Dog Brothers Public Forum

John,
  I have found that adrenalin is my best friend when fighting.  In my last tournament I took a good amount of hits from the other guys stick and I only really remember feeling one of them.  I honestly believe that when weapons are involved no matter what the weapon is, there is no way to condition the body to getting hit by them.  While I do believe to a certain extent that the body does "harden" I also belive that there is a limit to how far it can go.  

Gruhn

Pipe insulation has always worked for us.  However, the soft stick companies sell their product for a very reasonable price when you think of how long they last.  I use SMAK-STIKS and swear by them.  I have yet to break one.


Gruhn

Haha!

Oracle,
  I currently teach Kali to our Youth JKD class and have found that if taught correctly it will only benifit them.  Anything for that matter that is hand/eye will increase their overall skill.  While I don't get into the fighting and things that are more intense I do go into a lot of things that will train attributes.

Gruhn

Trapping and Energy go beyond what is taught in the fundamentals of JKD and Kali and the drills as just that, drills.  They are meant to give a person the understanding of situations but are not end all solutions to any one situation.  Bruce Lee himself even acknowledged this as it was the reason he created Chinese Kickboxing later to be simply coined ?Kickboxing.?  I use trapping every time I grapple and come into clench range stick or no stick.  While it is nothing close to the basic trapping such as ?Pac Da? it all leads off of what I have been taught and being able to feel the other person?s energy.  You also have to think out of the box when you ask yourself ?Do I do this?? or ?Is this useful.?  There are so many ways to throw a striking technique yet when we were first learning we were shown one fundamental way and were left to explore off of that.  A good example is with the round kick.  A teacher may show you how to do it and emphasize a TKD round kick with more of a snap where as later down the road you might lean more of a Thai based round kick.  You could then ask yourself, was learning the TKD kick useless?  Of course not, it helped you train balance, coordination, timing, etc.  I believe this leads into energy drills and trapping also.  I believe that all ?drills? train attributes and no one drill is useless.  It would be ignorant for any one person to say such a thing as it would only lead to improvement on their behalf.


Gruhn

Sifu Kevin has a lot of great seminars in Cortland.  I have not recently attended any of them but plan to this year.  He usually holds a one FMA and one JKD seminar per year which are always great.  

Gruhn

Sweet!
  Sifu Kevin Seaman is out of Cortland; the reason I ask.

Gruhn

Russ,
  Have you been to any of his seminars before?  The reason I ask is that I have heard his "style" has continued to remain true to its roots but that he is very open to a lot of the new stuff that is coming around (BJJ, NHB, etc).  I was interested in finding out if he incorparated anything new into the seminars.

Gruhn

Greenman,
  They also did the removal of blood from a road which proved to work!

Gruhn

I too have nver smoked but from what I hear the mental part of quiting is worse than they physical part; stay strong!


Gruhn

Crafty,
  If I may ask . . Where did you find this!?

Gruhn

Denise M. Geroux, Shawn Summers and Andy Wilson are all in the Seattle area.  You can find their contact information on Inosanto.com


Gruhn

Crafty,
  Did you happen to see my question pertaining to the material in the Insturctors section?

Gruhn

It says I am a "Fila Brasileiro" a Mastiff type dog.

Gruhn

Well,
  In all the comps I plan to do everything goes so I have continued in my roots of Shooto, MT, JKD, and of course Kali.  Our school has several great MMA fighters that are currently fighting.  The reason I mentioned the seminar is that as you know DBMA isn't just swinging a stick, I honestly can't think of any style/system that would not benefit from a seminar of DB material.  Some of my largest grappling epiphanies have been when I have a stick in my hand and I am on the ground.  Another reason is that I know of a club at PSU that took a kali seminar here in PA with us and they all absolutely loved it, they too were coming from a ground based system.
  I know what you mean about Oishi, I heard it through the grape vine that he isn?t exactly fond of the material taught at our school.  O well, he?s his ways.

Gruhn

By all means, you should join our group!

I also posted the question on a Finnish fencing forum, they recommended a 1600-series mask.  Most of them are FIE approved.

- Marko

The only thing you will notice is that on the fencing forum they are all about the extremly expensive masks.  I don't think this is a "must" for what we are doing.  I posted on a few of the fencing forums and told them what I was doing with the mask and they all made it sound like they treated their masks like gold.  When I said I was going to be hitting it with a stick they all said there was no way they would ever use their mask for such a thing.  In a way I totally agree with them, there is no reason to pay that kind of money for somthing that really isn't built that much better for what we are doing.

Gruhn

Gruhn

Eyeglasses, not goggles.... The need is that I don't see s**t withou them.

About the models, well, the question basically was, what model would you recommend? If I'm looking for one, all-around mask, would it have to be a sabre mask or something else? I have to admit that I don't know too much about fencing masks, the need is to provide enough protection for both light and hard contact.

- Marko

My Bad,
  My father wears his when we fight.  The only problem is getting the mask on and off with the glasses on; they tend to move around but he seems to have a pretty good system down.  As for a model you might want to start off with a cheeper mask first to see if it is what you want before you go and spend a couple hundred on a really good fencing mask.  I have purchased a few off of ebay from http://www.alexandrsport.com/mask.htm and I love the masks.  For the price you can't beat the quality.

Gruhn

In a related vein I encountered this link the other day. For reasons I haven't fully identified it had me belly laughing at the computer. Check out some of the t-shirts.

http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm

Haha!
  I have had a couple people tell me about this site and its great to finaly see it!  Ninjas are sweet!  

Gruhn

Dog Corey,
  In all honesty I have never thought of old cloths.  I have a unfilled bag in my garage that has been sitting because I have yet to find a good "filler" for it.  Thanks for the enlightenment.

Gruhn

I think a couple things you need to think of before you get one are:

1.   Where are you going to hang it? - you need a sturdy beam or a free standing frame.
2.   What are you planning on doing? ? Thai, Boxing, Krabi-Krabong, etc.  This will have an impact on what size bag you should get.

When it comes to bag work part of the training is the bag swinging which trains agility and timing.  Bag work is meant for one person; if there were always two people there would be no reason for there to be a bag!  I recommend getting some bag training instructional videos or taking a few classes after you decide on a bag.

Gruhn

Crafty,
  I found another exercise tool that I think would be a huge asset to not only strength and rehabilitation but also training clench work.

http://ringside.com/store/prodinfo.asp?number=RGT&variation=&aitem=1&mitem=1

Gruhn

If you ever wondered why you shouldn't buy a katana from the Home Shopping Network, take a gander:

http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?video=Shopping-Network-Katana

Thats great!

Which four teeth?  It takes a heck of a lot to knock out a tooth, let alone four.  That must have been some redirection  

Just Curious,

Gruhn

Quote from: paglima

Looks like there were flexible weapon matches...What did the fighters use, is that rope?

Where do you see this?

Gruhn

My Bad, I found what you were talking about . . . .it does look like rope.

http://dogbrothers.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album18&id=res63798

Another question:

In this picture: http://dogbrothers.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album18&id=res63807

Is the one fighter wearing the Galls Forced Entry Gloves? - http://galls.com/style.html?style=TE383&assort=general_catalog if so, has he or anyone had enough experience with them to comment on their performance and quality?  

Gruhn