From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V6 #366 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Thurs, 2 Sept 1999 Vol 06 : Num 366 In this issue: eskrima: Weapon priorities eskrima: Re: Yambao's book eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V6 #363 eskrima: toilet talk ========================================================================== Eskrima-Digest, serving the Internet since June 1994. ~1100 members strong! Copyright 1994-99: Ray Terry, Inayan Eskrima, and Martial Arts Resource Replying to this message will NOT unsubscribe you. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe eskrima-digest" (no quotes) in the body (top line, left justified) of a plain text e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. To send e-mail to this list use eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com See the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) FAQ and online search the last four years worth of digest issues at http://www.MartialArtsResource.com Mabuhay ang eskrima! Ray Terry, PO Box 110841, Campbell, CA 95011 FMA@MartialArtsResource.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "BILL MCGRATH" Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:43:36 -0700 Subject: eskrima: Weapon priorities We had some interesting posts on Pekiti-Tirsia digest last month, so I thought I would ask a few similar questions on ED. 1. If you could only train on one weapon, which among single stick, double stick, sword and dagger or knife would you choose? 2. If you where training a beginning adult student who wanted to learn your whole art, which weapon category would you train him in first, second, third, etc.? 3. Would you train the student in question 2 "A to Z" in one weapon before moving on to the next (Tuhon Gaje said this was done with him as a child), or would you train your student with all the "A's" across the board then all the "B's" etc? 4. If you had just 6 weeks to train someone for combat (say a solider issued a fighting/utility knife and a machete to clear brush) how would you train him? He will be in a zone where the indigenous population often carries edged tools for farm work and has a history of edged weapon fighting arts. P.S. When in town on R&R he is not allowed to carry a firearm. Regards, Tuhon Bill McGrath ------------------------------ From: "Steven Drape" Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 06:25:05 PDT Subject: eskrima: Re: Yambao's book > I'm doing my fall orders, and there's a book advertised - _Placido >Yambao's Art of Arnis_ I'm not familiar with the name, and was wondering if >anyone knows of the book/author/arnisador etc and could give me an opinion. I haven't read the book, because it was always unavailable when I heard about it. It is, if I remember correctly, one of the first books written about arnis in the modern era. It's probably from the 1960's or early 70's. Get it if you can and tell us what you think. Steve ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: Shawn Albert Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 08:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V6 #363 > From: Patrick Davies > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:41:42 +0100 > Subject: eskrima: toilet talk > > A couple of years ago I read a magazine article in Terry O'Neils Fighting > Arts in the UK that concerned the martial way of going to the toilet. Laugh > you may but some of the most vulnerable moments in our life are at those > moments of total relaxation. Hello. When I first read this, I was thinking What the hell...., but as I read on I realized that this really is one of those things that we don't tend to think to much about, and should be addressed in our training. But can you imagine walking into a training hall and saying, "Hey, now how is this technique gonna work when we're sitting on the flush? :) Thing is though, it is a real world consideration that as far as I know no martial or self-defense system trains for. Food for thought..... Shawn Albert _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 10:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: eskrima: toilet talk A common problem that police officers have is going to the toilet... No, I don't mean that... Several have had their sidearms taken by going into the toilet and then hanging their duty belt on the coat hook on the door. Someone can simply follow the LEO into the john, wait for him/her to get into reading position and then quickly reach over the door to 'go fish' for whatever they can find within easy access... Ray Terry rterry@best.com ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V6 #366 **************************************** To unsubscribe from this digest, eskrima-digest, send the command: unsubscribe eskrima-digest -or- unsubscribe eskrima-digest your.old@address in the BODY of an email (top line, left justified) addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. Old digest issues are available via ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com in directory pub/eskrima/digests. All digest files have the suffix '.txt' Copyright 1994-99: Ray Terry, Inayan Eskrima, and Martial Arts Resource Standard disclaimers apply.