From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #121 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Thur, 9 March 2000 Vol 07 : Num 121 In this issue: eskrima: Re: fickle finger eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #120 [none] [none] ========================================================================== Eskrima-Digest, serving the Internet since June 1994. 1100 members strong! Copyright 1994-2000: Ray Terry, the Martial Arts Resource, Inayan Eskrima 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marc Denny" Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:33:25 -0800 Subject: eskrima: Re: fickle finger A Howl etc: Thanks to Doc Rick for his encouraging words on my finger. The "Urgent Care" doc and the specialist who looked at it said the same thing. I am listening too-- its the middle finger and I want full effect if/when I give the "I'm-number-one" salute. ;-) Crafty ------------------------------ From: AnimalMac@aol.com Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:01:14 EST Subject: eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #120 In a message dated 3/9/00 8:04:11 AM Mountain Standard Time, eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com writes: << Whether an animal is a predator or scavenger is largely a matter of opportunity and degree. And very few predators will go after something that has a good chance of hurting them. >> True enough, the line between predator and scavenger is far from clear. The point behind that somewhat faulty bit of zoology was to point out the inherent flaw in thinking about the power people assign to criminals. If you want a human predator, look as soldiers. They are going out after equally armed and dangerous humans. While we applaude the sneakiness and stealth of SEALs and snake eaters for daring to operate behind enemy lines. It's the grunts who are going to hit an armed enemy head on and take the territory through raw force. Having slammed and jammed with the bad boys for a long time, I can tell you that 99% of the time it is only the stupidest, least experienced and youngest (i.e., the kid thinks he is immortal) who will come at an armed and ready opponent head on. But they use that beserker approach on everyone. There's just one catch, those suckers die like flies when they run into someone who is a little better, a little sneaker, a little faster or just a little luckier. Those who want to live adopt a different tact -- one that fits more with the average person's -- who slept through biology class -- concept of a scavenger. Gang warfare isn't Tombstone. It is more guerrilla warfare. Hit when the guy isn't ready or expecting it. Even when they accidentally slam into each other the operative word is "running gun battle." However, the raw truth is violent gang members are a serious minority of criminals. Everyone is so freaked out about the "big bad wolf" that they forget that there are many more coyotes, rats and cockroaches who are lurking around waiting for the opportunity These guys aren't animals, they're sociopaths. Sometimes they are cowardly, sometimes they are not, most often they are both. Unfortunately, when you are likening them to animals to communicate, there are a few limits inherent in the analogy. Like the realities of biology that you pointed out. ------------------------------ From: yiannis@cs.mcgill.ca Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 16:57:54 -0500 (EST) Subject: [none] Hi, I am sending this announcement on behalf of my school. Filipino Martial Arts Seminars with Victor Gendrano Jr. Victor is a Kali instructor at the Inosanto Academy in Los Angeles who specializes in a number of different Filipino martial arts systems. His general study of the martial arts began in 1981 when he trained with Richard Bustillo at the Kali Academy. It was during that period that his interest in the Filipino martial arts flourished. When the Kali Academy evolved into the IMB Academy several years later, Victor decided to concentrate on the Filipino martial arts and became a student of Guro Inosanto. One of the many other instructors that Victor also trained with at the IMB Academy was Greg Lontayao of the Villabrille Kali system. Victor was one of the few students specifically invited to join a Villabrille Kali group that Lontayao was assembling outside the IMB Academy at that time. He has since continued to train in the Filipino martial arts under Guro Inosanto as well as in the Doce Pares system of Kali with the family of Dioniso Canete, one of the system's founders. Other Kali masters who Victor has trained with include Edgar Sulite, Cacoy Canete, and Dioniso Canete, amongst others. In addition, he has also some training in the Pentjak Silat systems of Bukti Negara and Mande Muda. We are proud to invite Victor to teach seminars in Filipino martial arts at our club. His unique and colourful background will undoubtedly translate into extremely interesting and insightful workshops in the Filipino martial arts. Victor will be in Montreal from March 8 till March 15 2000. All classes will be held at the Victoria School Gym (1820 de Maisonneuve St. W.) with the following schedule. Thursday March 9 6:00-8:00 Tuesday March 14 6:00-8:00 Ioannis Rekleitis ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:34:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: [none] ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #121 **************************************** To unsubscribe from the 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. 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