Jo: Art of the Japanese Short Staff (Weapons Series)
by Dave Lowry
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Author: Dave LowryEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-10-01
ISBN: 0897501160
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Black Belt Communications
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Book Review: A bit disappointed
Summary: 2 Stars
I'd practiced some jo work in my Aikido class before, and I bought this hoping to learn a bit about classical jodo to supplement that. However, pretty much the first thing this book says after a brief introduction to the history of the jo is that despite the subtitle "The Art of the Japanese Short Staff", it doesn't actually cover jodo at all, but the jo techniques found in Aikido, which actually derive from the yari (spear). It covers the basic strikes in moderate detail, and lays out the sequence of the 31-step jo kata: there's very little here I didn't already know, and I'm hardly an expert on the jo.
It's not poorly organized. If you have no familiarity with aiki jo technique, it may not be a bad introduction. I just wish the description had been honest about what it was actually about, because it was basically useless to me.
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