Terminology: Osu, Ous, Ossu ???

[aefibird]

Just out of interest, is Osu used within any other Japanese martial arts or is it only karate? I've never heard it said at my Aikido dojo and it got me wondering if the use of Osu is limited to karateka or does its use (especially in the West) extend throughout other martial arts?

[Killer Miller]

Osu is also used as a military style of acknowlegement - as in Yes Sir!!! So in Traditional Japanese Karate training (JKA styles), Osu is used quite frequently instead of Hai...

 

- Killer Miller -

[kotegashiNeo]

Thanks for the tip equaninimus

[Mink]

OSU But that is through a Kyokushin base i have also seen ossu ..but only through a canadian Kyokushin site

[returning_wave]

ah good old Osu! its kind of a runnign joke in our club - we find it hilarious and our masters hate it so it is not used - we dont feel the need to shout anything at regualr intervals but if our instructor asks 'do you udnerstand' we would respond with 'Hai, Sensei.' The man who has jsut taken over our style in England is a big Osu-er however - his record is 6 times in one sentence . I have to say it irritiates me and every japanese person ive spoken to says it would be very disrespectul to use it in japan except to a friend of the same rank.