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woof:

i asked on http://www.spladdle.com, my friends there replied with:

He's an excellent wrestler. One of the very best in MMA.
Lately he's developed a dangerous standup game too. only problem if any is he lately has neglected his wrestling to "keep it standing" perhaps when he should have wrestled, but overall, the definition of tough.

and

He also doesn't mind to take fights last minute or without a big rest in between.

pretty much what selfcritical said.

Quote from: Chad on June 22, 2009, 10:17:36 AM

woof all,

Stickgrappler and I have a league started over at fantasy.ufc.com
If anyone is interested, shoot me PM with your email and I will invite you to play.
The next event to pick is UFC 100 in about three weeks.

Last chance to join before UFC 100

woof:

i missed your earlier post Chad

i have about 50% if not a little more of my picks down... will get the rest in before cutoff...

the rest of you, come join in on the fun!

off topic (i.e. not MA-related):

RIP Michael Jackson

50 yrs old... icon of the 1980's

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_michael_jackson

 

dayum...

Shek Kin dead at 96

http://www.kungfucinema.com/martial-arts-actor-shek-kin-dead-at-96-7734



http://stickgrappler.blogspot.com/2009/06/news-martial-arts-actor-shek-kin-dead.html

My sincerest condolences to his family, friends and students. RIP Shek Kin

woof Jonobos:

Wow, I really enjoyed all those .gifs Stickgrappler! They really showed the angles that set up those sweeps. Sometimes that stuff is very subtle at full speed, but slowed down like that you can even tell which direction he pulled the legs out from under his opponents.

cool! thank you. of the ones i made, i had fun. yeah, watching it realtime, it's possible to miss details. making the gif's/finding gif's helps me isolate certain techniques and it totally helps me in my understanding.

very truly yours in the MA,

~sg

i am grateful to Pretty Kitty and Guro Crafty Dog and the US Postal Service - i've received my key fob as well as Kali Tudo 1 and 2 dvd's today! woohoo!

woof Guro Crafty,

Which looks pretty much exactly like the straight blast as taught by Guro Inosanto and then popularlized by Paul Vunak in the early to mid 80s if not sooner.

thank you for the info!

~sg

2 joke animated gif's i've found off of the net. The first one was made before the fight this past Saturday. The second was made after the fight. My thanks to the unknown gif maker(s).





click the thumbnails for bigger pictures.

woof JDN:

forgive the long rambliing reply on my part. replying with stream-of-consciousness writing and during work.

Quote from: Stickgrappler on May 13, 2009, 01:43:27 PM

woof Guro Crafty, Kaju Dog et al:

i have made a conscious decision not to carry any form of blades.

Why is that if I many ask?  Are the laws in NYC that restrictive?  OR?

AFAIK, nyc laws prohibit any blades greater than 4". i used to carry a spyderco delica that is within limits. it was my EDC for the better part of 2 yrs.

2 equally important factors was in my decision... with others, the first factor is easily taken care of, but for me, it is not so easy. that is one of training. i have trained some fancy FMA knife drills, as well as some prison shanking methods. but i have not trained it to the point that i would be confident in my skills. also, if i drop my knife or it gets disarmed, will i be able to fight empty-hand vs knife? what if my own knife was used against me.

i am sure the members of this forum are thinking well, this one seems easy enough, do more training. i am still at a stage of my life where i cannot devote that much to training yet. however, how realistic would my training be for what would probably be a surprise attack? i am confident in my awareness skills, but who knows where and when i get jumped? i have a wife and 3 kids, maybe having a knife for an EDC may worsene the situation for me?  i have my family to consider because if i am not around, life would be much harder for them.  no matter how realistic i may be able to make my training, it will never be the real thing. it is not sparring, it is not rolling, it is not even stick training... it is bladed training. all training can be forgiving as it is mutual consent. the real self-defense encounter will be less-than-forgiving.

i will not lie to myself nor to others. i will not  lie to my family, i will not put them into a position willingly that will make life harder for them. i am not a knifer. i am not even a stickfighter, but i rather use a stick or baton or broomstick for self-defense should the need arise over using a knife.

secondly and equally as important to me is that i do not know if i can live with the reality of me having to deploy my tool in a self-defense situation when i deemed it necessarily to deploy. i do not know if i can live with the traumatic stress of the aftermath of injuring someone. i do not know if i will survive the legal aftermath of an encounter also. as i read about violence, the realities of self-deffense, soldiers killing, etc. i really do not think i am mentally strong enough to deal with the aftereffects of the encounter.

if there is something i know about myself, it's that i'm realistic. i will not lie to myself or others in thinking i am skilled enough in any aspect of the martial arts and my training to have to test it for real in a self-defense situation. if at all possible, i rather avoid the self-defense situation. i am no expert, no master, i'm just 'joe generic' and looking to get home safe and sound to my loved ones.

did i make sense?

woof G M,

i've heard about the cold steel sharkie, but for some reason haven't checked into it. thank you for reminding me about it! checking into it, that is if it is the sharkie.

Well looks like Jose Conseco is fighting is the next Dream event in Japan against Hong Man Choi, the seven foot something giant from Korea...it's sad!

http://sherdog.com/pictures/event/pictures-dream-pre-fight-presser-17619

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/canseco+hong+man/video/x9ef1v_hong-man-choi-v-jose-canseco-dream_sport

Grateful to Chad for posting some Lyoto Machida info!


Grateful to be able to walk for 90 mins with my family after dinner last night.

Grateful to be able to jump rope while kids ride bikes and scooters outside the house today.

woof matinik:

nice posts, stickgrappler! enjoyed the clips!

tail wags for the kind words. i had fun making them. looking to make more 

i agree with you about some of the sweeps
having that silat/kali flava! lyoto's setup of the "sapus" are very interesting. all the more
interesting is the fact that he does it on the fly! and get this: rashad, from an interview
i saw is familiar (to what extent, i'm not sure) with 52 blocks (AKA jailhouse rock), a style that
has some very nice kali/silat flava, specially with the 'bows and such.
Machida vs. Evans: Interesting Indeed!

ronin informed me that what looked like sapus to me is in shotokan.  i don't doubt that the techniques that we see in one style/system will exist in another system. after all, we all have 2 arms and 2 legs and limited range of motion. although one of my training partners has his black belt in shotokan, he didn't see the clips yet nor do we go over shotokan when we do train.

a long time ago i watched a youtube clip. a friend, Daniel Marks, interviewed Rashad Evans about 52. that may be the same one you saw. i will have to watch it again and to check to see anything new uploaded to youtube.

woof peregrine:

Quote from: rio on May 12, 2009, 09:31:19 AM

you might want to research Todd and Trevor Laly from Arizona Combat Sports. I remember them using the "superman" back in the late 90's early 2k's. some people think they were the innovators that punch, bringing it over to MMA with all their Muay Thai background.

They're originally out of AMC.

sorry what is AMC? thank you in advance!

That looks awesome!!
Yip Man is a legend .... looking forward to seeing Donnie Yen do some Wing Chun!

woof maija et al:

here are 3 animated gif's i made of wing chun chain punching. it's from the hong kong movie IP MAN starring donnie yen (spl, flashpoint, dragon tiger gate, iron monkey 2, blade 2, highlander 4, etc).  it looked cool and i was learning how to make animated gif's and i like donnie's movies.

enjoy!

woof Guro Crafty, Kaju Dog et al:

KD,

i have made a conscious decision not to carry any form of blades. i did not think of using the keychain as a thumb loop though, but i find personally it's a nuisance as i hold it with the keychain on top as taught/advocated by Tak Kubota. he teaches some applications to flail the keys into the BG's face. i will have to play with the keychain as thumb loop idea to see if it's for me. thank you for the idea.

GC,

cool that the keychain can be removed, however, i would leave it on. also toying with the idea of having at least 1 key be a real key and the rest some random keys that is not in everyday usage in case i lose it while using it for self-defense and have my real set of keys somewhere in my bag or jacket.

the issue of the stylus for me is that i dont have need of one. i used to carry a palm pilot some years ago, which has since been replaced by my cellphone which has a superthin stylus and can track of my contacts, calendar, etc. i cannot imagine explaining myself to a LEO that i use this superthick/big stylus for my cellphone. i can hear some members thinking, well, why doesn't he just say he's a computer artist or something and the stylus is used for work? i don't like the idea of lying. in this specific case, it's not the act of lying (although i hate lying), but it's the congruency of my mindset/my lifestyle... maybe i'm paranoid, but i cannot imagine myself talking to LEO's or DA's or lawyers and having a plausible explanation of the ownership of the stylus. now if i was really in a line of work that needed a stylus, that would be different, but sadly i'm not. i imagine if i tried to lie, and they did a simple probing/questioning into my background, they would have caught me lying or at least cast doubt on my words.

i also hear some members thinking, better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. for me, that is a bad mindset, that almost primes me to be aggressive, anxious to physically defend myself. i would rather not have to get physical, but should the situation escalate i will not hesitate... i also definitely don't want to deal with any legal aftermath.... i don't know if i made sense, or it's just that i'm paranoid or you can even call me crazy lol

~sg

i have put in my order today for a  Key Fob, blunt ended with a key ring ... the pointed end is tempting, but because i live in nyc (other places may be worst than here with regard to laws and pointed objects)... but i wanted something innocuous looking, functional-everyday-usage-looking but should the need arise, i will have a tool of opportunity readily available.

although the koppo is probably the most versatile (out of koppo, yawara, and kubotan - to use the japanese terminology), i cannot think of a good response should a LEO ask me what i use that for, why the loop.

i believe the keychain part of the kubotan is more nuisance for me, but the overall appearance of it and the functional aspects of it balances it out.

edit:  the  Stylus with a pen clip  is also very tempting... however, due to my personal philosophy, i didn't get it.

woof all:

just curious, does anyone recall the first instance of the superman punch in MMA? here's an early instance from 2006.

BIB - Beatdown in Bakersfield - Savant Young X Danny Suarez - 2006-11-17


the animated pix were made by me off of a youtube flv... quality is not that good as you can see, but source was from the below youtube:


2 recent instances of the superman punch. not my pix, my thanks to the unknown gif maker(s) on them:

UFC 92 - Forrest Griffin X Rashad Evans


UFC 94 - GSP X BJ Penn

Silva's a badass!

MMA fans are idiots, for booing this man!

it is possible the fans were booing leites' buttflopping instead

on any given day, any fighter will beat any other fighter

i dont have a link handy, but apparently frank shamrock had some busted ribs prior to the fight. i guess now knowing his payout, why he continued with the fight and not sit it out.

woof all:

didn't discovery or nat geo have some program where they measured bas rutten's punch? or randy couture's GnP? they hit something which allowed the scientists to measure and quanitify the punches.  they should be able to set something up for stickwork.

re:  gripping a heavy stick and accelerating it at a target... there is the aluminum baseball bat where it's a smaller handle and the bigger bat head

woof:

i was going to ask for pix when i read up to the part that Pretty Kitty will be putting it up soon.

for people like me, almost anything that is an object/tool that may be utilized as an instrument for one's self-defense is a huge uptick over obvious self-defense items like a pocket knife!

looking forward to these reality toys!!

~sg

WING CHUN KUEN ALERT!

lol

nicoholas cage in bangkok dangerous.... teaches his gofer some wck by way of a pak sao/knife drill and don & serng chi sao (single and double chi sao).

a bit of a sidebar here: variety just reported that spielberg is remaking Oldboy with will smith
in the lead !
can't they leave well enough alone? they are about to ruin one of the coolest movies
that ever came out ANYWHERE. guess hollywood IS out of original ideas. accept no
subtitute, see the original!

matinik

slightly off topic, but yeah, hollywood has been remaking some asian movies for some time now:

the departed (leonardo dicaprio, jack nicholson, matt damon) / infernal affairs 1 (hong kong)
the eye (jessica alba) / the eye (thai/hong kong)
the ring (naomi watts) / ringu (japanese)
lake house (sandra bulloc, keanu reeves) / il mare (korean)

 etc. some upcoming hollywood horror movies are remakes of asian horror movies.

one of the first planned remakes that came to my attention was richard gere's intention to make a hollywood version of john woo/chow yun-fat's the killer ages ago. thankfully that never happened 

woof Tony:

if you have a Chinatown, i'm sure the video shops will have it.