The submission-grappler that I most admire, Masakatsu Funaki, was described in 1987, by a UWF description, as utilizing "koppou-tactics" which have become influential as a fighting technique.
Would this mean he was using the art of koppo in his fights? Or would koppou-tactics refer to something else? This fascinates me to no end, because I discovered that Masakazu Imanari, Takefumi Hanai and Takumi Yano--more contemporary grapplers with a style much in the spirit and after the fashion of Funaki's--were said to practice something either called koppo or koppou.
Does anyone know anything more? Is there a Japanese grappling art known as koppo? Is there something else known as "koppou"? Would "koppou-tactics" not be referring to a specific art at all, in the context of a mixed martial artist/shoot-style professional wrestler utilizing "koppou-tactics" but simply a use of certain moves?
Would this mean he was using the art of koppo in his fights? Or would koppou-tactics refer to something else? This fascinates me to no end, because I discovered that Masakazu Imanari, Takefumi Hanai and Takumi Yano--more contemporary grapplers with a style much in the spirit and after the fashion of Funaki's--were said to practice something either called koppo or koppou.
Does anyone know anything more? Is there a Japanese grappling art known as koppo? Is there something else known as "koppou"? Would "koppou-tactics" not be referring to a specific art at all, in the context of a mixed martial artist/shoot-style professional wrestler utilizing "koppou-tactics" but simply a use of certain moves?