Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:01:02 -0800 From: eskrima-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: Eskrima digest, Vol 10 #23 - 3 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: Eskrima-FMA discussion forum, the premier FMA forum on the Internet. 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Don’t miss the opportunity to train with this notable Kali Master. Tuhon Chris Sayoc, of Sayoc Kali, is a man who has been involved with the Filipino martial arts since he was a young child. His family art of using the blade has been passed down through 4 generations with a heavy influence on the art, from both his paternal and maternal grandfathers. While Mr. Sayoc was fortunate to have encountered and trained with many masters of the Filipino martial arts, today, he focuses strictly on promoting his own family system. Seminar Information Date: February 22nd and 23rd Time: Saturday 12:00 – 5:00pm, Sunday 10:00am – 3:00 pm Location: Bujinkan Dojo 250 Commercial St, Suite 2008 Manchester, NH, 03101 Call for more information: (603) 668-3181 Email: Airyu@hotmail.com Cost: Single day = $80.00 prepaid before 2/15/03 $90.00 at the door Both Days = $160.0 prepaid before 2/15/03 $180.0 at the door “Cash or Money orders only”(made out to Bujinkan Dojo, LLC) Call for Special Group Rate “Please bring at least 2 aluminum training knives, Kali/Escrima sticks, and comfortable training attire.” Please visit our website at www.Bujinkandojo.net, or for more information regarding Sayoc Kali, www.Sayoc.com _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM: Try the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 08:20:11 -0700 From: Frank Lee To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Subject: [Eskrima] Worlds fastest knife, custom belt buckle knives Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Friend sent me this link. Looks quite useful and interesting. My question is if anyone on this list has handled one of these knives? http://www.belt-buckle-knife.com/club.shtml [demime 0.98e removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of Worlds fastest knife, custom belt buckle knives.url] --__--__-- Message: 3 From: Ray Terry To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net (Eskrima) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:50:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Eskrima] Magellan's Fatal Alliance Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net As promised, Part 1 of ?? >From the book Magellan, by Tim Joyner. Starting at page 178... Magellan had assured King Charles that the Moluccas lay in the Spanish Hemisphere, four degrees east of the extended Treaty line. He had driven his fleet to the edge of the Antarctic to discover the strait between the oceans, overcoming mutiny, the wreck of one of his ships, and the desertion of another. Crossing the broad Pacific Ocean without being able to reprovision his ships, he had lost nineteen men to scurvy and starvation. Finally, having reached the eastern edge of the archipelago southeast of China, which he suspected included the Moluccas, he found himself nine degrees west of the extended demarcation, in territory reserved by treaty for Portuguese exploitation. However, all was not lost. Unclaimed territory, discovered and occupied by either signatory in the hemisphere nominally assigned to the other, would be considered within the dominion of the occupying power. Under this treaty provision, if he could establish trading posts and conclude alliances with local rulers before the arrival of the Portuguese, Magellan could yet assure Spanish dominion over these islands. With many of the sick crewmen having recovered their strength, the squadron got underway again on March 25. Sailing west from Homonhon soon brought Magellan's ships to the long eastern coastline of Leyte. Turning south, they sailed through Surigao Strait, passing between two pairs of small islands. The first pair can be identified as Cabigan and Hibuson; the second as Dinagat and Panaon. As they were proceeding cautiously through the strait, a storm arose, driving them west past the southern end of Panaon. On March 28, they hove to in front of Limasawa, a small island off the southernmost promontory of Leyte. Here occurred an event that provided clear proof that Magellan's squadron, by traveling west across an uncharted ocean, had achieved the goal that had eluded Columbus. They had reached the eastern limit of the known world. A canoe bearing eight natives came out from Limasawa to inspect the ships. To his and everyone else's delight, Magellan's Malay slave, Enrique, understood the speech of their visitors. Magellan had acquired Enrique in Malacca in 1511. Pigafetta said that he was from Sumatra, but Philippine scholars have suggested that a native of Sumatra could not have understood the dialect spoken in the Central Philippines. They deem it more likely that Enrique had been raised in the Central Philippines, was captured, then sold into slavery in Sumatra before being taken to Malacca. If so, Enrique was the first human to have completed a full circuit of the Earth. The eight curious islanders whose language Ernique understood were too timid to bring their canoe alongside the Spanish ships. To show goodwill, Magellan had a floating plank pushed gently toward them, bearing gifts that the natives carried back to their island. Two hours later, two barges (barangay) approached the ships. On the largest, seated regally under an awning of mats, was a person of obvious importance. His name was Colambu, ruler of a territory that, in addition to the islands of Limasawa and Suluan, included a district in Mindanao. After a long conversation with Enrique, Colambu permitted some of his men to board the flagship, but did not accompany them. Magellan received the visitors courteously, loading them with gifts to take to their chief; in return, Colambu offered a bar of gold and a basket of ginger. So the islanders would not suspect how highly the Spaniards valued these commodities, Magellan politely declined the offering. The next day, Good Friday, he sent Enrique ashore to negotiate for fresh food and to assure Colambu that the Spaniards had come in peace. When Enrique returned, Colambu came with him, boarding the flagship without hesitation. Again he offered gifts: two large fish and three porcelain jars filled with rice, which the captain general gratefully accepted. Magellan gave Colambu a hat and a red-and-yellow robe of fine Turkish cloth; the men who accompanied him each received a knife and a mirror. Serving them refreshments, Magellan expressed his earnest desire for friendly relations, and in response Colambu insisted that Magellan become his blood brother by casi casi, in which the participants taste each other's blood. When the ceremony was completed, Magellan took Colambu and his retinue on a tour of the flagship, showing them samples of the trade goods stowed in the hold. Using compass and sea charts, he tried to explain that his ships had come from the opposite side of the world to arrive at these islands. He then ordered his gunners to fire some of the ship's artillery. It had the desired effect, for the roar of the cannon both awed and terrified his guests. Next, Magellan staged a mock combat to demonstrate the invulnerability of a man in full armor to attack by three men armed with swords and daggers. At this, reported Pigafetta, "... the king was rendered almost speechless." Magellan boasted that one armored Spaniard would be worth a hundred of Colambu's warriors. When the wide-eyed island chieftan agreed, Magellan told him that he had two hundred men so armed on each of his ships. This was a gross exaggeration: He had less than half that number, and many of his men were still weak, a few dying. Unfortunately, Magellan was beginning to believe his own propaganda; self-delusion can ruin any career, and in a military leader it can be fatal. Grateful for the hospitality and impressed by the power of Spanish arms, Colambu urged his host to allow some of his crew ashore, where they would be entertained and given a tour of the island. Magellan selected Pigafetta and a mariner whose name is not recorded. When they arrived on the island, the two were treated to a banquet. Pigafetta's companion got quite drunk from the palm wine dispensed liberally with the food, and so too, apparently, did Colambu. Early in the evening the latter left the entertainment of his guests to his eldest son and retired to his quarters to sleep it off. At dawn, bright-eyed and refreshed, Colambu arrived at his son's house to escort the Europeans back to the site of the previous night's banquet. Just as the party was about to resume, a boat from the Trinidad came to fetch the two weary revelers, who returned to the ship accompanied by Colambu's brother, Siaui, and three others. A chief in his own right, Siaui ruled several districts in northern Mindanao. Neither of the two chiefs lived on Limasawa. "When [the two brothers] wished to see one another," wrote Pigafetta, "they both went to hunt on the island where we were." Magellan invited Siaui and his three retainers to dine, and over the meal, the chief regaled his host with tales of the gold found in his district. As it had been by the gold jewelry worn by the Suluan chief, Magellan's notion that he was nearing the fabled source of King Solomon's gold was probably strengthened by these stories. In a summary culled from the reports of the expedition's survivors, a contemporary Spanish historian wrote that there was so much gold on an island near Mindanao that nuggets the size of hazel nuts and small fruit could be sifted from the beach sand. Pigafetta told essentially the same story, adding, "... on the island of the king who came to the ship, there are gold mines." The next day, March 31, 1521, would be Easter Sunday, and Magellan decided to conduct religious services ashore. By offering thanks to God for their deliverance from the perils of the hazardous voyage, and conducting a solemn Easter mass, he hoped to demonstrate to his island hosts the reverence with which Spaniards approached the most sacred of Christian holy days. Magellan sent the fleet chaplain, Pedro de Valderrama, ashore with some sailors to prepare a site, and Enrique went along to explain to the two chiefs that the Spaniards "... were going to land on the island, not to dine with them, but to perform a religious ceremony." Intrigued by the promise a spectacle that they probably assumed would be followed by a feast, Colambu and Siaui consented, and had two slaughtered pigs delivered to the site. Magellan's notion of a solemn religious ceremony had a decidedly mililary slant. On Easter morning, noted Pigafetta, "... about fifty of us went ashore, not wearing full body armor, but carrying our weapons and dressed in our finest attire. At the moment our boats touched the beach, six bombards were fired as a sign of peace. We leapt onto the beach, where the two kings who had come to meet us embraced the captain general and placed him between them. We marched in formation to the place prepared for the mass, which wasn't very far from the beach. Before beginning the mass, the captain general sprinkled the two kings with perfumed water. When it vas time for the offering, they went forward, as we did, to kiss the cross, but did not make the offering. When the body of Our Lord was raised, they showed their adoration with hands clasped, faithfully imitating what we were doing. At that moment, on a signal from Magellan, the gunners on the ships discharged all their artillery at once, producing a thunderous roar. "After the mass," wrote Pigafetta, "some of our men took communion. The captain general then ordered the performance of a sword dance, at which the kings were greatly pleased." The sword dance to which Pigafetta referred is native to Toledo but performed in many parts of Spain. The dancers wear colorful linen shirts with baggy pantaloons in the Greek style and bandanas on their heads. Whirling this way and that, they slash their naked swords in wide arcs, coming breathtakingly close to the heads and bodies of the other dancers. In one step called "the throat cutter," several dancers thrust their swords at the throat of a dancer who, at the last moment, skillfully slips away between them. After the dance, Magellan presented the two chiefs with a tall cross adorned with a crown of thorns, requesting that it be erected on the highest point of the island. This cross, he told the chiefs, when seen by Spanish ships, would let them know that they would be received as friends. Magellan then offered his ships and fighting men to help defeat their enemies. Colambu and Siaui, while acknowledging that they were at war with two neighboring islands, declined because "... the season for fighting had not yet arrived." While their reception at Limasawa could not have been more cordial, and the crews had benefited enormously from the fresh fruit, fish, and meat provided by their hosts, the Spaniards had not yet been able to replenish their supplies of less perishable foods. Other than ginger, neither had they seen any evidence of spices. The people at Limasawa indicated that such commodities could be obtained at Seylani (Leyte), Zubu (Cebu), and Calagan (Mindanao), and Magellan decided to go to Cebu, the principal trading center of the region. Colambu promised to guide him there personally if he would wait two days and help harvest the rice crop on Lirnasawa. Eager to get rice for his ships' depleted stores, and needing a pilot to guide them through the reef-studded archipelago, Magellan agreed. Seizing on this as a cause for celebration, Colambu and Siaui hosted another feast, serving vast quantities of palm wine along with roast pig and other tropical delicacies. Natives and Spaniards alike spent all the next day sleeping off its effects. Harvesting the rice took three more days. On April 4, seven days after arriving at Limasawa, Magellan's squadron set forth for Cebu. With Colambu's barangay leading, the squadron sailed northwest, then north through Canigao Channel, hugging the coast of Leyte to avoid Danajon Bank and the reefs off Bohol Island. When they reached Baybay, a small port on the west coast of Leyte, Magellan's guides told him that the surrounding area was rich in gold and other valuable resources. From Baybay they headed west across the Camotes Sea. With plenty of sea room, a fresh breeze, and all sails set, Magellan's ships overtook and passed the barangay that had been leading them. To allow it to catch up, they hove-to off the Camotes Islands. Pigafetta reported that when Colambu "... caught up with us, he was greatly astonished at the speed with which we sailed." From the Camotes, the squadron headed southwest. Soon, the mountains of Cebu Island loomed in front of them. Off Bagacay Point, they entered the narrow channel between Cebu Island and the small island of Mactan. As they sailed down the channel, there came into view a densely populated shoreline with most of the houses on stilts. On April 7, 1521, with banners and pennants flying, the squadron hove-to directly in front of the bustling port of Cebu. Intent on making a grand impression, Magellan ordered the squadron's gunners to fire a salute using all their artillery. It had the desired effect: Many of the town's terrified inhabitants fled into the hills. --__--__-- _______________________________________________ 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 1994-2003: Ray Terry, www.MartialArtsResource.com, www.Sudlud.com Standard disclaimers apply. Remember 9-11! 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