From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #400 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Thur, 17 Aug 2000 Vol 07 : Num 400 In this issue: eskrima: re: music eskrima: re Mark Wiley's skills eskrima: Music eskrima: re: canes 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: Patrick Davies Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:55:19 +0100 Subject: eskrima: re: music I remember the last discussion we had on this. <> does anyone know any artist that does just drums. Guro inosanto played one CD during his recent London seminar but I never got the chance to find out. I have a range of techno/house music for the boxing type classes but have a drum type CD I use but which I would like to use. I have wondered about the guy who does the music for the gatherings and whether this would cover what I look for. Some of you guys use them on your videos so maybe you can tell me where they come from pat Aberdeen Martial Arts Group Web site * www.amag.fsbusiness.co.uk ------------------------------ From: John Chow Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:43:07 +1000 Subject: eskrima: re Mark Wiley's skills I never had the pleasure of meeting Mark Wiley yet, but from what I hear, he seems to be good and learned. What I respect about him most is that he went out of the way to research into FMA back in its homeland instead of receiving 2nd hand 'direct testimonials'. (Every testimonial, however far removed from the original source is still 'direct testimonial' since it comes directly from somebody). His books cover such a wide and rich store of knowledge. I only wish there are more like him around. Getting beaten up? Many of us have that experience, and we learn and improve from that. Nothing wrong there. I am sure Mark Wiley is a better eskrimador now than before. John Chow Kali Ilustrisimo and Lameco Eskrima ------------------------------ From: Dexter.Labonog@wcom.Com Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:22:31 -0700 Subject: eskrima: Music Rocky wrote, "P.S I often play Rock n Roll or dance type music at my seminars which is usually well received, except when I get some real traditional Japanese types. This guy said you played some strange game show type of music amongst other stuff!!!!! Man only a New Yorker could get away with that stuff, of course only a New Yorker would have the ball to do it :-) Any ways its good to see PT making a bit of a come back in Mich. Rocky" Hi Roc, You raise an interesting point about what music is appropriate for a martial arts class. I like to play music during class that: 1. Has a rhythm that helps students follow the technique we are working on. 2. Gets them in the right mindset for the techniques we are working on. 3. Helps motivate the students to work repetitions for long periods of time. 4. Does not cause my 39 year old brain to go into anaphylactic shock (NO METALICA!!!) Depending on what we are working on I might play a classical symphony or opera, 70's or 80's dance music, or themes from action movies ("Desporado" is really cool). One fun CD I found was a compilation of TV themes from the 60's and 70's (Batman, Wild Wild West, Peter Gunn, etc), If people's hips are tight during sidestepping drills I try putting on the theme from "Hawaii 5-0" and they often smile and loosen up. And sometimes I just happen to ask a complicated question just before the theme from "Jeopardy" comes on the CD. We often cover some fairly "dark" subjects in weapon training and I find it helps to lighten the mood here and there with some humor. Humans can only sustain an emotion that is as taxing on our system's resources as a combat aggressive mindset for relatively brief periods of time. It helps to think of mental states much like physical states and have a mental as well as a physical warm up and cool down during class. Just as you can't sprint physically all day it is very difficult to hold a chemically and emotionally draining mental state all day. I find that if I vary the mood throughout the day I can have the class do several "sprints" hitting several high points followed by a mental and physical rest, rather than have them hit one big high and then crash. Regards, Tuhon Bill McGrath ============== Tuhon McGrath, This posting caught my attention and I wanted to share with you all that music and rhythmic drum beats defiantly play a key role to the mindset of the training session. If any of you are in the San Francisco Bay area this weekend you should check out the "Warrior Project" show going on at the Yorba Buena performing arts theater. This is an upscale theater project incorporating tribal Kulintang rhythms with Filipino martial arts. Festival 2000: kulintang > ...For info call: 415-333-9004 E-mail: > kularts@earthlink.net Maestro Dexter Labonog ------------------------------ From: Paul Fowler Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:06:27 -0700 Subject: eskrima: re: canes Hi John, Pat Crawford makes an interesting "survival staff" that you might want to check out, see his website for more info www.crawfordknives.com . Regards, Paul Fowler ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:48:00 PDT Subject: eskrima: . ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #400 **************************************** 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.