Eroi-kumiuti
Around the X century, in parallel with the establishment of a military-class samurai started a special battle system in combat armor - eroi-kumiuti (kumiuti, eroi-gumi, Cutty-gumi). In many ways it is like a sumo - the same shocks and Stalling. This is easily explained, because soldiers in battle armor worn, the severity of which was successfully replace the artificial catch up weight sumoista. Yes, and bulky, box-like shell prevented from taking easy capture. However appliances eroi-kumiuti was much richer. It was not conditional restrictions in sumo - to fight just to stand, by no means fall to the ground, not to use strikes and weapons. The fighters were free to use any techniques and methods - but the result was important.
Receptions eroi-kumiuti used in all cases where the soldier lost his arms - to drop it, scrap, etc. In the battle X-XIII centuries, the battle began with an exchange of bows, followed by counter-attack and the opponents then were on the ground. The sword in this situation was very difficult to use - it simply was once unsheathe. Therefore eroi-kumiuti enjoyed in those days far more honor than the fencing at the big sword-tati. But a short sword or dagger-kotati-Tanto enjoyed great popularity because they can be used in combat in the style eroi-kumiuti.
Eroi-based kumiuti were various wrestling techniques - grips, throws, room, stifling - to effectively fight the armed and dressed in armor opponent. In the case of the soldiers could also use his hands and feet strikes, but only as an auxiliary weapon - on the enemy armor, it was easier to fight off a hand or foot, than to cause any harm. The main in-eroi kumiuti was proper exercise of the hips and strength of limbs. This was achieved using a special dual symmetric capture, which was called etsu-gumi - quadruple the clutch. " In etsu-gumi both fighters tightly entwine one another, not enough with his hands over the plate armor. This helped the soldier hostage balance and mobility and allows effective action to control the opponent.
At any moment one or both fighters were willing to immediately reveal the short sword or dagger for a special punching armor, called eroi-dosi. Eroi-dosi been around for the zone on the right thigh, tear out his usual left-handed. It required great skill to control the opponent with one hand and to maintain balance, while the second will benefit from the sheath the dagger and attempted to hit a vulnerable, do not cover panoply of the opponent's body. Make it in the landfill, it was extremely difficult, as required to get into the small gap between the plates, even under strictly defined angle.
In eroi-kumiuti often used a variety of shots to fall, in which the soldier tried to use your own body weight and gravity of armor, to topple the opponent to the ground. After the throw, he tried to heap the entire weight of the top and used the deduction to obessilit enemy, and then finish blow dagger.
Masters eroi-kumiuti have sought to maximize the efficient use of design features of Japanese armor. Thus, in an attack at the back of falls in the helmet visor up when the back plate rests against the base of neck, can be easily broken cervical vertebrae. Metal ring for attaching the quiver on the back plate of the shell used as a convenient handle in the throws through the thigh.
As can be seen from the description of technology eroi-kumiuti, this kind of struggle has been calculated mainly on the clash of one-on-one. In those days, the X-XIII centuries, the battles tend to become a tremendous tournament with the traditional loud vozglasheniyami pedigrees, with a theatrical call to battle. Samurai thought below his dignity to fight with the enemy, did not name his name, and do not have a noble origin, did not want to stoop to that to kill an enemy together, when it is impossible to determine who has shown great prowess in battle. This predetermined the specific nature eroi-kumiuti as art to win in hand-to-hand fight in the armor. His followers do not wonder about the need to protect themselves from attacks from behind. Coupled with the enemy, they could no longer respond to zheystviya other enemies ... And often the victims of these oversight. For a very long time - roughly from the XI to the XVI century - eroi-kumiuti was the main form of struggle without arms, but it has been canonized rather late - in the XIV-XV centuries. Although eroi-kumiuti entered into the program of many schools will dzyutsu for the championship in his canonization of a dispute between two schools: tekuden Muso-ryu, as the legend is based more in the XIII century, the legendary Buddhist monk Ikeybo Tehen and Tsutsumi Hodzan Ryu, founded in the XIV century polulegendarnogo disciple of the founder of Japanese will dzyutsu dzenskogo monk Dzion Tsutsumi - Yamasiro no kami Hodzan.