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Today's Topics: 1. Re: Clubs or Schools in Ft Worth TX (Mark Lynn) 2. Re: Tom Furman's Testicles! (Bill Lowery) 3. Re: Full Contact Videos (william schultz) 4. Question for instructors.. (Jason M. Silverman) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: "Mark Lynn" To: Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 23:26:00 -0600 Subject: [Eskrima] Re: Clubs or Schools in Ft Worth TX Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Reuben wrote Aloha Folks, > > I will be going to Ft. Worth, TX for business. Was wondering if > there are > any clubs, schools etc. that I can visit/train (if permitted). Any > recommendation would be very appreciated. FMA is preferred but any > style/system that you E.D. suggest would be welcomed. > > Mahalo / Salamat / Thank you! Andrew wrote "There's a JKD guy, Mike Keller or Kelly (it's been a while). His JKD lineage is Tim Tackett. He dos some Kali, and I know who some of his teachers have been, but I don't know which style/lineage he settled on." Hi Reuben The JKD guy that Andrew is porbably talking about is probably Mike Goldberg. Mike Keller is no longer in the area (last I heard he had moved and shut his school down), he was under the late Guro T. Lucay. Mike Goldberg does JKD and last I knew he was under Tim Tackett, he also does Pekiti Tirsa. He use to teach out of his house and I think he has since moved it (I heard through the grapevine from someone a couple of years ago) but I can't be sure since the last time I saw him was several years ago. At one time he was studying Pekiti Tirsa, or he had a student who had Pekiti Tirsa background at his school or something. I attended several seminars at his other school back in the late 80's (Tuhon Gaje, Larry Hartsell, Master Chia) but I have seen hs flyers over the years so I think he is still teaching. There are some schools in the Dallas area (about an hour or so drive from Ft Worth). There are some JKD Concepts schools that do teach Inosanto blend kali, Anding DeLeon has a school in Garland (just outside of Dallas on the east side) and he teaches his system of Arnis (he was a student of GM Remy Presas back in the Philippines). And I know of a another instructor in Dallas as well who does arnis. Here in Ft Worth I haven't met to many people who practice the FMAs. Depending upon your work schedule if you want please email me and if you want we can work out some. I'm always gald to meet others who studying the FMAs. Let me know what you are looking for and I'll try and find you some schools in the DFW area. Take care Mark --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "Bill Lowery" To: Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 11:49:45 -0000 Subject: [Eskrima] Re: Tom Furman's Testicles! Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Hi Tom, >but is everyone letting their testicles speak for their approach to martial arts marketing?< Not everyone, but at times it seems like it! "Fear No Man On Earth"......what about women? I find lots of them scary ;-) Bill Lowery --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: 2 Feb 2002 09:31:13 -0800 From: "william schultz" To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Subject: [Eskrima] Re: Full Contact Videos Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Ray Writes: >>If he is a 2nd Dan, hopefully he doesn't really spell Hapkido as in >>the above... :) Any misspellings are entirely my fault. Bad Bill, Bad! ;-) William Schultz PCMA/MCAC --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 20:04:13 -0500 To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net From: "Jason M. Silverman" Subject: [Eskrima] Question for instructors.. Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Greetings All~ I am curious about some of your testing procedures. Now, regardless of whether or not you utilize belts, levels, colored t-shirts, or any other form of rank that differentiates students of different experience, this applies to you. 1.) When you test your student for various levels, is the test purely physical? 2.) Do you question them to test their knowledge on the concepts behind the arts? 3.) What else is included? 4.) How long does an average "test" last? 5.) How do you prepare your students for their upcoming "tests / quizes" ? 6.) If the "test" is for instructor "Black Belt Level" {Sorry to those who shun belts!} do they automatically become an instructor or is there a test that determines whether or not the candidate is able to transfer the information learned to others in an effective, proper, and safe manner? Now...I'll start this thread going by giving answers that relate to our academy: 1.) Actually we are in the process of moving back to tests that include both technical and conceptual areas. The candidates are asked questions in between rounds of high endurance physical tests. We do this to make sure the student can think rationally under stress and after an "adrenaline dump". 2.) It is vitally important to me as an instructor that my students understand the why & when in addition to the who & how. 3.) At the low to intermediate levels we start to ask questions concerning various muscular systems as well as other body structure questions. 4.) This is one we've struggled with for years. With our most recent reorganization, our goal is for most tests to last an average of 8-12 minutes at the lower end and hopefully less than 1 hour at the higher end. 5.) In the past all tests have been scheduled so the student was unaware that they were testing until they were in the middle of it. We have begun to schedule them regularly so that students can prepare themselves mentally and physically. Usually they will question some of the instructors to make sure that their technique is correct before "showtime". 6.) Actually, we have found that just because someone is technically talented and conceptually aware of the basics of our art, it doesn't necessarily make them a competent instructor. Students who have an interest in teaching actually go through a training course, somewhat like an internship, so that I am sure that they can teach correctly {at least in my opinion!} ***I am very interested to hear how the rest of you do this. Feel free to post it to the digest or e-mail me directly at Guro_Jason@eemaworld.com . Respectfully, Guro Jason M. Silverman EEMA Fitness and Martial Arts Center 435 Columbian Street South Weymouth, Ma 02190 (781) 335-0800 www.eemaworld.com --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Eskrima mailing list Eskrima@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/eskrima Old digest issues are available via ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com. Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and the Martial Arts Resource Standard disclaimers apply. 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