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**jamisi** · 03-20-2010, 11:03 AM

Really? I thought it stopped being valid once you threw and it was no longer holding the tsuka. Read that somewhere. In response to the OP, there was a match here where a one-handed player lost because his fake hand (in which he obviously has no feeling) touched the shinai of his opponent when it FELL OFF or something ridiculous like that. Was still considered a hansoku. Unless that arm is missing, I think it might need a kote on it. If you can still get hansoku from a fake hand, then the forearm should still be a valid datotsu.

That is in another documentary that was once on youtube as well, about a korean competitor who played in Jodan after losing one arm. However, he did not lose the match because his prosthetic hand fell off and touched the shinai; he accidentally grabbed the shinai blade by mistake when he attempted to recover his grip. Though perhaps harsh, it does bear mentioning that he was able to use his prosthetic hand to hold the shinai and to launch his strikes, a large difference with the scenario the OP presents.

03-20-2010, 11:03 AM	#17
jamisi Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 414 Senior Member	Really? I thought it stopped being valid once you threw and it was no longer holding the tsuka. Read that somewhere. In response to the OP, there was a match here where a one-handed player lost because his fake hand (in which he obviously has no feeling) touched the shinai of his opponent when it FELL OFF or something ridiculous like that. Was still considered a hansoku. Unless that arm is missing, I think it might need a kote on it. If you can still get hansoku from a fake hand, then the forearm should still be a valid datotsu. That is in another documentary that was once on youtube as well, about a korean competitor who played in Jodan after losing one arm. However, he did not lose the match because his prosthetic hand fell off and touched the shinai; he accidentally grabbed the shinai blade by mistake when he attempted to recover his grip. Though perhaps harsh, it does bear mentioning that he was able to use his prosthetic hand to hold the shinai and to launch his strikes, a large difference with the scenario the OP presents.
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