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excellent clip!
i always like seeing the footage from the park, and like the exploration of fighting on a hillside 
can't wait to see more...
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i've enjoyed this thread..

one thing i haven't seen mentioned yet is-cultivating environmental awareness for access to a weapon (or an exit...).
oh, and 360 degrees awareness

unless of course we were talking about one on one "fair" fighting

But you can't do that all the time

you don't have to do it all the time, but getting to the adrenal state even a few times, realizing its there, your mindset in it, your capabilities, and understandings, etc. will give you an advantage over an oppenent who hasn't been there.

to model your movements on Lonely Dog

I haven't bought this one yet (it's on the list) but the above is a great reason for buying the DB dvds.  I enjoy watching the dvds and vid clips and then trying to emulate everyone's movements, strikes, etc. The more i've learned, the more I have to look for, and there's some really good things happening in lots of fights. Guro Lonely moves so well too!

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I missed day three, but I heard that there were some great fights. It was glad to meet a lot of the people from the board and put names to faces. I'm amazed at the heart and skill that people displayed over multiple days of fighting. I want to give a shout out to Corey and the Johns for driving me around, I really appreciate it.

Some of my highlights:

1) the stick and knife fight between Pappy Dog and Red Dog
2) The little in between spaces over the weekend, talking to people, Red Dog giving a short intro to his German sword fighting style
3) watching people consult, strategize, or learn a quick technique before a fight and then pulling it off
4) the fights! good stuff...

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I'm in agreement with Tom. I haven't trained for this Gathering, but my approach is well, I should be ready for anything anytime, and if i'm not, how will i do? on one level i'm fairly scared/stressed, but on another, my expectations are low, so there's some relaxtion. we'll see how it goes...

didn't see a thread on this topic...

I just want to thank Guro Crafty, Dino, and Ashley from team ruthless for holding a great seminar out on the east coast last weekend. Guro Crafty covered a large amount of material and I think the participants made strong gains in their stickwork. We reviewed the footwork matrix, the triques material, the salty strike, and some other tangents as well. I haven't trained with Guro in awhile so it was also nice to see some of the new material that he's developed. Good times had by all, it was a great weekend.

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thanks for trouble, if we can't work it out, no problems 

I have no idea! I'n in washington dc. I'm not totally sure where Manassas is, on the map it doen't look too far.

I think Joey's school is integrated Martial Arts, they have a website

http://www.intmartialarts.com/

the way of no way 

well...i'm not old but i've kept my ears open and will toss some thoughts in. One of my training partners in grappling was in his early fifties and people would come up to ask him for advice on his training regimen and such. one thing he would talk about, which i was later to hear echoes of at a Dr. Gyi seminar, was the importance of training methodology. many people, especially when were young, like to punish their bodies and train "hard" which isn't necessarily training "smart." My friend emphasized the importance of training like an athlete instead of a martial artist. He would point to guys in the NBA, Karl Malone, etc. who played for a long time, and Kobe who's physical health is worth quite a bit to the Lakers. Instead of doing physically punishing old school kung fu inspired workouts, we should emulate pro athletes and the science of physical exercise. These guys are some of the best conditioned athletes in the world, and we should look to them and how they train. The Dr. Gyi seminar also talked about the importance of letting our bodies recover, and not to become "crippled." yes, it's impressive to break bricks with your fists when your twenty, but when you're fifity, and your body is broken, how will you be able to defend yourself?
which is one of the attractions of the dbma material. not many systems address healing and longevity.

great knockout by kermit cintron and arturo gatti is fighting next (i lol'd when they mentioned that they brought mickey ward in to help train/motivate him...life is funny/quirky sometimes)

Is it better to train consecutively in more than one style, (such as concentrating exclusively on Kali for a while, then leaving that off for MMA style mat work, and so forth) or is it better to train in multiple styles at the same time? (maybe you would have a more even development all around)?

I think it's good to have a base art, something upon which you can fall back on when all else fails, an art in which you put many solid hours of training into. BUT once that has occured, it's important to train in a multitude of ranges and styles (striking/grappling/weapons) and learn how to tranisition between each of them.

Anyway, this  latest email is a direct challenge of the "real world" applicability of FMA training,

meh. if he's a doubter, then it's just one less person you have to worry about

it is worth the drive!

i remember war dog driving (3 hrs?) from Palm Springs to LA to train in Guro Crafty's saturday class...i don't think I had any good excuses for missing class after hearing that...

Guro Crafty teaches classes at the Inosanto Academy and in Redondo Beach. you can also join DBMA and get access to more vid-lessons and advice.

unless baroni can ko frank the way he ko'd menne (quick chain of punches...brutal to watch), i see frank fighting phil like he fought tito, constant movement on the ground, making phil work to hold him down, and then knocking him out when phil gasses...

i saw two guys practicing in the park the other day. it was pretty fun to watch their workout. they took over a small section of the park and just repeated going through this one section with the same techniques...they started with climbing the lampost and then jumping off to swing through a set off pullup bars, then they ran the ledge for a slightly elevated plant enclosure and then did something else which i've forgotten like jumping over a bench or something. the run through took 30 seconds or so and then they would repeat...looks like good fun.

My initial introduction to DBMA was several years ago when I saw an ad in a martial arts magazine

i remember seeing the DB videos in the panther videos section of Black Belt magazine...maybe 10 years ago? I think at that moment it became a matter of when, not if, i would try stickfighting...was anyone else immediately hooked?

good odds for oscar i think

I'm pulling for oscar, though I think it'll go the distance and mayweather will get the nod. Mayweather is slick and can move, it'll be interesting to see if oscar can goad him into exchanging or cut off the ring to force an exchange.

hopefully it'll be on free tv in asia...

anyone else excited for the oscar-mayweather fight this weekend?!?

any weapons are acceptable if the fighters agree to it (see the threads on tasers and cattle prods). although fighting against a 3 pound piece of wood seems quite intimidating...

Renzo is sly, but frank has crisp striking and superior conditioning. i don't think renzo can take him down. it could look like frank vs. jeremy horn or frank vs. elvis sinosic, but i really think frank can outstrike renzo on the feet or the ground. 

Has anybody done any SCA stuff/sparring? do they have SCA in europe?

it's all about the benjamins...
does he really think kali is dead or is this just his marketing scheme?

i think i seriously dislike the term dead pattern. who coined this term, and to what end?