From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V8 #372 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Wed, 22 Aug 2001 Vol 08 : Num 372 In this issue: eskrima: Vancouver contact eskrima: Hello from HOT(At)lanta? eskrima: ESKRIMADORES IN UPSTATE NY eskrima: FMA FAQ eskrima: Professor Remy =?iso-8859-1?Q?Presas=B4s?= health update eskrima: RE: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V8 #371 eskrima: . ========================================================================== Eskrima-Digest, serving the Internet since June 1994. 1200 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 Michael G. 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: Patrick Davies Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:38:38 +0100 Subject: eskrima: Vancouver contact One of the clubs students is going over to Vancouver for a period and was inquiring if there is any training there for him. Can anyone advise? Thanks in advance Patrick M Davies Aberdeen Martial Arts Group www.amag.org.uk ------------------------------ From: ARNISTE@aol.com Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:44:15 EDT Subject: eskrima: Hello from HOT(At)lanta? Meownews to all, Just arrived here in Atlanta,GA. last night nice and weather ok.Any list member living around by Roswell (exitt 6) be glad to workout with FMAst.Just drop me email and Phone # I`ll get back to you ASAP.Be in Orlando Friday & Saturday hope I`ll see you GatPuno Abon. So talk/work out with you guys later,Take care all. Nelson"PinoyKowboy"Trinidad Combat Arnis Tabak Society / http://catsociety.freeservers.com ------------------------------ From: campol@rpi.edu Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:45:14 EDT Subject: eskrima: ESKRIMADORES IN UPSTATE NY Hi, I'm trying to find an instructor in the Troy/Albany area of NY.. Does anyone know of anybody in or near that area? Even someone that wants to train once a week on a saturday or something would be great. Thanks, Lloyd C. ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:33:18 PDT Subject: eskrima: FMA FAQ Time to update the FMA FAQ: http://www.martialartsresource.com/anonftp/pub/eskrima/digests/fmafaq.htm Currently the styles below are referenced. It would be greatly appreciated if folks could take the time to submit additional styles, or improve on some of the styles already documented. Thanks. Ray - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Babao Arnis Balintawak International Balintawok Bohol Method CCEKA De Cuerdas Defensor Method Derobio Doblete Rapillon Doce Pares Dog Brothers Martial Art Escrima/KunTao/Silat Eskrido Eskrima Filipino Boxing and Dumog German Arnis Inayan System of Eskrima Inosanto Kali Kadena de Mano Kali Ilustrisimo Kombatan Kun Tao Silat Kuntaw Lima-Lima Lameco Lightning Scientific Arnis (Lema Scientific Kali Arnis Organization) Modern Arnis Moro-Moro Style Moro-Moro Orabes Heneral Oido de Caburata Arnis Pananandata Pekiti-Tirsia Serrada SLD (Serrada, Largo Mano, De Cuerdas) Tapado Toledo-Collado Vee-Arnis-Jitsu Villabrille System Visayan Style ------------------------------ From: abanico-video-knuettel@t-online.de (Dieter =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kn=FCttel?=) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:17:40 +0200 Subject: eskrima: Professor Remy =?iso-8859-1?Q?Presas=B4s?= health update Hi, just for your information, this is, from the Modern Arnis homepage, the official update on Professor Remy Presas´s health from August 12, 2001: Professor's health has continued to decline over the past 6 weeks. He remains bedridden, is easily fatigued and sleeps most of the time. The latest MRI has shown tumor re-growth and the outlook for a recovery is not favorable. Please direct your prayers and best wishes to the Professor in this time of need. With luck we can bring comfort to this man who has impacted our lives in so many strong and positive ways. Sad greetings from Germany Dieter - -- Dieter Knüttel ABANICO Video Productions http://www.abanico.de http://modern-arnis.de ------------------------------ From: Eli Silva Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:11:53 -0500 Subject: eskrima: RE: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V8 #371 In the light of the current crisis in the Philippines... It is simplistic to blame the leaders and politicians in further "pulling down" the country's socio-economic-political status. While they are largely to blame in conducting their roles and implementing policies while dealing uncontrollable situations such as the Muslim and rebel insurgency. It is much to the historical residues and the cyclical attitude that is the status quo: stagnant at best, and the focus on economic prosperity as the bearer of success that superficially "elevate" the Filipino image. First and foremost, it is my opinion to supplement the historical adage that Filipinos are a product of constant struggle with invaders from all around, namely the Indonesians, Malays, Chinese, Spaniards, Japanese and the Americans. But the underlying key to all of these is that geographically, The Philippine Islands were never really meant to be a country. The archipelago which consists of a little more than 7,000 islands cannot be unified with a single culture let alone putting an efficient government to maintain and enforce her policies. These fragmented islands we'rent in fact colonized as a whole by the Spaniards. Largely, the Southern part of the Philippines, the Mindanao archipelago, has been intact from the Europeans aside from sparsely colonized barrios. The Muslims ruled and even at this age, the government would be hard pressed to enforce her policies without some kind of mutual agreement (check the Marcos' regime and martial law era)... The Language barrier is the second. The colonization of the Philippines in 1521 was successfully made through the internal warfare of rival tribunal conflicts....Even tribes within the same island of Mactan wherein Magellan landed, were under constant threat of Lapu Lapu and his rivals...The Spaniards took advantage of this fragmentation that weakened the defense againts them. So looking at the situation 400 years later, the Republic of the Philippines still have the regionalistic tendencies that parallels to those of the tribal warfare. The splintered imagery of the Filipino people is as diverse as her islands. It is no wonder that the martial culture prevailed as a unifying banner in which the Filipino people identify to as our "past". It is a challenge to put together a 7,000+ islands into order without struggle. So to say that the current problem in the Philippines are the politicians is like the tip of an iceberg. To say that the Philippines is the only nation which consist of mind-boggling number of islands is not so true, try Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan...etc. But the the geographical location of the Philippines put them under the matrix of a "crossroads" to Asia, wherein it is also the "gate" of the South Eastern Asia to which all would inevitable cross....The Philippine Islands stand between Guam (which represent the Southern Pacific region) and the middle region between Japan and the Malayan peninsula. No wonder the Americans strategically put Philippines as part of their plan to contain the Asiatic region aside from the Australian connection. Japan was already a matured Japanese culture since further north, the only neighboring regions are that of Alaska, Russian continent (which of course include mainland China)....There isn't much room to wander after you go north, for it forms a land barrier of the Russian and the Alaskan archipelago. The Philippines is geographically exposed from all angles.... likewise, a look at the FMA, you can see different influences from all angles. Obviously, you can see the residues but refined flavors from Pencak Silat and Kuntao from the Indonesian, Malayan and Chinese culture to the "hard style" influences from Shaolin and the Japanese to the Indian Kalaripayit.... Likewise, the academic history of FMA is also a clouded picture. Not to say that the Filipinos does not have a sophisticated Literary culture (contrary to Mike Wiley's interpretation of the Filipino's lack of or absence of it), but the written recordings are non-existent if not arbitrary at best. Within the arts of the Muslims in the south, one can find the residues in their dances, rites, prayers, stories, legends, visual arts and architecture that one might find the "Blade" oriented culture. Dances from the north which hid FMA within Fandango sa Ilaw, Moriones festivals and plays, the bao (coconut dances), tinikling (the dances performed on four bamboos {2 pairs perpendicular}, and etc...also provide some pre-colonial and colonial documentaries of the FMA.... What about government and politics?..From the trade during the Limahong period of with the Chinese traders and merchants to the Indonesian and Malayian Barangay structure to the Spanish Hacienda system (Feudalism) to the Japanese authoritarian and militaristism to the democratic and hollywood tendencies of the Americans....Now this is truly a melting pot of the world! Need I say more? Any comments and interpretations of the unique Filipino culture??? Eulalio Silva ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:31:50 PDT Subject: eskrima: . ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V8 #372 **************************************** 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. Old digest issues are available via ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com. Copyright 1994-2001: Ray Terry and the Martial Arts Resource Standard disclaimers apply.