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Woof:

Lets start looking at dates for the Spring Gathering.

How does May 4-5 look? 

HCTHC!
Crafty Dog

Soy luchador profesional de MMA con un record de ocho victorias y ninguna perdida.  Actualmente entreno como miembro del equipo “Black House” el cual cuenta con destacados luchadores como Anderson Silva y Lyoto Machida.  Vengo entrenando “Kali Tudo” con Marc Denny desde hace algunos meses y puedo ver una grande diferencia en mi estrategia de pelea.   Puedo ver una gran facilidad para atacar mis oponentes en diferentes angulos y distancias. También he aprendido otras maneras de golpear a las que no estaba acostumbrado.  Me sirven muy bien actualmente y las entreno diariamente, cada dia me sirven mejor y espero con ganas usar “Kali Tudo” con éxito en mi proxima pelea. 
 
Pedro Munhoz

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/12/18/2643481/pedro-munhoz-mma-10-world-mma-scouting-report

Odin’s Eye, the Plains of Vigard, and Your Last Fight
By Crafty Dog © 2012 DBI

As some of you may know, the Dog Brothers were introduced to the world with these words of Dr. Carl Jung:

“The idea is not to imagine figures of light, but rather to make the darkness conscious.”

This is the idea that underlies our credo “The greater the dichotomy, the profounder the transformation. Higher consciousness through harder contact!” © DBI

Thus the question is presented: just how are we to make the darkness conscious? After all, “darkness”, what Jung often called “the shadow”, is not subject to definition for by definition it is that which is not seen; it is precisely that which exists in the shadows cast by the interaction of light (God?) and a physical world , , , or the “Self” itself.

One way is a path first articulated by Dr. Jung—though the study of myths. Noted Jungian Professor Joseph Campbell explains:


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"(T)he qualities of experience are not subject to definition, the un-sayable is still capable of being expressed: artists can do this , , , An author can describe experience only as simile and metaphor. What he makes graphic and what he does, above all, to elicit empathy is to describe a human situation in which the ascribed emotions would naturally appear and conform to the lawfulness of human nature. Such stimulus situations, quite objectively delineable, tally with the released emotions. Artists and authors are constrained in their presentations to these relatively limited number of situations; for any others the listener or reader has, quite literally no "organ," no receptor mechanism for deciphering the message. We can justifiably assume that the foundation of our emotions is formed by universally human inborn behavior programs, primarily innate releasing mechanisms.

“Because of this, we should not be amazed when, in the literature of the world-- all the way from the Epic of Gilgamesh through the most recently published novels-- the same salient thematic elements are used and occur again and again: the hero who frees the maiden held captive; the friend who despite all dangers stands by his friend; social themes such as the strong oppressing the weak, the rich exploiting the poor; the abandoned and helpless child."
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These stories/myths/legends/religions have recurring themes which use recurring archetypes such as the hero, the wizard, the king, the trickster/jester, the princess, the queen, and so forth that lurk in the collective subconscious of man. Whether a story is a shadow story, a hero story, a wizard story, a king story, a jester/trickster story it has themes consistent with its type. Sometimes a story can contain a blend of these themes.

While on their surface these stories are often impossible and illogical, they resonate because they are maps to the development of Consciousness and different stories address different aspects of our psyche which are in search of integration and in search of consciousness. This applies both to children (see the work of the child psychologist Piaget for example) and adults.

Seen in this light, “Spider-Man and “The Hulk” are “shadow stories” and their tremendous resonance/”success” a powerful indication of their validity as such. They are tales of the powers and dangers of the dark side, of anger, aggression, sex/creation energies lurking underneath the mild mannered exteriors of the Peter Parker and Dr. Bruce Banners of this world.

I remember when my son was about seven years old and he was quite taken with Spider-Man. At first, my son wondered if Spider-Man was good. He wore a mask, he was in lots of fights, and the police often tried to capture him. We discussed how Spider-Man used his powers and his intelligence to protect good people whether he got the credit for it or not and how though he was a hero he also needed his every day secret identity for when the use of his powers would be inappropriate.

Then the Hulk came onto my son’s radar screen. He asked me whether the Hulk was a hero like Spider-Man. I replied that the Hulk tried to do the right thing with his powers but that unlike Spider-Man, who was a science student, the Hulk was rather stupid. He paused to consider this. We liked the Hulk, but I had just called him stupid. I explained that the Hulk’s rage was both the key to his strength AND the cause of his stupidity—he was too mad to think clearly-- and that was why he needed his woman Betty, whom he trusted, to guide him to do what was right and wrong. Without her, he often got into hot water.

In the story we at which are going to look here, we see a blend of the archetypes of the Wizard and the Hero.

As we will see in a moment, every hero loses a tangible representation of his old world and his old self.  In Odin’s case he loses Sleipner, his golden armor, his eagle helmet, and his spear to enter the realm where new wisdom is possible.  There he encounters another critical stage in the journey e.g. from Odin All-Father to Vegtam the Wanderer; he passes a major test (Vafthrudner)—not unlike a man receiving his Dog Brother name-- typically at the cost of tangible injuries-- not unlike what happens to a man on his path to Dog Brotherhood.

With this notion of maps to the development of consciousness in mind, let us turn to the Norse mythology and a story about Odin.

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http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=colum&book=odin&story=mimir

ODIN GOES TO MIMIR'S WELL: HIS SACRIFICE FOR WISDOM


AND so Odin, no longer riding on Sleipner, his eight-legged steed; no longer wearing his golden armor and his eagle helmet, and without even his spear in his hand, traveled through Midgard, the World of Men, and made his way toward Jötunheim, the Realm of the Giants.

No longer was he called Odin All-Father, but Vegtam the Wanderer. He wore a cloak of dark blue and he carried a traveler's staff in his hands.  And now, as he went towards Mimir's Well, which was near to Jötunheim, he came upon a Giant riding on a great Stag.

Odin seemed a man to men and a giant to giants.  He went beside the Giant on the great Stag and the two talked together. "Who art thou, O brother?" Odin asked the giant.

"I am Vafthrudner, the wisest of the Giants," said the one who was riding on the Stag.  Odin knew him then.  Vafthrudner was indeed the wisest of the Giants, and many who went to strive to gain wisdom from him.  But those who went to him had to answer the riddles Vafthrudner asked, and if they failed to answer the Giant took their heads off.

"I am Vegtam the Wanderer," Odin said, "and I know who thou art, O Vafthrudner. I would strive to learn something from thee."

The Giant laughed, showing his teeth.  "Ho, ho," he said, "I am ready for a game with thee. Dost thou know the stakes? My head to thee if I cannot answer any question thou wilt ask.  And if thou canst not answer any question that I may ask, then thy head goes to me.  Ho, ho, ho. And now let us begin."

"I am ready," Odin said.

"Then tell me," said Vafthrudner, "tell me the name of the river that divides Asgard from Jötunheim?"

"Ifling is the name of that river," said Odin. "Ifling that is dead cold, yet never frozen."

"Thou hast answered rightly, O Wanderer," said the Giant. "But thou hast still to answer other questions.  What are the names of the horses that Day and Night drive across the sky?"

"Skinfaxe and Hrimfaxe," Odin answered.  Vafthrudner was startled to hear one say the names that were known only to the Gods and to the wisest of the Giants.  There was only one question now that he might ask before it came to the stranger's turn to ask him questions.

"Tell me, said Vafthrudner, "what is the name of the plain on which the last battle will be fought?"

"The Plain of Vigard," said Odin, "the plain that is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles across."

It was now Odin's turn to ask Vafthrudner questions.  "What will be the last words that Odin will whisper into the ear of Baldur, his dear son?" he asked.

Very startled was the Giant Vafthrudner at that question.  He sprang to the ground and looked at the stranger keenly.

"Only Odin knows what his last words to Baldur will be," he said, "and only Odin would have asked that question.  Thou art Odin, O Wanderer, and thy question I cannot answer."

"Then," said Odin, "if thou wouldst keep thy head, answer me this: what price will Mimir ask for a draught from the Well of Wisdom that he guards?"

"He will ask thy right eye as a price, O Odin," said Vafthrudner.

"Will he ask no less a price than that?" said Odin.

"He will ask no less a price.  Many have come to him for a draught from the Well of Wisdom, but no one yet has given the price Mimir asks.  I have answered thy question, O Odin.  Now give up thy claim to my head and let me go on my way."

"I give up my claim to thy head," said Odin.  Then Vafthrudner, the wisest of the Giants, went on his way, riding on his great stag.

Twas a terrible price that Mimir would ask for a draught from the Well of Wisdom, and very troubled was Odin All-Father when it was revealed to him.  His right eye!  For all time to be without the sight of his right eye!  Almost he would have turned back to Asgard, giving up his quest for wisdom.

He went on, turning neither to Asgard nor to Mimir's Well.  And when he went toward the South he saw Muspelheim, where stood Surtur with the Flaming Sword, a terrible figure, who would one day join the Giants in their war against the Gods.  And when he turned North he heard the roaring of the cauldron Hvergelmer as it poured itself out of Niflheim, the place of darkness and dread.  And Odin knew that the world must not be left between Surtur, who would destroy it with fire, and Niflheim, that would gather it back to Darkness and Nothingness.  He, the eldest of the Gods, would have to win the wisdom that would help to save the world.

And so, with his face stern in front of his loss and pain, Odin All-Father turned and went toward Mimir's Well.  It was under the great root of Ygdrassil—the root that grew out of Jötunheim.  And there sat Mimir, the Guardian of the Well of Wisdom, with his deep eyes bent upon the deep water.  And Mimir, who had drunk every day from the Well of Wisdom, knew who it was that stood before him.

"Hail, Odin, Eldest of the Gods," he said.

Then Odin made reverence to Mimir, the wisest of the world's beings. "I would drink from your well, Mimir," he said.

"There is a price to be paid.  All who have come here to drink have shrunk from paying that price.  Will you, Eldest of the Gods, pay it?"

"I will not shrink from the price that has to be paid, Mimir," said Odin All-Father.

"Then drink," said Mimir. He filled up a great horn with water from the well and gave it to Odin.

Odin took the horn in both his hands and drank and drank.  And as he drank all the future became clear to him.  He saw all the sorrows and troubles that would fall upon Men and Gods.  But he saw, too, why the sorrows and troubles had to fall, and he saw how they might be borne so that Gods and Men, by being noble in the days of sorrow and trouble, would leave in the world a force that one day, a day that was far off indeed, would destroy the evil that brought terror and sorrow and despair into the world.

The when he had drunk out of the great horn that Mimir had given him, he put his hand to his face and he plucked out his right eye.  Terrible was the pain that Odin All-Father endured.  But he made no groan nor moan.  He bowed his head and put his cloak before his face, as Mimir took the eye and let it sink deep, deep into the water of the Well of Wisdom.  And there the Eye of Odin stayed, shining up through the water, a sign to all who came to that place of the price that the Father of the Gods had paid for his wisdom.
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I am not learned in these things, but for what it is worth, here is what I take from this myth:

Wisdom has a price, physically and psychologically--in the weight of the knowledge of our mortality-- and in this we find our reward, for as the story says:

“And as he drank all the future became clear to him. He saw all the sorrows and troubles that would fall upon Men and Gods. But he saw, too, why the sorrows and troubles had to fall, and he saw how they might be borne so that Gods and Men, by being noble in the days of sorrow and trouble, would leave in the world a force that one day, a day that was far off indeed, would destroy the evil that brought terror and sorrow and despair into the world.”

On the Dog Brothers path we too pay a physical price for the wisdom and the consciousness that we seek.  We accept this because we know its value.

“Odin knew that the world must not be left between Surtur, who would destroy it with fire, and Niflheim, that would gather it back to Darkness and Nothingness.  He, the eldest of the Gods, would have to win the wisdom that would help to save the world.”

And so, like Odin, we accept a price that others do not.   This brings us to the question under consideration here today: At what point is the price paid enough?  At what point is the price too high?  After all, Odin gave only one eye, not both!

The Dog Brothers’ path is to “walk as a warrior for all our days”.  If we are too dinged up and damaged to “bring it” then metaphorically we have given up our second eye—we will stand useless on the day of the Last Battle on the Plains of Vigard and we will weep from our empty eye sockets as the Valkeryie pass us over for having fallen short of being ready, willing, and able to defend our land, women, and children.

Sometimes, in the spirit of exuberant abandon that accompanies the willingness to “bet our head” as Odin did, as stick fighters we do not recognize the portal from this stage in our Life to the next.  We confuse staying too long with staying young-- and in effect we wind up sightless, having given both eyes instead of one!

In plain words, we need to stop fighting while we still have something left—so that we always have “one more fight” left within us.

For me this means that though I fight no longer I train so I can pull the trigger when necessary and go to the place where I am forever young-- for however long that may be--but I have already given my metaphorical “one ey”e to the stick fighting gods in return for the insight of the experience, and no more “eyes” am I willing to give in my search for wisdom.

Intelligence is the amount of time it takes to forget a lesson.  A lesson learned clears the way for the next one.  A lesson forgotten will be presented once again by Life until we learn it once again.  Thus, if I am intelligent, I remember the lessons from my time fighting.  There is a trigger I can pull and go to the place where I am “forever young”—a place where, as the country music song says (working from memory here), “I ain’t as young as I once was, but I’m as young once as I ever was.”

To fight is to accept that one might be damaged lastingly.  I know I have been.  The durability I have left is for providing for my family , , , and my turn on the Plains of Vigard. And when it is my time, the words of Juan Matus (like Odin, Merlin, and Gandolf the Grey, another example of the Wizard archetype) come to mind:

“And thus you will dance to your death here, on this hilltop, at the end of the day.  And in your last dance you will tell of your struggle, of the battles you have won and of those you have lost; you will tell of your joys and bewilderments upon encountering personal power.  Your dance will tell about the secrets and about the marvels you have stored. And your death will sit here and watch you.  The dying sun will glow upon you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again, in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.”

The Adventure continues,
Crafty Dog

This piece is definitely way out there, but it certainly asks some pertinent questions:
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http://www.naturalnews.com/036536_James_Holmes_shooting_false_flag.html


Colorado Batman shooting shows obvious signs of being staged

Friday, July 20, 2012
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)  
  
 
 
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(NaturalNews) James Holmes, the Aurora, Colorado shooter who reportedly opened fire at a Batman movie premiere, was a medical student at the University of Colorado, pursuing a PhD in neuroscience, reports ABC News. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/mass-shooting-colorado-movie-theater-14-peop...)

As part of the attack, Holmes painted his hair red and referred to himself as "The Joker," one of the arch enemies in the DC Comics-inspired Batman movie series. (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/07/20/police-14-dead-in-colorado-the...)

According to news reports, this sudden violent rampage was completely out of character for James Holmes, who was described as "shy."

The New York Times is now reporting:
Billy Kromka, a pre-med student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, worked with Mr. Holmes for three months last summer as a research assistant in a lab of at the Anschutz Medical Campus. Mr. Kromka said he was surprised to learn Mr. Holmes was the shooting suspect. "It was just shocking, because there was no way I thought he could have the capacity to do commit an atrocity like this," he said. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/us/colorado-mall-shooting.html?page...)

"He spent much of his time immersed in the computer, often participating in role-playing online games..."

There is already conjecture that James Holmes may have been involved in mind-altering neuroscience research and ended up becoming involved at a depth he never anticipated. His actions clearly show a strange detachment from reality, indicating he was not in his right mind. That can only typically be accomplished through drugs, hypnosis or trauma (and sometimes all three).


His behavior doesn't add up
His behavior already reveals stark inconsistencies that question the mainstream explanation of events. For example, he opened fire on innocent people but then calmly surrendered to police without resistance. This is not consistent with the idea of "killing everyone."

Furthermore, he then admitted to police that his apartment was booby-trapped with explosives. If you were really an evil-minded Joker trying to kill people (including cops), why would you warn them about the booby trap in advance? It doesn't add up.

"Holmes was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, police said, adding he didn't resist when he was arrested," reports a local CBS news affiliate (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/07/20/police-14-dead-in-colorado-the...).

"After his arrest, Holmes told police about 'possible explosives in his residence,' Oates said. When police searched his apartment, they discovered it was booby-trapped and evacuated surrounding buildings, police said. Oates said bomb technicians are determining how to disarm flammable or explosive material in the third-floor apartment. He said police could be there some time."

None of this checks out. If you're a killer bent on causing mayhem, why tell the police about your surprise bomb waiting for them back at your apartment?


Holmes was clearly provided with exotic gear (and bomb-making skills)
Continuing from CBS:

"He said pictures from inside the apartment are fairly disturbing and the devices look to be sophisticated, adding the booby-traps were 'something I've never seen.' One rifle, two handguns, a knife, a bullet proof vest, a ballistic helmet, a gas device, a gas mask, military SWAT clothing and unidentified explosives were also found in Holmes' car, a law enforcement source told CBS News. Oates said Holmes wore a gas mask, a ballistic helmet and vest as well as leg, groin and throat protectors during the shooting."

In other words, this guy was equipped with exotic gear by someone with connections to military equipment. SWAT clothing, explosives, complex booby-traps... c'mon, this isn't a "lone gunman." This is somebody who was selected for a mission, given equipment to carry it out, then somehow brainwashed into getting it done.

"Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said Holmes' apartment is booby-trapped with a 'sophisticated' maze of flammable devices. It could take hours or days for authorities to disarm it," reports Yahoo News (http://sg.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/suspect-neuroscience-phd-stu...).

UPDATE: (This section added to the story Saturday at 2:30 pm central, July 21, 2012). It is now being reported that exotic, advanced booby-traps have been disarmed at the apartment of James Holmes. The Denver affiliate of CBS News is now reporting: (http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/07/21/officials-expect-explosions-as-...)

Officials say they have removed all major threats at the booby-trapped apartment of the Aurora movie theater shooting suspect on Saturday. They have used a robot to go inside James Holmes' apartment. ...They were able to disable a trip wire that was set to go off when the apartment door was opened. "This is some serious stuff that our team is dealing with..."

Shortly before noon crews were successful performing a controlled detonation... More controlled detonations were possible.

...there were multiple trip wires throughout the apartment. Investigators have also seen what appear to be mortars planted in the apartment -- sort of the kind of mortars that might be seen in a commercial fireworks show. Up to a half dozen of them are scattered around.

...they have seen a number of inflated balloons in the apartment... with many appearing to be filled with a powder. Also linked together are bottles of liquid. ...a strong smell of gasoline emanating from the apartment.

...several boxes on top of the refrigerator and there are lights flashing on the boxes.

...30 aerial shells (fireworks) commercially legally available for purchase. ...the suspect may have filled them with smokeless powder. ...entering the apartment would have caused a trip wire to trigger one liquid container to pour/mix with another. When the two mix together, they set off the main charge of the device which may be additional flammable liquids.

...an enormously dangerous mission. About 100 personnel are on scene.

And the BBC is now reporting: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18937726)

Technicians made a first attempt on Friday to disarm the traps, believed to include explosives, but withdrew when it became clear the property was too dangerous to enter. Sgt Carlson said the device was set up to detonate when the first person entered the flat. "We've defeated first threat. It was set up to kill, and that could have been police officers or anything," she said.

"In addition to the shells found in the apartment, jars of a kind of accelerant were also found inside the dwelling, said Aurora Police Sgt. Cassidee Carlson." (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044446430457754103267932...) "Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates expressed frustration on Friday with the web of wires and devices Mr. Holmes had connected inside his apartment, which were hindering the investigation into the shooting. ...It was unlike anything he had seen before."


FBI has a track record of staging similar assaults, then stopping them at the last minute
This is not your run-of-the-mill crime of passion. It was a carefully planned, heavily funded and technically advanced attack. Who might be behind all this? The FBI, of course, which has a long history of setting up and staging similar attacks, then stopping them right before they happen. See four documented stories on these facts:

http://www.naturalnews.com/035849_domestic_terror_plots_FBI.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/034325_FBI_entrapment_terror_plots.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/033751_FBI_terrorism.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/035757_FBI_terror_plots_false_flag.html

As you soak all this in, remember that the FBI had admitted to setting up terror plots, providing the weapons and gear, staging the location of the bombings and even driving the vehicles to pull it off! This is not a conspiracy theory, it's been admitted by the FBI right out in the open. Even the New York Times openly reports all this in stories like this one:

NYT: Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-help...)

THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years -- or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts. But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. ...the F.B.I. provided a van loaded with six 55-gallon drums of “inert material,” harmless blasting caps, a detonator cord and a gallon of diesel fuel to make the van smell flammable. An undercover F.B.I. agent even did the driving...


Mystery man Holmes has no background
On top of all this, Holmes apparently has no background. "He's not on anybody's radar screen -- nothing," said a peace officer in a NYT article. "This guy is somewhat of an enigma. Nobody knows anything about him." (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/us/colorado-mall-shooting.html)

Mr. Holmes's only criminal history is a traffic summons, the authorities said. He earned a bachelor's degree with honors in neuroscience in 2010 from the University of California, Riverside, and was a graduate student in neurosciences at the University of Colorado at Denver's Anschutz Medical Campus... He was currently collecting unemployment...


Question: How does an unemployed medical student afford $20,000 in weapons gear?
If you start to look at the really big picture here, the obvious question arises: How does an unemployed medical student afford all the complex weapons gear, bomb-making gear, "flammable" booby trap devices, ammunition, multiple magazines, bullet-proof vest, groin protection, ballistic helmet, SWAT uniform and all the rest of it?

A decent AR-15 rifle costs $1,000 or more all by itself. The shotgun and handgun might run another $800 total. Spare mags, sights, slings, and so on will run you at least another $1,000 across three firearms. The bullet-proof vest is easily another $800, and the cost of the bomb-making gear is anybody's guess. With all the specialty body gear, ammunition, booby-trap devices and more, I'm guessing this is at least $20,000 in weapons and tactical gear, much of which is very difficult for civilians to get in the first place.

The mere manufacture of an explosive booby-trap device is, all by itself, a felony crime by the way. And remember: "Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said Holmes' apartment is booby-trapped with a 'sophisticated' maze of flammable devices. It could take hours or days for authorities to disarm it," reported Yahoo News (http://sg.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/suspect-neuroscience-phd-stu...).

Question: Where does an unemployed, introverted medical school student get the training to deploy sophisticated booby traps, tactical body armor, weapons systems and more? Certainly not in graduate school!

All this leads to an obvious third party influence over all this. Someone else taught this guy these skills and funded the acquisition of the equipment.

Update: An article posted on Sunday by the Daily Mail reveals Holmes had a "'mind-boggling' stash of ammunition" and "three types of explosives were found - jars filled with accelerates, chemicals that would explode when mixed together and more than 30 improvised grenades." This further adds to the financial cost tally of what it took to put all this together. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2177156/James-Holmes-Dark-Kni...)

The Wall Street Journal is also now reporting: "the suspect bought four guns over the past 60 days, and over the Internet bought 3,000 rounds for an assault rifle, 3,000 rounds for Glock handguns and about 300 shotgun rounds. The suspect also had a 100-round drum-style magazine for the assault rifle that would have allowed him to fire 50 to 60 rounds a minute." (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044446430457754103267932...)

Note: Some readers have questioned the $20,000 figure estimated here, saying this gear could have been acquired for only $10,000 or so. I doubt that, as all the extras that you need to effectively run these guns cost a lot of money: training courses, spare magazines, etc. Just a decent AR-15 battle sight (a holographic red dot sight) can run $1,000 - $2,000. Search "ACOG" if you don't believe me. It is also reported that Holmes bought 6,000 rounds of ammo, which definitely isn't cheap either, especially given that we now know half of those rounds were rifle rounds. It's clear this guy was spending big bucks. Whether it's $10k or $20k isn't really that much of a point.


Staged just in time for a vote on the UN small arms treaty?
More and more, this shooting is looking like a deliberate plot staged by the government itself much like Operation Fast and Furious pulled off by the ATF (http://www.naturalnews.com/032934_ATF_illegal_firearms.html) which helped smuggle tens of thousands of guns into Mexico for the purpose of causing "gun violence" in the USA, then blaming the Second Amendment for it.

All this looks like James Holmes completed a "mission" and then calmly ended that mission by surrendering to police and admitting everything. The mission, as we are now learning, was to cause as much terror and mayhem as possible, then to have that multiplied by the national media at exactly the right time leading up the UN vote next week on a global small arms treaty that could result in gun confiscation across America. (http://lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem61.1.html)

Even Forbes.com wrote about this quite extensively, warning readers about the coming gun confiscation effort related to the UN treaty. The story was authored by Larry Bell (http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2011/06/07/u-n-agreement-should...) and says the UN treaty could "override our national sovereignty, and in the process, provide license for the federal government to assert preemptive powers over state regulatory powers guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment in addition to our Second Amendment rights."

In other words, this has all the signs of Fast & Furious, Episode II. I wouldn't be surprised to discover someone in Washington was behind it all. After all, there's no quicker way to disarm a nation and take total control over the population than to stage violence, blame it on firearms, then call for leaders to "do something!" Such calls inevitably end up resulting in gun confiscation, and it's never too long after that before government genocide really kicks in like we saw with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and other tyrants.

 


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A video of a brutal fight that resulted in the death of a Redondo Beach bar bouncer was played in court Monday during a hearing for two men accused of his murder.
The video from the June 2 fight outside Pats II Cocktails on Pacific Coast Highway shows bar employee Terie Colecchi throwing the first punch, but the two men repeatedly punching and kicking him once he collapsed.
Following the
 
Bouncer Terie Colecchi was beaten to death at a Redondo Beach bar.
preliminary hearing in Torrance court, Judge Hector Guzman ruled Francisco Cobarruvias and Rene Anthony Avina must stand trial for murder in Colecchi's death.
Guzman said it was clear that Colecchi punched first and was on top of Cobarruvias as they battled, but they switched positions after several seconds and Cobarruvias was on top.
Avina, the video showed, kicked Colecchi in the head, and Cobarruvias then inflicted "seven very quick, violent blows to the victim's head," the judge said.
"The victim is motionless," Guzman said, raising his hands parallel to his head. "His hands are at his side.
Cobarruvias, 35, of Redondo Beach and Avina, 23, of Riverside are charged with beating Colecchi, 49, of Torrance
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to death when the bouncer denied them entry to the bar at 1:40 a.m.
Cobarruvias and Avina, both regulars at the bar, surrendered to police in the following days.
During the three-hour proceeding, Cobarruvias' attorney, Jeffrey Gray, argued that Colecchi struck first and bit Cobarruvias on the hand.
Colecchi, Gray said, outweighed Cobarruvias by 100 pounds and was about 8 inches taller.
"I definitely believe my client worked and operated in complete self-defense," Gray said in an interview. "An atrocious felony was committed on my client when Colecchi bit him on the hand. My client only responded to the violence brought upon him by Mr. Colecchi."
None of the witnesses who testified Monday saw the actual fight. Bartender Karen Benjestorf told Deputy District Attorney Ethan Milius she saw Colecchi stop Cobarruvias and Avina from entering the bar and watched them step outside.
She looked at a video surveillance monitor behind the bar, saw a fight start and ran outside.
"I saw Frank on top of Terie, who was on the ground unconscious," she said. "(Cobarruvias) was standing over him."
Benjestorf said she screamed and pushed Cobarruvias away.
Pats II patron Trace Lankford said he noticed Colecchi block the men from entering the bar, and saw Colecchi push them outside.
Lankford said he settled his tab and walked outside, where he found Colecchi lying unconscious on the ground, his eyes swollen shut, blood running from his nose. He pushed Cobarruvias away from the bouncer.
Cobarruvias looked down at the bouncer and said, "Why did you make me do this?" Lankford said.
"It was a very odd thing to hear," Lankford said.
Gray and Avina's attorney, Christopher Glew, argued that their clients should not have been charged with murder, but with a lesser manslaughter count because the death occurred during an unplanned fight.
Guzman left that for a jury to decide.
Colecchi's cause of death also might play a role in the defense case. Redondo Beach police Detective Paul Ribitzki testified that an autopsy showed Colecchi suffered blunt force trauma, but the official cause of death has not been determined pending toxicological tests.
Testimony revealed a medical examiner found that Colecchi had an enlarged heart, a sign of possible drug use, and could have died from that condition.
Records show Colecchi had been convicted in the past of methamphetamine possession for sale.
"It's hard to say a fight could have caused his heart to be enlarged," Glew said.
Witness testimony also revealed that Cobarruvias was in the bar in November when two "skinheads" demanded he leave because he was Latino.
Cobarruvias asked Colecchi to escort him out of the bar to be safe. Colecchi said no.
Redondo Beach Detective Denise Brenner said Cobarruvias told his girlfriend he was upset.
"He was angry Terie would not have his back," she said.
Guzman ordered Cobarruvias held in jail on $2 million bail. Avina was held on $1 million bail.
Each must return to Torrance Superior Court on July 23 for arraignment.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/sports/money-and-mysticism-mix-on-fight-nights-in-senegal.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120525
Senegalese Wrestling
Published: May 24, 2012
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DAKAR, Senegal — Many called it the biggest match of all time. Others, just the biggest of the season. Either way, it was too big for the limited seating at Demba Diop Stadium here — a fact not lost on those who started lining up outside at 9 a.m., 10 hours before the main event.

The marquee combatants arrived in the late afternoon, welcomed by musical odes and a chorus of erratic drumming. Each defied his massive frame, nimbly performing the “dance of champions” and taking measures to repel black magic before stepping into the ring. The preparations at the stadium for the fight last month lasted hours; the bout, mere minutes. For the wrestlers and their fans, however, the outcome would endure for years.
Although traditional wrestling exists in various forms throughout West Africa, the version in Senegal, known as laamb, has reached unparalleled heights. Laamb ends when one of the wrestlers puts his opponent’s head, back or both hands and knees to the ground. Unlike other forms, laamb allows punches in certain matches. Those matches are the ones upon which wrestlers, spectators, sponsors, promoters, shamans, musicians and journalists descend every weekend.
“We used to wrestle for the honor of the village,” said Malick Thiandoum, a sports broadcaster for Senegalese Radio and Television. “Today, with the televised events, with the sponsors who inject lots of money to have visibility, it has become a breadwinner for lots of wrestlers.”
The centuries-old sport began as a leisure activity for fishermen and farmers, as those with catches and crops to spare would occasionally wager them on the outcomes. Laamb became a viable profession around the time Senegal achieved independence from France in 1960; wrestlers began receiving about $200 for a match.
Today, the going rate is $100,000 for top-tier matches, not including the sideshows. With appearance fees and kickbacks surrounding the bout last month, the combatants — Yahya Diop, who uses the stage name Yékini; and Omar Sakho, who goes by Balla Gaye 2 — each received about $300,000, according to the local news media. Such payouts are made possible through the sponsorship of multinational corporations operating in Senegal, which has experienced average annual gross domestic product growth of more than 4 percent over the last 20 years. But the country is plagued by wealth disparity. With nearly half the population living below the poverty line, laamb represents an opportunity for many young men to lift themselves, and the families they are responsible for, above that line.
“I want to become a champion and a millionaire,” said Ousmane Sarr, 23, who has competed in many “simple” matches — in which punching is not permitted — but only one full-contact bout. “I need to get more matches with punching, then I can stop working as a mechanic when the season ends.”
But the percentage of wrestlers who become rich in the sport is minuscule. Of more than 3,000 registered wrestlers, only a dozen earn more than $100,000 per combat, and those wrestlers have only one match per year.
“There is a mirage, a sort of dream, that the youth of the country are living,” Thiandoum said. “But we are in the process of telling them, ‘Be careful, because there is a gap between what you believe and reality.’ ”
During a season, he added, a vast majority will earn less than $2,000 in the ring, and many will earn nothing.
The sport, like much of the population, is migrating from rural to urban and finding a home in the suburbs of Dakar, where opportunities are low and crime is high.
The magnitude of the recent Yékini-Balla match created the threat of violence, which was partly realized before the event. At a weigh-in-style news conference at the luxury Radisson Blu Hotel in Dakar less than two weeks before the combat, a brawl erupted between the wrestlers and their entourages inside, and outside among their supporters, who were dispersed by tear gas when the riot police arrived.

Such incidents have put the sport under greater scrutiny. Starting next season, the National Committee for the Management of Wrestling, a 13-member board under the government’s Ministry of Sport, will expand its regulatory jurisdiction from the matches alone to all aspects of laamb. The decision was a response to the hotel incident, for which it could not penalize the wrestlers under the current system.
The French telecommunications giant Orange, the principal sponsor of the Yékini-Balla bout, is also rethinking its approach to laamb in light of the violence. After the brawl, billboards reading “the passion is more intense with fair play” and “the model of a sport without violence” replaced images of the two wrestlers next to the Orange logo throughout Dakar.
The company has not publicly discussed its approach for next season, except to say that laamb is an indispensable part of its interests in Senegal.
“According to our surveys, it is the most popular sport here — even more than soccer,” said Magatte Diop, the director of sponsorship at Sonatel, Orange’s Senegalese subsidiary. “The sponsorship of wrestling gives us an emotional proximity to the Senegalese consumer.”
The show is not just in the ring, and neither are the sponsors’ logos. A ticket for the gala allows the fan to watch five or six matches, which can last from a few seconds to 40 minutes, depending on the wrestlers’ style and the risks they are willing to take. With long breaks between the matches, the traditional spectacle is part of the show — including the mystical preparations, which were lavish on the day of the Yékini-Balla match.
Their warm-ups suits, emblazoned with the Orange logo, came off to reveal magical talismans called gris-gris (pronounced gree-gree) as they prepared to douse themselves with protective baths of varying size and color.
“The gris-gris and baths are just for protection against negative tongues and eyes,” said Mbaye Gueye Dieng, a marabout, or spiritual guide, in the mystical Sufi tradition prevalent among Senegal’s Muslim majority.
Both wrestlers spent months preparing their bodies for the combat, training hours a day at their local facilities and abroad, where they have access to better equipment and training. But many believe that bouts are won and lost on the spiritual plane.
“The most important preparations are made in the home of the marabout,” Dieng said of the gris-gris containing Koranic verses, the baths infused with protective bark from the local baobab tree and other elements.
When it was time for the match to begin, the referee, in his Orange-supplied uniform, blew his whistle to deafening roars. After 2 minutes 6 seconds of grappling and the occasional punch, Yékini suffered his first defeat in 20 professional matches over 15 years when Balla Gaye 2 put the back of the 320-pound King of the Arena into the sand.
Balla Gaye 2 ran to his corner and hugged his manager, while Yékini’s team went to help the fallen, visibly shocked champion to his feet and out of the ring. On his way out, his smiling face betrayed an air of relief. Yékini, 38, would later say that he was considering retirement.
“I have sacrificed my life and dedicated myself to my career,” he said. “In wanting to win everything, we risk losing everything.”
His 24-year-old opponent presented Yékini with a painting, a Koran and a traditional boubou, or Senegalese tunic. “Every wrestler dreams of nothing but meeting Yékini in the ring and beating him,” Balla Gaye 2 said. “For what he has done in the sport, I give him these gifts along with my best wishes.”
Not long after the match, speculation about the next one began. Another promoter has started planning a bout between Balla and the last wrestler to defeat him, Eumeu Sène, who does not respect the reign of the newly appointed King of the Arena.
“I am the Emperor of the Arena,” Eumeu Sène said.
The revenge match is being talked up as next year’s biggest match of all time.

On behalf of Lonely Dog

A big “Wuff” to all

I’m very pleased to announce the European “Dog Brothers Gathering of the Pack” 2012

Here the schedule and some more informations:
- Wednesday,Thursday, Friday 15.-17. August, Training Camp
- Saturday 18th August, Seminar with Guro "Crafty Dog"
- Sunday 19th August,  “Dog Brothers Gathering of the Pack”

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Backwards storytelling surfaces deception cues, new study reveals

Theories abound about how best to tell if a suspect is lying to you, short of hooking him up to a polygraph. But based on recently reported experiments, a Force Science advisor thinks one of the best ways to surface cues to possible deception may be simply to have the subject tell his or her story backwards.

This approach is not foolproof, admits Dr. Edward Geiselman. "No method for detecting deception is," he says. "But this technique is scientifically based and appears to be the quickest and easiest way to provoke indicators of potential fabrication--'red flags' or 'hot spots' that should prompt you to investigate further what someone is telling you."

Dr. Bill Lewinski, executive director of the Force Science Institute, thinks Geiselman's new work may have a role to play in officer-involved shooting investigations, and Geiselman agrees.

Geiselman is a professor of psychology at UCLA, as well as a faculty member of the popular Force Science Analysis certification course for law enforcement personnel. He has testified as an expert witness in more than 300 criminal trials and has written over 100 research papers and 6 books. He and his colleague Dr. Ron Fisher are considered the "godfathers" of cognitive interviewing, the multi-sensory memory-enhancement method for questioning witnesses, crime victims, and others whose personal recollections are important to capture as fully and accurately as possible.

The idea of having a subject recite a narrative account of an occurrence backwards, beginning in the present and telling what happened step by step in reverse order, was utilized by Geiselman initially years ago as he and Fisher fine-tuned their cognitive interviewing tactics. "We found that when someone tells of an experience in chronological order and then is prompted to re-tell it in reverse sequence, frame by frame, they tend to remember more details as they go backwards," Geiselman told Force Science News.

More recently, he became intrigued with suggestions from some researchers that backwards narration might cause certain indicators of deception to surface more readily when concocted stories are being told because of the extra mental stress involved in reverse recounting. With a group of senior psych students, he devised a complex research project to explore and more precisely define that possibility.

Each of 24 volunteers was given a list of several topics (winning a sports event, being involved in an auto accident, taking a trip to Las Vegas, etc.) and told to select 2 of them, one about which to tell a true autobiographical story and the other to tell a confabulated autobiographical story. Each participant was given 5 minutes to think about "what you want to say" in each story. Then he or she was told to tell the stories separately in private to a tape recorder "in about as much detail as you would if you were telling it to a friend over coffee."

There was one catch, though. Each story was to be told in reverse chronological order: "Start at the very nend of your story," participants were instructed, "and systematically work backward with what happens right before that and then right before that and so on" back to the beginning.

The average time to tell a story proved to be about 4 minutes. Later, the tapes were played for members of the research team acting as "scorers." They were listening for certain "vocal and verbal cues" that researchers in previous studies had identified as "primary indicators" for evaluating the truthfulness of a narrative account. "These had to do with voice characteristics, content, presentational style, and so on," Geiselman says.

Because of a coding system that was kept confidential, the scorers did not know which stories were truthful and which were made up. But when their independent analyses were completed and correlated with the secret codes, there was a striking, "statistically reliable" consensus: certain "story attributes" were significantly greater in the invented accounts than in the genuine recollections.

Geiselman itemizes these telltale deception cues and explains why the reverse story telling was critical in causing them to emerge:

1. Extreme brevity.

"The made-up stories tended to be bare-bones narratives," Geiselman says. "Actually, I expected just the opposite, figuring if I was going to tell a fabrication I'd want to add details to make it seem more authentic. But instead we found that the false stories typically were much shorter than the genuine accounts, offering only 'highlights' of the action that supposedly took place. Imagining more perhaps required too much additional effort."

2. Sparse details.

"When lying, our subjects generally offered very few details or elaborations. Their truthful stories, in contrast, tended to be spontaneously embedded with contextual details--specific times and places were given, interactions with other people and impressions of what was going on were described, sights and sounds and other sensory stimuli were often mentioned."

3. Justifications.

"When details were offered in the fabrications, they tended to be in the form of justifications or rationalizations. When being untruthful, the subjects significantly more often would spontaneously offer explanations for why they took some action or encountered particular circumstances--'I headed down that street because...' or 'My brother is a traditionalist, which is why...'--even though these explanations were not key elements of the story. It may be that they thought that by volunteering 'logical' explanations for various things they made it seem more authentic, or maybe this was a way they convinced themselves that their fabricated story was holding together. In any case, they were much less likely to throw in justifications and rationalizations when they were being truthful."

4. Flawed speech.

"We found that the truthful stories were told with a certain fluidity of speech. This makes sense because when giving factual accounts they were simply 'reading out' of an actual memory record. In their deceptive stories, they had many more starts, stops, sentence fragments, corrections--hesitant, labored speech, not smooth. Also we found a tendency when lying to alternate between slow moments and accelerated bursts. They seemed to be slowing down to think hard about the concocted story, then speeding up as if to make up for lost time."

5. Non-verbal giveaways.

The subjects didn't realize it, but they were watched through one-way glass by some of the research team while recording their tales. When reciting false material, they tended to exhibit certain gestures not seen so much during truthful accounts. "During deception, they'd more often press their lips together firmly and look away like they were trying to think, to concentrate hard," Geiselman says. "Also their hand gestures were different. When being truthful, they tended to gesture away from their body, the opposite--toward their chest--when telling making up stories. And, when lying, grooming gestures were more evident."

Telling a story in reverse order is difficult for anyone, Geiselman explains. "But people who are being deceptive have an unusual difficulty with this. They must tell their story based solely on their imagination because they have no stored perceptual experience to draw upon.

"At any one time, a person has a particular capacity for holding information in their conscious mind. This is called your 'working memory.'

"Inventing an account and telling it in reverse puts an exceptional load on their cognitive capacity, and while they're concentrating so intensely on keeping their story straight, the indicators of deception are more likely to 'bleed out.' This is especially true if they have not carefully fabricated and thoroughly rehearsed a story in advance, which most suspects probably have not before coming in contact with police."

As part of a program funded by the Dept. of Homeland Security's Center for Domestic Preparedness to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Geiselman has devised training to teach mass transit officers to monitor for deception cues when questioning potential terrorist suspects. He believes that similar instruction, based on his research, would be useful for patrol officers and detectives dealing with run-of-the-mill criminals and witnesses as well.

"In field situations when you encounter a suspicious individual, spend a little time chatting him up so you get a feel for his baseline verbal patterns, then catch him by surprise by having him tell his story in reverse, repeatedly prompting him to tell you '...and what happened before that,'" Geiselman suggests. "Watch for the kind of deception indicators we found as a quick-and-dirty assessment of him. They're not reliable enough to prove he's lying, but they are enough to motivate you to dig deeper."

The backwards-narrative technique "is really a good procedure," in Lewinski's estimation. "Increasing the cognitive load to provoke deception cues is a very important concept. It could be recommended in OIS investigations when there's suspicion that an officer is not being truthful in his account of what happened.

"It's essential to remember, though, that these are imperfect cues, just indicators of possible deceit, not guarantees. After an OIS, for example, an officer's statement may be sparse on details because he genuinely does not remember or never perceived a lot of what happened in a brief, rapidly evolving, life-threatening encounter. Yes, lying takes a cognitive load, but so does trying to remember things that were on the periphery of your attention when they occurred.

"More research should help in refining and applying the information Dr. Geiselman has documented."

Indeed, Geiselman says, the study is only a start. Additional exploration is planned. Currently he and his research team are underway with capturing examples of deception indicators on videotape for purposes of further study and training.

[A report on the UCLA study, "Indicators of Deception in an Oral Narrative: Which are More Reliable?", appears in the American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, Vol. 30, Issue 4, 2009. Dr. Geiselman can be reached at: geiselma@psych.ucla.edu]
 

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I am now affiliated with Raidon Tactics:
http://raidontactics.com/hoplite/por...-martial-arts/

Raidon Tactics and Dog Brothers Martial Arts of Hermosa Beach, California have teamed in the past 3 months and developed new techniques for Gunfighter Combat Marksmanship (CMMS) and Hand to Hand Combat with knife and stick fighting integration.
Marc “Crafty Dog” Denny has brought his unique and realistic skills to the Raidon Tactics Team and together we have pioneered new fighting techniques and adapted them to the Gunfighter Series for a more agile, aggressive and better shooter in the arena of Gunfighting. His training and techniques have helped us immensely with our new “Crafty Dog” shooting stance and especially in the defense against the knife attack in a Close Quarters /Confined Space Shooting scenario. So with “Crafty Dog” Denny and his training team we have developed more ways for the Warfighter to be the victor in a combat situation.

About Raidon Tactics Head Instructor Frankie McCrae:
Frank McRae
Director of Training
He is the former head of the US Army Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance Target Analysis and Exploitation Techniques Course (SFARTAETC) at Ft. Bragg N.C. He started his military career in the 1st Ranger Bn as an 11B infantryman. He served in the 1st Special Forces Group (ABN) Okinawa Japan, in Cco 1st Bn. 1st SFG(A) (C-1-1) where he was an assault team leader for F team,Troop 1 in the Combatant Commanders In-extremis Force (CIF) conducting operations in Operation Enduring Freedom. Advising, training and standing up the Light Reaction Company of the Armed Forces of the Phillipines (AFP). He was then assigned as an Instructor to the SFARTAETC at the Special Warfare Center and School in Ft. Bragg NC, was promoted and became the NCOIC of the course and awarded for having the highest graduation rate for the course in it’s twenty year history . He also served as a Troop SGM Troop 1 and Team SGT ODA-354 in B co 2nd Bn 3rd SFG(A) CIF in IRAQ as an Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Force (ICTF) Company SGM advisor and combat leader on many missions in Iraq and also attended the Israeli Counter-Terrorism Course as an exchange instructor.

Question presented:

How to fight fat people?

a) Fight already underway
b) Dominance games
c) LEO/CO/Bouncer issues

 SIC Sistemas Integrados de Combate
entrevista con Guro Mauricio Sánchez
 
 
   Revista electrónica sobre Artes Marciales publicada por Amazon
 
 
    Hablamos con Guro Mauricio Sánchez , Director General de Sistemas Integrados de Combate y Dog Brothers Martial Arts México (www.sic-kali.com.mx) y autor del artículo publicado en esta revista : “El problema del timing en la pelea”
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    AMM : Estimado Mauricio ,antes de nada muchas gracias por su amabilidad para atendernos y realizar esta entrevista. Para que nuestros lectores sepan ¿Qué significa Guro? ¿Es lo mismo que maestro en otras artes marciales?
 
    R.  Gracias a ustedes por su interés en Sistemas Integrados de Combate y mi artículo sobre el Timing.
    Efectivamente, Guro es un término en idioma Tagalo que se usa en las Filipinas para referirse al maestro de Artes Marciales Filipinas. Existen diferentes términos y títulos para referirse a un maestro y estos se emplean dependiendo de las diferentes regiones del archipiélago filipino el cual consta de unas 7000 islas y ahí de hablan más de 300 lenguas.
 
 
 
    AMM: ¿Nos puede explicar que es Dog Brothers Martial Arts? y ¿Sistemas integrados de Combate?
 
    R . DBMA es un sistema de muchos estilos desarrollado por Guro Marc “Crafty Dog” Denny, mi maestro, a través de sus experiencias en peleas y su amplia gama de conocimientos en Artes Marciales. No es una mezcla de técnicas al azar sino “UN SISTEMA DE MUCHOS ESTILOS”. El corazón del sistema son las Artes Marciales Filipinas aderezado con Krabi Krabong, Silat, Bando y Brazilian Jiu Jitsu entro otras cosas.
 
    Sistemas Integrados de Combate es el nombre de nuestra organización la cual está dedicada a impartir entrenamiento profesional sobre diversos sistemas de combate tales como: Muay Thai, SIC-Kali (Artes Marciales Filipinas), Dog Brothers Martial Arts, Wing Chun, Defensa personal y MMA.
    Nuestro objetivo en SIC es la formación de individuos con altos valores morales, seguridad propia, salud y disciplina. Que sean capaces de adaptarse a cualquier situación real de combate, combinando esto con un adecuado manejo psicológico que le lleven a actuar de manera efectiva en situaciones de estrés, desarrollando su propia visión sobre la totalidad del combate y su aplicación sobre los demás aspectos de la vida.
 
 
 
    AMM: ¿Nos puede resumir su experiencia marcial y cómo ha evolucionado su concepto de la defensa personal en este tiempo?
 
    R . Inicie mi entrenamiento en 1985 en el Arte del Taekwondo y actualmente ostento el 4º. Dan en esta disciplina. Posteriormente continué de manera paralela con Kali-eskrima y Muay Thai, dos sistemas que han influenciado tremendamente mi vida y mi manera de ver el combate. Me he capacitado tanto en México como en USA en Artes Marciales Filipinas, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Wing Chun y Grappling. En 1999 funde la Academia Sistemas Integrados de Combate con la intención de difundir y seguir investigando métodos y sistemas de entrenamiento funcionales para la defensa personal y desarrollo humano. En 2002 inicie mi entrenamiento en Dog Brothers Martial Arts bajo la guía de Guro Marc Denny. Desde ese entonces y hasta la fecha soy estudiante de Guro Crafty, instructor certificado y represento DBMA en México. Soy el primer mexicano en participar en el Dog Brothers Gathering of the Pack (reunión de lucha con palos y cuchillos a contacto real) realizado en Los Angeles CA. USA.
 
    Mi filosofía básicamente es la de continuar creciendo y aprendiendo, así como evolucionar como ser humano conforme cambia el medio. En cuanto a la defensa personal pienso que una cosa es entrenar en sistemas marciales tradicionales que ahora están fuertemente dirigidos hacia la competición deportiva, y otra muy distinta el prepararse para agresiones que pueden presentarse en las calles. Muchas personas piensan que por entrenar en un Arte Marcial están aprendiendo como defenderse pero no siempre va implícito un aspecto con el otro. Depende mucho del sistema y del maestro.
 
 
 
    AMM: Como explica en su web, vemos que tiene mucho influencia del arte filipino Kali ¿Cómo ayuda este arte en los conceptos del combate o sparring?
 
    R . Kali es un sistema altamente efectivo probado en la guerra, fue el Arte que usaron los nativos filipinos para dar muerte al conquistador Magallanes en la famosa batalla de Mactan en 1521. Kali es un sistema basado en las armas (espadas, palos, cuchillos) pero un aspecto importantísimo es que los conceptos del uso de las armas pueden extrapolarse a la mano vacía. El uso de las armas desde el principio agudizan los reflejos, mejoran la coordinación y potencia los atributos físicos y el timing al momento de combatir a mano vacía. La lucha con palos de manera realista es una experiencia transformadora. Kali incluye en su arsenal Panantukan (boxeo filipino), el uso de técnicas de mano, patadas, codos, rodillas, atrapes y lucha (Dumog). Finalmente y debido a su gran adaptabilidad, Kali es un sistema que sigue funcionando a través del paso del tiempo y forma hombres que siguen siendo eficientes no importando si tienen 20, 40, 60 años…
 
 
   
    AMM: Guro, las artes marciales han evolucionado mucho en este tiempo, desde la práctica hasta los cambios en las competiciones ¿Cual es su punto de vista sobre las actuales competiciones valetudo, ufc o K1? ¿Cree que han ayudado a digamos pulir lo que sirve o no en un arte?
 
    R . Muy buena pregunta, efectivamente el UFC el Vale Tudo vinieron a revolucionar el concepto de la competición en los deportes de contacto, al permitir una mayor libertad en la aplicación de las técnicas, eso es una aportación valiosa. Las MMA son un deporte moderno influenciado por la Artes Marciales tradicionales. Lo curioso es que en las primeras ediciones del UFC en 1993 las normas del octágono eran muy distintas a lo que es hoy en día. No había sistemas de puntuación, categorías de peso, protecciones, tiempos fuera y las limitaciones técnicas eran menores, podían usarse cualquier tipo de golpes pero estaban prohibidas las mordidas y picar los ojos (dos de las técnicas más eficientes contra los grapplers y usadas en defensa personal). Las lesiones en estos eventos eran grandes. Posteriormente las normas cambiaron, ahora se usan guantes, hay categorías de peso, existen más limitaciones en el uso de las técnicas y ya no se pelea por eliminatorias en un mismo día. Todo esto con la finalidad de proteger la integridad física de los peleadores pero también que sus carreras fueran más duraderas y pudieran pelear más veces al año… por supuesto esto conlleva la organización de una mayor cantidad de eventos de contacto y por lo tanto mayores ingresos económicos. El negocio mejoro.
 
    Entrenar en MMA no necesariamente significa que estamos aprendiendo un sistema de defensa personal. Pelear en un evento de contacto deportivo puede ser algo muy duro pero nada tiene que ver con la realidad de la calle. La calle tiene zapatos, muerde y lleva armas; no distingue edades, sexo ni el terreno donde se va a pelear. Puede llevar compinches que te atacarán sorpresivamente y no hay un referee (árbitro) que intervenga si te están lastimando.
    Aconsejo que antes de iniciar el entrenamiento de un Arte Marcial definamos que es exactamente lo que buscamos. La gente se acerca a un sistema buscando defensa personal, competición deportiva, acondicionamiento físico, filosofía de vida, etc. Siempre tómense un tiempo para investigar lo que ofrece algún sistema y los antecedentes, capacidades y experiencia del profesor.
 
 
 
    AMM: En muchos foros de internet es siempre una constante la pregunta: ¿qué arte marcial debo practicar para poder defenderme? Me imagino que más de una vez se encuentra con el mismo interrogante ¿Cual es su opinión al respecto?
 
    R . Defenderse en la calle es primeramente un asunto de prevención, antes de aplicar cualquier técnica. En la calle no existen garantías solamente oportunidades. En lo personal no soy partidario de entrenar en un solo estilo sino que podemos tomar diferentes elementos de varias disciplinas.
    No es un asunto de decir que Arte Marcial es el mejor… quien debe ser eficiente es el individuo, es más importante la persona que el sistema. A mi consideración si estamos buscando como adquirir habilidades de auto defensa, debemos buscar un sistema que ofrezca un entrenamiento enfocado a dar solución a situaciones realistas ante agresiones que pueden ocurrir en cualquier momento y lugar. El sistema también debe incluir medidas de prevención, psicología del delincuente, manejo de las emociones, armas improvisadas, aspectos legales de la legítima defensa y técnicas fáciles, directas y eficientes. Una pelea callejera puede durar 10 segundos, no es un encuentro de 10 rounds en un ring.
 
    Disculpen el anuncio pero en SIC podemos ayudarles en el desarrollo de conocimientos, habilidades y actitudes enfocados a una defensa personal efectiva. Ofrecemos clases de grupo, particulares, así como cursos y seminarios especializados. Los invitamos a acercarse a SIC.
 
 
 
    AMM: El timing en la pelea, o los reflejos ¿se pueden entrenar?
 
    R . Por supuesto, existen métodos de entrenamiento destinados a desarrollar un buen juicio al momento de ejecutar una acción técnica (golpe, patada), eso es a lo que llamamos Timing, es decir la relación entre distancia, tiempo y velocidad al momento de realizar una técnica.
 
    Veamos como el entrenamiento en Kali con Armas desarrolla uno de los atributos más importantes, los reflejos, y específicamente cuando nos entrenamos en el uso del bastón (palo), el cuál ha sido cronometrado volando hasta en 160 Km/h. La experiencia de un combate a contacto pleno con un palo y equipo de protección durante un periodo largo de tiempo hace que tu sistema nervioso opere a un nivel altísimo. En otras palabras, tus reflejos aumentan asombrosamente. Esto se hace aparente cuando uno cambia al combate a mano vacía... El golpe más rápido se mueve a cámara lenta. Es como cuando después de circular en un coche a velocidades de 250 km/h, las velocidades habituales como 80 km/h. parecen lentas; lo mismo pasa cuando se entrena con armas, un jab, parece lento cuando haz sentido un palo volar cerca de tu cabeza a 160km/h. La idea de entrenar con palos y cuchillos te ayudará a desarrollar los desplazamientos, reflejos y timing más rápido que a mano vacía, y en SIC te entrenamos en ello.
 
 
 
    AMM: Como instructor, ¿Qué importancia le da a la técnica vs táctica de combate?
 
    R . La técnica y la táctica son un binomio indisociable. Digamos que las técnicas son el arsenal con el que contamos, los medios o recursos técnicos que usamos al combatir expresados como golpes, patadas, defensas, etc. La táctica se refiere al mejor empleo que le podemos dar a esos recursos técnicos. De nada nos serviría contar con buenos golpes y patadas si no somos capaces de planificar nuestro arsenal, y por supuesto el timing es un elemento indispensable al momento de planificar nuestra táctica de combate.
 
 
 
    AMM: Indica en su web que DBMA es un sistema para practicar toda la vida, no es una actividad que solo se practica durante un periodo de tiempo en la juventud, como sucede con muchos deportes, y que contempla fortalecer la salud ¿Nos puede ampliar un poco esto, ya que muchas personas a veces se preguntan si no son demasiado mayores para practicar un arte marcial?
 
    R . Nunca se es viejo para iniciarse en las disciplinas marciales, todo depende de cómo este enfocado el sistema y como lo practiques. El objetivo en DBMA es como nosotros decimos ayudarte a “Caminar como un Guerrero por todos tus Días”, es decir, buscamos enfocar que el sistema de soporte a gente de cualquier edad. Del mismo modo inculcamos valores morales y conciencia en las personas aunado a promover una salud física y mental integral, y por supuesto el desarrollo de verdaderas habilidades de autodefensa que pueden aplicarse ante una agresión. El mantenerte en buena condición física, tener una mente equilibrada y principios bien fundados aporta paz espiritual, eso es lo que pretendemos con DBMA.
 
 
   
    AMM: ¿Donde se puede practicar el sistema DBMA? ¿Y donde obtener más información o contactar al respecto sobre seminarios o cursillos?
 
    R . Si desean entrenar en Dog Brothers Martias Arts pueden acudir a nuestra academia Sistemas Integrados de Combate. Yo soy el único instructor certificado por Guro Marc Denny para enseñar DBMA en México. Pueden visitarnos en Tajin 452 esq. Eugenia (eje 5 sur), Col. Narvarte, México D.F. Para mayor información pueden visitar nuestro sitio web:
 
    www.sic-kali.com.mx
 
 
    Hay varias maneras de poder entrenar DBMA:
 
    - Clases en grupo en nuestra academia.
    - Entrenamiento privado con un servidor
    - Cursos y seminarios
   
    Pueden comunicarse a los teléfonos:

    2455 1564 / 4167 7902 / 47557608 / 04455-3655 7690
    info@sic-kali.com.mx
 
 
    AMM: Esto es todo estimado Guro Mauricio Sánchez, muchas gracias nuevamente por atendernos y las páginas de esta revista considérelas su casa. Esperamos disfrutar en el futuro de más artículos suyos y hacer un debate constructivo sobre los temas tratados. Si quiere añadir algo más, adelante Guro.
 
    R . Quiero agradecerles el darme la oportunidad de compartir mi experiencia y trabajo con todas aquellas personas que disfrutan del Kali y las Artes Marciales. México tiene un muy buen nivel en estas disciplinas a nivel mundial y un futuro muy prometedor en las MMA.
 
    Los invito a que se acerquen a nosotros y disfruten de los múltiples beneficios que les aportan SIC-Kali y DBMA. Solo me resta agradecer a mis padres, maestros, mi esposa, mis estudiantes y todas aquellas personas que han colaborado en mi desarrollo, por su apoyo mil gracias.

Marc:

I wanted to let you know that since we have started working together I have learned a tremendous amount. More so with the adaptation of your fighting (deleted)stance and the flexibility it offers for my Gunfighter series. I have found that it allows for a more mobile base to a more reflexive stance that keeps the shooter from becoming too lazy and moving into a Weaver stance.  Indeed, I think it no less an innovation than the Weaver stance and no less deserving of its own name and hereby propose “the Crafty Dog Stance”. 

Why?

You know how I feel about a restrictive position. The Crafty Dog gives a more powerful position to the shooter to start from  and makes movement easier. It is better for recoil management in a rapid shooting engagement and allows smaller shooters and women to shoot bigger handguns without all the shoulder involvement. It allows for better follow thru and for sure makes recovery easier for faster shooting and quicker target engagement for follow on shots. I just taught a three day Gunfighter course and some of the students had attended a previous course. They loved the new addition and thought it was better adapted to shooting as well. One student said it was more comfortable for him to use the Crafty Dog than a regular Isosceles because it put less stress on his lower back with all the kit on. Anything that helps our backs with 60lbs of body armor and kit  has got to be better than the normal. I wanted to thank you again for the mentoring and the new techniques you have taught me. I hope one day to be able to reciprocate as much. Frankie Mcrae

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He is the former head of the US Army Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance Target Analysis and Exploitation Techniques Course (SFARTAETC) at Ft. Bragg N.C. He started his military career in the 1st Ranger Bn as an 11B infantryman. He served in the 1st Special Forces Group (ABN) Okinawa Japan, in Cco 1st Bn. 1st SFG(A) (C-1-1) where he was an assault team leader for F team,Troop 1 in the Combatant Commanders In-extremis Force (CIF) conducting operations in Operation Enduring Freedom. Advising, training and standing up the Light Reaction Company of the Armed Forces of the Phillipines (AFP). He was then assigned as an Instructor to the SFARTAETC at the Special Warfare Center and School in Ft. Bragg NC, was promoted and became the NCOIC of the course and awarded for having the highest graduation rate for the course in it's twenty year history . He also served as a Troop SGM Troop 1 and Team SGT ODA-354 in B co 2nd Bn 3rd SFG(A) CIF in IRAQ as an Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Force (ICTF) Company SGM advisor and combat leader on many missions in Iraq and also attended the Israeli Counter-Terrorism Course as an exchange instructor.

The recent fight between Jon Bones Jones and Lyoto Machida got me thinking.

Just how does one fight a fighter like JBJ?  He had a ten and a half inch reach advantage!   With his agility, striking skills, and clinch game, just what the hell does a plausible strategy against him look like?

Not only is the actor who played Spartacus now dead, but the prequel second season allowed the existing team of actors to really up their game.  With the death of the character Batiatus (a truly extraordinary performance) the series is now at a dicey spot.  Helluva a lot for the new Spartacus actor to step into.

Trailer for the new season.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kotNaoSjSDY&feature=email

Woof All:

I'd like to put out a collective howl for info, URLs etc on the late GM Gilbert Tenio of Stockton CA and his Decuerdas Eskrima.

Thank you,
Crafty Dog

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El seminario se presentara' en espanol.

At Pete Juska's school of course.

Details to follow.

May 19-20 is the probable date for this year's Tribal Gathering.

Joint seminar with Jared Wihongi
jared@bigshopranch.com

Details to follow.

PS:  Big congrats to Jared for his promotion to "Tuhon" in Pekiti Tirsia this coming weekend!

See http://dogbrothers.com/?page_id=11

Woof All:

Some of us may remember Gilbert Tenio from Guro Inosanto's book "The Filipino Martial Arts", whom I had the honor of meeting many years ago (early 90s?) at Dentoy Revillar's home in Stockton. Since then he has passed on.

To my way of thinking there are many valid approaches out there. However that does not mean that it is efficient or effective to accumulate as much as one can from all these systems. To function efficiently and effectively in the high adrenal circumstances of a DLO situation, the parts must fit together.

Recently a friend shared some footage with me of Tenio's heir, Grandmaster Art Gonzalez of Tenio Decuerdas Eskrima. The footage intrigued me greatly. Not only was the orientation very practical, gritty anti-knife, but GM Art was getting to many positions similar to the ones we like for our DLO (Die Less Often) and so it occurred to me that maybe GM Art could help me grow DBMA's DLO system.

An introduction was arranged and a couple of weeks ago as part of a training expedition (that included two days with Rory Miller, Maija Soderholm of Maestor Sonny Umpad's Visayan Corto Cadena Eskrima, and friends) I spend two days in Lodi with GM Art.

I am very glad I did and I am pleased to announce that GM Art will be the guest instructor at the DBMA Winter Camp 2012 which will be a "Die Less Often" intensive.

We are in the process of deciding when the Camp will be held. It will be in February or March. At the moment we are leaning towards President's Weekend in February.

The Adventure continues!
Guro Crafty/Marc

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SS a puppy killer?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/31/actor-steven-seagal-sued-for-driving-tank-into-arizona-home-killing-puppy/

Woof All:

Recently in other threads I have posted of the Parable of the Cherry and the Parable of the Promising Porn Star.  Now I will share the Parable of the Little Old Lady and the Hilot Healer (retold from the opening of the DBMA DVD "Copmbining Stick & Footwork")

A little old lady in the Philippines went to the hilot healer. 

"How may I help you?"

"You may not realize it because it doesn't smell or make any noise, but I am having a problem with a lot of flatulence."

"I see.  Take this herbs for one week and come back."

So she does.

"How are we doing?"

"Its worse now! Not only do I still have a lot of flatulence, but now it smells too!  At least there is no sound!"

"Well, now that we have cleared up your sinuses, we can go to work on your hearing."