"Make your practice a friend in the morning, and your discipline a pillow at night." Training: Group Practice generally includes: "組打/組討" The term kumiuchi, or “grappling and striking” has long been used within the Japanese martial tradition. Early forms of warrior hand-to-hand combat involved both clinch-fighting and striking along the lines of sumō, using hands, kicks and stomps, as well as striking using the hafts and ends of weapons, and grappling in armor, or yoroi kumi-uchi . Watatani Kiyoshi, an authority on 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 an...
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