From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #182 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Mon, 17 April 2000 Vol 07 : Num 182 In this issue: eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #181 eskrima: Training in San Francisco eskrima: hand and foot movement [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: Chad Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:29:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #181 I actually do learn things from watching tapes, and it does show up when I teach. One of my strong points is having an analytical mind and actually being able to see somthing done and pick up things that wasn't "meant to be taught". My goal is not to teach a style or promote people. My goal is to help people learn how to effectively fight for sport or combat using whatever means are at their hands. But yes, I was not disaproving. I think the only thing that I "disaprove" of in MA is people that say people should or should not do. Hence, I often sign "What one man would or would not do, does not always mean another man should or should not do" but I think is better rephrased, "What one man does or does not do, does not mean another man must or must not do". My basics come from one man only. He taught me how to teach myself. He lit my love for the kahoy. Credit goes to him. I've watched Top Dog in some fights, and must say that the most that I've learned from him came from actually watching him fight single stick. Capturing the essence. Burt Richardson actually asked me once if I learned from Top Dog. I took it as a compliment. Wtih double stick, I like his "snakey" movement with double stick and then after that, I like the applications of Crafty's double stick work. Credit now goes to the two. In my teaching, I now teach a single stick "sub-system" based off of somthing I saw Tuhon McGrath do. I use it to teach new students how you can take 10 basic strikes and "self-explore" into other strikes and combos. This will be up on www.fullcontacthi.com in about a week. Credit now goes to him. I started working on somthing called a reverse and mirror angle concept, which also teaches a student "self-exploration" with ceartain combos, and when I saw Edgar Sulite's "eskrima drills", I see the same type of work in the numbers, os I also have a little of that "essence" in that. BTW, that will be up on the web site in about a month ,also. Grand Tuhon Gaje has influenced me also. He always seems to remind me of lessons that I have forgot or rephrases things my grandfather told me once. He is such an inspiration and watching his body mechanics is a treat in itself. Credit goes to him. Last but not least, credit goes to everybody that I have ever worked out with, sparred, taught, and saw in the FMA. ===== "Draw me not without reason, sheath me not without honor" Chad Hawaii __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: Ioannis REKLEITIS Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:23:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: eskrima: Training in San Francisco Hi, I'll be visiting San Francisco from 20-28 of April, I would like to visit some FMA schools, are there any suggestions? Also I would like to buy some of the Dog Brother tapes, are there any places where I can find them. Thanks in advance Yiannis Rekleitis ------------------------------ From: Patrick Davies Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:45:46 +0100 Subject: eskrima: hand and foot movement Been off and away for a couple of weeks and have trawled through the back catalogue waiting for me at my desk this am. One post sequence that grabbed my attention was the discussion on hand and foot movement. May I quote a mail from the last one which says: <> Yes yes yes. It does depend who you are teaching and what their attributes are. But when teaching a class I take a uniform approach and build it up in segments. When introducing something new to the class I generally focus on the hand motions. This then is followed by incorporating it into the footwork. I make most of the double stick drill as co ordination exercises so the footwork is used to highlight the difference in mechanics that take place. Certain drills do require the footwork as part and parcel with the hand motion but by that time most students should have grasped the basic concept of how it works. An example might be Cob Cob. This is taught first with just the witik twisting motion with no footwork(high/middle/low). Then after that is assimilated by the student we introduce the footwork into it using what we cal the female triangle - stepping fwd at a 45 degree angle. This is then broken into: stepping with the left hitting with the right - stepping with the right hitting with the right stepping with the left hitting with the left - stepping with the right hitting with the left stepping with the left hitting with the right - stepping with the right hitting with the left stepping with the left hitting with the left - stepping with the right hitting with the right. Having first learnt the general co ordination of the pattern, they then concentrate on the dynamics when using the footwork. From this they learn how to approach all drills and I hope realise that you can always expand on what you are shown. It must depend who you are working with as to how quick you attain results. Working with a kickboxer for example might make it difficult as they tend to stay in their left stance and actually find it difficult to move out of the conditioned ways. I shall follow up with a separate post concerning the double stick otherwise this mail would take a whole digest ; ) Pat Aberdeen Martial Arts Group www.amag.fsbusiness.co.uk ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [none] ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #182 **************************************** 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.