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Martial Arts Topics / Re: The Nat Geo Documentary on the Dog Brothers: Fight Club
« on: January 26, 2008, 11:48:51 PM »
Just finished watching the special, and it put a smile on my face. Great to see the exposure to the art, sport, and the Dog Brothers. Was watching with some friends, and we all disagreed a bit with the "psychologist's", and as always- were happy to hear the EXACT thoughts and words of Marc Crafy Dog. He is truly an ambassador of the sport and the arts. For me, I found them when I went to the other side of the world and met a guy named "Salty Dog" (Arlan) while I was training in a temple in Thailand, who told me of "the gathering". A full contact stick fight - with punching, kicking, and whatever - near my home town, I knew then that it was for me. I have attended some years, and some not - on occasion life overwhelms us with injuries, children, family problems, or duty - but I tell you this, I wake thinking of the fight, and I go to sleeping thinking of the fight - It is amazing how such a small few minutes can live on your mind and soul forever.
For me, it is a chess game filled with adrenaline, challenge, and a clarity of focus that I just do not find in my day to day battle of life. At that moment, so much and so little goes through my head - but all only about that moment. The drive and the body, and the stick just take over.
Some of us have trained very hard at an art or skill, and for a long time. This is really the only way to truly test "this thing" we have, with conviction - and WITHOUT having to go to jail or actually take a life.
Injuries, insurance bills, breaks, tears, bumps and bruises - are not what I seek, but it is a sometimes small cost of doing this game. My mother always asked me "Michael - why do you like to try hurt people so much or risk getting hurt yourself, and I tell her; it is not the hurting I like, it is the surviving and wining that drive me. When the fight is done - we dont need anyone to raise a hand or give a trophy....It is an HONOR and the love of the BROTHERHOOD and doing "this thing" with the man in front of you that we seek. We all know how we did, where we were were perfect, and where we "got caught". It is a give and take business. Some days you give, and some days you take. But I always learn, appreciate, and gain another brother in this path I walk. I have never had so many strangers - as brothers - until this thing. It is good that people like us meet on paths like this. From the first time of raising a stick to accept in the park, to a warehouse in El Segundo - hobbling out the door - I hold these moments as some of my most alive in this journey.
Marc, Eric, Arlan - the boyz - THANK YOU .........and look foreward to seeing you all soon
WOOF
MIKE DELIO - SCRAPPY DOG
For me, it is a chess game filled with adrenaline, challenge, and a clarity of focus that I just do not find in my day to day battle of life. At that moment, so much and so little goes through my head - but all only about that moment. The drive and the body, and the stick just take over.
Some of us have trained very hard at an art or skill, and for a long time. This is really the only way to truly test "this thing" we have, with conviction - and WITHOUT having to go to jail or actually take a life.
Injuries, insurance bills, breaks, tears, bumps and bruises - are not what I seek, but it is a sometimes small cost of doing this game. My mother always asked me "Michael - why do you like to try hurt people so much or risk getting hurt yourself, and I tell her; it is not the hurting I like, it is the surviving and wining that drive me. When the fight is done - we dont need anyone to raise a hand or give a trophy....It is an HONOR and the love of the BROTHERHOOD and doing "this thing" with the man in front of you that we seek. We all know how we did, where we were were perfect, and where we "got caught". It is a give and take business. Some days you give, and some days you take. But I always learn, appreciate, and gain another brother in this path I walk. I have never had so many strangers - as brothers - until this thing. It is good that people like us meet on paths like this. From the first time of raising a stick to accept in the park, to a warehouse in El Segundo - hobbling out the door - I hold these moments as some of my most alive in this journey.
Marc, Eric, Arlan - the boyz - THANK YOU .........and look foreward to seeing you all soon
WOOF
MIKE DELIO - SCRAPPY DOG