"Make your practice a friend in the morning, and your discipline a pillow at night." Training: 組打/組討 The term kumiuchi, or “grappling and striking” has long existed in the Japanese martial tradition. Early forms of warrior hand-to-hand combat involved both clinch-fighting and striking along the lines of sumō, as well as striking using hands, kicks and stomps, and the hafts and ends of weapons, both in everyday clothing heifuku kumi-uchi and grappling in armor, or yoroi kumi-uchi . Watatani Kiyoshi, an authority on Japanese martial arts called kumi-uchi “the backbone of jūjutsu .” We use kumi-uchi to refer to basic training in grappling. It can be likened to a combination of sumō and the style known today as “combat jiujitsu,” which involves open-hand striking on the ground. It is done wearing keikogi (or a "gi") or without one ("no gi"), and t raining weapons can be included. The intent is to develop a practical foundation for hand-to-hand combat, and...
Araki-ryu torite kogusoku