the Filipino arts, to encourage the weapon before the hand but it's another to suggest they do not cross over well imo.
Wing Chun centre and straight line concepts come from the pole, as an example, and side body punching structures are drilled with the pole, so how do you even know that you're doing it correctly if you have never trained such pole methods?
In fact, the reason our weaponry is in the system is to back up all our hand work not the other way round, although I understand that this has become the way for us all to learn these days. Which is good too. Safer!
Man, I didn't know what a reverse punch was in Karate until I saw Kanazawa with a Jo staff
The biomechanics used in delivering a thrust with the pole are far different than that with a fist.
Sorry.
And the Jo staff lends itself better to the oi or kizami tzuki then it does to the gyaku-tzuki, this according to the very same Kanazawa and HIS Sensei.
Just saying...
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !