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Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest        Tues, 24 April 2001        Vol 08 : Num 196

In this issue:

     eskrima: Re:Hock
     eskrima: RE: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V8 #195
     eskrima: Thanks!
     eskrima: Mr. I's
     eskrima: a stupid grin
     eskrima: Sad but True story
     eskrima: .
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From: Jon Maudal <bothvar_2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:53:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: eskrima: Re:Hock

Howdy All!

Just been perusing all of the postings on this Mr. Hock
fellow.  Has anybody out there ever seen him move? According
to his ad, he teaches FMA and "commando" - like techniques...
"like"?! What exactly does he  profess, and who does he come from?

Just Curious,

Bothvar the beligerant
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From: igarta@iwon.com
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:38:20 -1000
Subject: eskrima: RE: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V8 #195

>Hi all,
>
>I am living in Japan and am having difficulty finding a decent supplier of
>training sticks. Therefore I am looking into synthetic sticks that should
>last longer. I want something as close to possible as rattan or hardwood and
>I am leaning towards the Jeff Finder Stickman line of products. 
>
>Before I purchase anything I thought I would just ask for opinions on these
>or other training sticks going around. Also training knives? I notice the
>sharkee once seem to be fairly popular.
>
>Opinions privately or to the list are welcome!
>Tanukidog@excite.com
>
>Regards,
>Troy
>Kali Illustrisimo

I & I Sports makes a nice pair of synthetic sticks.  I also had a pair from
Jeff Finder, very nice and lighter than the ones from I & I.

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From: Georgios Christou <gchristou@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:47:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: eskrima: Thanks!

Thanks to all the guys who have replied to me either
privately or on the list for the resources on Dumog.
Excellent stuff, and so I have a lot of reading to do now!

Thanks again,
George
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From: "q" <docfung@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 23:07:20 -0700
Subject: eskrima: Mr. I's

Well here is something funny on Sifu Dan.  A small pack of  kids from PV who
used to go to the filipino kali academy towards the end of his school
teaching years never called him guro or sifu.  We could not break the habit
of calling him Mr. I and the academy was just called "Mr. I's".   He taught
mostly JunFan at the the time since the Sigung Lee influence was big.   FMA
was second fiddle in that to the lower classes contact stickfighting did not
exist so contact kickboxing was a more functional emphasis.  It was not
until later in ones's career that the stick contact was put in and then a
balance of stick to empty hand.  Today you will still hear really old
students l call him Sifu not Guro.  In FMA class we are supposed to call him
Guro and JunFan call him Sifu but we just weren't that smart.  The small PV
gang all started when one of our little bretheren started showing Mr. I his
cool kata's.  Mr. I said he should come see his place then we all started
going.  We got to hit each other with sticks and we all gave up ice hockey
(accidental on purpose hitting) so we could concentrate on just the hitting.
In the 70's Mr I's was big stuff.  A few years later we are all in PV High.
One of the guys got into a fist fight with one of the "hot" jocks in PV high
school.  He happened to be the best of our class from Mr. I's and just
destroyed the jock.  We all got instant reputations and if we just looked at
someone funny they would back down.  Those where the days.  A good rep was
everything.  There was no BJJ or competative martial art just the concepts
of JKD which later revolutionized the way MA looks today.  BJJ is the
80-90's revolution that JKD was in the 60-70's.

Regards,

Carlton H. Fung, D.D.S.
Redondo Beach, Ca.


>From: Badger <baj7d@unix.mail.virginia.edu>
>Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:25:08 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: eskrima: Guro Dan Stories
>
>>From: DAHLDP@aol.com
>>Subject: eskrima: Guro Dan's Public Teaching
>>
>> At least part of Guro Dan's public teaching career was at Malaga Cove
>> Intermediate School on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.  He used to carry a
>> really beaten up, relatively short rattan stick to keep us in line.
>> He was very well liked by the students but sometimes one of us would
>> misbehave slightly, just to see if he would raise the stick.  He never
>> had to do more than that.  I think I must have done that a few too
>
>Whoa, how long ago was that? That's funny!
>
>I'm a fan of Guro Dan stories, and have related one too many times


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From: "Marc Denny" <craftydog@dogbrothers.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 23:50:34 -0700
Subject: eskrima: a stupid grin

A Howl of Greeting to All:

Johnaleen wrote:
> Do you think that the ultimate challenges and stick fighting in the park
> without gear is any of a better example to the commando killer
> streetfighter? what do pictures of black and blue men with only shorts on
and
> stupid grins on there faces tell children of today? or the way the martial
arts
> is projected on TV? remember kids learn by what they see not what there
> told.

  What some see:

1) No judges:  Look to yourself for evaluate the meaning of what and how you
have done.

2) No referees:  Even in the adrenal maelstrom of a stickfight, look to
yourself to control yourself.

3) No trophies:  The reason to do is not external recognition, but for the
value of the experience to you.

4)  "One rule only, Be Friends at the end of the Day".  The purpose is not
to damage other human beings, but rather for the tribe to become stronger.

5) "The greater the dichotomy, the profounder the transformation.  Higher
Consciousness through Harder Contact."(c)  For better or worse, the deepest
learning comes in the adrenal state.  The more one experiences composure
while operating in the extremes, the more one is transformed.

the stupidly grinning
Crafty Dog



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From: Ken McDonough <maganda44@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 04:02:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: eskrima: Sad but True story

A sad but true story. Ran across this article today. Same applies to 
Korea and Thailand, and so forth.

McD...

<The Forgotten Angels
Whether sired by G.I.s or sex-touring retirees, the Amerasians of Angeles
City live in racial purgatory  
BY HANNAH BEECH/Angeles City 

  Eurasian Invasion: A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Diverse
backgrounds and multicultural heritages are making Eurasians the poster
children for 21st-century globalization. Why are they the right mix?
 
  Stuck in the Middle: A third-generation Amerasian still feels in-between
 
 
  


When Robert Roydall Reese was 14 years old, his mother gave up and kicked
him out. He was, she said, uncontrollable, too much like his father—too
black. Robert's father is named John Roydall Reese. He is from West
Virginia. That is all Robert knows about him. That is all he knows about
the man that made him too black.

Throughout the Philippines, there are tens of thousands of children who are
like Robert, and tens of thousands more who are too white. They are called
multo, or ghost, if they are light-skinned, and kulot, or curly-haired, if
they are dark. A nickname that applies to both groups is Babay na sa, or
Bye-bye to daddy. In all, there are 52,000 mixed-race children nationwide,
most the unwanted offspring of Western men and Filipina prostitutes. Some,
like 16-year-old Robert, live on the streets, surviving on handouts and
sniffs of mind-numbing glue. "They are born in shame," says Agnes Espiritu,
a women's and child-rights activist based in Angeles City, home to what was
once Clark Air Force Base, one of the the U.S.'s largest facilities in Asia
before being returned to the Philippines in 1991. "They can't hide their
history because it is printed so clearly on their faces."

Nowhere in the Philippines are there more mixed-race children than in
Angeles. For decades, young American recruits wandered the girlie bars that
proliferated outside the base. Many soldiers never knew about their
unexpected progeny; others accepted them and nurtured families, especially
if they were stationed in Angeles for several years. (Even after returning
home, many continued sending money for their support.) 

But when Clark closed in 1991, everything changed. By the mid-'90s, the
town began marketing its nubile wares on the Web, offering two-week, $1,700
sex tours to American and European men hankering for young flesh. Touted
one website: "Recreational sex is the sport of choice. You can get loaded
and laid regardless of your age, weight, physical appearance, interpersonal
skills, wealth or social class." Viagra reinvigorated business, too: by
1999, the visiting population of Angeles had shifted from young American
G.I.s to boozy retirees, few of whom felt like supporting instant families.
Unfortunately, the girls they liked best were the ones most likely to get
pregnant: callow Catholic girls from the countryside with little knowledge
of birth control. The population of unwanted mixed-blood children continued
to grow.

At Checkpoint, a tin-roof shantytown next to the entrance to the former
base, those young Catholic girls have had to grow up quickly. Melinda
Basilan started working the strip stage at the Tahitian Queen when she was
16 years old. Now, she has two children. Stephanie is three, and her father
is English. John Michael is two; his father is an American from Georgia.
The Yank has promised to visit in May, but no one in the dirt alley is
holding his breath. Checkpoint is filled with mothers waiting for fathers
who never come back.

Next door, 14-year-old Jaime Adriano is waiting, too. He was only two
months old when his mother abandoned him, overwhelmed by the prospect of
raising an Amerasian child on her own. Jaime lives with a foster family,
sleeping in a coffin-sized bedroom where he keeps his hip-hop clothes and
prized hair gel. Neighbors whisper that his foster father beats him, but
there is nowhere for the 14-year-old boy to go. School is out for the
former honor-roll student: his foster father recently lost his job and
Jaime's $10 tuition was the first expense to be cut. "I'd like to go to
America," he says. "You can go to school, even if you're black and poor."

Back when Clark was open, Amerasian children of servicemen did have a
chance to go to the U.S.—if their mothers could prove paternity. While that
didn't happen too often, the occasional success story gave others hope, and
they bombarded the U.S. embassy in Manila with citizenship applications.
Older Amerasian girls traded on their exotic-but-familiar looks to marry
serving soldiers, later settling in prosaic places like Oklahoma City and
Fort Wayne. But with the base gone, so are the servicemen and the link to
American passports. Few of the Europeans or Americans who descend on
Angeles these days stay long enough to leave more than a vague sense of
identity—and sometimes a souvenir baby. Four-year-old Helen, with her dirty
blond hair and pink cheeks, could be half-American, half-English or
half-Australian. "I can't tell the difference between all those accents,"
says her mother Julie. "But I think his name was Scott. Is that an American
name?"

Ollie Barge has an American name, but not much else. She never knew her
parents, having been raised by a foster mother. When her college was
flooded by mud slides from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, the
school relocated and Barge couldn't afford the commute. She tried getting
work at the garment factories now prospering on the former base. But each
time she carefully combed back her curly hair and went for an interview,
the managers turned her away. Only a handful of mixed-race Filipinos have
landed jobs at Clark Special Economic Zone, where thousands of other locals
have found work. "My father served at this base," complains Barge, 23. "But
I cannot work there. The Filipinos say 'go to America.' The Americans say
'get a job in your own country.'"

Discrimination affects the half-black children most deeply, but the
lighter-skinned Eurasians suffer also. Other students know these kids'
mothers are probably prostitutes, and schoolyard taunts reflect that open
secret. "I don't want them talking bad about my mother," says Bryan Enders,
an 11-year-old whose American father died of cirrhosis of the liver two
years ago. "But I can't say anything, because they will beat me up." Even
the teachers sometimes pitch in, blaming the biracial students for
fomenting classroom dissent. "They act up more than others," says Juanita
de la Cruz, who has five mixed-race students in her elementary school
class. "I think it's because their blood is all mixed up. They feel most
comfortable hanging on the streets with other Amerasian kids."

In fact, most of the Amerasian children avoid the sleazy lanes where their
mothers sold themselves to their fathers. "When I see a Western man with a
Filipina girl, I feel sick," says 19-year-old Paul Calumpiano, who is
half-American. "But I can do nothing but throw stares at the man's back."
Others, though, have no choice but to return to the bars teeming with
retired American postal workers and overweight German laborers. Mixed-race
boys can find work as deejays, bouncers or, if they're tall, play for a
local basketball team.

But for a poor, young girl in Angeles, there is little to trade on except
her body. Northern European men prefer the darker-skinned Amerasians, while
the Japanese go for lighter skin. Jewel, 18, plies the streets in front of
Splash, Lollipop and Confetti's, where drunken men amble with a girl in one
hand and a San Miguel beer in the other. She's never met her American
father, but her mother says he had a scar on his left calf. So every time
Jewel meets a middle-aged American, she checks his leg, just in case. "I
don't know what I will say if I meet him," she says, pulling the hem of her
pink leather skirt down her thighs. "But I think I will say: 'Hello, I am
your daughter. Welcome again to Angeles. We call it the city of Angels.'">
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 8:11:12 PDT
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