Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 03:01:51 -0800 From: eskrima-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: Eskrima digest, Vol 9 #369 - 4 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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Heads (Ray Terry) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: "Steven Lefebvre" To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:05:54 +0000 Subject: [Eskrima] Atienza Kali Seminar review Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net October 5th Atienza Kali Seminar Review The training session started with a good warm up of various muscle groups, and included exercises such as shoulder rotations, neck rotations, body/trunk twist, palms to floor, extended hamstring stretch as well as finger stretches and fast open and closing of the hands. >From our warm up, the Atienza Guros demonstrated their striking patterns known as the “X” pattern and Iron cross pattern. As we all got familiar with the basic patterns, we were introduced to generating power in our strikes through the application of footwork and or body twisting. This quickly rolled into the relationship between striking a target with either a stick or blade. Now armed with the fundamental patterns and methods of power generation, it was time to integrate footwork. Starting with forward and backward patterns we quickly moved on to lateral patterns, then to the triangle patterns, which culminated in the hourglass pattern. Of course, we immediately put these patterns into practice with the striking patterns and drilled to integrate them together. All the drills were establishing the base in which to apply Atienza Kali in the Mass attack drills, but we still had to develop the Atienza Kali strategies first. 1) ATA: Attack the attack. From this principle we also developed 2 additional tactics 2) DAC: Direct Attack and Cover. From this principle we also developed several additional tactics. Now that we had the strategies in place, and some tactics to use, next came the Mass Attack Drills! The Mass Attack Drills worked on three different scenarios: 1) Forward rush 2) Front and back 3) The closing circle As we implemented these drills in real time, utilizing the action flex gear we quickly learned about the Body Shielding method and how it applies while your attackers are trying to beat you down! These were great drills, challenging us physically as well as mentally. Planning your escape route while being attacked by three opponents is not an easy task. Luckily, our school has over 3000sq/ft so the various matches going on, had plenty of space. After we had finished off, Carl, Darryl and Bong Atienza demonstrated Atienza Kali punyal (knife fighting) hitting home all the strategies and tactics we had been practicing. As we started to close the seminar, we had one final cool down to do, the sayaw/carenza to music. We all jumped in and flowed together moving in and out from one person to another, back to solo again. It was a great ending to a fine seminar. I would recommend anyone to host or attend a seminar by the Atienza family. They are fine martial artists, as well as great people to call my friends. For more information about Atienza Kali, visit their website at www.Atienzakali.com Gumagalang Guro Steve L. _________________________________________________________________ Unlimited Internet access -- and 2 months free!  Try MSN. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/2monthsfree.asp --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "William T. Anderson" To: Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 21:16:14 +1000 Subject: [Eskrima] Re: Presas Pink Book Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net I guess I must be lucky. My copy of this book is one of the first 5000 that Professor Remy had printed in the Philippines... It is one of the copys that had a serial number stamped on the first few pages and comes with the remark stating that this item is not to be exported from the Philippines (if I remember the quote). Bill Maharlika Kuntao Guam --__--__-- Message: 3 From: Ray Terry To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net (Eskrima) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Eskrima] The Roots of Kuntao Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net The Roots of Kuntao by Mark Wiley The art of Kuntao is at once fascinating and largely misunderstood. Developed along China's southernmost coastal province of Fukien, kuntao is a Hokien dialect term used to describe a number of indigenous Chinese martial arts. Confusion over the classification of kuntao among other Chinese and Southeast Asian martial arts arises as the term is inadequately definable and largely generic. In fact, there is no standard Chinese ideogram for the word. Thus kuntao's definition and the arts it encompasses are left open to interpretation. On a most basic level, a definition of kuntao would find kun meaning "fist" and tao as being "way". Thus, kuntao would simply mean the way of the fist. This definition, much like that of karate, kempo and chuan fa, are merely different languages for the same thing, i.e., the art of empty hand self-defense. However, this definition, too, is inadequate as kuntao also employs a vast array of weapons in its defensive repertoire. In that kuntao, unlike some other martial "sports", was meant solely for combat, it would be incorrect to term it as solely an unarmed system of defense as this would negate the overall spectrum of its defensive capabilities as a true and complete art of self-defense. During the heightened trade throughout Asia and Southeast Asia between the eight and tenth centuries, kuntao was transplanted in whole and in part to other countries, most notably Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Although kuntao is extant through Indonesia and Malaysia, it has had no noticeable effect or influence on their indigenous martial arts of silat. On the contrary, as kuntao was so secretly guarded by the Chinese (as it remains even to this day), it was more likely that silat had at least a small influence on any given number of kuntao styles. Although perhaps not knowingly sharing their knowledge, the pesilat (silat practitioners) may have inadvertently aided the further development of kuntao in Indonesia and malaysia through their open and very public displays and demonstrations of their art. Kuntao was brought to these islands by Chinese masters and continue to be taught only to Chinese students. Although there are some non-Chinese exponents of kuntao in Indonesia and Malaysia, they are the exception rather than the rule. During the Sri Visayan Empire (1006-1365), the art of kuntao was transplanted to the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. In its Philippine form, kuntao was primarily the art of the royal families (maharlika). This exclusive training facilitated the royalty's control over their slaves (alipin). However, with the spread of Christianity and the relative isolation of the Muslim Filipinos, much of the culture surrounding kuntao has been lost over time. What did remain, however, were the extremely effective combat methods the art was known and feared for. So deadly are some of the kuntao techniques that the Indonesian government had outlawed the practice of the art in even this century for fear of revolution. Kuntao techniques are characterized by many things such as tearing and clawing actions, hard blocking methods, destructive elbow strikes, narrow, low stances and postures, both hard and soft. Kuntao principles adhere to a generally circular pattern of motion rather than linear attacks and defenses. Popular in Indonesia is the Shantung Black Tiger system, in Malaysia one will find the Phoenix Eye Fist style, and in the Philippines, Ngo Cho Kun. Although each of these countries' expressions of kuntao evolved from the same Chinese source, they have been altered incidental to time and cultural influence. --__--__-- Message: 4 From: Ray Terry To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net (Eskrima) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Eskrima] Heads Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net How the First Head Was Taken Igorot One day the Moon, who was a woman named Kabigat, sat out in the yard making a large copper pot. The copper was still soft and pliable like clay, and the woman squatted on the ground with the heavy pot against her knees while shepatted and shaped it. Now while she was working a son of Cal-chal, the Sun, came by and stopped to watch her mold the form. Against the inside of the jar she pressed a stone, while on the outside with a wooden paddle dripping with water she pounded and slapped until she had worked down the bulges and formed a smooth surface. The boy was greatly interested in seeing the jar grow larger, more beautiful, and smoother with each stroke, and he stood still for some time. Suddenly the Moon looked up and saw him watching her. Instantly she struck him with her paddle, cutting off his head. Now the Sun was not near, but he knew as soon as the Moon had cut off his son's head. And hurrying to the spot, he put the boy's head back on, and he was alive again. Then the Sun said to the Moon, "You cut off my son's head, and because you did this, ever after on the earth people will cut off each other's heads." * Source: Mabel Cook Cole, Philippine Folk Tales (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1916), pp.111-112. * The term "Igorot" is applied, somewhat loosely, to the indigenous peoples of the four mountain provinces of Luzon: Benguet, Mountain Province, Ifugao, and Kalinga-Apayao. --__--__-- _______________________________________________ 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