From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V8 #115 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Sun, 4 March 2001 Vol 08 : Num 115 In this issue: eskrima: Full Contact Hawaii Vid-Lessons eskrima: Martial Arts and the Beach eskrima: Bram =?iso-8859-1?Q?Franks=B4?= e-mail adress eskrima: jackets and sweaters eskrima: Tacosa Serrada Eskrima Seminar in Germany eskrima: Re: Hair eskrima: Dayak killings in Indonesia eskrima: Bolos Uses, the Boy Scouts, and some Family history. eskrima: list back eskrima: Lapu Lapu Classic Info eskrima: . ========================================================================== Eskrima-Digest, serving the Internet since June 1994. 1300 members strong! Copyright 1994-2001: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource The premier internet discussion forum devoted to Filipino Martial Arts. Provided in memory of Mangisursuro Mike Inay (1944-2000), Founder of the Inayan System of 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 the online search engine for back issues of the Eskrima-Digest at http://www.MartialArtsResource.com Mabuhay ang eskrima! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Chad Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:15:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: eskrima: Full Contact Hawaii Vid-Lessons Full Contact Hawaii is now taking orders for custom video lessons. Video lessons can be requested and ordered in 20 minute increments. Specifications can be made as to orders consisting of direct instructional footage, indirect instructional footage (recording of a seminar, class, one-on-one instructional), and actual stickfights with minimal gear. Topics that can be covered are: Single Stick - -Long Range - -Stick Clinch and Disarms - -Stickgrappling (Single and Multiple Weapons) - -Take-downs and Throws - -Closing the Gap and Countering and Accepting the Close Double Stick - -Different Fighting Structures and Principles and Long Range - -Stick Clinch - -Closing the Gap - -Fighting Coordination Drills Stick and Knife - -Basic Principles and Coordination and Relation to Single Stick Fighting - -Stick Vs. Knife and Knife Vs. Knife - -Empty Hand Vs. Knife and Self-Defense Disarms Empty Hand - -Panantukan Drills Set 1 (Covers Striking, Controlling the Range, Closing the Gap, Counter Striking) - -Panantukan Drills Set 2 (Covers Limb Destruction, Weapon Translation) - -Kicking (Covers Counters, Methods, and Destruction in Contact Drills) - -Clinch Drills Close Range Striking and Dumog - -Grappling (Incorporating FMA Limb Destruction and Trapping/Dirty Tactics) Miscellaneous - -Mixed Empty Hand Sensitivity Drills (Various Arts) - -Mixed Single Stick - -Evolving “Traditional” Training into Fighting (Drills, blocks, locks, trapping, etc.) - -Conditioning *NOTE: Each topic is divided into it's respected area for ease of reading and understanding. Single Stick, Double Stick, and Empty Hands are not the topics. Each individual section are the topics (ie:Panantukan Drills Set 1, Stick Clinching, Grappling, etc.) Each topic will be approximately 20 minutes long. Some will be longer, but 20 minutes will be the minimum amount of time spent on each topic. When videos are ordered, it will be discussed and decided how the material will be presented between using footage of fights, recordings of direct instructions (towards the tape), one-on one instruction or practicing, seminar or class instructions, etc. Videos will cost: $25.00 First Charge- One Topic $10.00 each additional topic. Example: 3 Topics - $45.00 – Approximately 60 minutes of custom instructions 2 Topics - $35.00 – Approximately 40 minutes of custom instructions 5 Topics - $65.00 – Approximately 100 minutes of custom instructions Pre-made tapes that will be listed after individuals custom order them will be sold at 20% off original price. 6 Topics or more will be the First Charge plus $7.00 each additional topic. E-mail me and tell me what you are looking for or where you need help, so that we can discuss exactly what would be right for you. For example, one person could be interested in Single Stick- Long Range with personal instruction on how not to get hit on the head when hitting leg shots and keeping an aggressive opponent at bay, while another person could be interested in Single Stick- Long Range with personal instruction on countering leg and foot shots and blocking long range techniques. On the drill tapes, someone could ask for “sensitivity” drills, striking drills, coordination drills, etc. Also, it won’t be limited to this list. If you have any request, just ask. If I do not feel that I can help you, I will re-direct you to someone that I think could. If I do not think I can make a tape with acceptable material to what you would need, I will not do the tape. If you are not satisfied with the tape, I will send you a second tape with any 3 topics that you would like on it. The goal of these vid-lessons are not to show or teach "techniques", but to show how techniques can be trained for real situations, and how principles can open doors to creating the "techniqes" that will work for you. Please e-mail Chad Getz at chad@fullcontacthi.com for any questions. If you are placing an order, please type “VID-LESSON REQUEST” in subject line. ===== Chad chad@fullcontacthi.com Full Contact Stickfighting Hawaii http://www.fullcontacthi.com http://www.egroups.com/group/stickfighting __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ From: Ken McDonough Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:05:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: eskrima: Martial Arts and the Beach I may have mentioned this previously. However, if you want to go to a great place in Asia while taking a few martial arts lessons, check out the following site: www.tambuli.com I spent a few days there. Fantastic ! Ken McD... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ From: abanico-video-knuettel@t-online.de (Dieter =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kn=FCttel?=) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:41:02 +0100 Subject: eskrima: Bram =?iso-8859-1?Q?Franks=B4?= e-mail adress Hi Bram, or any other who has Bram Franks e-mail adress: through computer-problems I lost all the mails and answers of my correspondence wirth Bram Franks, I don´t even have his e-mail adress any more. Would anybody who has it mail it privatly to me? Please send to: dk@abanico.de Thanks Dieter - --- Dieter Knüttel European Modern Arnis Representative http://www.modernarnis.de ABANICO Video Productions http://www.abanico.de ------------------------------ From: "Vincent Bollozos" Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 19:14:02 Subject: eskrima: jackets and sweaters > >When I was a kid my mother used to tell me to zip or button my >coat/jacket >or take it off. Now I tell others > >the same but for different reasons. The outerwear can be yanked down >over >your arms to render you > >nearly defenseless Up here is Canada I don't know how many fights i've seen with the 'classic hockey fight move' of the sweater or jacket pulled over the head. I have these from grade school all the way up into adulthood. In a related story. I was a Rick Faye Seminar where we playing a training game. Two people sit back to back in the middle on the floor and then a training knife is thrown. So the options are to go for the knife or go for the guy. Well Sifu Faye decides to throw the knife down the hall. My training partner and I both go and chase after it. As we approach the door way my partner throws me against the wall ( he out weighted me by about 50 lbs) and pulls my sweatshirt over my head and procedes down the hall. Down but not out I chase after him arms up and the sweater pulled over my head. I manage to get my headout my but my arms are still in the sleeves. I tackle him throw my sweater over his face in face lock and start reachng for the knife. Sifu Faye finally comes out and breaks us up. I tell you it was damn fun. Rgegards, V _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ From: tom@serrada.de Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:24:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: eskrima: Tacosa Serrada Eskrima Seminar in Germany Dear list members, there is an upcoming TSE seminar on April 07, 2001 in Germany with instructors Lothar Keller and Thomas Fischer: "Realistic self-defense with stick, knife and empty hands". For detailed information please see: http://www.serrada.de/tse_seminars.htm peace, tom - -- The Art of Tacosa Serrada Eskrima http://www.serrada.de ------------------------------ From: Bladewerkr@aol.com Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:10:42 EST Subject: eskrima: Re: Hair I not only cut my hair but shaved down to a short goatee after getting the sides of my beard used as a handle by a guy I was throwing out of a club one night. On the other hand I once grabbed a guy by the hair and a handful ripped out in my hands. Luckily for me he was as shocked as I was so he didn't take advantage of my brief moment of standing there looking at my hand full of hair thinking, "Holy S*&t" Sorry for the war stories but they make a point. I prefer to not offer such a handhold for anyone, but I don't trust it as a good point to grab either. Plus some people are just sort of oblivious to it. When my son was growing up he used to pull up on his aunts pony tail, she would offer it to him to use as a handle. ------------------------------ From: "Marc Denny" Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 00:27:36 -0800 Subject: eskrima: Dayak killings in Indonesia Greetings: This from yesterday's LA Times. It is long, but may be of interest. Perhaps those members of this list from that part of the world or with experience there could comment. Woof, Crafty Dog - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, March 3, 2001 Reviving a Savage Practice More than a century after Dayak tribes on Borneo island declared an end to headhunting, the barbaric custom has returned with a vengeance as immigrant settlers are slaughtered. By RICHARD C. PADDOCK, Times Staff Writer SAMPIT, Indonesia--From his hiding place in the Borneo jungle, Asmawi Ab watched as a band of headhunters caught his father, Palindo, 50 yards away. The elderly man fell to his knees and begged for mercy, but the Dayaks stabbed and killed him. The leader of the gang lifted the body by the hair and in one stroke of his long mandau knife lopped off the head. In triumph, he held it high and drank the dripping blood as his comrades let loose a terrifying victory cry. Then the Dayak cut out the old man's heart and took a bite. "After I saw my father beheaded, I was about to faint," said Ab, 23, whose family comes from the Indonesian island of Madura. "Five people drank the blood." More than a century after the Dayak tribes yielded to pressure from Dutch colonialists and declared an end to headhunting, the barbaric custom and the grisly rituals that accompany it have returned to Borneo with a vengeance. Passed down from generation to generation through the stories of tribal elders, the bloody tradition has resurfaced as the Dayaks lash out against perceived injustice at the hands of Madurese settlers. In an apparently spontaneous uprising, young Dayaks took their grandfathers' spears down from the walls of their huts and went on a rampage against the Madurese, whom they accuse of brutality, greed and arrogance. "Headhunting has been revived again because it was provoked by violence," insisted Kena Usop, a Dayak community leader and professor of Dayak culture at Palangkaraya University. "They are using traditional weapons to defend themselves and to send away evil because it disturbs the harmony of life." Before their killing rampage ebbed, the Dayaks had slaughtered nearly 500 Madurese, according to the Indonesian government. Dayak leaders say their warriors killed 2,000. Hundreds were beheaded in towns, villages and the jungle as they tried to flee. Headless corpses with their hearts ripped out could be seen along the roadside. Some of the modern-day headhunters followed the ancient rituals of drinking the blood and eating the hearts of the people they killed to subdue their victims' spirits and absorb their magic. As a more practical measure, warriors took the severed heads to Madurese villages and waved them in front of the terrified inhabitants to encourage them to flee. Others used the threat of beheading to strip the departing Madurese of their wealth. All told, officials say, more than 80,000 Madurese were driven from their homes in Central Kalimantan province in the brief but successful campaign of "ethnic cleansing." Several thousand are still hiding in the jungle. The Dayaks, normally tolerant and patient people, see themselves as victims of discrimination who are just fighting for their ancient way of existence. Traditional Dayak life is centered in the remote jungle villages of this vast and forbidding island. Despite centuries of Christian proselytizing, the main religion is Kaharingan, a form of ancestor worship and animism in which all things are believed to have a spirit. Animal sacrifices are common, and belief in the power of black magic is widespread. The term "Dayak" embraces more than 200 tribes of indigenous people, each with its own customs, dialect and lifestyle. Historically, only some tribes engaged in the practice of taking heads. These were the legendary headhunters of Borneo, who struck terror in the hearts of the colonizing Dutch and British. Borneo, bigger than Texas, is the third-largest island in the world. Straddling the equator, it's dominated by steamy rain forests and laced with rivers that serve as highways for the skilled Dayak boatmen. Home to the endangered orangutan and rich in timber, it has become a prime target of rapacious logging companies. Skulls of Old Enemies Adorn Jungle Homes Many Dayaks have adapted to life in towns and cities. But deep in the jungle, traditional Dayaks hunt with blowguns and live in multi-family long houses where the skulls of ancient enemies, blackened by smoke and age, hang from the eaves. About 3.5 million Dayaks live in Kalimantan, the southern two-thirds of Borneo governed by Indonesia. The province of Central Kalimantan, where the recent slaughter took place, is the Dayak heartland. Until 100 years ago, headhunting was an essential part of Dayak life and religion. A head was the most potent source of magic. A warrior who cut off an enemy's head acquired its spiritual power and enhanced his own status in the tribe. Heads, usually preserved by smoking them, were believed to bring good luck and fertility. The people gave generous offerings of food and tobacco to their skulls so they would protect their village from illness and ensure a good crop. The more skulls a village had, the more prosperous it was. At times, heads were even a form of currency. A chief might demand three or four skulls in exchange for his daughter's hand in marriage. The power of the skulls faded with age, and new heads were frequently required for important ceremonies in village life, ensuring that tribes were in a constant state of war. Periodically, the men of a village would launch a raid on a neighboring village to obtain new heads. Occasionally, several villages combined forces, with as many as 1,000 warriors mounting an attack. All Skulls--Even a Child's--Had Value It made no difference whether the heads they took belonged to a fierce warrior or a young child-- every skull had the same value. When taking a head, it was important to conquer the spirit of the dead. This could be done by eating the heart or liver or by drinking or washing in the victim's blood. Some tribes, such as the aggressive Iban, used headhunting as an effective weapon of terror in campaigns to expand their territory. In 1894, the Dayak tribes agreed to a treaty banning headhunting. The pact proved effective, and the Dayaks began using substitutes for their rituals, such as cows' heads or coconuts. Since then, there have been isolated cases of Dayaks decapitating outsiders, such as during World War II, when the British encouraged them to hunt the heads of Japanese soldiers. More than 40 years ago, the Indonesian government began moving people from overcrowded islands to sparsely populated regions such as Kalimantan. Among the migrants to Borneo were the Madurese, who proved to be better at business than the Dayaks and paid little heed to the traditions of the indigenous people. The Dayaks claim that the Madurese also raped their women and killed over petty disputes. "We have been patient for a long time, and we can't take it anymore," said Bahing Djimat, secretary of the Dayak Community Organization in Palangkaraya, the provincial capital. The Dayaks first went on a headhunting and killing rampage against the Madurese in 1997 in West Kalimantan and again in 1999. By some estimates, thousands were killed. Some Dayaks are horrified by the killings and the image they create of Dayaks as primitive savages who have never given up headhunting. "What is happening today merely reflects the bad traditions of years ago--the basic customs of our ancestors," said Onen K. Usop, a lecturer in philosophy at Palangkaraya University and the brother of Kena Usop. "What happened during these years is that it did not really vanish, just like the weapons. "Actually, nothing has changed." Some experts on Dayak culture disagree, noting that the recent killings are missing many of the ritual practices that accompanied ancient headhunting. "It is not real headhunting as we understand it in the past," said John Bamba, director of the Institute of Dayakology in Pontianak. "What is happening now is more an expression of anger and resentment." Bamba questioned whether the killers were engaging in the ancient rites when they drank the blood and ate the hearts of their victims. More likely, he said, they were possessed by spirits that made them act in this barbaric way. "What I can say for sure is that there is a teaching to ask for the spirits' help in time of trouble," he said. "It is possible that the spirit needs blood to drink and the person who is possessed does it unconsciously." Dayak leaders said their warriors collected at least 130 heads from the killing fields last month and brought them in white plastic bags to their command center in Sampit for eventual distribution to villages in the interior. Bahing said the skulls were war trophies, not religious artifacts. "They plan to bring the heads home as a symbol of victory," he said. In the most recent killing, it is clear that the Dayaks were not just out for heads. The warriors were waging a concerted campaign to drive the Madurese from the province. The beheading of one person was usually enough to stampede hundreds of people. Saroki, 32, who like many Indonesians goes by only one name, said he was in his village of Cempaka Mulia last week when truckloads of Dayaks armed with spears and blowguns roared up. One got out holding a severed head and said: "This is the head of the Madurese. If you love your life, you had better flee," Saroki recounted. The villagers ran for the jungle. Ameria, 17, an Indonesian of Malay descent, said the Dayaks came into her mixed Madurese and Malay village of Besiri Ilir on Monday and separated the people into two groups, one to live and one to die. The Dayaks, who are said to be able to identify the Madurese by their smell, determined that her husband's grandfather, Mursalam, 60, was Madurese and sentenced him to death, she said. The others were ordered to count to 10 to see whether they pronounced the telltale number five with a Madurese accent. Ameria's husband, Narto, 19, passed the test but pleaded with the Dayak leader not to kill his grandfather. Without a word, the Dayak took his mandau and split Narto's skull like a coconut. Then he turned to Mursalam and chopped off his head. "My neighbor grabbed me and told me to run so the Dayak wouldn't kill me," Ameria said. "The bad memories are always in my mind. I keep seeing them cut my husband's head." Asmawi Ab knew the men who killed his father in the jungle. They grew up together in the same village of Pelangsian in houses 200 yards apart. Perhaps they resented the fact that Ab's family was one of the wealthiest in village--he owned a motorcycle and several houses--and that he was now chief of the village. After he saw his father beheaded, Ab surrendered to a Dayak official he knew and the two cut a deal: The Madurese in his village would turn over all their property in exchange for their lives. The Dayak telephoned police, who trucked the villagers to the overcrowded refugee camp in Sampit. Ab said he expects he will soon board a refugee ship for Madura with nothing more than the clothes on his back. "The important thing is my life," he said. "I don't care about my property." ------------------------------ From: EGJundis@aol.com Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 05:38:34 EST Subject: eskrima: Bolos Uses, the Boy Scouts, and some Family history. Interesting thing to note is that the Philippines at least in the early 80's (when I was still a US Boy Scout) had the largest percentage of Boy Scouts by population of any country in the world. One of my favorite accomplishments was receiving my badge for my knife and ax safety. In my scout troop this how members earned the right to carry a knife on their person or use an ax on a camping trip. What does this have to do with FMA? Well, in the Philippine Boy Scouts they have a similar badge that you earn for bolo use. I don't have the hand book anymore but I remember it covered things like sharpening, methods of carrying, and a lot of practical stuff for everyday use. Stuff like using a bolo to open canned food, chopping wood, opening coconuts, making tools, etc. Those are the things I remember and still practice when I go camping. I like to bring a small 14" Bolo with me. It has a leaf shaped blade (between a Barong and Kurkri sp? the Gurka blade). The heft of the blade and skills I mastered from that book have served me better than any ax. Though if I was chopping wood with a radius bigger than 3' inches I would want a saw or ax. From what I have been told earning the bolo badge in the Philippine Boy Scouts is as big an honor as earning the knife and ax badge in the US Boy Scouts. It's one of those must have badges. In many parts of the Philippines the bolo is an everyday item. I think it's quite funny to picture a US Boy Scout to his Philippine counter part. Yes, they both have the green and khaki uniforms with the knee high socks. But if you look at their waist the American will typically have his standard issue 3' inch blade pocket knife and the P. I. scout will have a nice sized bolo. When I was in Bohol in '93 and in Zamboanga Del Norte in '97 a common style of wearing a bolo was with the blade strapped diagonally across the chest. The tip was near the left hip and the handle was near the right collar bone with the edge facing up or down. I have played with this set up and it makes available a quick draw with the blade in the San Miguel or the set position for delivering angle one in most systems. I never asked why they did this. From a martial arts perspective I thought it was a pretty cool way to store your blade. You can actually run with a bolo strapped to your chest in this manner as opposed to one dangling from your waist. Of course maybe they did this just to keep the blade out of the water when planting rice or fishing. I asked my grandfather about this since he was both a fisherman and coconut farmer from Bato Leyte. He responded to the question the way someone might respond to the question, "why do you tie your shoe laces?" No one had seen my grandfather practice any martial arts since W.W.II. Though it was something we assumed he knew because of his war record. My Lolo Jundis was in the Philippine Scouts and received a Silver Star and Purple Heart for holding a position in Bataan. This was not the Boy Scouts, but a part of the US military at the time. The Philippine Scouts as I understand it were the off shoot of the Philippine Constabulary that vic Hurley wrote about in "Jungle Patrol." He only opened up after I had been studying Serrada for three years. I surprised when I found out first hand that he was an escrimador as well. After my first trip to the Philippines he showed me how he would defend and attack from sheathed positions. enjoy, Elrik Jundis Director SPMA ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 8:10:28 PST Subject: eskrima: list back I'm back with the living. The lists are back up... Ray Terry raymail@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com ------------------------------ From: Kel620@aol.com Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:42:49 EST Subject: eskrima: Lapu Lapu Classic Info Guro Doug Pierre will be hosting the 6th. Annual Lapu Lapu Classic stickfighting tournament next month. Here is the info: 6th. Annual Lapu Lapu Classic Date: April 22, 2001 Registration Time: 9:00am to 11:00am Location: Bronx High School of Science 75 West 205th. Street Bronx, NY Spectators: $10 adults, $5 seniors, $3 children Tournament fees: 1 event=$45 2 events=$50 3 events=$55 4 or more=$60 Categories: Full Contact Sparring(weapons only) Forms--Philippine/Open(weapons only) Self-Defense--Philippine/Open(weapons only) Open to all martial arts styles(weapons only--bo, kama[wood]. sai, sword[wood], tonfa, whip, chains, etc. For more information contact: Guro Doug Pierre Village Martial Arts 188 East 3rd. Street New York, NY 10009 (212) 614-3250 ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 8:14:49 PST Subject: eskrima: . ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V8 #115 **************************************** To unsubscribe from the eskrima-digest send the command: unsubscribe eskrima-digest -or- unsubscribe eskrima-digest your.old@address in the BODY (top line, left justified) of a "plain text" e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. 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