Spear kata?

[evergrey]

OSU,

Has anyone heard of a spear kata for Kyokushin? I hear that there used to be more kobudo... we still do bo and sai and tonfa at my dojo, though to be perfectly honest, we don't really use the Kyokushin ones. We brought in an Okinawan guy sometime in the past and used those instead.

After having looked at the Kyokushin bo katas on youtube, I don't exactly think this is a bad thing, heh.

But we don't do anything with a spear.

OSU

[senshido]

I dont do any weapon kata at all

[MMX]

I think the BO kata's moves would work just fine with a spear.

[powerof0ne]

Spear isn't usually in Japanese karate arts that have kobudo, kobijutsu, etc. Spear is in Ryukyu (Okinawan) karate, and not seen too often. Spear/sojutsu is seen in Aikijujitsu, though. I'm about 99.9% sure Sosai didn't learn any sojutsu in his Aikijujitsu training, too.

I would say Kyokushin is more Japanese then Okinawan karate, too.
Osu!

[curlbroscience]

Does the "Think of hands and feet as swords (Spears)" qualify?

Just kidding.

My nukite is pretty spear like.

I have been interested in weapons training, but just can't find the time to do everything under the sun.

[MMX]

Yeah I am looking for an Arnis/Eskrima class here in town to no avail. ;D

[meguro]

With any stick work, it's pretty apparent that a point and an edge will make the technique more deadly.

MMX, Aren't these guys in your area?
absolutedefense.net/index.html

[evergrey]

OSU, Quinn Shihan tells me that there was only Bo. Heh.

I did spear-hand a kid in the stomach in class yesterday though, during kumite! ;}