{"id":161,"date":"2008-05-12T11:57:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2008-05-12T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T17:02:09","slug":"death-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Deft Touch of the Five Finger Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.osadasteve.com\/top.html\" target=\"_blank\">Osada Steve<\/a><\/strong> is in Germany so I&#8217;m taking this opportunity to put up a gallery of pictures of Aiko-chan from a previous Studio SIX shoot. I usually take between 400 and 800 photos on an average evening at Kinbaku Live Night at Studio SIX. I&#8217;ve gotten more used to my camera by now and I&#8217;m much happier these days with the settings I&#8217;ve arrived at through pure trial and error. As a result, I happen to like a much larger percentage of the photos I take of late. The bad part is, I can&#8217;t fit all of them into a single gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Same thing goes for the video, which is why I&#8217;m putting up a new movie of Aiko-chan I didn&#8217;t have space for in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The video reminded me of my comic book-reading days. That was a long time ago and if I hadn&#8217;t thrown them all away decades ago, I&#8217;d be a lot richer now. But that&#8217;s water under the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>These comic books always had ads for mysterious, exoctically-named martial arts. No bully would ever kick sand in your face again if you sent away for the cheap booklet purporting to teach <em>Dim Mak<\/em>, <em>Ketsugo<\/em> and, my personal favorite, <em>Yubiwaza<\/em>. I think <em>Dim Mak<\/em> is Chinese for <em>death touch<\/em> or some such thing. <em>Ketsugo<\/em> sounds Japanese but, I must say, I&#8217;ve never heard the word in Japan. <em>Ketsu<\/em> can mean <em>ass<\/em>, for what it&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s <em>Yubiwaza<\/em>, or<em> finger technique<\/em>. That&#8217;s got to be the greatest martial art of them all. Destroy your attacker using just your little finger.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, watching this latest video of Aiko-chan, I saw Steve apply a kind of <em>yubiwaza, <\/em>just not the type that was advertised in the comic books. This is in conjunction with his favorite <em>newaza. <\/em>He also lets Aiko-chan have it on her lovely <em>ketsu <\/em>with the short, bamboo rod known as <em>konjobo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing missing is the <em>Dim Mak<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KabukiJoe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/aikoexgal\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gallery.gif\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/aikoex.wmv\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/movie.gif\" align=\"bottom\" height=\"27\" width=\"106\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osada Steve is in Germany so I&#8217;m taking this opportunity to put up a gallery of pictures of Aiko-chan from a previous Studio SIX shoot. I usually take between 400 and 800 photos on an average evening at Kinbaku Live Night at Studio SIX. I&#8217;ve gotten more used to my camera by now and I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/?p=161\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-miscellaneous","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}