Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:50:25 -0700 From: eskrima-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: Eskrima digest, Vol 13 #159 - 9 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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Copyright 1994-2006: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource The Internet's premier discussion forum devoted to Filipino Martial Arts. 2300 members. Provided in memory of Mangisursuro Michael G. Inay (1944-2000). See the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of the Eskrima/FMA digest at http://MartialArtsResource.com Mabuhay ang eskrima! Today's Topics: 1. Knives in the UK (and elsewhere) (Michael Koblic) 2. Re: Knife matters (iPat) 3. Re: Jihad (info@kalis-ilustrisimo.org) 4. Re: Re: Jihad (julian henderson) 5. 3rd FMA Festival - Philippines (Rich Acosta) 6. free tuition, nobody wants it! (malcolm knight) 7. MOMENTS IN HISTORY (jay de leon) 8. Re: free tuition, nobody wants it! (iPat) 9. Re: free tuition, nobody wants it! (iPat) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: "Michael Koblic" To: "Eskrima digest" Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 23:26:33 -0700 Subject: [Eskrima] Knives in the UK (and elsewhere) Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net "A scapel is a knife too, isn't it.... :-)" In Canada there is said to be about 1000 deaths a year from firearms (please do not quote me on the numbers, they are not exact). That includes all deaths, homicides suicides and accidents. This figure is widely publicized and used as a support for the position that all guns should be banned. At the same time there are about 4000 deaths a year attributed to Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory drugs - your Aspirins, Advils etc. Yet they are prescribed in large numbers, often inappropriately. You do not hear much fuss about that. And one could go on. And on. My point is that physicians and surgeons in particular should clean up their own house before making sweeping statements, particularly as idiotic as the one quoted. Michael Koblic, Campbell River, BC --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:17:33 +0100 From: iPat To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Subject: Re: [Eskrima] Knife matters Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Interview on BBC Radio 5 'Drive', I believe last Thursday 18th or Friday but they podcast their shows. 'Experts' were commenting how the numbers were the same but that the anicdotal evidence from the likes of school teachers was that there is a greater culture of knife carrying amongst young people. This is just after Kiyan Prince, 15, was killed outside the London Academy School in Edgware on Thursday afternoon. 236 out of 820 homicides in 2004 and 2005 had involved "sharp implements". in Scotland its gone up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4527570.stm Personally, i see less knives nowadays but my lifestyle has changed so its hardly scientific. My son, 17 and knows it all, has been threatened verbally with stabbing and knows of slashings that have taken place. The gun crime is mainly located in the drug culture and doesnt seem to cross over yet - at least in Aberdeen. Hope that helps. On 5/22/06, Marc Denny wrote: > > Pat: > > I have been reading elsewhere (usually American gun nuts ;-) ) that the > number has been increasing rather strongly. I know you know whereof you > speak. If convenient, would you please direct me to data on this? > --------- > > -- > Pat Davies > www.amag.org.uk --__--__-- Message: 3 From: info@kalis-ilustrisimo.org To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:51:27 +0100 Subject: [Eskrima] Re: Jihad Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Hello Julian, Jihad, as you rightly pointed out means to "struggle or strive" it does not mean "holy war" - the arabic for war is "harb". A person, for eg. who is fighting his/her addiction to cigarettes is doing Jihad (struggling), if someone is studying for his/her exams is considered to be in a state of jihad, so the term can be applied to any sort of struggle or striving that a person does. In terms of what we all are doing (FMA) we are considered to be in "Jihad" as we all are actively learning and striving to be better and to gain more knowledge in our field. Everything a muslim does is to do with his intentions, his most important intention is to please allah (god). In order to understand what the term Jihad means and how it applies to everday tasks/things, best to pick up a book and read about it... In terms of Terrorism, terrorism has been around for ages in the UK, we lived with the fear of IRA bombs going off in London for decades, I myself use the underground and used to use the stations which were attacked, a vast majority of muslims use the underground system, so this attack in london was an attack on all londoners and not just on one particular section of londoners. If you aren't sure about anything new, read up about it instead of reading a source such as your local media / news. It doesn't hurt and you'd be surprised.... Kind Regards, Kalam. " I have spent some time in the middle east, and the term 'jihad', as I > understand it, is actually a term meaning "Striving for one's faith". > Thus, a muslim farmer ploughing his field and thinking 'good Muslim' > thoughts is also performing jihad. It doesn't necessarily have anything > to do anything violent or negative at all. The term seems to have been > hijacked (pun intended) and applied only to (what I consider to be) negative acts." --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:39:35 +0100 (BST) From: julian henderson Subject: Re: [Eskrima] Re: Jihad To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Dear Kalam Thank you for your e-mail regarding clarification of the work "Jihad". It was not me however who wrote or sent anything regarding the topic to either the forum or its members. There must be a mixup. Best of luck with your training anyway. Kind Regards. Julz. --------------------------------- All New Yahoo! Mail – Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. --__--__-- Message: 5 From: "Rich Acosta" To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:44:52 -0500 Subject: [Eskrima] 3rd FMA Festival - Philippines Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net THE GRAND HOMECOMING OF THE FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS 3rd FMA Festival - Philippines http://fmafestival2006.com/ Instructors list http://fmafestival2006.com/Present_F...structors.html The 1st and 2nd Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) Festivals were a huge success in Germany. Now comes the 3rd edition to be held in the Philippines from July 11 – 21, 2006. Taal Vista Hotel and Caylabne Beach & Resort Hotel, Tagaytay and Manila will host the The 3rd World Filipino Martial Arts Festival (FMA). Filipino Grandmasters and top-ranked Master Instructors from all-over the world will teach an amazing array of topics. Included are major sessions on Philippine traditional fighting arts and weapons (tapado, sanggot, balisong, dulo-dulo, bankaw, bolo, daga, baston). Philippine Grandmasters from different FMA organizations will share knowledge in TRADITIONAL & CLASSICAL ARNIS. Nightly events and special tours will bring martial artists together in the spirit of historical and cultural grandeur. A grand finale in an unforgettable Gala Night of martial culture will crown the festival. Participation from over 28 countries is expected. To make the entire homecoming even more exciting, an International Tournament will take place immediately after the Gala Night. Under the joint auspices of Bakbakan International and the FMA Organizing Committee, this tournament is calling on the participation of all arnis sports warriors throughout the world. This promises to be the biggest and most internationally attended tournament of all time. -copied from website -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ --__--__-- Message: 6 From: "malcolm knight" To: Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:27:51 +0100 Subject: [Eskrima] free tuition, nobody wants it! Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Can,t beleive it, I am advertising for a training partner locally ( coventry UK ), ( ads in libraries, chinese supermarket , at work etc, cards given out and left around ) and nobody wants to train?? I go to Cebu and train with GM Nick Elizar and I can't even give away the knowledge I learnt! Need to practice thoughy for examination ( possible promotion ) end of year. Anyone else find it almost impossible to get a training partner? Did think the place to find interested parties is at other martial art lessons but don't think it would be very welcome hanging around outside "pssst wanna get some free lessons..." what do you guys think. Malcolm K. --__--__-- Message: 7 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:12:49 -0700 (PDT) From: jay de leon To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Subject: [Eskrima] MOMENTS IN HISTORY Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net MOMENTS IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY : THE MARTYRDOM OF EDGAR JOPSON During the period of martial law, from 1972 to 1986, it is estimated that close to four thousand civilians were detained, tortured and summarily executed without due process by government forces. Their only crime was, in the eyes of the Marcos military enforcers, subversive activities. We are not talking about armed combatants or guerrilla fighters here. We are talking about students, professionals, blue collar workers and political oppositionists who spoke their minds, and tried to rally others to what they deemed a just cause. Probably one of the better known victims was a young man named Edgar Jopson, known as Ed or Edjop to his friends. I single him out not because he was a more popular figure or a more well known name than the others. I choose to remember him because he was my childhood friend. Ed was probably a couple of years younger than I was. When I met him, we were both still in short pants (part of our Catholic school uniform) going to Ateneo de Manila Grade School in Loyola Heights, Quezon City, a suburb of Manila. We both lived in the same gated community called Philamlife Homes in Quezon City. We rode the same school bus to Ateneo, and often chatted either waiting for the bus or during the bus ride itself. I remember Ed as a good-looking, good-natured kid then, with a cherubic face and a crew cut. His parents owned a chain a grocery stores, and in fact, owned the first grocery at Philamlife Homes, called Jopson’s Supermarket. Ed was also good friends with my younger brothers who also went to Ateneo. At some point, we lost contact many years later. I believe his family moved out of Philamlife Homes, and we went to different colleges. I only learned of his death many years after the fact, when I had already emigrated to the U.S. From accounts I have read, the brutality of Marcos’s martial law radicalized Ed from a student leader and a “Ten Outstanding Young Men” awardee to a fire-breathing activist, “aktibista” in the vernacular. When I hear that word, I usually remember the Kabataang Makabayan (KM), young radical activists usually from public schools leading sometimes violent rallies in the streets of Manila, braving tear gas and rattan truncheons in pitched battles with heavily armored riot police and military. On Sept. 20, 1982, Ed was reportedly captured or cornered in a safehouse in Davao, and in the vernacular “salvaged” meaning executed. It is difficult for me to imagine Ed as a radical activist. He came from a wealthy, loving family. He had received the best possible education from an elite Jesuit university. He was poised for success, his whole young life ahead of him. It is even more difficult for me to imagine Ed dying a violent death like that. It is hard to reconcile such a mindless finality and my last image of Ed, a vibrant, gentle, popular teen-ager full of life and good will towards his fellow man. On a human note, I was gratified to find out that Ed was able to marry and actually start a family even while on the run. Ed died a true blue-blooded Atenean, as we say in Ateneo, a Filipino patriot, and a loving family man. Ave atque vale, Ed. Hail and farewell, old friend. --__--__-- Message: 8 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 20:47:52 +0000 From: iPat To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Subject: Re: [Eskrima] free tuition, nobody wants it! Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net I dont offer free classes and Im busy. However there are a lot of factors other than that which factor. I dont advertise yet my website brings in loads of business. Word of mouth is another factor. Beginners courses? I would advise that you charge a fee that makes people realise your worth good luck On 5/23/06, malcolm knight wrote: > Can,t beleive it, I am advertising for a training partner locally ( coventry > UK ), ( ads in libraries, chinese supermarket , at work etc, cards given out > and left around ) and nobody wants to train?? > I go to Cebu and train with GM Nick Elizar and I can't even give away the > knowledge I learnt! > Need to practice thoughy for examination ( possible promotion ) end of year. > Anyone else find it almost impossible to get a training partner? > Did think the place to find interested parties is at other martial art lessons > but don't think it would be very welcome hanging around outside "pssst wanna > get some free lessons..." what do you guys think. > Malcolm K. > _______________________________________________ > Eskrima mailing list, 2300 members > Eskrima@martialartsresource.net > Copyright 1994-2006: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource > Standard disclaimers apply > http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/eskrima > -- Pat Davies www.amag.org.uk --__--__-- Message: 9 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:49:05 +0100 From: iPat To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Subject: Re: [Eskrima] free tuition, nobody wants it! Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net apologies, mis read your mail. Lucky teaches in Coventry and is a good eskrimador. Krishna Godhannia is another. Go and speak to them to see if they can help. On 5/23/06, malcolm knight wrote: > Need to practice thoughy for examination ( possible promotion ) end of year. > Anyone else find it almost impossible to get a training partner? > Did think the place to find interested parties is at other martial art lessons > but don't think it would be very welcome hanging around outside "pssst wanna > get some free lessons..." what do you guys think. > Malcolm K. -- Pat Davies www.amag.org.uk --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Eskrima mailing list Eskrima@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/eskrima http://eskrima-fma.net Old digest issues @ ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com/pub/eskrima Copyright 1994-2006: Ray Terry, MartialArtsResource.com, Sudlud.com Standard disclaimers apply. 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