From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #226 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Tues, 9 May 2000 Vol 07 : Num 226 In this issue: eskrima: sorry, my bad eskrima: Armed in Europe eskrima: Strikes eskrima: re: Eastern Iowa FMA eskrima: Message from Maha Guro Uddin ========================================================================== 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 five years worth of digest issues at http://www.MartialArtsResource.com Mabuhay ang eskrima! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray Terry Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 07:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: eskrima: sorry, my bad Whoops. Sorry. I let a couple more titles posts slip thru. My bad... Ray ------------------------------ From: AnimalMac@aol.com Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 10:26:13 EDT Subject: eskrima: Armed in Europe In a message dated 5/9/00 8:07:01 AM Mountain Daylight Time, eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com writes: << What kinds of weapon laws are there in Italy? I will be traveling there soon and don't want to ruffle any feathers. >> From Marc Animal MacYoung I travel extensively to Europe and the laws of every country are different as are the degree of enforcement. Now normally you don't find me without a knife...not as a macho issue, but simply working and always cutting, prying and trimming things. However going through customs is always a crap shoot to say nothing about the local policia. In many of the countries carrying a blade is just flat out illegal. Something that I picked up that really comes in - excuse the pun - handy it to keep two long thumb nails, taken to a slight point. You can always take someone's eye out, but the sharpened point will cause all sorts of extra pain. Getting one's eye gouged out will stop 99.9% of all attackers. If you are in knife range, you are in claw range. With my nails like this, even standing buck naked in the shower I am armed - usually better than the average European. And unlike a European street tough, I don't have to draw a weapon, mines already there and out. And what's more, no matter where I go, I don't violate any laws. ------------------------------ From: Ronald.Reekers@HSC.com Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 07:39:17 -0700 Subject: eskrima: Strikes Perpendicular, Horizontal, Diagonal strikes. Understand this and we all will have our PHD in Eskrima. Just kidding....Ron ------------------------------ From: "Rob Remmers" Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 15:02:24 -0500 Subject: eskrima: re: Eastern Iowa FMA Sam Becket wrote: ""Good day to all! I've been off line for a couple of months, good to be back into the digest. Any one know of FMA training around Burlington IA? Quad cities? ANY info would be appreciated! Respond to vikingbrothes714@yahoo.com Thanks!!!!!!!!"" Sam did you get my email? Drop me an email, I'm in Burlington. Rob Remmers ------------------------------ From: "IESA" Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 15:53:23 -0800 Subject: eskrima: Message from Maha Guro Uddin Dear Members, First of all, Sultan wants to personally thank Ray Terry for running the digest after all these years. Secondly, to clarify all that's been going on, I myself, and the rest of the instructors in IESA are the ones who address him with title, out of respect for what he's done in the art and in the community. He was quite surprised, knowing that his titles were discussed on the digest. He told me directly that he does not mention his titles at all unless required to do so to qualify himself, either at a lecture or during a workshop. When I told him that his credentials and his teachers were mentioned in public, he said that you should all delete those records since he didn't want anyone to know his business. He said he was too busy to worry about titles. Thirdly, he suggested that instead of mincing titles and words, we should all get together as a community, and also as individuals, and help someone in the community. Instead of "computer-banging", we should stop kids from gang-banging on the streets. Instead of pointing fingers, we should point to someone who needs help and help them out. From the posts I had forwarded, he said if we, including myself, had directed that energy to something positive instead of disecting words, we could've accomplished alot. He has no animosity towards anyone subscribed or un-subscribed to this, or any other digests. He does his thing, Mark Wiley does his thing, the Inayans do their thing, just like everyone else, and he feels it's all good. As long as you have pure motives for teaching and propagating the art, then he offers his help. If you have personal motives, then he cannot. My previous posts were emotionally charged, to say the least. I recall words like "veiled threats" in response to what I wrote. Personally, I reacted the way I did not only to defend my teacher and lineage, which all of you would do in that situation, but also because I have seen the passion and effort he puts into the art. Therefore, I put alot into what I had to do to represent my school and my teacher. As he said, Tatang opened his mind to the fact that all styles come from one. Maha Guro Uddin has no opinions about any of the various arts because of that fact, and because he holds rank in alot of them. He's seen alot in the 30 years of unbroken study in the Martial Arts, so he doesn't trip on "styles" or titles. If you really have a need to know his credentials, he is open to people coming by to talk with him. As he said, "Ask, and it shall be given...seek and you shall find...knock and the door will be opened.". He encourages us to get together over some food and talk about the arts. That way, all the knowledge and hard work of those warriors before us won't go to waste amidst our quarrelling. Peace, Bob IESA +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The coolest site for free home pages, email, chat, e-cards, movie info.. | | http://www.goplay.com - it's time to Go Play! | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #226 **************************************** 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.