{"id":4983,"date":"2011-11-06T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2018-01-08T01:32:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T00:32:29","slug":"how-to-tie-obi-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/articles\/how-to-tie-obi-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"How to tie obi (belt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To tie the <em>obi<\/em> (belt) is often difficult for new members, we have therefore put up some pictures here of the most common way to tie the belt in Shorinji Kempo. Click on the images to see a larger version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-655 alignnone\" title=\"Start by taking the middle of the belt at the center front.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Start by taking the middle of the belt at the center front.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-656\" title=\"The belt will go around two turns, tuck one end under the other on the back.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The belt will go around two turns, tuck one end under the other on the back.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-657\" title=\"When the belt goes two times around, it looks like this.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"When the belt goes two times around, it looks like this.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-658\" title=\"Tuck the end of the outer turn in under the two turns and pull it up.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tuck the end of the outer turn in under the two turns and pull it up.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-659\" title=\"The end that now is pointing downwards forming a loop and is tucked down between the two turns of the belt.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The end that now is pointing downwards forming a loop and is tucked down between the two turns of the belt.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi6.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-660\" title=\"Grab the other end ...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Grab the other end ...\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-661\" title=\"... and tuck it in the loop between the two turns.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"... and tuck it in the loop between the two turns.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-662\" title=\"Tighten the belt and it will fit nicely.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/obi8-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tighten the belt and it will fit nicely.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There are also some variations in how to tie the belt, the above is the way that is most common in Shorinji Kempo, but that does not mean that other ways are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Here are also a couple of video clips, from two different views, on how to tie your belt.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Knyta b\u00e4ltet. Tie your belt. \u304a\u3073\u3092\u3057\u3081\u308b\u3002\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nwbhxorL1XI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shorinji Kempo obi tying tutorial for children\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9WoviowdVY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To tie the obi (belt) is often difficult for new members, we have therefore put up some pictures here of the most common way to tie the belt in Shorinji [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}