Southern Shao Lin strike style. Reason being because of the terrain helped form this style of fighting. More compact movements because of more foliage during that time.
it is nice there's also someone out there doing jo movement, keep it up 😇. based on my personal research, jo's length is not actually 128 cm. the length of jo should be as high as our armpit, 128 cm is Asian Standard for the armpit height on adult male, IMHO
I’m very glad that you enjoy this content. Regarding the Jo, it is true, there are many different length of the Jo base on the different schools emphasises. This is the standard for aikido. Thats the beauty of martial arts, to each size a slightly different principle or modification of the principle.
I don't understand why forms like Aikido are fascinated by the poke. There's too much sword influence on its approach to jo work. The main katas for example. In Silat, the jo length tongkat is usually a cross strike. Just saying. You're a great teacher by the way. I'm a jo/tongkat/biangan guy. When you compare jo-length styles the subtle differences are interesting. And the poke, I reckon, is way down the list of useful moves.
Well first of all thanks for your appreciation 🙏🏾 I’m not a teacher by the way but just someone sharing his knowledge and approach with anyone who’s interested in something different (always in respect of tradition). Regarding the poke (if you the Jo by that name) well it does indeed have some moves that really remind the sword movement in some instances. I guess the founder of aikido was fascinated by it also because of its esoteric meaning as Aikido is mainly a spiritually oriented martial art as from how the founder intended it after world war.
To add on to @Friendly-Martial-Artists comment, Aikido's jo techniques are also influenced by Jukendo, a martial art like kendo but for bayonet fighting instead. The founder, Morihei Ueshiba had trained in that martial art and incorporated a fair bit of the techniques in Jukenjutsu (as it was known then before its current form of Jukendo) into his own interpretation of the usage of the jo.
@@friendly-martial-artist Interesting. the North west China style of the jo -- called the biangan -- whip staff -- has forms/katas/anyos mainly through Taoist adaptions. But in its basic approach is explosive. Wham! Bang! Very different from Tai chi gun. -- stick tai chi. I think one key difference in approach is due to the fact that many forms -- like Japanese Jo -- are trained with stick on stick or stick on sword in mind. As also happens with some Silat -- such as in wedding performances. Whereas biangan originally ( say from among the Uyghurs) is all about self defence. Hostoriclaly against bandits or wolves and for herding livestock. What aikido brings to the table is respect for the awesome ability of the jo to teach you movement awareness and balance because the stick makes you more conscious of how you pitch your body. You do indeed 'follow the stick' -- as in 'the way of the stick'.
@Dave Riley in fact you are bringing to the table a topic I’ll cover in the future which is most of all the combat aspect of any martial art before taking it to a spiritual perspective. The point is that when you look carefully at the martial arts who are “peaceful” today, you have at their core very deadly techniques which were initially design to fight bandit, war, self defence etc. The problem is that this aspect is ignored or completely forgotten in some modern adaptation because people focus more on the aesthetic of kata. Combine that with the fact of training with wooden weapon (which is not wrong in itself at all) takes away a lot of the “necessity of awareness” that actually gives you access to the true potential of those techniques. As an analogy the combat aspect of martial art are like the root of a tree which lie in darkness underground meanwhile the peaceful spiritual, self development etc are the leaves, flowers and fruits. One cannot live without the other just like a tree without root cannot stand and a tree that don’t bring out leaves, flowers or fruit is a dead tree.
