Jodo – Way of the Stick

Part of seeing clearly and moving freely is an acute appreciation of detail. When you are facing a steel blade with a wooden stick, detail becomes pretty important.

The sword vs. the stick

At Moving Freely Martial Arts, study of the short staff is the last of our four disciplines. Training will be centered exclusively on the movements called Jodo Seitei (or Seitei Jodo). While these exact forms originated in Japan around 1960, they were adapted from the original forms of the first Japanese school of stick fighting – Muso Ryu, dating back to the early 1600′s.

Unlike the more modern version of the Aikido Short Staff, which includes interpretations of the short staff as a walking stick, the Traditional Short Staff is viewed strictly as a weapon for use against a live sword.

For more info, check these Wikipedia links: Muso Ryu and Seitei Jodo

The classes

At Moving Freely Martial Arts, you can take two classes in the study of Jodo Seitei -

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