Archive for January 2010
January 20, 2010
Today, I was driving home from class and I was listening to my 8 year old girl teaching my 5 year old boy the game, “stone, paper, scissors”. I was laughing to myself because just a year ago, my 10 year old boy (then, 9) was teaching her to spar using the same terminology and hurriedness [...]
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January 20, 2010
Generally, a man can only rise to the limits of his character. In the pursuit of martial arts mastery, it is imperative for one to have first mastered himself. We call this “mastering the lower self”. The “lower” self–which we call the “nafs”–is referring to the basic instincts, impulses and desires of a man. It is [...]
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January 17, 2010
This is going to be a short one. This is the first few lines of my chapter on Training Methods. Hope you like it! Anyone who knows me should be quite familiar with the title of this chapter. Whenever anyone asked me what I was “feeding” my students, or what my secret to success was, [...]
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January 16, 2010
Why take a favorite student? Well, besides the reasons I present in Part I, a good reason would be if you wanted to preserve your art as you wish to have it preserved. Every student you touch will add his own flavor and spin on what you passed to him. Some of you will think [...]
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January 15, 2010
This is a follow-up to an entry I wrote months ago that I never finished. It would be beneficial to stop now and read the first part before reading this one. I’ll wait… I know I’m going to sound like I contradict myself, but hear me out first. There must come a point in your [...]
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January 15, 2010
Does that excite you? Do you like to read advertisements for secret arts, techniques and styles that no one else knows? Or do you want to learn something that–if you learned it–will enable you to defeat everyone you meet on the street? A lot of folks come to this very blog (maybe even you) curious [...]
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January 12, 2010
just discovered a new forums for FMA. hope you like it! it’s called the “Inayan” Eskrima forums or someting like that. http://www.inayan.com/forums/index.php please go and check it out and let them know thekuntawman sent you. btw, i am on a thread called “new sinawali” http://www.inayan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1542 at this link. thank you.
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January 12, 2010
Today, I called an old friend of mine to wish him a happy New Year, and we ended up talking about different martial artists we knew. One of those fighters was a gentleman named Bryan ____ (neither of us could remember his family name), who was one of the best big men I have known as [...]
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January 11, 2010
I was reading a thread on an FMA forum (I’m sorry I had forgotten which one), and something caught my eye. A forum member mentions cross training into Muay Thai, boxing, and Silat because of “gaps” in her FMA training. There is a myth that martial arts styles must have everything that could come up [...]
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January 11, 2010
I am reminded of a saying: “A man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client…” How true! And applicable–in the martial arts as well. So allow me to rephrase it: “A man who trains himself has a fool for a teacher.” I was watching the original “Rocky” movie, and there is [...]
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