From: eskrima-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: Eskrima digest, Vol 9 #83 - 7 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: rayreq@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com List-Subscribe: List-Id: Inayan Eskrima / FMA discussion forum, the premier FMA forum on the Internet. List-Unsubscribe: Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 02:02:32 -0800 (PST) Status: RO Send Eskrima mailing list submissions to eskrima@martialartsresource.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/eskrima or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to eskrima-request@martialartsresource.net You can reach the person managing the list at eskrima-admin@martialartsresource.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Eskrima digest..." <<---------------- The Eskrima/FMA mailing list ---------------->> Serving the Internet since June 1994. Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource The Internet's premier discussion forum devoted to Filipino Martial Arts. Provided in memory of Mangisursuro Michael G. Inay (1944-2000). http://InayanEskrima.com See the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of the Eskrima/FMA list at http://MartialArtsResource.com Mabuhay ang eskrima! Today's Topics: 1. Mindsets that foster sharing & training (EGJundis@aol.com) 2. Keris page (Ray Terry) 3. from National Geo Soc (Ray Terry) 4. list slow or down... (Ray Terry) 5. Seminar with Suro Jason Inay in Aachen, Germany (Carsten Grundmann) 6. DBIMA Advertisement (Marc Denny) 7. from Nat Geo Society (Ray Terry) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: EGJundis@aol.com Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 03:59:10 EST To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Subject: [Eskrima] Mindsets that foster sharing & training Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Congratulations on that wonderful sounding event in Germany. Several years ago I had the pleasure of having one of GM Tony Viek's (sp?) instructors cross train and share Balintawak out of my Berkeley class for over 6 months. Recently we lost a student back to Norway (who in my opinion has the potential to become a respected instructor in his own right). He had the unique distinction of training with Angel's Disciples and Bahala Na Eskrima at the same time and with both organizations encouraging his training. I mention these things to highlight the need for those of us Filipino Descent and in Traditional close door systems to rethink and assess some of our policies. During my first six years of training in the FMA no one could tell me anything that might be perceived as contradictory to what my instructor said. This is a righteous mindset that limits our ability to learn from others and blinds us to reality until we run up against someone better. Lucky for me during my "my instructor is better than your instructor days." I never ran into anyone who wanted to prove my world view wrong via physical explanation. In my more open mindset it seems I run into highly capable individuals all of the time and I am glad to learn from, share, and exchange with these individuals. I know I grow from this and my students benefit as well. Here in the Philippines the assumption is that I better be careful as I visit new schools or instructors. The assumption is that I will run into trouble not that I will run into open and sharing individuals. This is my third trip in the Philippines so I know that I better be present, prepared, and careful. I also think it is worth contrasting the assumptions here and with my experience with open minded folks in the USA, Europe, and Australia. Can't speak for other places since I have never been there. I'm training days with Guro Hadji Yasser Tanadjalan in Quezon City at a park. Several weeks ago we had a guest student for a day from Italy. His name is Fabri and he told me he was a full instructor under Paul Vunak. We also talked about our cross training and he spoke highly of a seminar he attended with Crafty Dog. After training in Silat we played with what we already knew and did knife flows (which was interesting since Filipinos for the most part would never practice that type of stuff in a public park. So we quickly got a staring audience), Stick flows at Largo, Medio, and corto ranges. Double stick flows. And we also did a lot of empty hand stuff. This was fun for me since he had a back ground in Ving Tsun (from Leon Ting) and in Taichi ( he did a good job lining me up and tossing me a good five feet back with consistency to which I eventually started countering by adding the footwork of Visayan Escrima from Sonny Umpad). This Sunday I will be hooking up with GM Benjamin Luna and the Lightning Scientific folks. I'll give some highlights on that and my Silat training later. Cheers, Elrik Jundis --__--__-- Message: 2 From: Ray Terry To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 7:34:42 PST Subject: [Eskrima] Keris page Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net fyi... Forwarded message: Subject: [Silat_International] Keris page Selamat, I like to share a fantastic keris site I have encountered today. http://members.tripodasia.com.sg/houseofkeris/index.htm Hormat, Mas Peter Lee --__--__-- Message: 3 From: Ray Terry To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:13:44 PST Subject: [Eskrima] from National Geo Soc Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net History of the Philippines Beginnings of the Archipelago Formed by volcanic eruptions and the buckling of the earth's crust at the collision of two tectonic plates, the archipelago began to take shape 50 million years ago. Knowledge of the islands' prehistory is sketchy, and a recent study has discredited previous theories postulating successive waves of human immigration. Hominid remains about 30,000 years old have been found on Palawan. Early inhabitants of Mongoloid descent produced the Malay-related people predominant today. Other groups are Negritos; their origin is obscure. The Chinese element in Filipino culture is traced to traders who came in the tenth century. The interior's natural resources were exchanged for goods from China and coastal Southeast Asian areas. Five centuries later the gradual spread of Islam from Borneo into the central and northern islands was checked by the arrival of Spanish Christians. [continued] --__--__-- Message: 4 From: Ray Terry To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:53:13 PST Subject: [Eskrima] list slow or down... Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net The Eskrima list will be slow, or perhaps down, for the next several days while I attend a 3-day martial arts seminar down in Mississippi. See ya'll later... Ray Terry raymail@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com --__--__-- Message: 5 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 01:19:16 +0100 To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net From: Carsten Grundmann Subject: [Eskrima] Seminar with Suro Jason Inay in Aachen, Germany Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Hello! Sorry for all those far away from Germany but i think there are quite some germans, belgians and people from the Netherlands and France on the list which might find it of interest. I would like to announce a seminar with Suro Jason Inay from the Inayan System of Eskrima in Aachen, Germany. The seminar will be held on 16. / 17. of march and will cost 60 Euro for both days. Registration is necessary and will end on 11th of march. For more informations send me an e-mail at: carsten@carsten-grundmann.de I will send you all informations and the registration form as a PDF file. Ciao, Carsten Grundmann e-mail: carsten@carsten-grundmann.de "Memory is like an orgasm, it's better if you don't have to fake it." --__--__-- Message: 6 From: "Marc Denny" To: Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:20:48 -0800 Subject: [Eskrima] DBIMA Advertisement Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Woof All: The fourth video in the Dog Brothers Martial Arts series, "Attacking Blocks" is now available through our website.. --------------------- If you want to get close in a fight but can't, all your skills there are irrelevant. There are two basic ways of closing-by hitting and by blocking. Hitting one's way in to the close ranges is great when you have that kind of edge, but when you can't, attacking blocks are just the thing. The name "Attacking Blocks" itself seems an oxymoron- the word "block" seems reactive and defensive-how can one "attack" with blocks? If you have the answer to this question, your fighting skills have a whole new dimension and the door to all kinds of possibilities is yours. Material Covered: After a brief review of the 7 Ranges and where this material fits in it, Guro Crafty teaches the endless loop pattern "Attacking Blocks Pattern Right 1A". This simple yet sophisticated pattern allows training partners to both cultivate their head protection and attacking blocks and come out of these movements with a knockout shot. The next section of the tape then shows how to use the pattern as a "generator" out of which to practice applying techniques in an alive manner. The techniques are organized according to the degree of success of the crash (all the way to the ground, standing grapple, corto, medio, etc) and include techniques specially apt for the smaller fighter to use on the bigger. Then, "If you see it taught, you see it fought" -this is Dog Brothers Martial Arts! Its time for the action, which begins with a study in head shots. See what happens when fighters get hit in the head-both with and without headgear! Things then move on to seeing the Attacking Blocks in action! This video is 78 minutes long. PRICE $35.00 ------------- Anyway, there it is. Hope y'all like it. Guro Crafty --__--__-- Message: 7 From: Ray Terry To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:56:30 PST Subject: [Eskrima] from Nat Geo Society Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net History of the Philippines Cross, Crown and Crescent Christened for Spain's King Philipp II, the Philippines still feels the deep imprint of centuries as Spain's main outpost in Asia. After Magellan, soldiers, led by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, and missionaries introduced Christianity and attempted to unify the many peoples and islands under a central government. From the colonial capital of Manila, imperial rule controlled the coasts but not the southern islands, where Islam was entrenched, or the highlands. The colony was to be a base for Spain's proselytizing in Asia. >From the New World the Viceroyality of New Spain (now Mexico) administered the Philippines, whose prosperity depended upon exchange of New Spain's silver for silk from China. Prospects of wealth lured Chinese entrepreneurs and Spanish officials to Manila. Intermarriage between Spaniards, the indigenous population, and Chinese immigrants produced mestizos and helped develop a distinctive new culture. The crumbling of Spain's empire during the 1700s encouraged self-asseration by mestizos. Mexico's independence helped end Spain's transpacific monopoly. Open trade created a local wealthy class, educated in Europe and exposed to liberal philosophies, who fostered a sense of national identity. In the 1860s native clergy challenged inequality within church rankings. Discontent swelled into a spirit of nationalism inspired by Jose Rizal, advocate of peaceful reform under colonial rule. His execution intensified the armed revolt under Andres Bonifacio. After U.S. victory in Manila Bay in 1898, nationalist Emilio Aguinaldo declared independence from Spain, with himself the president of a provisional republic. But Spain sold the islands to the United States. [continued] --__--__-- _______________________________________________ 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