During the October 2013
KNBK seminar in Pensacola, Carl Long Sensei introduced us to the the
Shin-Gyo-So practice forms of the Ono-Ha Itto Ryu Kiriotoshi
The
words 'shin, gyo, so' come from the three ways of writing in
Shodo (Calligraphy), 'kaisho (equivalent to shin), gyosho and sosho'.
Shin is a formal non cursive form, Gyo a semi-cursive one, and So is
the cursive form.
"
無
"
- MU - Nothing - brushed in the 3 styles
In the Itto Ryu practice, the distance between opponents
(Mai) and the target of the cut are different for each one of the 3 different ways: Shin (真), Gyo (行) , So (草).
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SHIN (真)
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GYO ( 行
)
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SO ( 草
)
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MAI
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Long
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Medium
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Short
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TARGET
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Solar plexus,
Suigetsu (水月
)
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Throat, Nodo
( 喉
)
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Head, Men
( 面
)
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Practice intensely and repeatedly...
