I just got back from the Gunting seminar's in Buffalo NY. Bram mostly covered closed usage of the Gunting. This is very effective stuff, mostly because it is so pain inducing. One of my least/ most favorite (depending if I was on the giving or receiving end of it) was the technique that ends with a center lock (people familiar with akido would know it as nikyo) I had a 120 lb woman repeatedly put me on my knees and make me tap with it. (I'm 6 foot, approx 200 lbs) between the locks and repeatedly getting popped in the arm with the ramp, my arm is SORE! We were taking it easy on one another too. If you really used this tool (even the drones) with intent to harm, you would succeed in causing harm, (or at least really intense pain) and training wouldn't last very long.
What makes the closed Gunting techniques so effective are the same things that make kubatons so effective. A hardened tool hitting a) deeply into muscle, b) onto bone (really painful) or c) into soft clusters of nerves (I was introduced to several.... OUCH!). You could work this tool into any curriculum that uses wari sticks or kubaton with very little work. And if you need it, you just kin-op and go into what ever blade craft you practice.
Got to go find a training partner now....!
Michael Stone
What makes the closed Gunting techniques so effective are the same things that make kubatons so effective. A hardened tool hitting a) deeply into muscle, b) onto bone (really painful) or c) into soft clusters of nerves (I was introduced to several.... OUCH!). You could work this tool into any curriculum that uses wari sticks or kubaton with very little work. And if you need it, you just kin-op and go into what ever blade craft you practice.
Got to go find a training partner now....!
Michael Stone
