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1a

starting L posture, he makes a straight thrust to your chest.

1

Starting L posture, you step off the line to your L and make a reverse thrust over his

jo, to the chest.

2a

stepping back, and slightly left, he rotates his jo to cause a deflection of yours, taking

your balance to your rear L, and then makes a straight thrust to your face.

2

Stepping to your R, you raise your jo to protect your face, and block upwards, cocking

your wrists as you do so, to keep contact, and stop his jo flying off into space. From

here rotate your jo from under his to on top, and strike it down, taking his balance to

his front R, and...

3

Thust to his L floating ribs.

3a

keeping the end of his jo low, he steps back into R posture, and turns his hips

towards you, blocking your strike with his jo vertical. From here he makes a spiral

movement with his jo, that brings on-line with your face, and takes your jo, and your

balance, to your rear L. Then he makes a straight thrust at your face.

4

You avoid this thrust by making a BIG step to your R, across the line, raising the jo to

protect your face, NOT blocking him! As you bring the jo up, allow your back hand to

slide into the middle of the stick, then let go with your front hand so that you can

rotate the jo through 180 deg. catch the end again, step forward and...

5

make a straight cut (shomen).

5a

stepping back, he absorbs your cut by making an identical cut to yours, in

mirror-image.

6

So drop the end of the jo to your R, step forward, around the end of his jo, and cut

again. You should now be in L hanmi.

6a

he makes another identical cut, but is a little slow with it, this time you catch his jo,

and send him off-balance to his rear L. He should now be in L hanmi.

7

You now pivot to face the opposite direction, and make a straight cut to an imaginary

persons' head.

7a

he recovers his balance, and attempts a straight thrust at your back.

8

You step forward, making shomen again.

8a

he raises his jo to hit you on the head, stepping forward into R posture.

9

You are in L posture, L hand forward on the jo. You raise the end of your jo to your

front L, and then make (kaiten-ashi) by pivoting on the balls of you feet through 180

deg. then stepping FORWARD with your L foot. As you do this swing the jo round,

and down diagonally, to strike at his knees.

Ensure that you turn your wrists over so

that you PUSH the jo round not pull it. If you pull you cannot stop the jo easily. Do not

allow the jo to go further than 90 deg past his knees.

9a

with his jo still raised he steps back (quickly!) then steps in again to strike your

head.

10

Step forward on your L foot, bringing the jo up horizontally under his elbows, to

prevent him cutting you, IRL you go under his chin, or put the tip straight in his throat.

11

now drop the end of your jo, allowing him to finish his cut, stepping round to your L,

and making shomen.

11a

he avoids being hit by drawing back, and meeting your strike,

12

You are now in L posture, so is he. This is a neutral position. Release the jo with

your L (back) hand, uncross your hands and grip the jo firmly, pointing towards him

maintaining zanshin.

12a

he does the same as 12.

13

Step forward, L posture, and thrust to his chest.

13a

he steps to his R, and spirals under your jo, as in no 2a, then thrusts at your face.

14

Step across to your R, and avoid the jo as in no 4

15

Make shomen as no 5.

15a

he steps back, and makes a mirror image shomen, as no 5a. He is now in R

posture, with the R hand forward.

16

To avoid having the end of your jo smashed by his shomen, pull the jo back along

your L side. Pull the jo with your back hand, through the front until the end of the jo is

in your front hand, then push the jo through the back hand with your front. If you do

this in reverse you will get your hand broken! Keep the jo in close to your body, with

the front R hand at about chest height. You should be in R hanmi.

17

Now step forward with your L foot, around his jo, and punch it forwards to strike his

R knee.

17a

he steps back into L posture, and simultaneously turns his hand over, allowing the

end of the jo to drop, he puts his left hand in front of the R, and slides the R hand to

the back of the jo. This blocks the knee strike, and exposes you to...

18a

he draws his jo back, and makes a straight thrust at your knee/thigh

18

you step forward and to the R, turn to face him, and rotate your jo through 180 deg. to

strike his stick down with the back end, being carefull to keep the jo at an upward

angle so that he is knocked down and away from you. This also exposes his leg,

so...

19

Draw back slightly, and thrust at his ANKLE.

19a

he steps back, drawing his L foot out of the way, and turning to face you, as he does

this he lifts the back end of his jo, so that is vertical, and blocks your ankle thrust to

the side. At this point he thinks he can hit you on the head, so raises his jo for

shomen uchi.

20

You raise your jo to protect your head, but then realise that you can hit his R knee, so

step forward and to your R, turning L to face him, and strike to the back of his knee,

dropping onto one knee as you do so.

20a

having raised his jo above his head for shomen, he sees you going instead for his

knee, so steps back to withdraw the leg, and swings the jo back down to block your

strike vertically.

21

You pull you jo back against your side, to avoid it being hit, as in no 16.

22a

he raises the jo to make a straight strike to your head.

22

You are in R posture, sitting on your L leg, you stand up and step forward, bringing

the back end of the jo forward, to thrust at his chest.

23a

to avoid this thrust he pivots his lead foot, turning off the line, and facing you. the jo is

still raised. He then slides the jo though his hands to thrust downwards at your

chest, over the top of your jo.

23

You step to your R side, turning to face him, and rotate the jo vertically through 180

deg. to strike his jo downwards and away from you, exposing his side.

24

You make a straight thrust at his L side.

24a

he pivots to his R, avoiding the thrust, then back to his original position, at the same

time he drops the end of his jo under yours, and spirals it over the top, knocking you

off balance to your front and L, this is similar to nos 2a and 13a, only upside down.

25

You draw your jo back to regain your posture, and make another straight thrust to his

ribs.

25a

he turns to his L again, this time rotating the jo through 180 deg. vertically to strike

your stick down. He then makes a straight thrust to your face.

26

You make a BIG step back and slightly off the line to your R pulling the stick back to

your R side, as in no 16

27

Now step forward, punching the jo forwards to strike his knee as in no 17. You are

now in R posture.

27a

he steps back, dropping the front end of his jo to block

28

Step forward, and to your L, moving past the end of his jo, and raise your jo ABOVE

your head, so that you can thrust downwards at his chest/neck, with the lower end.

28a

he lifts the front end of his jo to vertical, and steps back, avoiding the thrust. As he

does so, he strikes the end of your jo sideways, and he finishes with the jo held

vertically, to side of his head (hasso no kamae (?))

29

When your jo is stuck sideways, allow it to rotate HORIZONTALLY through 180 deg.

then drop the jo down to a mid-level position, and...

30

thust at his chest (chudan tsuki).

30a

he steps off the line to his R, and makes a straight strike to the end of your jo.

31

Absorb the force of his strike, letting the jo travel naturally around your body, step

forward and to your L, turning to face him, and strike him powerfully across the back

of his head, caving in his skull, and finally finishing the whole business! You should

finish in L posture, with your right hand forward on the jo. He should be flat on the

floor, bleeding, or alternativley in R posture, with his R hand forward on the jo.