{"id":318,"date":"2009-02-02T14:19:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-02-02T14:19:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T20:19:32","slug":"hanbo-training-without-the-hanbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Hanbo training without the Hanbo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s madness I know but I did it.\u00a0 You see the problem that I found with other martial arts where a weapon is added as an afterthought is you have to learn more than one method of moving.\u00a0 No so in the Bujinkan.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow here is how the exercise works, do one of the hanbo movements against a punch.\u00a0 Do it again changing the distance so that you can hit without the hanbo.\u00a0 Simple right?\u00a0 Well the movement should be if you learnt how to use that habo properly.\u00a0 But check your distance, can you be hit?\u00a0 When your strike is landing can you go into hitcho without changing your weight?\u00a0 If not then you are not correctly anchored.\u00a0 When you are working the tsuki are you practising striking up, down and strait through?<\/p>\n<p>It is a lot harder than it seems but give it a try and if you have some success or discover anything let me know in the comments please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s madness I know but I did it.\u00a0 You see the problem that I found with other martial arts where a weapon is added as an afterthought is you have to learn more than one method of moving.\u00a0 No so in the Bujinkan. Anyhow here is how the exercise works, do one of the hanbo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-drills-bujinkan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}