Tanbo - Exercises for Stronger Hand Changes and Grappling

Sliding Tanbo (滑く短棒 )

Around 2012 Taika had Lee Richards come to his house with tanbo. Taika then began showing him these exercises over several months. After several months he began working with Lee on the break apart jo/cane kata which uses sliding moves instead of flips or spins with the tanbo.

Eventually the other four kata (Kihon, Kuzushi Sho, Kusushi Dai and Jissen) were all updated as well. These hand changes helped change the emphasis from striking kata to grappling kata. These are the practical real world basis for the techniques he taught to the Police Officers while he lived in Okinawa as well in the U.S. after moving here. These hand changes are prevalent in his many single and double tanbo Police tactics.

These exercises are a mandatory primer to learning the five sliding Tanbo kata in OyataTe.

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