spence20
16th November 2003, 06:00
While reading Draeger and Smith's Comprehensive Asian Fighting Arts recently, in the Japan section I came across a list of koryu arts that had a couple of terms I'd never heard of before. One was gekiganjutsu, which was simply described as fighting with a ball and chain, and the other was genkotsu, assaulting vital points.
I assume that genkotsu is simply an alternative term for kyushojutsu and suchlike, and, at first, I thought gekiganjutsu was the same as chigirikijutsu, but this is mentioned separately on the same list.
Are these alternative terms along these lines, or are they separate styles? And does anyone know of any ryuha that use these terms?
Cheers,
I assume that genkotsu is simply an alternative term for kyushojutsu and suchlike, and, at first, I thought gekiganjutsu was the same as chigirikijutsu, but this is mentioned separately on the same list.
Are these alternative terms along these lines, or are they separate styles? And does anyone know of any ryuha that use these terms?
Cheers,