Training Clothes
Training Clothes For Goshinjutsu.
Beginners are advised to wear loose, strong clothing when they first attend a goshinjutsu club.
The system utilises a very limited number of techniques which involves the jacket but the practise of an attacker seizing the jacket puts any material under a lot of strain. We still retain the lightweight Jujutsu jackets because they are ideal for coping with this situation – very strong, but at the same time pliable around the neck to avoid soreness.
With this sort of specific clothing students can be more aggressive in learning techniques as they don’t have to worry about their partner’s clothing. In a street situation you cannot worry about your own or your attacker’s clothing. Your concern is to protect your body – if your mind is occupied with worrying about clothing you’ll never be able to successfully defend yourself.
We could always train in track suit bottoms and T-shirts, but this way of changing into uniformity with the training clothes for goshin jutsu does help with focusing your mind set and the business on hand when it is put on.
As we said previously, nobody walks around the streets in a goshinjutsu jacket, the intent is to learn the principles and resulting techniques correctly and street clothes may tear or rip during these moves. This will not matter if it comes to defending yourself for real! The trousers should be strong and also loose enough to enable us to practise every day range of movements with our arms and legs. Likewise the jacket is also a slightly generous fitting.
These items form the ‘goshin-jutsu-gi’ , but quite often we will practise in normal clothes to show up any restrictions in techniques.
Protection boxes are mandatory, and other protection may be required occasionally and advised by the instructors.
In another section we said that we had kept the coloured belt system as an external sign of a students assessed ability. The jury is still out on this one but for the time being we use this belt (obi) to keep the jacket closed and it is tied in a certain way to remain firmly in place.
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| 1. Hold the belt at the centre point in front of your waist | 2. Pass the ends around the back and forward again to the front ensuring both ends are of equal length |
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| 3.Pass one end under both bands of the belt and pull tight | 4.Finish off the tie with right over left to form a reef knot, making sure that it is flat. |
All these items must be kept clean and well mended, it can be offensive to practise with a partner who is scruffy and is wearing stale, smelling clothes.
Malcolm Keith
Chief Instructor
Youshiki Goshinjutsu
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