Mike Morgan
12th April 2003, 00:22
Okay, I'll start out by being honest: I'll looking for information on sumai and kumi-uchi for an RPG, and to satisfy my own curiosity.
A friend was making an RPG, and since I have a penchant for researching martial arts, I decided to do a bit of looking up for it. During one of my searches, I came across sumai and kumi-uchi. Since the game takes place during the Tokugawa era, sumai and kumi-uchi weren't exactly fitting, until, that is, it fit with a storyline that I became involved in.
Some 300 hours of websearches later, I had very little information. Sumai (transllated as "struggle") evolved (or, depending on how you look at it, de-evolved) into sumo wrestling, and kumi-uchi evolved into jiu-jitsu. My internet searches are getting me, well, nowhere, and I'm not exactly able to get any better sources. (Ahhh, the downfall of living in the middle of nowhere.)
Unfortunately, now my own personal curiosity is peaked, and I'm madly trying to find things out, just to keep from frothing at the mouth with curiosity. If anybody could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you for at least reading this,
Mike Morgan
A friend was making an RPG, and since I have a penchant for researching martial arts, I decided to do a bit of looking up for it. During one of my searches, I came across sumai and kumi-uchi. Since the game takes place during the Tokugawa era, sumai and kumi-uchi weren't exactly fitting, until, that is, it fit with a storyline that I became involved in.
Some 300 hours of websearches later, I had very little information. Sumai (transllated as "struggle") evolved (or, depending on how you look at it, de-evolved) into sumo wrestling, and kumi-uchi evolved into jiu-jitsu. My internet searches are getting me, well, nowhere, and I'm not exactly able to get any better sources. (Ahhh, the downfall of living in the middle of nowhere.)
Unfortunately, now my own personal curiosity is peaked, and I'm madly trying to find things out, just to keep from frothing at the mouth with curiosity. If anybody could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you for at least reading this,
Mike Morgan