2 - Kumi Tachi




Kumi Uchi is it breaks that studies the form of seize (imobilizaões and strangulations). Old enough art, is a fight that aimed at lead the adversaries upon soiling. It is one of the richest arts in movements and exercises, however healthy a lot guarded by the big masters, since were of big efficiency for the development of the binomial body.

The origin of the Kumi Uchi can be considered as to more primitive of all. Some masters say that his origin was marked when a primitive man, infuriated with some another, advanced in its direction attack-him. And as still they were strangers the first their, martial techniques reaction was "seize" the enemy. However its practical as art of alone war was arise later.

Even so, his techniques were based in the fight through the clinch, being enough developed to the long one of the years. One of his characteristics more strong also is linked to the aggressiveness, since its purpose outside always for ends of war, and not as sport.




The name of the art can be translated into the Portuguese of the following form:

Kumi: embrace, hold

Uchi: it be




Complex enoughart, that represents to older form of battle with clinch. Even inside the Kumi Uchi, by his immensity of techniques and imobilizaões, healthy studied with enough tenacity the standing fight, however with a connotation more connection to the clinch. The Kumi Uchi is, inside the TaiJutsu, to older, elaborate through clinches, projections, keys and strangulations, for the end of the battle of the form more quick possible.

The geography of the Japan always was an important point in the reasoning of the development of the techniques (very injured geography, country with 80% of his territory with mountainous formation). That shows that there was a big tendency of the battles will grapple and will elapse in the ground, doing with that the nature became a weapon in potential.




In the regions of Hokkaido, certain villages arrived to the extreme of will utilize his training with wild animals, as bears, that had its nails trimmed, and the jaw tied. The idea of the development of a technique exceed the size and the weight of the opponent was constant. The need of the improvement brought to the present days it evolved technique applied us battles to short distance .