Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:30:01 +0200 From: eskrima-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: Eskrima digest, Vol 15 #264 - 6 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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Eskrima-FMA discussion forum, the premier FMA forum on the Internet. 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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. Stockton, Calif -- the original home of the US's FMA (Ray) 2. Continue off the topic (chrisamendola@aol.com) 3. Eskrima Video (Eternal IV) 4. Re: Eskrima Video (jay de leon) 5. karambit (jason couture) 6. Man w Stick-1, Bear without stick 0 (Marc Denny) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: Ray To: Eskrima-Digest Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:17:53 -0700 Subject: [Eskrima] Stockton, Calif -- the original home of the US's FMA Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net 'Romance of Magno Rubio': Filipino homecoming Steven Winn (10-07) 04:00 PDT Stockton Instead of flowers, the actors received bunches of bushy-topped carrots at Sunday's curtain call for "The Romance of Magno Rubio" at the Bob Hope Theatre. Those perfectly apt vegetables brought a stirring 90 minutes of theater to a gratifying close. The large crowd's raucously vocal and sustained standing ovation affirmed it. Sometimes, in the urbane Bay Area, it's easy to forget what an immediate, electric connection live theater can make to a particular audience. You couldn't miss it with "Magno Rubio," a kinetic piece of seriocomic storytelling about 1930s Filipino farmworkers set in and around Stockton and playing to a hometown crowd dominated by Filipino Americans. Not so long ago, such a scene wouldn't have been possible. Dillon Delvo, a 35-year-old Filipino American Stockton native and co- presenter of the show, was watching the audience stream into the lobby a half hour before Sunday's matinee performance. "This theater used to be segregated." he said. "It wasn't exactly official, but it was understood: Whites and Filipinos sat in different areas." For Delvo, the thrill of "Magno Rubio" was "seeing these men that I knew as respected elders in the community restored to their youthful spirit again." Many others in the crowd were there to witness their own family's histories. Bright laughter erupted whenever the tiny, dreamy-eyed title character, in a vibrant performance by Jojo Gonzalez, fell victim to another round of bawdy teasing from his four bunkhouse mates. The taunts were rendered in a mostly English version of Balagtasan - a rhyming taunt named for the 19th century poet of the Philippines Francisco Balagtas. The collective pulse quickened when the ensemble brandished wooden sticks to merge the centuries-old Filipino martial art of escrima with the modern percussive cadence of the off-Broadway hit "Stomp." In the show's finely wrought climax, Gonzalez's Magno Rubio finally met the girl of his dreams, a white Arkansas gold digger who had been bleeding him dry of money, gifts and romantic longing for years by mail. He'd found her through a lonely-hearts newspaper ad. All Magno got, after all that hopeful waiting, was the shadow image of a faithless woman on a canvas curtain and the falsetto voice of Ramon De Ocampo, as the brazen Clarabelle, leading him on toward nothing and running off with another man. Broken hearts If the hearts of an audience can break all at once, that's what happened Sunday, in a suddenly very quiet theater. No sooner had it occurred than the ill-used hero promptly healed all those hearts again with his unkillable, buoyant spirit. Before and after the show, patrons crowded around lobby displays of artifacts from the show's era: asparagus knives, dusty farm boots, family snapshots. There was a lot of talk about fathers, grandfathers and great-uncles and the way life must have been back then. The real and the theatrical jostled together and merged. This engrossing "Romance" was performed by the New York Ma-Yi Theater Company and staged by the noted Filipino American director and set designer Loy Arcenas. The production arrives in the Bay Area Thursday and begins a four-performance run at Skyline College in San Bruno. The production may be an import, but the opening weekend in Stockton had the feel of indigenous inevitability. Here, a few blocks from where he once lived in the city's Little Manila neighborhood, was the dramatic embodiment of a short story by the Philippine-born writer Carlos Bulosan, adapted by Lonnie Carter. When Bulosan wandered among the district's now mostly vanished hotels, pool halls, bars and lodge halls, Stockton had the largest Filipino population outside the Philippines. That was still true in the 1980s, according to Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, a San Francisco State assistant professor of history and third- generation Stockton Filipina. Today, about 20,000 Filipino Americans are dispersed through San Joaquin County. First performed by the Ma-Yi troupe in 2002, "Magno Rubio" has played New York (where it earned eight Obie Awards) and New Haven, Conn.; Chicago; Los Angeles; Bucharest, Romania; and the Philippines (in both English and Tagalog). It was only through the efforts of Stockton's Little Manila Foundation, working in concert with Philippine International Aid, that this show finally had its premiere in the cradle of its origin. The foundation raised $70,000 to bring the production to Stockton and San Bruno. A walk through history Earlier in the day, Mabalon conducted several walking tours of a vestigial Little Manila. Urban renewal and a 1970s freeway project decimated a huge swatch of Stockton's ethnic history. Mabalon, 36, stood in front of what was once a hotel where Bulosan lived and evoked the neighborhood in its prime. She described a mixture of poverty and music, discrimination ("Positively No Filipinos Allowed," some Stockton businesses warned), and the snappy suits and Stetson hats that even the most hardscrabble farm laborers liked to sport at night. She displayed period photographs and read from Bulosan's 1946 immigration novel "America Is in the Heart." Because the draw to Stockton was farm labor, the overwhelming majority of Filipinos who came were men. It's fitting that the actors in "Magno Rubio" are all male and that the only woman - a 6-footer from Arkansas - is a formidable, betraying temptress. Mabalon sees her as Bulosan's symbolic portrayal of America. Cut off from the women of their own country by economic circumstances and from white women here by prejudice and anti-miscegenation laws, many Filipino men felt a keen sense of isolation. Quasi-inclusion imposed another form of alienation. Having come from a place that was a U.S. colony until 1946, Filipinos experienced what Randy Gener calls, in a current Callboard magazine piece on "Magno Rubio," a "limbo of indeterminacy." "Neither citizens nor aliens, the manongs were legally referred to as 'nationals,' without a sovereign country." The result, writes Gener, was "a qualitatively different form of racism from that faced by other Asian immigrant groups." Mabalon led the tour to the intersection of Lafayette and El Dorado, the old heart of Little Manila. Now, there's a McDonald's and a Union 76 gas station on the corner. Traffic streams by on the elevated freeway across Lafayette. Mabalon's grandfather ran a lunch counter on the site for 50 years, advancing credit to some customers, including the alcoholic Bulosan, who never made good on their tabs. A car pulled out of the McDonald's lot, and the driver shouted a greeting to Mabalon. "Hey, Uncle Bill," she called back. "Oh, I've got relatives all over the place here," Mabalon told the tour group. Then she went back to talking about Stockton in the 1930s. The Romance of Magno Rubio: Based on a short story by Carlos Bulosan. Written by Lonnie Carter. Directed by Loy Arcenas. Thurs.-Sun. Skyline College Main Theater, 3300 College Drive, San Bruno. Tickets: $45-$65. Call (415) 401-7157 or go to www.brownpapertickets.com. --__--__-- Message: 2 To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:49:50 -0400 From: chrisamendola@aol.com Subject: [Eskrima] Continue off the topic Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Hey Maurice, Good luck with the classes, FMA or not. Funny you mention nobody wanting FMA. About two years ago I had some TKD folks who were willing to pay a good rate ($75/hour) for me to teach a few hours a week at their school, and I am absolutely *nobody*. When I started trying to talk about teaching non-FMA stick-fighting, *for free*, they weren't interested. At least in this case folks were specifically interrested in learning FMA, or as they described it "the Escrima sticks" (ugh!). Now I teach for free, alternating "semesters" of Serrada, with Western Walking stick. So I would say once get to know you they will be open to whatever styles you want to promote. Good Luck, Chris Amendola Houston Pragmatic Martial Arts ? ? --__--__-- Message: 3 From: Eternal IV To: Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:00:32 +0000 Subject: [Eskrima] Eskrima Video Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rTT-kr0IVgA A demonstration of the art of Eskrima by Eskrimador Greg Henderon. The movements he does at the start are what I know as, 'Le Punte Abenico' kata. Enjoy.. Scott _________________________________________________________________ --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:05:57 -0700 (PDT) From: jay de leon Subject: Re: [Eskrima] Eskrima Video To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net hi scott:   looks fma enough, but the name of the kata intrigues us.   as somebody asked, is there a correlation to lapunti?  is it a french name?  is that the abanico, as we usually know an abanico?   thanks,   jay de leon www.filipinomartialartsmuseum.com     --- On Wed, 10/8/08, Eternal IV wrote: From: Eternal IV Subject: [Eskrima] Eskrima Video To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 8:00 AM http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rTT-kr0IVgA A demonstration of the art of Eskrima by Eskrimador Greg Henderon. The movements he does at the start are what I know as, 'Le Punte Abenico' kata. Enjoy.. Scott _________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Eskrima mailing list, 2600 members Eskrima@martialartsresource.net Copyright 1994-2008: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource Standard disclaimers apply Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://eskrima-fma.net --__--__-- Message: 5 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:01:03 -0700 (PDT) From: jason couture To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Subject: [Eskrima] karambit Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net When choosing a self defense blade for personal carry, choose one that you would feel comfortable explaining to a jury (during your trial) or a police officer (during a traffic stop). I would avoid blades with names like "The Terminator" or "Ninja Throat Cutter". Get the idea? There are plenty of dual purpose blades out there. Choose with your head not your martial arts ego. Respectfully- j --__--__-- Message: 6 From: "Marc Denny" To: Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:06:18 -0700 Subject: [Eskrima] Man w Stick-1, Bear without stick 0 Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_cariboo/100milefreepress/news/30524704.html By Carole Rooney Free Press staff Man Kills Bear With a Stick Walking softly in bear territory may not be a good idea, but carrying a big stick certainly is -- when you're as brave as Jim West, that is. West was out walking alone with his dogs in the forest behind the gymkhana grounds near Green Lake early Saturday afternoon when he was attacked by a black bear. "I was looking for moose signs because my stepson has a limited entry tag," he said in an interview shortly after the incident. As they strolled along facing into the wind, West was calling out to his black labs, Shadow and Chopper, who were happily flushing grouse and wagging their tails. "All of a sudden I heard a kind of a huff and a growl off to my right, and when I turned around there was a bear six feet away. I had no opportunity to hit the ground like I should, so I just started to kick it in the face. It jumped up and took a snap at my face, split my upper lip, and then I hit the ground, and it jumped on top of me, tore my scalp and bit my left arm." At this point the dogs came back and managed to distract the bear, so it proceeded to go after them. As soon as West moved, the bear attacked him again, putting him back on the ground a second time, and cutting his right arm. Then the dogs intervened again and West heard one of them yelp. "I just jumped up and grabbed a stick, and the bear turned around and came running right at me and I hit it once; it started to shake its head, and I just kept swinging like it was a sledgehammer and I ended up crushing it's skull." Once the conservation officer who attended the scene had confirmed the bear was indeed dead from blows to the head, he told West that he believed no one had ever done this before. "I don't know why, it was the easiest thing in the world to do -- when you have a choice of either living or dying. I felt that I'd been on the ground twice and, if I went down a third time, I wouldn't get up. I wasn't gonna go down, so I just starting swinging." Once West observed blood running from the bear's nose, he knew the job was done and the bear was dead or dying, so he dropped the stick and told his dogs it was time to go. After walking at least a kilometre back to his truck with his shirt wrapped around his head to stem the bleeding, West then drove himself and his dogs to nearby Little Horse Lodge, arriving at around 2 p.m. "Jim came in and said 'I just got attacked by a bear, so call 9-1-1,'" said Ellie Scott of Little Horse Lodge. "I helped with First Aid, and to patch him up and calm him down -- he was in shock." Luckily, although his home is in the area, West remained rational enough to stop at the lodge, in case emergency personnel had trouble finding his place. The conservation officers attending the scene went out immediately to search for the bear and subsequently found two cubs as well, which were put down. The conservation officers' Predator Attack Team will be investigating the incident, including a necropsy (animal autopsy) to be performed on the sow within the next couple of weeks. Ambulance and First Responders arrived approximately half hour after the 9-1-1 call and transported West to hospital, where he received 60 stitches to his scalp, face, left arm (in three places), right arm and lip. "I haven't been able to find any injuries on my dogs. I think one of them may have been cuffed with a paw, so I'm going to check them out again later -- right now they are pretty excited to see me," said West on Sunday, just shortly after returning home from picking up his large Labs, who were looked after by Scott and her family at the lodge while he was in hospital. The conservation officer told him he was very lucky to have survived such an attack. "In that sort of situation, you only one choice -- it's live or die." said West. "Most people are too scared to think about living." West doesn't think of himself as overly tough, however, and maintains the belief that for anyone placed in that situation, "it's just a matter of whether you want to live or not." It also doesn't hurt, though, to have strength, courage -- and carry a big stick. --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Eskrima mailing list Eskrima@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/eskrima Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://eskrima-fma.net Old digest issues @ ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com/pub/eskrima Copyright 1994-2008: Ray Terry, MartialArtsResource.com, Sudlud.com Standard disclaimers apply. Remember September 11. End of Eskrima Digest