I like them myself. It is a functional sharpie type pen that could be used for additional purposes.
woof G M:
just checked, it is the sharkie. i'm sure it's much sturdier than a sharpie... for me, too bad it's marketed as 'sharkie'... if they called it any name relating more to being a marker than being a predator, i would be more than cool with it. the connotations of the name may work against you when talking to a LEO or in the court. i am happy with my pen and mini-maglite.
i have made a conscious decision not to carry any form of blades.
Why is that if I many ask? Are the laws in NYC that restrictive? OR?
AFAIK, nyc laws prohibit any blades greater than 4". i used to carry a spyderco delica that is within limits. it was my EDC for the better part of 2 yrs.
2 equally important factors was in my decision... with others, the first factor is easily taken care of, but for me, it is not so easy. that is one of training. i have trained some fancy FMA knife drills, as well as some prison shanking methods. but i have not trained it to the point that i would be confident in my skills. also, if i drop my knife or it gets disarmed, will i be able to fight empty-hand vs knife? what if my own knife was used against me.
i am sure the members of this forum are thinking well, this one seems easy enough, do more training. i am still at a stage of my life where i cannot devote that much to training yet. however, how realistic would my training be for what would probably be a surprise attack? i am confident in my awareness skills, but who knows where and when i get jumped? i have a wife and 3 kids, maybe having a knife for an EDC may worsene the situation for me? i have my family to consider because if i am not around, life would be much harder for them. no matter how realistic i may be able to make my training, it will never be the real thing. it is not sparring, it is not rolling, it is not even stick training... it is bladed training. all training can be forgiving as it is mutual consent. the real self-defense encounter will be less-than-forgiving.
i will not lie to myself nor to others. i will not lie to my family, i will not put them into a position willingly that will make life harder for them. i am not a knifer. i am not even a stickfighter, but i rather use a stick or baton or broomstick for self-defense should the need arise over using a knife.
secondly and equally as important to me is that i do not know if i can live with the reality of me having to deploy my tool in a self-defense situation when i deemed it necessarily to deploy. i do not know if i can live with the traumatic stress of the aftermath of injuring someone. i do not know if i will survive the legal aftermath of an encounter also. as i read about violence, the realities of self-deffense, soldiers killing, etc. i really do not think i am mentally strong enough to deal with the aftereffects of the encounter.
if there is something i know about myself, it's that i'm realistic. i will not lie to myself or others in thinking i am skilled enough in any aspect of the martial arts and my training to have to test it for real in a self-defense situation. if at all possible, i rather avoid the self-defense situation. i am no expert, no master, i'm just 'joe generic' and looking to get home safe and sound to my loved ones.
did i make sense?
woof G M,
i've heard about the cold steel sharkie, but for some reason haven't checked into it. thank you for reminding me about it! checking into it, that is if it is the sharkie.
tail wags for the kind words. i had fun making them. looking to make more
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i agree with you about some of the sweeps having that silat/kali flava! lyoto's setup of the "sapus" are very interesting. all the more interesting is the fact that he does it on the fly! and get this: rashad, from an interview i saw is familiar (to what extent, i'm not sure) with 52 blocks (AKA jailhouse rock), a style that has some very nice kali/silat flava, specially with the 'bows and such. Machida vs. Evans: Interesting Indeed!
ronin informed me that what looked like sapus to me is in shotokan. i don't doubt that the techniques that we see in one style/system will exist in another system. after all, we all have 2 arms and 2 legs and limited range of motion. although one of my training partners has his black belt in shotokan, he didn't see the clips yet nor do we go over shotokan when we do train.
a long time ago i watched a youtube clip. a friend, Daniel Marks, interviewed Rashad Evans about 52. that may be the same one you saw. i will have to watch it again and to check to see anything new uploaded to youtube.
you might want to research Todd and Trevor Laly from Arizona Combat Sports. I remember them using the "superman" back in the late 90's early 2k's. some people think they were the innovators that punch, bringing it over to MMA with all their Muay Thai background.
BTW, [anderson] silva's buddy, lyto (sp?) machida is doing pretty dang good. nice to see a different template (shotokan) used effectively in MMA, although machida's style got a lot of flack early on, with audiences not used to seeing a more "traditional" flavor from a fighter. his fight with rashad evans should be a good match up.
NOTE: this post contains gif's that i didn't make. i dl'd off of Spladdle blog and uploaded to my pichost to save on bandwith. my thanks to the unknown gif maker(s).
That looks awesome!! Yip Man is a legend .... looking forward to seeing Donnie Yen do some Wing Chun!
woof maija et al:
here are 3 animated gif's i made of wing chun chain punching. it's from the hong kong movie IP MAN starring donnie yen (spl, flashpoint, dragon tiger gate, iron monkey 2, blade 2, highlander 4, etc). it looked cool and i was learning how to make animated gif's and i like donnie's movies.
i have made a conscious decision not to carry any form of blades. i did not think of using the keychain as a thumb loop though, but i find personally it's a nuisance as i hold it with the keychain on top as taught/advocated by Tak Kubota. he teaches some applications to flail the keys into the BG's face. i will have to play with the keychain as thumb loop idea to see if it's for me. thank you for the idea.
GC,
cool that the keychain can be removed, however, i would leave it on. also toying with the idea of having at least 1 key be a real key and the rest some random keys that is not in everyday usage in case i lose it while using it for self-defense and have my real set of keys somewhere in my bag or jacket.
the issue of the stylus for me is that i dont have need of one. i used to carry a palm pilot some years ago, which has since been replaced by my cellphone which has a superthin stylus and can track of my contacts, calendar, etc. i cannot imagine explaining myself to a LEO that i use this superthick/big stylus for my cellphone. i can hear some members thinking, well, why doesn't he just say he's a computer artist or something and the stylus is used for work? i don't like the idea of lying. in this specific case, it's not the act of lying (although i hate lying), but it's the congruency of my mindset/my lifestyle... maybe i'm paranoid, but i cannot imagine myself talking to LEO's or DA's or lawyers and having a plausible explanation of the ownership of the stylus. now if i was really in a line of work that needed a stylus, that would be different, but sadly i'm not. i imagine if i tried to lie, and they did a simple probing/questioning into my background, they would have caught me lying or at least cast doubt on my words.
i also hear some members thinking, better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. for me, that is a bad mindset, that almost primes me to be aggressive, anxious to physically defend myself. i would rather not have to get physical, but should the situation escalate i will not hesitate... i also definitely don't want to deal with any legal aftermath.... i don't know if i made sense, or it's just that i'm paranoid or you can even call me crazy lol
Ron Balicki shared that with me back around '96-97. It wouldn't surprise me if he got it from Erik Paulsen.
as Ryan is guessing, i'm guessing the same... thank you for the info!
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some more animated GIF's:
BFC (Bellator Fighting Championship) 6 - Yahir Reyes X Estevan Payan - 5/8/2009 - Reyes with a spinning backfist KO of Payan.
speaking of Bellator, if the above is in the lead of KO of the year, check out what should be in the running for submission of the year below:
BFC (Bellator Fighting Championships) 5 - Toby Imada X Jorge Masvidal - 5/1/2009. Imada with an Inverted Triangle Choke.
speaking of spinning backfist KO's... i don't know the venue/fight nor the fighters, but 'blue' goes for a left hook, 'red' counters with a spinning backfist for the KO.
NOTE: my thanks to the unknown GIF maker(s) of the above 5 pix.
i have put in my order today for a Key Fob, blunt ended with a key ring ... the pointed end is tempting, but because i live in nyc (other places may be worst than here with regard to laws and pointed objects)... but i wanted something innocuous looking, functional-everyday-usage-looking but should the need arise, i will have a tool of opportunity readily available.
although the koppo is probably the most versatile (out of koppo, yawara, and kubotan - to use the japanese terminology), i cannot think of a good response should a LEO ask me what i use that for, why the loop.
i believe the keychain part of the kubotan is more nuisance for me, but the overall appearance of it and the functional aspects of it balances it out.
edit: the Stylus with a pen clip is also very tempting... however, due to my personal philosophy, i didn't get it.
Anyone have any thoughts on Kyle Maynard fighting? One side of me says, "if he wants to do it." While the other side of me says that it's wrong on many levels.
i know what you mean, and i am of the same mind. but Kyle Maynard has shown he can handle himself... he can do takedowns and chokes. a true testament to the indomitable human will.
i got these off of http://www.spladdle.com which probably got them from elsewhere... i uploaded the pix to my pichost as to save the bandwidth of the pichosts used
my thanks to the animated gif makers!
~sg
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this one i found off of mma core.... props to the gif makers there! daniel duby's form looks superwicked when he does this kick
Just posted a new video clip of Sonny. I think this one shows quite nicely his ability to time and break rhythm whilst flow training. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H56vb8wb3xc
woof majia:
thank you for sharing... so good to see the manongs move...inspires us young ones.
i dont have a link handy, but apparently frank shamrock had some busted ribs prior to the fight. i guess now knowing his payout, why he continued with the fight and not sit it out.
Saw this post earlier by Pat O'Malley on Martial Arts Planet:
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It is with my heart and sould that I unfortunetly have to inform you that that on April 1, 2009 at 10:59am Cebu time, Mrs Vicenta Ong Canete died. Mrs Canete is the loving wife of GM Dionisio Canete.
Our thoughts and prayers are with GM Dionisio Canete and his family at this sad time. We will miss Mrs Canete's kind hospitality and presence at the Doce Pares HQ. We are very grateful to Mrs Canete's hard work and help with many things over the years and we will never forget the extra mile Mrs Canete went to make our wedding day so special. Wishing a lovely lady well on her journey.
The O'Malley Family xx.
My sincerest condolences to GM Dionisio Canete and his family.
didn't discovery or nat geo have some program where they measured bas rutten's punch? or randy couture's GnP? they hit something which allowed the scientists to measure and quanitify the punches. they should be able to set something up for stickwork.
re: gripping a heavy stick and accelerating it at a target... there is the aluminum baseball bat where it's a smaller handle and the bigger bat head
i was going to ask for pix when i read up to the part that Pretty Kitty will be putting it up soon.
for people like me, almost anything that is an object/tool that may be utilized as an instrument for one's self-defense is a huge uptick over obvious self-defense items like a pocket knife!
nicoholas cage in bangkok dangerous.... teaches his gofer some wck by way of a pak sao/knife drill and don & serng chi sao (single and double chi sao).
I picked up Ip Man(Yip Man) cool movie, i'm not sure on the accuracy of this biopic. There's a nice fight scene in a dojo with Yip Man(Donnie Yen) vs 9-10 japanese soldiers. Other than that the fight scenes are pretty limited. This movie was choreographed and directed by Sammo Hung. I've always liked the straight blast, just it's use must be timed like anything. Vitors boxing blast is a variation.
I still want to get Throwdown that judo movie....but I hae to order it via the web.
I was in Kaimuki the other day, watched a little because it was on the TV. It kind of reminded me of the Bruce Lee movie Fist of Fury \ Chinese Connection. I decided I could wait a little while longer..
to be fair to both movies, you must've only watched that scene where Donnie takes on 10 guys. the rest of the movie Ip Man is nothing like BL's FOF/CC.
a bit of a sidebar here: variety just reported that spielberg is remaking Oldboy with will smith in the lead ! can't they leave well enough alone? they are about to ruin one of the coolest movies that ever came out ANYWHERE. guess hollywood IS out of original ideas. accept no subtitute, see the original!
matinik
slightly off topic, but yeah, hollywood has been remaking some asian movies for some time now:
the departed (leonardo dicaprio, jack nicholson, matt damon) / infernal affairs 1 (hong kong) the eye (jessica alba) / the eye (thai/hong kong) the ring (naomi watts) / ringu (japanese) lake house (sandra bulloc, keanu reeves) / il mare (korean)
etc. some upcoming hollywood horror movies are remakes of asian horror movies.
one of the first planned remakes that came to my attention was richard gere's intention to make a hollywood version of john woo/chow yun-fat's the killer ages ago. thankfully that never happened
I picked up Ip Man(Yip Man) cool movie, i'm not sure on the accuracy of this biopic. There's a nice fight scene in a dojo with Yip Man(Donnie Yen) vs 9-10 japanese soldiers. Other than that the fight scenes are pretty limited. This movie was choreographed and directed by Sammo Hung. I've always liked the straight blast, just it's use must be timed like anything. Vitors boxing blast is a variation.
I still want to get Throwdown that judo movie....but I hae to order it via the web.
woof peregrine:
throwdown is good movie (not just cos it has a lot of judo in it, which it does). this was director Johnnie To's homage to Akira Kurosawa.
Donnie fought 10 japanese soldiers. the scene almost had the feel of tony jaa vs 50 guys in tom yum goong.
re: accuracy, read that Yip Chun was the consultant on the film. that is good AND bad. there is room for exaggeration or embellishment.
That looks awesome!! Yip Man is a legend .... looking forward to seeing Donnie Yen do some Wing Chun!
yeah!
most of the emphasis is on Bruce Lee... cool to see Yip Man get his turn. also he was from a wealthy background to lose it all due to war and forced to work for a living... lots of human interest/drama there!
i didn't look hard on youtube, but i'm sure if it's not up already, it will be soon... the fight scenes that is.
starring Donnie Yen dir'd by Wilson Yip (never heard of him? he dir'd Donnie in flashpoint, spl, dragon tiger gate) action choreography by Sammo Hung consultant to film - Yip Chun, eldest son of Yip Man
movie was too long, so it was split into parts 1 and 2... 2 is not out yet. i've watched half... need to watch the other half tonight of part 1.
biopic of Yip Man, the late wing chun kuen grandmaster who taught Bruce Lee, William Cheung, Hawkins Cheung, Wong Shum Leung, Leung Ting and many more.
trailers
interview
this looks good... some of the fight scenes shows some of the applications of the forms (naturally). none of the flashy kicks from donnie, since it's wing chun. i like it so far.
trivia: director wong kar-wai (arthouse director of chungking express, fallen angels, in the mood for love, 2046, ashes of time, etc) is also working on a film about Yip Man... should be starring tony leung chiu-wai (hardboiled, bullet in the head, infernal affairs, hero, happy together, in the mood for love, etc)
cool.. didn't mean to talk down at you if that was how you read it, it was not my intention. i havent been there in ages... it's my belief that police are armed with only revolvers because firearms are illegal.
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Oldboy reminded me of what one motivated man can do with channeled aggression against overwhelming odds who are not like motivated. Pissed off and Payback. The ending disturbed me.
agreed. and yes, normally i'm a wussy, i watched 2 takashi miike movies (ichi and audtion) and i am a wussy. oldboy was borderline for my tastes. if not for the hype of those 3 movies, i would've probably not watched them. a little extreme for me.
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what about inspirational training scenes?
almost all oldschool shaw brothers, non-shaw brothers movies of the late 70's and early 80's -- gordon liu in 36th chamber of shaolin aka master killer comes to mind as does oldschool jackie chan in snake in the eagle's shadow or durnken fist aka drunken master ... or what about the rocky movies?
on a diff note, re: martial application
donnie yen's first movie, drunken tai chi, was cool for me... at the time i was of the belief that tai chi was martial but in modern times was predominately practiced for health. having not officially taught it for martial applications, there were a few moves in that movie that showed me possible martial applications of the form.
most of the mags these days are really ads... or excerpts of books which they have published or will publish. but i bought this issue because of Sonny Umpad.
i recall ages ago Jeff Finder posting on ED about Sonny Umpad's 'straight blast with sticks'
firearms are illegal in HK... so in theory, there are no guns in their society... i dont know how much of the movies is reality where all the bg's go around with automatics.... but revolvers are standard issue
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loads of good movies/fight scenes? where to begin?
Oldboy
i loved the oldboy hallway fight, not so much because of the hammer, but cos of the boxing. although it was brief, it was very cool. and the rest of the movie is good, but not in the martial sense... 2 twist endings... one is predictable, the other caught me off-guard.. wanted to post so oldboy would know he wasn't the only one to watch this great movie... but if you want to watch it for the fight, then just watch the youtube link...if you want a good movie with twist ending... or want a revenge movie, give this a try
Tom Yum Goong/The Protector
although Ong Bak/Thai Warrior was good (i believe Tony Jaa was trained by Col. Amnat Poosiruk in the old Thai bareknuckle arts as well as Krabi Krabong), and the no-cut/one-take restaurant fight scene (i'm thinking it may be homage to Bruce Lee's Game of Death although i could be wrong -- if kill bill came out before the protector, maybe it was homage to quentin tarantino and kill bill?) was awesome.... i absolutely loved the tony jaa vs 50 guys and he breaks their arms and legs! if you look carefully, the 'form'/kata tony jaa does in the beginning of the movie, contain all the arm and leg breaks he does in this penultimate fight of the movie
Fist of Legend
my fave scene was the fight between jet and the japanese sensei... both learned from each other after having the techniques used against them in that fight and within the same fight they used the techniques that was used against them.
Throwdown (dir. Johnnie To's homage to Akira Kurosawa)
this was more a movie about redemption than it was about judo, although judo was the vehicle for the protagonist to get redemption... although not really martial arts action, check out Johnnie To's The Mission (unrelated to hollywood movie of the same name with Robert DeNiro and music by the great Ennio Morricone)... there is one scene in the mall... that was all Kurosawa... the "motion in stillness".... anyway, what is the name of the technique that tony leung ka fai does? step over shoulder lock? sweet... and Johnnie To has mentioned it in an interview that Throwdown was indeed homage to Kurosawa... especially Kurosawa's The Judo Saga, which were among Kurosawa's first movies
Donnie Yen
he was also in the forgettable Highlander 4
in his SPL (sha po lang), he imo, reinvigorated the fight scenes in HK movies. his collapsible baton vs dagger/knife of wu jing was an awesome fight... and donnie using judo/bjj/mma techniques in his fight scenes makes for something new and exciting to hong kong fight movie fans
Flashpoint was beyond awesome!
Lucy Liu
around the time of her movie with antonio banderas -- ballistic - ecks vs sever... in an interview she has said she studies kali.
Brandon Lee in Showdown in Little Tokyo... especially his fight in the factory, he rips a guard rail off and uses it as a single stick vs the bad guy's staff... Rapid Fire showed his potential to be an action star... was Jeff Imada (who i believe was close friends with Brandon) the choreographer? of course the fight vs Prof Al Leung featuring the trapping was unforgettable
going oldschool on you all lol:
heroes of the east aka shaolin vs ninja
gordon liu (aka master killer aka pak mei, priest in kill bill, aka johnny (leader of crazy 88's) in kill bill, marries a japanese bride, she practices JMA and he makes a comment to her about it and she sends a letter home and her sensei and brothers mistook it and sends their JMA experts to challenge gordon.
five venoms gang in northern shaolin vs southern shaolin aka invincible shaolin aka unbeatable dragon -- lo mang, the muscle-guy of the group, does southern praying mantis.... the scene where he does the fingertip handstand pushups with eggs under his hands always cracks (no pun intended) me up... his facial expression when he says 'eggs again?' gets me everytime... the slender venom that was slightly effeminate in this movie, played the son of the souther shaolin teacher, and was sent to learn yung chun aka wing chun
love the staff -- 2 movies come to mind:
gordon liu in invincible pole fighter aka 8 diagram pole fighter -- great staff training scenes
ti lung in kung fu instructor -- the plot is a ripoff/homage to akira kurosawa's yojimbo... if you haven't seen yojimbo, you may know the plot as sergio leone/clint eastwood's a fistful of dollars or david carradine's the warrior and the sorceress or bruce willis in walter hill's last man standing -- great staff training scenes
will post some more when i think of them....loong day at work, needed to post to unwind lol
EliteXC imo is turning into a joke... kimbo was their main attraction to draw in the mainstream... ken shamrock vs kimbo was to be a big draw... for whatever reason ken was training hard prior to his match... got a cut above eye which reopened.... frank shamrock comments publically how ken is a disgrace to the shamrock legacy.... read today that they have been apparently planning on fighting each other for at least a year... they have agreed materially on a contract, some terms to be worked out
this is so WWF/WWE!!! elitexc should declare bankruptcy. only draw they have is Gina Carano imo. i like both shamrocks, but their glory may be behind them.
i am grateful for yesterday's rally in equities markets.
i am grateful my youngest is 5 yrs old now and in kindergarden and i can slowly ease back into training having been in the Family Man stage of life for 10 yrs with little to no training.
lol @ me... ages ago Guro Crafty was giving a staff seminar which was hosted by Guro Raw Dog and i was fortunate enough to attend... one portion was going over the ILK angles of attack with the staff and Guro Crafty mentioned IIRC that the angles of attack were like the alphabet... now that we learned D-O-G, we can come up with our own, like D-O-G spelled backwards. don't know why, that just blew me over right then and there lol
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BTW, there is a colorful story from the 70s about GT Leo Gaje and the Count , , ,
i know better than to ask you to enlighten us about GT Gaje and the Count... lol
These amazing X-rays tell a stunning story of survival - in which a 16-year-old boy somehow lived through a horrifying attack by a thug who plunged a knife into his skull.
The miracle kid was stabbed and left for dead during a robbery at a bus stop last November in south London, the BBC reported.
It could have been a grisly end for the victim if his pals had not intervened and fought off the attacker. They suffered serious wounds themselves during the robbery attempt; one was stabbed in the chest.
The 5-inch blade was plunged into the 16-year-old's skull just above his right eye, and penetrated all the way to his ear. The handle was left ghoulishly sticking out, as captured in these images released yesterday.
The victim has recovered and is now a student in college, the BBC reported. But he still needs to visit doctors regularly.
The 17-year-old suspect made his getaway on foot, but was later identified when cops were able to recover DNA from his hat.
The attacker - who, like the victim, has not been named publicly due to British law - was found guilty of attempted murder by the Inner London Crown Court.
Ray Floro on his site has this idea... fold a credit card in half... the point at the fold will cut.
following along those lines... a soda/beer can can also be used in this fashion. a friend mentioned it to me ages ago, he used to keep a few soda cans in his car for this purpose.
On Saturday, May 27th in Carlysle, PA Colonel Amnat Pooksrisuk will be teaching an all-day seminar on Ancient Bareknuckle MuayThai techniques. The seminar will be starting around 9am and run all day. The cost is $60 (I believe!)
If anyone is truly interested in learning REAL MuayThai, this is where you need to be!!! The Colonel will only be in the United States through June 13th!
If you want contact information for this seminar (confirmation of date, time, location, and cost), please email me at:
...and I will forward your information to the correct people so that they may get you that information. I will, unfortunately, not be able to get up there as I have a seminar of my own to teach in Roanoke, VA
stickgrappler's note - to email KK - take out the NOSPAM
5th the recommendation for the series. All of the tapes are good, and some of them (Power, Footwork) are totally unique. The style of the series is to back the training exercises with examples from actual stick fights. Or, another way of saying that is useful techniques used in the fights are extracted and developed into training drills. This is what distinguishes these instructional videos from all others, which largely demonstrate techniques developed and trained only under cooperative training in the "dojo."
Gints
in fact one of the mottos of the DB is "If you see it taught, you see it fought."
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and get this: rashad, from an interview
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