Araki-ryu Torite Kogusoku
荒木流捕手小具足A Japanese old school focused on seizing and on fighting in light armour. It is not about beauty of movement but about controlling and leading an opponent away.
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Araki-ryu torite kogusoku is a Japanese old school whose origin is placed in the second half of the sixteenth century and linked to Araki Mujinsai. The name itself reveals what the school deals with. Torite means literally the catching hand and denotes seizing and binding an opponent, while kogusoku is the fighting of a man in light armour, that is the situation in which a soldier finds himself without his main weapon but still with his equipment and a short blade. The school therefore does not concern itself with beauty of movement but with how to control an opponent in the field, disarm him and lead him away. The curriculum covers unarmed fighting, the short sword, the long sword, the spear, the sickle and chain and further weapons; it is characteristic of the whole line that techniques are trained in conditions close to a real scuffle, with resistance and without decorative elements. Araki-ryu has not survived as a single line. Several independent currents are transmitted under the name today, chiefly in Gunma and Saitama prefectures, and their technical content and terminology differ; anyone meeting the name should therefore establish which line is meant. The spelling of the founder's name differs between sources and needs verification; the more settled form is Araki Mujinsai Minamoto no Hidetsuna.
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