Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 03:01:53 -0700 From: the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: The_Dojang digest, Vol 11 #435 - 12 msgs X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.13.cisto1 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net X-BeenThere: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13.cisto1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Subscribed-Address: kma@martialartsresource.com List-Id: The Internet's premier discussion forum on Korean Martial Arts. 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Today's Topics: 1. also requesting full text (chris abramson) 2. kukkiwon certification (Eddie Urbistondo) 3. Re: Korean fonts (Klaas Barends) 4. Surviving Edged Weapons (Frank Clay) 5. who has been cut (michael tomlinson) 6. RE: who has been cut (Rick Clark) 7. RE: Surviving Edged Weapons (Stovall, Craig) 8. Sa Ja Nim (Charles Richards) 9. KTC Chip (Ray Terry) 10. Narratives of Nation Building in Korea (Ray Terry) 11. Re: RE: Surviving Edged Weapons (Ray Terry) 12. Surviving Edged Weapons (Dennis McHenry) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: "chris abramson" To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:32:58 -0500 Subject: [The_Dojang] also requesting full text Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Mr. de Valence- I, too, would appreciate the full text of the article.  At Lakeway TaeKwonDo, we teach Olympic-style sparring, but spend the majority of our efforts on traditional techniques, poomse and mental/emotional strength.  Where do we fit?  Please send the article to lakewaytkd@lakewaytkd.com. Chris Abramson Lakeway TaeKwonDo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rock, jazz, country, soul & more. Find the music you love on MSN Music! --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "Eddie Urbistondo" To: Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:41:44 -0700 Subject: [The_Dojang] kukkiwon certification Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Many people think that the kukkiwon is strictly sport. While the movement for the sport and Olympics is a big part of the Kukkiwon (WTF), they are still a registry for Taekwondo rank that is worldwide. I give certificates from the school and from the Kukkiwon. I teach whatever style of Taekwondo that I want to teach my students. I use the kukkiwon for registration of Dan ranks. The Kukkiwon is worldwide and rapidly taking over in the world. There are many registries out there and there are many crooks. I believe the kukkiwon is here to stay and they are very organized. Eddie Urbistondo --__--__-- Message: 3 From: Klaas Barends Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:24:13 +0900 To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Re: Korean fonts Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > a long time ago i was looking for korean fonts. i found a bunch, but > when my > system crashed a week or so ago, i had failed to back those up. Depends on what kind of system you have. If you run a Apple Macintosh computer with OS/X I've got a gazillion fonts for you. :-) and the Macintosch system contains a couple of Korean fonts already. (in the topbar you probably see an American flag, click on it and you will see a lot of other flags, including the Korean one. Once you chose that one, you can type Korean (Hangul)) If you run Windows XP, you can go to the Control Panel, then to Internationalization (or something similar), under the second Tab you will find a option called 'Support for East Asian Languages'. If you click that one, you will get a few Korean fonts as well. (if after that you also install support for a Korean keyboard, you can type Korean (Hangul) on your computer, without the need for extra programms) -- kind regards, Klaas Barends http://www.hapkido.nl/ http://www.sangmookwan.com/ --__--__-- Message: 4 From: "Frank Clay" To: Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 06:53:23 -0500 Subject: [The_Dojang] Surviving Edged Weapons Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net I think Ray will back me up... it's a serious eye opener. When I first became involved with law enforcement, I was young and a decent black belt. When I saw some of the potential threats out there, I was like "Sheesh I have a heck of a lot to learn". If you are on good terms with a law enforcement officer, you may be able to get them to check out a copy. Ray, I don't know if the title is misleading. It is truly about edged weapons, their myriad of forms, and basic awareness training for survival. You are right in that it is not about fighting with knives, in fact, it is about quite the opposite. My favorite is where they have officers go in to investigate a suspicious person, and that person is Dan Insonato. Only one even comes close to getting his weapon drawn, but all of the participants would have been dead, had the encounter been real. For a civilian, it shows that an edged weapon is not just a knife. If can be virtually anything... And you think YOU train, they show actual prison footage from security cameras of prisoners training on the sly with edged weapons and how to better wield them. Now if you have never been in a fight, you are fighting someone who has been in violent confrontation, could care less about you and your family, and is practicing how to kill you. My feeling is that the pseudo-warrior crap needs to stop. Bantering about this or that isn't KMA or Hapki arts, or whatever, must give way to this: we, as a people, face a very real threat which can be quite random. It is not necessarily from a terrorist, but could very well be from our own neighbor, our brother, even your spouse. These are dangerous people, and we have a fiduciary responsibility to ourselves, and those we teach to become aware and pass this information to them. You think Hapkido is great about knife fighting? I thought I was decent with them until I met Julian Lim. Julian Lim trained with, and was certified as a Ranger, by the US Government. He taught me exactly what was wrong with traditional knife training... and he did it very practically. It was not dissimilar to techniques I have seen later from guys who practice some of the Filipino bladed arts. Ray can hook you up with resources, and I strongly recommend anyone who has not had some core training to investigate it. These arts, many of them anyhow, did not develop in a dojang, they developed in the street. There is a different flavor to them. Are they a cure all or better than KMA? No. But in this respect they are more realistic. FWIW. Frank --__--__-- Message: 5 From: "michael tomlinson" To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:01:42 +0000 Subject: [The_Dojang] who has been cut Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Not to hear war stories but I am curious as to how many people on here have actually been cut or stabbed in an altercation. I'm assuming I'm not close to being the only one on here.. I would like to hear of some of the experiences so maybe we can hear from people who have had to deal with this first hand....IMHO this is much better than watching a video... Michael Tomlinson _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ --__--__-- Message: 6 From: "Rick Clark" To: Subject: RE: [The_Dojang] who has been cut Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:25:06 -0500 Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Once in my life I had to face a knife but fortunately I was not cut. That was a very long time ago, and knowing what I know now I consider myself VERY lucky. Later, Rick Clark www.ao-denkou-kai.org --- >From: michael tomlinson [mailto:tomlinson_michael@hotmail.com] >Not to hear war stories but I am curious as to how many people on here have >actually been cut or stabbed in an altercation. I'm assuming I'm not close >to being the only one on here.. I would like to hear of some of the >experiences so maybe we can hear from people who have had to deal with this >first hand....IMHO this is much better than watching a video... > Michael Tomlinson --__--__-- Message: 7 From: "Stovall, Craig" To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:02:46 -0500 Subject: [The_Dojang] RE: Surviving Edged Weapons Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net <<>> Isn't that the one with Inosanto in it? CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email transmission contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entities named above. If this email was received in error or if read by a party which is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, disclosure, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. 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We will try for the Kentucky qualifier in February, and of course the Georgia qualifier in March. And yes it's OK when he forgets and calls me Daddy instead of Sabom Nim :-) Yours in Jung Do, Charles Richards aka Niko's Dad --__--__-- Message: 9 From: Ray Terry To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net (The_Dojang) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:25:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [The_Dojang] KTC Chip Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net 2004 KTC Taekwondo Championship Nov 13, 2004 San Jose Civic Auditorium 145 W. San Carlos St. Calif 95113 For more info contact KTC, 3280 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 408.246.2000 ktc-kick@ktc-kick.com --__--__-- Message: 10 From: Ray Terry To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net (The_Dojang) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [The_Dojang] Narratives of Nation Building in Korea Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism, by Sheila Miyoshi Jager, 2003. Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe. 185 pages. ISBN 0-7656-1068-X. reviewed by Seungsook Moon Vassar College semoon@vassar.edu This book, composed of new and formerly published chapters, examines how narratives of nation building in early twentieth century Korea produced new forms of masculinity and femininity and how new and old gender systems have equally informed nationalist narratives throughout the twentieth century. In Part One Jager identifies formative nationalist narratives in the writings of Sin Ch'ae-ho (1880-1936) and Yi Kwang-su (1892-1950) that constructed, respectively, the warrior-hero as the protagonist of the nation, and the loyal/enlightened woman as a political sign symbolizing the nation's core values and authenticity. The militarized masculinity of the warrior-hero is a novel development in juxtaposition with the masculinity of the Confucian scholar, and loyal/enlightened femininity is new in its conception of woman as an ontological category rather than one defined by roles tied to specific activities and work embedded in patriarchal kinship. In Parts Two and Three Jager discusses significant moments of nationalist discourse produced during the colonial period, the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s that reveal the recurring tropes of militarized masculinity, loyal/enlightened femininity, and responses to the new conception of masculinity. What is noteworthy in this nationalist construction of new gendered identities, Jager persuasively argues, is the selective appropriation of old and new systems of gender that underlie the new tales of national suffering, struggle, redemption and triumph narrated in the naturalized language of family and kinship. "The political unconscious" (in Frederic Jameson's terms) that makes nationalism appealing, Jager contends, stems from classic Confucian narrative configurations about women, gender, and kinship, particularly as seen in such canonical romances as the tale of Ch'unhyang and the values of filial piety and fatherly benevolence. For example, the discourse of chuch'e itself, by metonymically linking romance to patriotism, employs romance tropes to discuss national reunification. Dissident student activists of the 1980s depicted national unification as the reunion of a separated couple, and viewed Korean history in terms of the genealogy of trans-generational patriotism and the redemption of manhood. According to Jager, the redemption of manhood took an interesting turn in the discourse of nation-building articulated by President Kim Dae Jung (1998-2002), once a leading dissident persecuted by military regimes. Adopting the Christian notion of forgiveness, Kim constructs masculinity/nationhood in sharp opposition to the ideal of militarized masculinity celebrated during Park Chung Hee's rule and even Kim Young Sam's civilian administration. Reflecting the "linguistic turn" in social sciences under the influence of postmodernism and poststructuralism, this book focuses almost exclusively on the recurring motifs underlying patriotic narratives that construct the seamless historical continuity of Korean nation. While this discursive approach to patriotism allows for rich and insightful readings of various moments of nationalist discourse, this book's primary focus on texts raises questions about the overall significance of its gender analysis. Treating gender exclusively as a symbolic order that structures the public imaginary (or the political unconscious), this study does not link its textual analysis to the changing social relations of gender in Korean society. While such a linkage lies outside Jager's primary aims to offer "a kind of literary 'montage' that attempts to decode the narrative platforms of Korean nationalism while staying clear of their progressive claims" (xi), the author's concern with just such progressive claims and allusions to alternative ways to think about historical categories like gender and nation begs an important question. A critical move away from a teleological approach to history does not have to mean the reduction of social reality to discourse. What is curiously missing in this otherwise valuable study is references to the literature on gender and nationalism in Korea and other social contexts, which would strengthen its objective of deconstructing "the universal myth of national liberation" (p. 56). For instance, as Kumari Jayawardena documented in Nationalism and Feminism in the Third World (1989), the "Woman's Question" was a strategic theme shared by nationalist discourses and movements in many colonized and semi-colonized countries. As postcolonial and/or feminist scholars such as Lata Mani, Tani Barlow, Partha Chatterjee, and Anne McClintock have argued, the masculinist politics of nationalism in these Third World countries has tended to reduce Woman to an abstract political sign symbolizing a nation's spirituality and authenticity but devoid of social relations of power. The fusion of "the private" and "the public" in nationalist narratives, which makes nationalism persuasive, according to Jager, is also a common narrative strategy of nationalisms elsewhere. Overall, this book skillfully illuminates the cultural politics of nationalist narratives, but raises deeper questions about the exclusive focus on discourse in social analysis. Citation: Moon, Seungsook 2004 Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism, by Sheila Miyoshi Jager, (2003) Korean Studies Review_ 2004, no. 17 Electronic file: http://koreaweb.ws/ks/ksr/ksr04-17.htm --__--__-- Message: 11 From: Ray Terry Subject: Re: [The_Dojang] RE: Surviving Edged Weapons To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:29:38 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > << 'knife fighting'. It is about getting cut or stabbed and surviving, and > the mindset required.>>> > > Isn't that the one with Inosanto in it? Yes, and Leo Gaje. Ray Terry rterry@idiom.com --__--__-- Message: 12 From: "Dennis McHenry" Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:57:11 GMT To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Surviving Edged Weapons Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Jason: > Where can one purchase a copy of the video? Ray: >produced it several years ago, but they don't sell to civilians. Yes, that was my understanding was that it was for Law Enforsement training only. I have also seen it - very eye opening and scary. I'm not in LE, but my brother is a federal agent and showed it to me. They showed that a LEO had to be 21 feet away to not get cut before they could draw their weapon and pull off two quick shots. Mac ________________________________________________________________ Speed up your surfing with Juno SpeedBand. Now includes pop-up blocker! Only $14.95/ month - visit http://www.juno.com/surf to sign up today! --__--__-- _______________________________________________ The_Dojang mailing list The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang http://the-dojang.net Old digest issues @ ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com/pub/the_dojang Copyright 1994-2004: Ray Terry and http://MartialArtsResource.com Standard disclaimers apply. Remember September 11. End of The_Dojang Digest