From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #136 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Sun, 19 March 2000 Vol 07 : Num 136 In this issue: eskrima: M.D. D.O. eskrima: Women in class eskrima: treat your knees right eskrima: Re: [Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #127] eskrima: Hockey and stickfighting eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #135 [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: "Carlton H. Fung, D.D.S." Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 11:56:09 -0800 Subject: eskrima: M.D. D.O. For those more chiropractically inclined. D.O's are more holistic in general than M.D.'s and their are many M.D's who are accupuncture certified too. In our own area there is Nancy Griffith M.D. certified also in accupunture and Chuck Wright D.O.. A D.O. and M.D. are equivalent degrees but there are some philisophical differences. Both have priscription rights the same etc... Regards, Carlton H. Fung, D.D.S. Redondo Beach, Ca. - ----- Original Message ----- > Chiropractic can be great (no surprise that it was a C. who came up with > the diagnosis) BUT IMHO most Cs have tunnel vision on the bones. I would > suggest that you spend even more time on the muscles-- which are what pull > the bones out of place. The muscular-skeletal system is a marvel of > tensegrity (look it up-- its a cool concept). Many Cs will gladly spend > years adjusting you-- and it does bring relief-- but in my experience you > need to get to the muscles and postural issues involved ------------------------------ From: TaoArt@aol.com Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 15:18:58 EST Subject: eskrima: Women in class In a message dated 3/17/00 10:25:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com writes: << Here's my question: Do you have any ideas about how to help grow my female student count? I am not talking about opening up a new cardio kickboxing class....my goal is to draw more women into our Doce Pares Eskrima class as well as our Grappling class. >> Jason, A few things for you to try: Put women in your advertising. You said you had a couple of good women grapplers... show them in a photo winning against a guy in sparring. One thing some women are intimidated by in grappling is all of the "sex-like" positions. Make your women assistant instructors and let them start up a "Women's Class". After the new women feel more at ease with their newfound skills, introduce them to the coed class. Have your women grapplers won any competitions? If so, contact the local paper. They eat up stuff like this. As Un-PC as this sounds, DON'T treat all of the women in your class just like you would the men. The simple fact is that most women are seriously intimidated by the arts and even more intimidated by the prospect of being injured. If they are taking your course for self defense, chances are decent that she has been assaulted before. If this is so, she may have some serious self-confidence problems and victim-issues going unresolved. Concentrate on more skills that build on a woman's strong assets: Her flexibility, lower center of gravity, etc. Some women will require a more gentle approach and one that will allow her to win so that her confidence may slowly build. Then as she progresses, challenge her with more realistic bouts. This stuff may not sound very "PC"... but it is what works. I am a woman who has trained almost exclusively with men. So I have no issue with the gender of my teacher or workout partner. I have found that it is often the men who are uncomfortable getting into mount position with me. So I crack a few jokes to help diffuse the situation. The sad fact is that if a man cracked a joke to a woman while in mount position, most times she would be offended. So be careful about how the male partners interact with the female students. I sincerely wish it didn't have to be this way. I was never even aware that most women had to be treated differently until a few years ago - because I was never treated differently. But I have discovered that few women are like me. And so I had to change the way we worked some of our Self Defense programs to take that into account. When I did, our female attendance soared. I wish you the best of luck. And soon I will definately make it out to visit your facility so we can trade techniques. And we could talk more about this, if you like. Could you email me directions and times that would be good for you? Meghan Gardner Guard Up, Inc. www.GuardUp.com "Carry love in your heart and a knife in your pocket at all times." me ------------------------------ From: Rocky Pasiwk Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:47:12 -0500 Subject: eskrima: treat your knees right Crafty Wrote: > I would suggest that you also consider the effects of things like sitting, > driving, using toilets (as vs. squatting in nature) etc. none of which were > part of the human evolutionary experience and all of which have a quite > profound effect on the hips-- tilting them forward. This occurs as certain > muscles spend inordinate amounts of time in certain positions with the > consequence of shortening and of weakening. > Getting in and out of cars especially sporty ones is a real strain on the knee. You may not realize it but if you get into it the way most people do, right leg first ( in America ) and kind of slide your butt in, for a moment you are supporting all your weight on the side of your left foot thus putting your knee in a very bad position. I have gotten into the habit of turning with my butt towards the car and sitting first, then swinging my feet in. As a matter of fact, I did something really stupid the other day. It was dark out and I was getting into a car I just bought, its real small an Acura NSX ( looks like a Ferrari ) well I sat down and swung my feet in and as I turned, the passenger seat was leaning forward and I caught it out of the corner of my eye and it scared the shit out of me ( I thought someone was in the car ). I swung my forearm and hit the head rest and broke a peace of trim off of it. Man did I feel dumb. As far as building the muscles I really don't lack in that dept., I was genetically gifted there. I may carry extra weight but am quite muscular. What does interest me is tendon strengthening. I understand that in hsing I and Pau gua the emphasize this. Since I am in the beginning stages of my training in these two arts when I get back on my feet I were be sure and concentrate on that aspect. Rocky ------------------------------ From: Mikal Keenan Date: 18 Mar 00 21:29:14 CST Subject: eskrima: Re: [Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #127] Greetings... Some time ago I got a training invitation here in Birmingham (Alabam). A= t the time I thought that I would be moving out of town so I didn't follow up .= =2E. like, hey, why get started with something, find out it's cool and then ha= ve to dash? I have always partially regretted a move from Mpls to Miami for si= milar reasons ... re: Minnesota Kali (way to go Rick!), i.e., got to Miami and = was too busy to check out local stuff. Anyway, I think the name of the BHM connection was Victor Colbert or something like that, previously of Las Vegas. If I'm on the beacon, somebody sound a horn and let me know how t= o get in contact with Mr. Colbert. A local Thai restaurant owner suspects that= Colbert frequents his restaurant, described a who seemed man knowledgeabl= e about Muay Thai and who has a "European" accent. Since the likelihood of= our being at that restaurant at the same time is low, I'm sending this post t= o see if I can bridge the communication gap and recapture a possibly lost opportunity. Gonna be working in BHM for awhile and am looking for good = Muay Thai/Kali training (especially since my son's job now keeps him from maki= ng our weekend training marathons!). Live well, Mik ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webm= ail.netscape.com. ------------------------------ From: "Michael Koblic" Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:23:13 -0800 Subject: eskrima: Hockey and stickfighting The original post went astray on 10.3.2000. Here is a repeat (I hope I managed to get rid of the HTML, Ray!): This is for those who follow hockey as well as stick fighting: As you probably know, Marty McSorley of the Boston Bruins has been charged with an assault with a weapon for slashing Donald Brashier across the temple during the game in Vancouver, BC. Those who live in Canada will have by now seen the incident at various speeds and from different angles at least hundred times. Here is the question: Leaving aside the moral content of such action and forgetting for a moment the end-result (Donald Brashier ended up with a serious concussion), just observing Marty McSorley swing his stick from the point of view of an experienced stick fighter, was he trying to hurt Donald Brashier seriously or was he just "trying to get his attention"? IMHO, FWIW, I do not think he swung the stick anywhere near hard enough to intend serious injury (e.g. hardly any backswing, little if any body twist). I think he just wanted to p... him off seriously enough to engage in a more usual type of hockey fight. He caught him off balance and most of the damage to Brashier's brain was done when the helmet came off prior to his head hitting the surface with a considerable force. Should an eskrima expert be on McSorley's defense team? Mike Koblic, Quesnel BC ------------------------------ From: Eskrima0@aol.com Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 05:39:40 EST Subject: eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #135 I Broke my right leg in two places while training. It happened on 10 January, and I am due to get out of plaster in a few weeks. Has anyone else had this sort of injury, and if so how long were they out of training for? Thanks Andrew ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:14:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: [none] ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #136 **************************************** 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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