Why 17 fundamental techniques?
Sun 03:22 PST. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
A question for Tomiki folks out there... Does it seem like there are primary and secondary techniques in Junanahon Kata? What I mean is this... the first 3 techniques seem to me like "primary" things that are all very likely to happen immediately in a conflict. #4 (gedanate) and #5 (ushiroate) seem like backup plans for when 1-3 go wrong. In the second set, oshitaoshi, hikitaoshi, and wakigatame seem to me like primary techniques, while the other two seem like afterthoughts. 11-16 all seem like primaries to me, but #17 seems second-class in some way.
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