From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #364 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Thur, 27 July 2000 Vol 07 : Num 364 In this issue: eskrima: new book eskrima: Knife seminar eskrima: Majapahit eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #363 eskrima: . ========================================================================== 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: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:24:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: eskrima: new book FYI, forwarding... Ray - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new book on the Butterfly knife has been released, and it is called "The Heart of the Butterfly". This book tells about the history, origins, and folklore of the butterfly knife. The folklore is based around Filipino Folklore, as well as other countries around the world. There are over 70 color photographs, 10 black & white, and numerous diagrams of blades and handles. There are also biographies on custom butterfly knifemakers. This book has 130 pages and the trim size is 8"x10". For ordering information please contact us: "alexipublications@hotmail.com" ------------------------------ From: AnimalMac@aol.com Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:05:13 EDT Subject: eskrima: Knife seminar From Marc Animal MacYoung Hi all, I'll be teaching a seminar on the realistic knife work needed to survive a street confrontation (and doing it in such a way that the courts are less likely to put you in the prison showers afterwards). This seminar will be a serious reality break about what is being taught as "knife fighting" around the country. This course is specifically designed to teach the student the critical differences (read: those things that will get you killed) between FMA/silat knife work and how blades are used by criminals and killers in the United States. The guy coming at you in a dark alley won't be attacking you in the way you are trained to defend against -- which might just complicate things for you, neh? At: Freedom School of Martial Arts Where: Colorado Springs CO When: August 26 Time: 11am-4pm (later if the students' brains don't melt) Cost: $30 (training knife included) For more information http://www.diac.com/~dgordon/schedule.html ------------------------------ From: Mikal Keenan Date: 27 Jul 00 12:11:19 CDT Subject: eskrima: Majapahit Following my own curiosity re: The Majapahit Empire and claims that by one account that it included "2/3 of the world" I found the following at an Indonesian website. There were others (more detailed) that stated that the empire was aware of various places claimed to be part of it, but did not receive tribute from them ... so they were apparently not part of the empire. Interestingly, I found references to the 10 Datus of Borneo previously mentioned in posts related to the history of Kali. Hey, where did those Afro-Australopithecine guys in Australia come from? One site said that Easter Island was known to these people (Malay). The primary source of the culture is considered the Sri Vijayans (Vishayans) from Southern India (Dravidians/Afro-Asians). Reinforces the likelihood of methods like Vajra Mushti and Kalari Payyat in ancestral Kali. East Java The Majapahit dynasty based in and around East Java, began the foundations of an empire that was to dominate the entire Indonesian archipelago, the Malay Peninsula and part of the Philippines for hundreds of years. This was the beginning of profitable trade relations with China, Cambodia, Siam, Burma and Vietnam. As power in Central Java declined in the 10th century, powerful kingdoms rose in East Java to fill the power vacuum. During the reign of King Erlangga both East Java and Bali enjoyed lucrative trade with the surrounding islands, and an artistic and intellectual renaissance. Parts of the Mahabarata epic were translated and re-interpreted to conform to an East Javanese philosophy and view of life, and it was from this era that East Java inherited much of its temple art. Note re: people getting around in the ancient world ... there are people in S. Africa who say they are Jewish. They are all visibly Negro (Black) Africans. Their claims to descendancy from the Hebrew priest tribe have been affirmed by genetic tests. The Y chromosome of all of the males is identical to that of Cohens, Kohens, Kohns, etc. in the Middle East, Europe, and America. For centuries they only allowed intermarriage of women as they migrated from Yemen to South Africa. This causes persistence of the father's Y chromosome which is passed directly from father to son. ... and for those of you with apparent European ancestry ... if you've had your wisdom teeth removed, did any of them have curled roots (called "ribbon" I think), i.e., roots that seemed to "braid" or intertwine? If yes, then you share ancestry with some Native Americans and/or Asians. Anyone know anything about "Yaomachtia", Aztec fighting? Mitakioase (Mee-Tah-Kee-Yoh-Aa-Say) "We are all the same people." - Lakota - -Mik ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. ------------------------------ From: "q" Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:12:55 -0700 Subject: eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #363 > From: "Joe McCray" > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:17:57 -0700 > Subject: eskrima: Silat sweeps in hard sparring > > Over the last month I've really been hitting the Silat sweeping. Mostly in > Str8 Blast drills - and very, very occasionally in real time sparring. It > really seems to come out on the side of the famous JKD quote: > > "Accidental if not incidental" > > I'm increasingly finding these silat sweeps in drills - and very > occasionally applying in sparring. I find myself in so many opportunities - > 99 times out of a hundred I'm str8 blasting. I do it all the time in the > drills now - Joe, This discovery is not surprising. Before there are silat sweeps there are silat entries. Think about what over the bridge/under the bridge does and you can now understand why juk chung choi works. Try the silat the way it was ment to be it may surprise you. Regards, Carlton H. Fung, D.D.S. Redondo Beach, Ca ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:55:22 PDT Subject: eskrima: . ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #364 **************************************** 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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