玄制流の内受けはどんな相手の突きも本能的に躱すことができるとても基本的な受け技だと思うのだけれども、大学空手部で稽古したことは一度も無い。
玄制流では他に掌底受け、弧鎚受け、手刀受けから手を掛けて相手の手を取る動作等も練習した。何れも古流の型にも出てくる基本的な動作であるが大学空手部では殆ど稽古に取り入れられることはなかった。大学空手部は試合にも出ておらず、競技化とは無縁だったはずなのに何故だろうか。
唯一今になって思うのは、大学空手部は若い集団だったので、技術的なことには殆ど興味なく、とにかく勢いよく体を動かすことを優先していたのではないだろうか。実際黒帯の人達であっても、形だけを見ると「下手だなぁ・・」と思う人が多かった。ただ、長い空手人生に於いてはそういうひたすら体を動かすことを優先した時期があっても良いのかな、と思う。
因みに、掌底受けは大学空手部では底掌受けと称していた。本によってはどちらの呼び名も正しいと紹介しているが、ここでは掌底受けの方が筆者の感覚に合うので（小学生時代からそう称しているので）それで統一する。
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I think that the receiving inside style of Genseiryu is a very basic skill that can instinctively avoid any opponent's thrust, but I have never practiced in the university karate club.
In Genseiryu, I also practiced taking the opponent's hand by putting a hand from the bottom of the palm, the arc hammer, or the hand sword. All of these are basic movements that can be found in old-fashioned katas, but they were rarely used in training in the university karate club. The university karate club wasn't in the conpetition game, so why wouldn't practice those?
The only thing I think now is that the college karate club was a young group, so they wasn't interested in anything technical, so I guessed that their priority was to keep moving. In fact, many people, even if they were black belts, thought that they were not good at just looking at the shape. However, in a long karate life, I wonder if there may be a time when such a priority is given to physical activity.
By the way, the shoutei-uke was called the teishou-uke in the university karate club. Depending on the book, both nicknames are introduced as correct, but here the shoutei-uke (the bottom of the palm) fits the writer's sense (since it has been so named since elementary school), so unify it.
