Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:42:06 -0700 From: eskrima-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: Eskrima digest, Vol 9 #330 - 5 msgs X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.13.cisto1 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: eskrima-admin@martialartsresource.net X-BeenThere: eskrima@martialartsresource.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13.cisto1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net X-Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net X-Subscribed-Address: fma@martialartsresource.com List-Id: Inayan Eskrima / FMA discussion forum, the premier FMA forum on the Internet. 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Inay (1944-2000). http://InayanEskrima.com/index.cfm 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. Re:yaw yan kicking (Beungood@aol.com) 2. Re: Re:yaw yan kicking (Ray Terry) 3. Martial-Arts Channel (Ray Terry) 4. Info, please (Bill S Lowery) 5. Dark legacy (Ray Terry) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: Beungood@aol.com Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:34:23 EDT To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Subject: [Eskrima] Re:yaw yan kicking Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net In a message dated 9/20/02 6:04:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time, eskrima-request@martialartsresource.net writes: > YAW-YAN KICKS > > Yaw-Yan has 40 fundamental kicks, divided into 3 categories - front, > side, and back. There are 3 types of Yaw-Yan kicks - Snap, Thrust, and > Snap-Thrust. As of early to mid-1980's advanced disciples were required > to be able to execute 55 kicks, which include advanced complex kicks. > Here are the 55 kicks of Yaw-Yan categorically taught as follows: > > I. Front Kicks Are these kicks similiar to Doju JI,Han Jae's kicking style? --__--__-- Message: 2 From: Ray Terry Subject: Re: [Eskrima] Re:yaw yan kicking To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net > > YAW-YAN KICKS > > > > Yaw-Yan has 40 fundamental kicks, divided into 3 categories - front, > > side, and back. There are 3 types of Yaw-Yan kicks - Snap, Thrust, and > > Snap-Thrust. As of early to mid-1980's advanced disciples were required > > to be able to execute 55 kicks, which include advanced complex kicks. > > Here are the 55 kicks of Yaw-Yan categorically taught as follows: > > > > I. Front Kicks > > Are these kicks similiar to Doju JI,Han Jae's kicking style? >From the very brief description given, I suspect that some may be. That is why I was curious to see if y-y videos or mpegs were available. Ray Terry rterry@idiom.com --__--__-- Message: 3 From: Ray Terry To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net (Eskrima), the_dojang@martialartsresource.net (The_Dojang) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Eskrima] Martial-Arts Channel Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Martial-Arts Channel Aims To Leap Onto Cable Rosters By JOE FLINT Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Jackie Chan and Jet Li may be big action stars, but do they have enough juice to justify a cable network devoted solely to fists of fury? Larry Kasanoff hopes so, and despite long odds, he plans to launch a martial-arts channel early next year. The producer of "Mortal Kombat" films, who also worked with "Terminator" director James Cameron to create production company Lightstorm Entertainment, has a big vision for Blackbelt TV, which will telecast fights, movies and even some Japanese animation. "We want to do the same thing for the martial arts that MTV did for music," says Mr. Kasanoff, who expects the Los Angeles-based channel to hit the market with at least four million cable and satellite subscribers. It's no secret that fights and violence are big business on cable television. Wrestling shows often pull in top ratings on Viacom Inc.'s MTV and TNN channels. And for all the hype HBO gets for "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City," the AOL Time Warner Inc. channel's heavy load of boxing is just as important in keeping many subscribers on board. Zuffa LLC, which produces ultimate fighting, a mixed martial arts-style of battle, has had growing success with pay-per-view bouts. And as ever, advertisers are clamoring for ways to reach men 18 to 34 years of age: Violence and action are proven lures. Still, getting Blackbelt TV to audiences may be tougher than surviving a bout with "The Replacement Killers" star Chow Yun Fat. For starters, most successful cable channels are owned by big media concerns with the clout to launch new networks. Convincing cable operators to pick up a new independent channel is made harder due to their difficulty in passing on the cost of new programming to subscribers: Congress could impose new rate regulations if fees go much higher. Mr. Kasanoff, who has assembled a team of executives with experience at the Discovery Channel and Walt Disney Co., declines to say how many cable operators have agreed to carry the channel. Instead, he talks about its low costs, putting the break-even point at $60 million, and appeal to viewers. He has secured international rights to about 15,000 hours of programming so far, from Hong Kong movies to David Carradine's Kung Fu television program. Blackbelt aims to offer an international version of the service at some point. Sony, which sold programming to Blackbelt TV, has warrants to invest in the channel. Most of the movies and fights that Blackbelt has acquired are inexpensive because they are from overseas, often in Mandarin or Cantonese, or were sitting on big studios' shelves. "The prices we're spending per hour of programming vary from $2,500 to a few hundred thousand dollars per hour, Mr. Kasanoff says. By contrast, reruns of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" on TNN fetch $1.6 million per episode. Blackbelt doesn't plan to invest much on original programming at first, but will enhance the fights with visual effects and graphics. If that's not enough, Mr. Kasanoff says, "our entire network is hosted by women." The upstart channel may face a match down the road. The Martial Arts Action Network, an Orlando, Fla., channel, is hoping to launch service in late spring. Tony Interdonato, CEO of Martial Arts Action Network and a former producer, says his channel has about 17,000 hours of programming. He concedes he's targeting a small niche but says he "won't go down without a fight." To make itself more appealing to operators wary of adding new services, Blackbelt TV may offer itself as a free service for a year or two. While on the surface that sounds like a no-lose deal, operators don't see it that way. "We have a saying in this industry, 'The first bag of heroin is always free,'" says Fred Dressler, senior vice president of programming at AOL's Time Warner Cable, the nation's second-largest operator. The problem, he says, is that adding new channels no longer translates into new subscribers. Eventually, he adds, a channel will want a license fee and it's hard to charge subscribers to cover the expense. Mr. Dressler declined to comment on Blackbelt's prospects. Mr. Kasanoff knows he'll have to chop through a few industry bricks to make Blackbelt a success, but he remains confident. "We know people like to watch this stuff," he says. Being small, he adds, may even give his outfit an edge: "Conglomerates by their nature are not entrepreneurial. They'd rather spend $100 on a sure thing than $110 on something risky." Not that he sees Blackbelt fighting solo for life. He wouldn't mind if it followed the same path as the Sci-Fi Channel, which began as a small network dependent on reruns and is now part of Vivendi Universal SA. "A scrappy independent that sold out and became big and huge?" he says. "That would be great." --__--__-- Message: 4 From: "Bill S Lowery" To: Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 00:39:44 +0100 Subject: [Eskrima] Info, please Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Hi All, I have a Canadian friend, now living in Lyon, France, who is looking for info on the following instructor (this is the info he has at present): > Lakan Guro Thomas Roussel...he started teaching Kali here in Lyon...his flyer says he's the World champion 2002 WEKAF full contact an co-champion sayaws...Rapid Arnis Blackbelt, Doce Pares:Lapunti< Anyone know him/ Any background would be greatfully received. Bill --__--__-- Message: 5 From: Ray Terry To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net (Eskrima) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:42:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Eskrima] Dark legacy Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Saturday, September 21, 2002 Dark legacy The remarkable thing is that 30 years later, Ferdinand Marcoss myth-making efforts have been so successful that his attempts at self-glorification and historical revisionism have endured. Instead of commemorating the loss of our countrys freedom to constitutional authoritarianism on September 23, everyone remembers September 21. In truth, September 21 was a concession to superstition, later on enshrined as the New Society's Thanksgiving Day. Ferdinand Marcos was born in September (the 11th, long a black day for decent Filipinos); became dictator in September, and died, ironically enough, on Diosdado Macapagals birthday, the 28th. He may have fled the nation in disgrace but remains honored by such things as the Marcos Highway and the Marcos monument. His portrait continues to hang in Malacanang, leading foreign observers to wonder about a country that demonized a man yet continues to pay him homage. Do the Germans hang Hitlers portrait among the ranks of Germanys legitimately elected chancellors? Still, there it is: Marcos continues to loom large, if only by the length of time he occupied the Palace and ruled from there. If Filipinos have been too generous with Marcos, the reason may lie in how they were always generous with Marcos even when he was disgraced. When the country lost its freedom in 1972, very few mourned the demise of democracy. The rich applauded the new emerged dictator Marcos. The middle class breathed a sigh of relief. The poor -- well, the poor, as the poor almost always overwhelmingly do -- stuck to him because he was the winning side. Only very few resisted him from the start, and most of those people ended up in jail or frozen out of any means of making their views known. For this reason most of the people arrested by Marcos, even if freed within a relatively short time after the imposition of martial law, withdrew to embittered retirement. For the politicians, they had no bully pulpit to return to, with Congress shut down. For writers and publishers, there were no media outlets that would print their words or broadcast what they had to say. For businessmen, life was about saving what was not confiscated. For the middle class and the poor, for a time, life was never so good. As the years rolled on, with the abuses getting graver and the greed getting more obvious, the very idea that a country could be reformed and reinvigorated by authoritarian methods was exposed as a sham. Discrediting, ironically enough, any attempt by future governments to instill discipline the democratic way. This is the most damnable legacy of Ferdinand Marcos. Not the stealing, because the stealing has gotten worse and more brazen; not the killing, because Marcos waged a legitimate war in Mindanao and every government has no option but to fight insurgency; not the nepotism, because that is as old as politics in this country. The darkest legacy of Marcos remains the utter disrepute any effort to instill discipline in this country sinks into. To the calls for a strong republic and the fears that have arisen because of it that have ensued, we reply by saying that having a strong republic -- strong in the sense we understand it: a republic in which social justice reigns, in which professionalism and discipline have a higher priority than tactical political considerations -- is impossible. Impossible, because no one person will ever be trusted again to wield such vast powers, whether for good or ill; impossible, because we would rather have poverty, anarchy and chaos than risk losing what little we have to an administration whose term isnt up for review within a specific period of time. Marcos won power for 20 years; he lost it and died; but the damage he did to his country outlives him -- and may be fatal to our country. EDITORIAL --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Eskrima mailing list Eskrima@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/eskrima http://eskrima-fma.net Old digest issues are available via ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com. Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and http://MartialArtsResource.com Standard disclaimers apply. Remember 9-11! End of Eskrima Digest