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Those of you interested in the "Yang" side of Yoga should check out Scott Sonnon's work on www.rmaxinternational.com
He has his own version of Yoga that he calls "Prasara Yoga" that is a mix of traditional Yoga and his own "bodyflow" exercises. I'm not very familiar with Yoga, but it looks very challenging to me!
He also has a program that he calls "Forward Pressure, The Yang of Yoga" which uses the transitions between Yoga postures to build strength as opposed to the "Yin" side of Yoga that most people are familiar with that emphasizes relaxation and flexibility.
Here I am training with GT Gaje at his home in Bacolod. The manong in the picture is the late Kalimba (sp?). Picture 17 and forward.
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Amen brother about flexibility and at the age of 39 have been stretching for a long time on my own but now really looking into styles of yoga . The gym where i train at offers it but some are not good teachers and have bad credentials but know a few that are good and been learing from them.
No wannabes here if your on here then you doing good and I have not fought in a gathering myself but thinking about it a lot. I been doing martial arts for a while and did the Dog Brothers semm in Penn this past march and also did privates with Crafty wow that was great stuff and at 54 Crafty is the man. But some of the alignment stuff we went over was great and helped me out a great deal. Have a good one Cold War and keep streaching if you find the time check out duncan wong yogi arts[u][/u]
Many thanks Cold War Scout now I know what a burpee is. Squat trust with a plyo jump looks like alot of fun. Now I was wondering litle bit about you I have seen you post a bit on here and was wondering about your backround a bit. Are you from Cali ? Fight alot of gatherings and your take on yoga and the healing benefits to heal after such a event.Mongo
Hey Cold War Scout
Can you give me a example of burpees? Is that like Hindu push up? From yoga's downward dog to a cobra stretch? Is that it?
Also Crafty yes that small taste of staff stretching and alignment has helped me greatly and this tread Will stay alive and will gain some traction on here.
I was also wondering about Gm Gyi I know some one that trains with my teacher from Ohio U where DR Gyi teaches at or at least did at one time well he had this woman come from GM GYI camp to do a letha yoga semm but I had to work that day and could not do it.But they did allot of staff and rope stretching. I was bummed out that I could not go but the guy is a bit of a prick not Gm Gyi but this guy who trains with my teacher . He never had her back and I think that is a big mistake.
Now I was wondering Crafty if you and Guro Inosanto and Gm Gyi believe in the healing aspects of yoga through breath control and do you practice any of this ?
In my first post on this tread I stated the founding of a guy named Duncan Wong and his breathing of Mudras and Bandhas sorry but I was Reading g the back of the dvd box. I know one is breathing and the other poses but with your experience of stick fighting did you find yourself healing up faster though some from of yoga and breathing?
also with your knee surgery did you find any of this helpfull?
I was hoping at some point that the leaders of the arts such as your self and Guro Inosanto ever thought about making a dvd of conditioning exercises that you have found helpfull to the public? ps if you did not get that email that i sent to you great work on Grandmasters Speaks vol 2 and snaggletooth I cannot tell you the way Tiffany and I dig that a lot both of them. Ever think about Vol 3 and one on GM Gyi? I know hes Bando but also from what I have read a legand in his own right.
As allways woof Mongo Gary
SWAP FOOD FOR SLEEP
If a lunch hour is in your shift hours, even half an hour, get permission to
sleep your lunch break, and eat energy bars and fruit as you drive to
replace a formal lunch.
You can use dumbbells and wiffle ball bats full of cement, but once you use the real thing,...it is hard to switch.
At last the wife and I arranged a date last night and planned to see "300". Long story short, after much misadventure 300 became impossible and in search of brownie points I deferred to her request for "Perfect Stranger" which I found perfectly boring. Ugh.
CSW,
i just wanted to say you a cool dude. it's really nice the way you're giving us props for just being there to help out mr. saurez and guro marc. i had alot of fun during the weekend myself.
Francisco
Originally Posted by Marc "Crafty Dog" Denny
2) Stick vs. Knife. CWS pressed me with true pressure on this and sometimes he killed me and sometimes we think I probably would have dropped him or deterred him on the way in. I think we agreed that stick vs knife is a question of four variables:
-- the knife
-- the stick
-- the men involved, their level of motiviation and their respective skills with their respective tools
-- the environment
Crafty Dog
Have you discussed this with RMAX or Torque Athletics? Have you brought this up in the RMAX forum? In the past others have had similar issues and it was addressed promptly. The president of Torque Athletics even personally replied to some posts. They had a run of product with manufacturing defects at one point. As far as I could tell, things were worked out to everyone's satisfaction. Keith
As my final word on this subject, let me point out that what you read above was part of my very first post on this topic. You chose not to answer the simple and reasonable question I asked. For some reason you decided that I was some kind of RMAX groupie and that clubbells were my "sacred cow" and chose to see me as the enemy. This is not true. I don't even use clubbells currently. My apologies if anything I have posted has seemed like a personal attack. That was not what was intended.
Keith
Quote---So you HAVE contacted RMAX? Why have you been implying that you didn't? Why didn't you point that out earlier?
...instead you chose to simply post in multiple forums to tell everyone you could to never buy this product.
Woof All:
I recently had someone tell me he was pleasantly surprised when his DLO arrived to discover that it was a triple disc. We're incredibly honored that he was willing to shell out $80 for what he thought would be one disc, but folks, please note that this is a TRIPLE disc!
yip!
Crafty Dog
CWS
Thanks for the heads up.
I'm very tired of makers of expensive gear with excuses for their failings.
For the price seems they could make a weighted club of strong construction.
In 4 years this is the first time we hear such statement.
CWS:
Thank you.
When you are out here for the DLO: Gun, Knife, Empty Hand seminar with Gabe and me, remind me to show you the Torqueblades (see the Stickconditioning thread for comments)-- I'd be curious to get your take on them and how they overlap with the Indian Clubs.
TAC,
CD
Woof CWS:
Outstanding to see you posting here!
Question: I've been hearing about the Indian Clubs from you and others and I am intrigued-- and I wonder if this training would simply replicate things that I am already doing. Is there an instructional DVD which you (or anyone else) would recommend?
TIA,
CD
ScoutQuoteThe Clubbell is designed such that the knob of the Clubbell screws into the neck of the Clubbell. As I understand it the screw itself is apparently called a zert. I took the 20 lb. Clubbell that had the severely canted knob, and I unscrewed it. It was then that I noticed that the zert itself was severely bent. The bend in the zert is what caused the knob to appear so severely canted. One does not have to be a rocket science to conceptualize that the ¼” zert is not capable of handling the tremendous physical forces that are brought to bear upon the knob/neck junction of the Clubbell.
Actualy this does not surprise.
I am a Historic European Martial artist and we noticed this very early on with alot of the lower end sword's that have screw on pommel's, your knob and zert, just swinging a two pound sword with any force/speed tended to bend the tang (zert) and they were alway's coming loose because of the twisting motion on the handle, much like you do with a clubbell, the higher end sword's that are being produced now from the old design's have what is called a peened on pommel were the pommel is wedge down onto a wedge shaped tang and then the piece sticking out is heated and pounded down to fasten the pommel to the tang.
I would be willing to bet they could also do something of this nature, gradualy tapering tang and peened over pommel.
Jeff
With all due respect, you sound like someone "with an axe to grind", and I am suspect of an ulterior motive. Have you discussed this with RMAX or Torque Athletics? Have you brought this up in the RMAX forum? In the past others have had similar issues and it was addressed promptly. The president of Torque Athletics even personally replied to some posts. They had a run of product with manufacturing defects at one point. As far as I could tell, things were worked out to everyone's satisfaction. Most pieces of equipment will have stress points that are more vulnerable to failure than other points. The same is true of traditional Olympic weights, and people still use those regularly.
Keith