Hikuta- in Dolfzine!

It was fated to happen sooner or later: a noted writer and long time martial arts and self defense practicioner would give Hikuta a go- actually do some serious training in the system and write about his experiences.

The results you will find in this months issue of Dolfzine ( with what I understand to be one of the webs most read netzines for self defense and fitness ).

Light is finally shed on some mysteries : what is Hikuta about? can it really be that effective? how does it differ from martial arts? how does it differ from other combative systems? and most importantly: what could it do for me?

For the answer to those and other important questions, go to :

http://www.dolfzine.com

then :

http://www.dolfzine.com/page1.htm

then to Raymond Brennan's article on the Hikuta Hand:

http://www.dolfzine.com/page659.htm

Knowledge Replaces Fear!

Jack Savage

Fall madness sale!

I can't remember the last time I ran a sale. I don't do them often for one reason: I don't need to! By mid point of this year my sales had already run double of all 2002 sales. Since the goal of my little Hikuta biz is to make enough $ for upgrading equipment and training (i. e. I won't ever be a millionaire like Furey or Pavel via a net business) I could pretty much kick back from this point.

New developments have changed all that: desire to do a series of adds in Black Belt mag w/ Al: this means the need for additional funds ( i.e. big bucks- for me anyway) , tape duplication equipment gone down- a tiny inventory of tapes that need to be sold to re-equip, and a dead time for this type of business ( those of you on Furey's mailing list may have noticed a sale; meaning sales are down for jillionaire Matt Furey= practically no sales for hundred-dollaraire Jack Savage ! ).

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Note-

Hikuta threads were started months ago by regulars at this board- I didn't know of this boards existance until someone informed me of the threads.

This is an update for those interested.

My thoughts are: if you don't want a subject discussed, then don't start a thread on it!

Jack Savage

Not seemingly Egyptian

The first link is to a non-Hikuta page. The second contained a link to a single Hikuat article it seemed.

The above link goes to that article. There is part of it that infers usage by guards of pharaohs. Yet seems to avoid mentioning Egypt.

From the article:
"Though the tales of the history of many arts may have been embellished through the years and can be taken with the proverbial grain of salt, their effectiveness remains unchallenged."

This paragraph says someone can lie about the origins of what they are selling and if what they are lying about is effective, then use it--buy it.

"The story of Hikuta boxing, instead, begins in the Land of the Pharoahs as depicted below. "

This looks like a challenge match (not guards defending sort of thing). Their hands are bandaged as combatants in single combat. One of the combatants has no helmet and the hair might be Greek. Three of them have what might seem to be possiblly Egyptian headpieces. The left-hand-side person (Grecian) has a bandaged hand in the chest area of the right-hand-side person (Egyptian) combatant's chest. I presumed that this was used here to demonstrate the use of the Hikuta hand (related to the article title).

However, (Hi)kuta hand supposedly comes from Defenders Of Kings (pharaohs of Egypt) yet if depicted in the art image (from the article) below, is used by a Grecian on an Egyptian.

The right-hand-side person seems to have a thin knife with a guard. If it's a dual they both might kave knives. And they are both poised with superior strikes. If the person supposedly using Hikuta hand has a knife with a guard also, the black knife might not show against the blackbody of the artwork representing the person on the right-hand-side. And the Hikuta hand might be considered to resemble a person thrustng a knife.

There seems a curve outside of the nuckles of the left-hand-side combatant's right fist (which migh be holding a knife not using empty hikuta hand).

The stlye is Grecian. Pharaoh can mean tyrant. Yet tends to refer to Kinglike title for an Egyptian ruler. No longer used after the Greeks conqured Egypt.~

Raymond took that pic from my website- HikutaCombatSystems.com. Yes it is Greek- as is at least another from my web site. The intent of those pics were to show that hand to hand fighting was a very advanced and valued skill in the ancient world.
That particular pic is of comperitive Greek boxers- the guys behind them are actually referees w/ sticks to strike the boxers for rules violations.

On the first page of my web site you will find 2 pics from ancient Egyptian origin. In these you will actually see the Kuta unique hand position as well as other unique Kuta body positioning.


All the pics from my web site were sent to Dolfzine- why they chose to use Greek instead of Egyptian pics I am not sure.

Jack Savage

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Here is the picture that was likely intended. Egyptian boxing is not well documented but there are a few references.

http://www.sis.gov.eg/egyptinf/histo...l/sports07.htm

That was significant. Thank you for the linking. I wonder why the have the pictures without telling the story with heiroglyphs.~ish

Don't know. I've only seen that picture in a few places and there is never any text. Here are a few more references.

http://www.aafla.com/SportsLibrary/J...2/jsh1502b.pdf

http://www.aafla.org/OlympicInformat...UE1/ORUE1c.pdf

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/...ncsportsg1.htm


http://www.egyptsites.co.uk/upper/lu...f/kheruef.html