Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 02:08:35 -0800 (PST) From: eskrima-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: Eskrima digest, Vol 9 #82 - 2 msgs X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.8 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Sender: eskrima-admin@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: eskrima-admin@martialartsresource.net X-BeenThere: eskrima@martialartsresource.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net X-Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net List-Help: List-Post: X-Subscribed-Address: rterry@idiom.com List-Subscribe: List-Id: Inayan Eskrima / FMA discussion forum, the premier FMA forum on the Internet. 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Today's Topics: 1. Pain is the best instructor- choked out (Johnaleen) 2. FMA magazine (Kyud) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: "Johnaleen" To: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:21:05 -0500 Subject: [Eskrima] Pain is the best instructor- choked out Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net " Ray Wrote: Pain is the best instructor, but few want to attend her class... :)" Instruction of pain. Pain comes in many forms, The balance comes from the teacher The lessons learned from pain are not always welcome or wanted The teachers bringing these lessons do not always represent the positive Yes, you will learn from the lessons that are taught However, what you learn may not always be the right thing Though pain can teach, strength, wisdom, and bring a core survival skills It can also Bring, Hate, distrust, death, uncontrollable Violence. I recently wrote to an acquaintance of mine and a supporter of FATE orgs programs. We were speaking about the JKD and FMA concepts, the evolution, and the path that self-exploration is to bring you; here is a quote from my part of the letter. " JKD advocates personal evolution, and learning of ones self, we talk little about what happens when you learn about yourself and understand who you are. Once you have evolved past that stage of knowing, you then have to take the responsibility of what you learned. Thus using the knowledge to do what your meant and intended to do based on the life and education that evolution brought you. That is the real evolution its not what you learn about yourself that matters, its what you do with the knowledge you were lucky enough to gain by your personal exploration of yourself." I have been choked out a number of times fully in my life, and never once was it by choice. I was 10 before I was able to successfully fight it the first time, after that I came close a number of other times. After the first time what did I learn, I learned I did not want to be choked out again. For the next 10 years I learned how much hate I could hold and how much anger their was because of the lessons I was taught in the class of pain and the teachers that gave me my lessons in pain. The next 10 years was spent learning what it all meant and where it should be all used and processed. I was very lucky because I had core concepts that I could go to and to use for processing it and evolving some kind of meaning and positive side of it. Not many do though and it is the reason we have the issues we do in society today. One more thing I learned from pain, I learned that I have become very religious, each morning when I get out of bed, cussing, groaning in extreme pain, because I am so old, and dragging butt. I have to stop myself and pray for forgiveness. because I am at least still alive and that's the amazing part to the lessons learned from pain. However, that took 20 years to learn. Then I get my jar of healing sav out, and do my breathing and bali exercises for my hands, smile and think about all the fun I am going to have teaching that day, or how I get to chase my FMA students around with sticks, swords and knives, doing things or just living. If anyone is interested, I have a very good recipe that was given to me a number of years ago for, Wing Chun Dit Da Jow. Send me an email and I will send the two pages of mixing and break down to you. This blend was cataloged and used by holistic doctor Sifu John Crescione, from NY State. It seems to work well for most people and is easily mixed up. I have used it but tend to use something of my own making that works best for me because of my skin sensitivity to alcohol. Ms. J. "Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on." --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "Kyud" To: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:58:26 -0800 Subject: [Eskrima] FMA magazine Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net The Filipino Martial Arts magazine http://www.filipinomag.com/ is finally getting mailed out with the Man/Woman of the Year for 2001. And in the Who's Who there is a picture and Bio on the Woman of the Year. Waiting for a picture of the Man of the Year. The Woman of the Year is Amber "Apache" DeLuca and the Man of the Year is Professor Max Pallen. Visit the site to vote for the Man/Woman of the Year for 2002. Now you can email it in by filling out the form or print and mail it in. Also 2 more new booklets on Kuntaw out by Maharlika Publications http://maharlikapublication.tripod.com/ or at the Kuntaw Academy site http://kuntaw_academy.tripod.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. Remember 9-11! End of Eskrima Digest