From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #157 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Fri, 31 March 2000 Vol 07 : Num 157 In this issue: eskrima: New school opening eskrima: re Animal antics eskrima: CD case eskrima: Update and one tough 90 year old eskrima: School/Club info please [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: slbedell@webtv.net (Sheldon Bedell) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:50:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: eskrima: New school opening Greetings This is to announce the opening of a new school teaching the Lagarejos system of Sikaran as passed down by master George Chartier . The school is located in north central Massachusetts in the town of Athol, at 540 main street. The school is still a work in progress with more work to be done on parts of the floor and another coat of paint to be added but the doors are open . The instructors: Sheldon L.Bedell and Philip L. Bedell have been student of Sikaran for over 25 years. We welcome any one who happens to be in the area ( on vacation, business, or just lost and winds up here) to come in and visit. We are always willing and eager to learn more of the Filipino arts . Sheldon ------------------------------ From: AnimalMac@aol.com Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:10:38 EST Subject: eskrima: re Animal antics In a message dated 3/31/00 8:25:54 AM Mountain Standard Time, eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com writes: << Is there any chance of you ever coming to England maybe to do a seminar tour or something. Any other anglophiles wanna back me up on this one... >> Well, since the best way out of Denver to Europe is through Gathwick you might say that I'm in and out of England all the time (Ya know something, them duty free shops ain't so cheap). The best way to get me over there is to find a couple of schools to sponser seminars and have them tag on to the existing planned trips to Europe. That way, instead of just one group bearing the cost for travel, everyone splits it. It also saves me a load of travel time. Check out my website for further details... http://www.diac.com/~dgordon/schedule.html ------------------------------ From: OnEHyPeRPnAy@aol.com Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:53:00 EST Subject: eskrima: CD case Hi! I'm just wondering how you can use a CD case as a weapon.....or a book or a binder. I am so stumped.... Just wanted to know if you guys have any ideas. Thanks! bye bye! ~Geralyn ------------------------------ From: ABurrese@aol.com Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:51:14 EST Subject: eskrima: Update and one tough 90 year old Greetings everyone, No, I have not dropped of the face of the planet, though at times in the last two months I've wished that. I have not posted much lately, but I have enjoyed some of the things I have read. (I quickly try and read through the list each day) Law school assignments have really picked up this semester, and the 8 classes I'm in have kept me hopping. I definitely cannot wait for school to be over. For those who know about my fiance Yi Saeng, let me inform you that all the paperwork has been done, and she was granted a fiance visa a few weeks ago. Two weeks ago I bought her a plane ticket, and she will be here in Montana on April 28th. (Actually I will pick her up in Spokane, WA on the 28th and we will come back to Montana on the 29th.) Right now we are planning on a June 24th wedding near the Clark Fork River. It is a beautiful spot of land on the river front that is owned by family, near Thompson Falls where my Father lives and I went to High School. Besides this, I have been working on setting up some seminars. I have most of the informational material about ready, and will post later how anyone interested can receive this, and maybe we can set something up. Then, to top everything off, just when I thought I'd get caught up during Spring Break, my grandfather had a heart attack. He is 90 years old, and had his first heart attack and triple bypass surgery in the early 80s. He blew a hole out in the one chamber of the heart. When the doctor was explaining things to me and my uncle, he said he had only seen this a couple times in the last 12 years, because it usually kills you right away. My grandfather actually drove himself to the hospital after having the heart attack. When the doctor was explaining things, he said my grandfather's chance of survival without surgery was zero and he would die in a matter of days. If they transferred him to another hospital for surgery, his chance was still very low. He said on a fifty year old man the mortality rate would be 50-60% and on someone 90 years old it was very slim chance. My grandfather was aware of all of this, and he is the one that said, lets try the surgery and see. The Helena doctor had to convince the surgeons in Billings to take him and perform it, since when they saw the tests and his age they didn't think he could make it. Well, they had the surgery 9 days ago, and are hoping to move him back to Helena this weekend. He has proved the doctors wrong and is doing better than they expected. It is still too soon to tell just how things will go, but things now are looking a lot better than they were a couple weeks ago. I tell you all this, because it does show what a person can do if they don't give up. My grandfather is a fighter, and he just won't quit. I'm hoping that me telling him to get better so he can meet Yi Saeng helped. Before they moved him to Billings I was over there and told him he had three months to get better so he could be at the wedding June 24th. The next day when I went in, he said, "June 24th, right?" That's the kind of attitude to have, even though doctors are saying the worst. Another good thing was that my sister came up from California and my grandfather got to see his great grandson for the first time, the day before they moved him for surgery. So that was good. And I got to finally see my nephew. So, I've been going back and forth, and trying to help my grandmother a lot. It has been rough on her naturally. But things are looking a lot better now than they were a couple weeks ago, so I thought I'd share a happy story and a motivational one. We should all live to 90, still call the shots, and never give up. I did receive some bad news yesterday, and I will be making a post this weekend regarding that, and asking for everyone's help with it. But that will be later, for now, I'll just say I hope everyone on the list is well. Yours in Training Alain Burrese http://members.aol.com/aburrese/ ------------------------------ From: "Branwen Thomas" Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:01:27 -0330 Subject: eskrima: School/Club info please Hi all, one of our senior students is going off to the 'continent' for the summer and would like to know if there are any clubs he could visit (just to say hi, or possibly train), as well as any competitions or fights he could attend. He's been training about as long as I have (2 1/2 years), and is a sweet guy - very keen on the arts. These are the places he's going, and the styles he's looking for. You can email me privately and I'll pass on the info. I know it's a lot of places, but even just a couple listings will give him somewhere to start and he can find out more when he gets there. Thanks, jocelyne >Can you check for muay thai, jkd, and even kali Amsterdam, >Berlin, Prague, Munich, Switerzland, Venice, greece( who nows where there), >rome, florence,naples, milian, nice, Baracelona, San sebastian, paris, .england, ireland wherever ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:51:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: [none] ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #157 **************************************** 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. Copyright 1994-2000: Ray Terry and the Martial Arts Resource Standard disclaimers apply.