Aden
16-10-2007, 01:05 PM
On Saturday in Tokyo I saw a policeman with a jodo length stick standing guard in a public building so wandered over and using my always appalling Japanese asked him about it - had a short chat and when I asked to look at it he let me have a play with it - very polite of him, I can't concieve of walking up to a NSW policemen and asking to examine, let alone play with his angled baton.
This thing was quite different to a normal jo - same dimensions but blue with a little rubber dome on the top end, and an angled hole through it, about 30 cm (1/4 of the way) down the length from the rubber capped end, for a ribbon that he had looped over the wrist making it a long thin baton.
The wrist strap was sufficiently long that you could still grasp near the middle to tsuki but some jodo techniques like honte can only be done from one side since the tethered hand has a range of movement from the middle to one end only.... I think you could actually do the 2 police techniques in seitei without taking the loop off the hand (note to self, must tie a string to a jo and see) but most of the SMR sourced ones would be out of the question.
Aden
This thing was quite different to a normal jo - same dimensions but blue with a little rubber dome on the top end, and an angled hole through it, about 30 cm (1/4 of the way) down the length from the rubber capped end, for a ribbon that he had looped over the wrist making it a long thin baton.
The wrist strap was sufficiently long that you could still grasp near the middle to tsuki but some jodo techniques like honte can only be done from one side since the tethered hand has a range of movement from the middle to one end only.... I think you could actually do the 2 police techniques in seitei without taking the loop off the hand (note to self, must tie a string to a jo and see) but most of the SMR sourced ones would be out of the question.
Aden