Guro Denny will be in Illinois in a few days, Looking forward to training Stick Grappling, Staff, DLO and Getting a deeper understanding of recognizing the different types of fighters archetypes. We hope to see you at the seminar. Tomorrow is promised to no man. Showing up is 90% of life. If your on the fence give me a call an email or a forum message and i can give you more details.
More then anything i would suggest getting the staff prior to seminar so you can get used to moving it around and working on your movement with a new staff.
Thanks for the catch on the editing date for our LEO friends.
Guro Marc “Crafty Dog " Denny Seminar announcement
Marc Crafty Dog Denny Seminar in Bloomington Illinois at Jkd-Concepts Bloomington
Location: Lincoln Leisure Center, 1206 S Lee St, Bloomington, IL 61701
Dates: Saturday November 10th and Sunday November 11th 2012
DAY ONE--- Saturday November 10th Morning session: Knife fighting, DLO and In fight weapons access.
Afternoon session: Recognizing different types of fighters in the Seven Ranges of Stick fighting and developing plans for different fighter archetypes and applying this knowledge in learning how to stick fight.
DAY TWO: Sunday November 11th
Morning session: STAFF
We will have staff available for purchase and a limited number to loan for participants flying into the seminar.
Afternoon session: STICK GRAPPLING
Cost : Two days - Payment received Before November 1st, 2012 $175.00
Before November 1st DBMA members and members of the Dog Brothers tribe. $150.00
Before November 1st Active Duty military and LEO $ 140.00
After November 1st and at the door prices $185.00
After November 1st DBMA members and members of the tribe. $175.00
After November 1st Active Duty military and LEO $ 150.00
There is a very limited opportunity for private lessons with Guro Denny working one on one on Friday November 9th, please email Terry@jkd-concepts.com for more info on that opportunity and associated cost.
Checks, money orders and cashier's checks can be sent to
Guro Terry Crutcher
2107 Peirce ave
Bloomington, Illinois, 61701
For any questions about the seminar please email Terry@jkd-concepts.com or call 309-310-7626
For more information about the seminar see www.jkd-concepts.com
Pleasures are like poppies spread, you sieze the flower,its bloom is shed; or like the snow falls in the river a moment white, then melts forever........
The Midwest contingent of the Dogbrothers tribe and the Midwest Dbma and the Dbma school program from illinois all got together yesterday. We had 19 fighters participate!!! We met up in Chicago at the Bemis woods nature perserve. We had sparring and fighting in the morning, a fantastic lunch cooked by Carlos Flores and then a CPR session / bug out med kit session by Pete Juska and two RN's, later in the afternoon we had a few teaching sessions. We had 19 fighters and everyone made it through without any major injuries. The intensity was high in a lot of the fights and many of the newer people tested their live stick games. Lots of growth was evident. If your intrested in this path make it happen, if no one is around you then organize and build. The infrastructure is there to facilitate growth. The mid west tribe proves that the infractructure and support system is in place and ready for you to take your next step. Tomorrow is promised to no man. If your intrested in stick fighting and havent done it yet get involved. Go to a seminar, take a private with Guro Crafty, buy some tapes and start your path.
Woof, Dog Pete Juska, Dbma group leader Carlos Flores, and C- (?) Terry Crutcher
CrazyCossack- send me a personal message and i will give you my cell phone number and we can have a good conversation and i will give you the low down.
This was during the public gathering in September.
I suppose it could have been the perfect storm of mistakes and BAD customer service during the stay but the Head managers response after the fact was so disappointing, he just didn't want to make it right.
I even explained to the manager that i had stayed there before and would be coming back to Hermosa for years to come, it was clear that he didn't care by his actions. I also made it clear that i would voice my oppinion to my friends who also travel and stay in Hermosa.
I stuck it in this thread as i realized that some of you would be making hotel reservations for the camp and didnt want to let this slip off my radar before i shared with everyone my experience.
I had gotten used to the location and had learned my way around with that hotel as a central way point of reference for me while in the Hermosa area. . I plan on staying at the Best Western or some other hotel when i come out for The Tribal in the spring.
By now I have learned my way around Hermosa and its such a beautiful community that i wouldn't want to stay anywhere else in the area, i feel safe in the community and enjoy the restaurants and the night life and the beach area, i will just be using a different hotel on my future trips.
it was around $150.00 a night, for that you get..... over an hour to wait in the lobby to check in at 9pm because they gave your room away in error, then they send you to a second room with a 1/4 inch of standing water on the floor, you also don't get a phone in your room, oh and you don't get air conditioning in your room for the 4 days your there, and an unmaid bed when you walk in the room they finally dump on you because they are over booked for the entire weekend. Again i advise everyone to avoid Quality Inn on aviation blvd in Hermosa.
Just as an FYI we had a horrible experience at the Quality Inn on aviation blvd in Hermosa when we were out for the public gathering. After staying there a few times in the past we were shocked at the poor experience, the room was terrible and the managements ability to fix problems during the stay just didn't happen. To top it off the managements ability to make things correct after the stay was even worse. DO NOT STAY THERE! We wont use them again and I STRONGLY advise any of you not to stay there.
The cops and bureaucrats aren't afraid of the tea partiers the tea party is part of the establishment. They are afraid of these guys because these folks have less to loose so they have more power to act in ways out side the law because they have less to loose.
I received your favor of April the 8th, by Colonel Harrison, The subject of it is interesting, and, so far as you have stood connected with it, has been matter of anxiety to me; because, whatever may be the ultimate fate of the institution of the Cincinnati, as, in its course, it draws to it some degree of disapprobation, I have wished to see you standing on ground separated from it, and that the character which will be handed to future ages at the head of our Revolution, may, in no instance, be compromitted in subordinate altercations. The subject has been at the point of my pen in every letter I have written to you, but has been still restrained by the reflection that you had among your friends more able counsellors, and, in yourself, one abler than them all. Your letter has now rendered a duty what was before a desire, and I cannot better merit your confidence than by a full and free communication of facts and sentiments, as far as they have come within my observation. When the army was about to be disbanded, and the officers to take final leave, perhaps never again to meet, it was natural for men who had accompanied each other through so many scenes of hardship, of difficulty and danger, who, in a variety of instances, must have been rendered mutually dear by those aids and good offices, to which their situations had given occasion, it was natural, I say, for these to seize with fondness any proposition which promised to bring them together again, at certain and regular periods. And this, I take for granted, was the origin and object of this institution: and I have no suspicion that they foresaw, much less intended, those mischiefs which exist perhaps in the forebodings of politicians only. I doubt, however, whether in its execution, it would be found to answer the wishes of those who framed it, and to foster those friendships it was intended to preserve. The members would be brought together at their annual assemblies no longer to encounter a common enemy, but to encounter one another in debate and sentiment. For something, I suppose, is to be done at these meetings, and, however unimportant, it will suffice to produce difference of opinion, contradiction, and irritation. The way to make friends quarrel is to put them in disputation under the public eye. An experience of near twenty years has taught me, that few friendships stand this test, and that public assemblies where every one is free to act and speak, are the most powerful looseners of the bands of private friendship. I think, therefore, that this institution would fail in its principal object, the perpetuation of the personal friendships contracted through the war.
The objections of those who are opposed to the institution shall be briefly sketched. You will readily fill them up. They urge that it is against the Confederation--against the letter of some of our constitutions--against the spirit of all of them;--that the foundation on which all these are built, is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and, particularly, the denial of a pre-eminence by birth; that however, in their present dispositions, citizens might decline accepting honorary instalments[sp.]into the order; but a time, may come, when a change of dispositions would render these flattering, when a well directed distribution of them might draw into the order all the men of talents, of office, and wealth, and in this case, would probably procure an ingraftment into the government; that in this, they will be supported by their foreign members, and the wishes and influence of foreign courts; that experience has shown that the hereditary branches of modern governments are the patrons of privilege and prerogative, and not of the natural rights of the people, whose oppressors they generally are: that besides these evils, which are remote, others may take place more immediately; that a distinction is kept up between the civil and military, which it is for the happiness of both to obliterate; that when the members assemble the, will be proposing to do something, and what that something may be, will depend on actual circumstances; that being an organized body, under habits of subordination, the first obstruction to enterprise will be already surmounted; that the moderation and virtue of a single character have probably prevented this Revolution from being closed as most others have been, by a subversion of that liberty it was intended to establish; that he is not immortal, and his successor, or some of his successors, may be led by false calculation into a less certain road to glory.
What are the sentiments of Congress on this subject, and what line they will pursue, can only be stated, conjecturally. Congress as a body, if left to themselves, will in my opinion say nothing on the subject. They may, however, be forced into a declaration by instructions from some of the States, or by other incidents. Their sentiments, if forced from them, will be unfriendly to the institution. If permitted to pursue their own path, they will check it by side-blows whenever it comes in their way, and in competitions for office, on equal or nearly equal ground, will give silent preferences to those who are not of the fraternity. My reasons for thinking this are, 1. The grounds on which they lately declined the foreign order proposed to be conferred on some of our citizens. 2. The fourth of the fundamental articles of constitution for the new States. I enclose you the report; it has been considered by Congress, recommitted and reformed by a committee, according to sentiments expressed on other parts of it, but the principle referred to, having not been controverted at all, stands in this as in the original report; it is not yet confirmed by Congress. 3. Private conversations on this subject with the members. Since the receipt of your letter I have taken occasion to extend these; not, indeed, to the military members, because, being of the order, delicacy forbade it, but to the others pretty generally; and, among these, I have as yet found but one who is not opposed to the institution, and that with an anguish of mind, though covered under a guarded silence which I have not seen produced by any circumstance before. I arrived at Philadelphia before the separation of the last Congress, and saw there and at Princeton some of its members not now in delegation. Burke's piece happened to come out at that time, which occasioned this institution to be the subject of conversation. I found the same impressions made on them which their successors have received. I hear from other quarters that it is disagreeable, generally, to such citizens as have attended to it, and, therefore, will probably be so to all, when any circumstance shall present it to the notice of all.
This, Sir, is as faithful an account of sentiments and facts as I am able to give you. You know the extent of the circle within which my observations are at present circumscribed, and can estimate how far, as forming a part of the general opinion, it may merit notice, or ought to influence your particular conduct.
It now remains to pay obedience to that part of your letter, which requests sentiments on the most eligible measures to be pursued by the society, at their next meeting. I must be far from pretending to be a judge of what would, in fact, be the most, eligible measures for the society. I can only give you the opinions of those with whom I have conversed, and who, as I have before observed, are unfriendly to it. They lead to these conclusions. 1. If the society proceed according to its institution, it will be better to make no applications to Congress on that subject, or any other, in their associated character. 2. If they should propose to modify it, so as to render it unobjectionable, I think it would not be effected without such a modification as would amount almost to annihilation: for such would it be to part with its inheritability, its organization, and its assemblies. 3. If they shall be disposed to discontinue the whole, it would remain with them to determine whether they would choose it to be done by their own act only, or by a reference of the matter to Congress, which would infallibly produce a recommendation of total discontinuance.
You will be sensible, Sir, that these communications are without reserve. I supposed such to be your wish, and mean them but as materials, with such others as you may collect, for your better judgment to work on. I consider the whole matter as between ourselves alone, having determined to take no active part in this or any thing else, which may lead to altercation, or disturb that quiet and tranquillity of mind, to which I consign the remaining portion of my life. I have been thrown back by events, on a stage where I had never more thought to appear. It is but for a time, however, and as a day-laborer, free to withdraw, or be withdrawn at will. While I remain, I shall pursue in silence the path of right, but in every situation, public or private, I shall be gratified by all occasions of rendering you service, and of convincing you there is no one, to whom your reputation and happiness are dearer than to, Sir,
Beat the Crap out of Cancer----Bloomington Illinois
I would like to invite you to the Bloomngton, Illinois installment of the 2nd Annual “Beat the Crap Out of Cancer” Event being held on Saturday Oct 15th to benefit Cancer research.
This event started in Toronto Canada and has become a worldwide event, with locations this year in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Bloomington Illinois, Toronto Canada and The United Kingdom all on the same day.
This event is for Weapons Fighters of all Martial Arts to get together and fight for a worthy cause.... As with most “Fund raising events” ,Each fighter is asked to get friends and family members to “sponsor the fighter” our recommended sponsorship levels are $5 per fight or $25 per day, but any amout will help and all funds raised will be greatly appreciated!. We encourage you as a fighter to get as many fights as you can to help battle this terrible disease.
We are also recruiting Corporate Sponsors to help this “unique” event.
Every fighter will be able to wear as little or as Much Protective gear as they feel comfortable with. Fighters may also elect to fight with Padded Weapons, or live rattan or hard wood weapons. Head gear is a MUST. This is NOT a Dog Brothers Gathering, but rather an event for the Martial Arts weapons community to get together and Spar against other weapons based martial artists and to test yourself and test your art. This is open to ALL Styles, …Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Indian, Native American, Israeli, Indonesian, African and all other systems.
Each Fighter will be receiving an Event T-shirt to wear when they fight to support the cause.
Fighter Registration/ Sponsorship forms will be available on the web at http://www.jkd-concepts.com/Cancer.htmlbegining on August 22nd or we can email the forms to you or send them through the post office.
This year, the Illinois event will be held at Forest Park in Bloomington Illinois from 11:00am. to 3:00 pm. - In the event of Rain the event will be held at the Lincoln Leisure Center in Bloomington, Illinois. - Please don’t miss out on an opportunity to watch or participate in a terrific and unique event for a worthy cause.
Each one of us has been affected directly or indirectly by Cancer. It’s time to stop standing on the side and Fight for those who battle this disease every day.
WE Hope to see you at this event, and please take the time and pass this invitation on to your family and friends.
I personally use the latigo as a ranged weapon and have a second weapon for in close encounters " daga or barong is what i use in play as the second weapon". That being said i have no talent and very little fighting experience with the latigo, it strikes me that without the mask and with the daga as the primary weapon it seems a potent risk to your vision at long range and in combination with the blade if available something i wouldn't discard out right. I was am curious of the whips properties as a lubid type tool once across by a man that is wise in these things.
Woof to that Tobias. They should make a guy like Rad Martinez the President of the country. He has heart and cares about his family and keeps his word no matter what. A true warrior all the way around and a leader that all men should aspire to be like.
When your "REALLY" looking to improve your game/art you need to ask yourself what is the most efficient means.
Where do i get the most bang for my buck, And the most out of my time spent away from family.
In my opinion training with Guro Crafty has been one of the most efficient and longest lasting ways in which i improve my personal game. When i walk away from seminar with Guro Crafty i have clear notes, have had time to repeat techniques in seminars, my brain and body have an understanding of the movement and theory behind the movement. And Guro is a VERY hands on trainer/teacher that in my experiences is always circulating the room teaching.
Back in the day i missed training with many instructors who are no longer with us. I made excuses and now the opportunity is gone. I hear the stories from others and wonder where my game would be today if i had worked harder at growing my game in my younger years.
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