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Cintron targets UFC titlist!
Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he doesn't want to battle a UFC champion. No problem. IBF World Welterweight Champion and former high school/college wrestling star Kermit Cintron would like to accept the challenge from UFC President Dana White, it was announced today by Main Events CEO Kathy Duva. Cintron, who will be defending his IBF crown against mandatory challenger Walter Matthysse on July 14 in Atlantic City, NJ, would like to battle the UFC champion following his June IBF title defense. "I want the fight," said Cintron. "I can wrestle. I can box. I can beat those UFC fighters at their own game. Tell Mr. White to make me an offer and I'll take on his guy after I fight Matthysse on July 14." Cintron (27-1, 25 KO's) captured the vacant IBF crown on October 28, 2006, when he destroyed Mark Suarez in six rounds (TKO 6). The 27-year-old Reading, PA resident by way of Carolinas, Puerto Rico once finished 10th at the NJCAA Wrestling Championships. As a senior in high school he was offered full wrestling scholarships to Wisconsin University and Ohio State University. The Cintron-Matthysse bout will serve as the co-feature to the Arturo Gatti-Alfonso Gomez contest. Main Events is promoting the July 14 evening of boxing, in association with The Tournament of Contenders, LLC and Caesars Atlantic City.
Tuesday, May 8 2007
I'm very happy to be a member of Sensei Harris' Grappling Association as well as a member of the Dog Brothers Tribe. When I saw this thread, I was hoping to get Mr. Harris to answer. Mr. Harris is a very good teacher with a great eye for the little details. I hope this is okay with Guru Crafty but here is a link to Mr. Harris' response on the boards on the Harris International Website.
http://www.royharris.com/forum/showthread.php?p=11727#post11727
I don't mean to complain but was there anyone else disappointed with the quality of the event production last night?
Gruhn
I got my rings today and put them in the weight room at the gym. So far people LOVE them.
Gruhn
man this video gold!!!
Around this point some of them begin muttering about tippy tappy drills, when the real issue IMHO is that they lack the science of entering and striking and/or the science of entering and closing. In DBMA this is where we use the concept of the Triangle from the Third Dimension, Attacking Blocks, Snaggletooth Variations, Los Triques and Dos Triques, etc. These are the portals into the dimension where the skills cultivated in medio and corto range isolation drills are expressed.
This is a great thread with many people expressing relevant and thought provoking ideas. The ideal of a knight versus the actual reality of knights has already been explored in this thread. What strikes me about this topic is how much of human fiction is devoted to archetypal warrior characters. I am writing about fiction, not history because fiction often shows us what human beings strive to be in light of reality. A knight, a samurai, a Shaolin monk, an ignorant white man who learns warrior ways from another culture, a Jedi, etc., all have to do with an ideal warrior-intellectual who demonstrates for those around him what the best life path is.
It can often be inferred from these works that contain characters like this that the warrior knows their wisdom has come with a hard price. The warrior-character usually waits for the days when they can move on to the next stage of life/manhood. What is so troubling about real-life contemporary, archetypal villains (criminals, violent drug-addicts, gang members, etc.) is that they exhibit no signs of revering life and they do not give any thought to the future. There is no "next stage" for them, whereas the warrior archetype from fiction is often waiting for "the war to end", or for "the fighting to stop" so that they can assume an elder/King/sage sort of roll.
It strikes me that we have many templates for what could be a well-lived life available here in this thread. Most of them seem to contain a warrior stage that comes fairly early on in the various progressions. The progressions all seem to move from those stages to some sort of a father-figure/adviser roll. In the DBMA logo, "heart" is on the top of the triangle. In the Inosanto/LaCoste FMA triangle, love is at the top. This is the same thing. The healing arts are the last phase of FMA in Guru Inosanto's FMA progression. ALL of these life templates are leading the warrior to the same place: being a guide/father/King/adviser/sage/healer who is loved and respected for having walked the path and now improving the world around him by guiding the youth through the same process.
It has already been articulately expressed in this thread that ideals for how to live life are usually met with skepticism in our culture and how unfortunate that is. If we can have the courage to strap on fencing masks and hit one another with sticks to cultivate the warrior spirit, can we have the courage to say that we want to use martial art, or martial philosophy, or a martial experience/life to try and make the world a better place? I already know how naive that last sentence must read as but it only reads as such because of cultural cynicism. Do we have the courage to try and be a modern-day knight, Jedi, samurai, etc.? If we can do that, it just may be that our world-wide dream for the world to be a good place, as demonstrated in fiction, might actually start to catch up with our reality.
any weapons are acceptable if the fighters agree to it (see the threads on tasers and cattle prods). although fighting against a 3 pound piece of wood seems quite intimidating...
Hi Marc,
thank you for that translation.
It worked very good for me, but I have to admit that I fought knife at the Gathering with a student/training partner of mine so there was nothing unexpected neither for him nor for me.
But on different sparring meetings, trainings etc. I have also tried it with people that I didn´t knew before and there too, it worked.
Regards
Christian
cattle prods:
A friend of mine, Roberto Laura, is exploring and teaching a lot of italian fighting systems: http://www.robertolaura.com/ (sorry, there is no English version) great stuff. I have used it at the Bern Gathering in the "warmup" knife fight.
Regards
Christian
Maybe it has something to do with the fighters having the shoot and take down so prominently on their minds. The striker is worried about defending against the shoot and has his sprawl all set to go. So he doesn't want to be caught in the middle of a footwork pattern or with his feet close together. The grappler is looking for a gap in the striker's defense so he can shoot in suddenly. So he isn't moving around a lot as he stalks his prey.
Keith
The Clubbell is designed such that the knob of the Clubbell screws into the neck of the Clubbell. As I understand it the screw itself is apparently called a zert. I took the 20 lb. Clubbell that had the severely canted knob, and I unscrewed it. It was then that I noticed that the zert itself was severely bent. The bend in the zert is what caused the knob to appear so severely canted. One does not have to be a rocket science to conceptualize that the ¼” zert is not capable of handling the tremendous physical forces that are brought to bear upon the knob/neck junction of the Clubbell.
Please forgive my arrogance, this is exactly why I have set up the Kali Fence as I have and why Gabe has integrated it into his teaching-- it predisposes the body to react correctly.
I just returned from a Gunfight Course in casa Grande, AZ. This is approximately the sixth or seventh time we have taught the Kali Fence and False Lead, and Kali/DB footwork learned from crafty in conjunction with FOF.
One of the things we constantly struggled with was that students with poorly developed footwork skills would tend to backpedal when pressured. This invariably led to falling backward and getting smoked by the attacker while they either tried to regain balance or after their head bounced from the fall.
The thing I have immediately noticed is that beginning in the False Lead/Kali Fence sets you up for angular forward movement (which has shown to be the most adventageous in the close gunfight drill). Conversely, this starting position makes it exceedingly difficult to back pedal as the feet are not positioned to facilitate this.
I am seeing normally slow students, lacking in agility, now able to get off the X to the defense angles and get shots on their attackers. It is truly a joy to see.
I love the way that the FMA empty-hand material is grafted so effectively onto a western boxing base. I recently purchased and have worked thru the Kali Tudo videos and was impressed with the content. I'm looking to more installments in this series! Having also seen and worked on the stick material, I know that the dog brother approach to some extent is to take the "traditional" drills and training methods and put them into the crucible of the fight and see what shakes out. I've been impressed with the training drills that are presented on the stick videos that are obviously a "been there and done that" summary of what works. So my question is this......
Keith
any predictions for the pac-morales fight?
By Karl Freitag
Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather have reached an agreement to fight on May 5. The fight was finalized today. The bout will be promoted by Golden Boy Promotions. "We are not going to comment what the deal is," Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer told Fightnews.com. "It's a fair deal and if the pay-per-view hits the numbers which we anticipate it will, it will be new record payday for both guys.....It's going to be big. It's clearly the biggest fight in boxing and I think it's the kind of fight which will transcend and which will clearly capture the interest of the American public and the American sports fans, because it is Mayweather pound-for-pound number one fighter in the sport against Oscar, the most popular and biggest name in the sport. Actually I was looking today at Oscar's trophy case in our office and I was standing in front of one of the belts which was a ring belt that had 'Oscar De La Hoya, pound for pound' on it, and it was 1997. So here we are ten years later and the question is, can he do it again?"
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"Oscar realizes this is a dangerous fight," continued Schaefer. "He realizes that he's going in as the underdog, but this is what exactly motivates him, this is what gets him going, this is what he is about and what his entire career is all about. Always going for the biggest challenges. I think that's what his active career was and that's what he'll be remembered for. The guy who always took on the biggest and the best."
Monday, November 13 2006
Is this due to a spear-based history of the method?
Woof Jeff:
Thrusting certainly plays an important role in FMA staff in general and in DBMA staff in particular.
I agree that one fight, or even a couple of fights, is not a sufficient data base from which to draw a conclusion. That said, in our fights where one or both men have a staff, there has not been much thrusting. Generally, what seems to happen to thrusts is that the staff gets hit during the thurst, which knocks it badly off-course and momentarily out of control. Indeed, in my first staff fight when my opponent tried thrusting me, my simultaneous counterstrike disarmed him completely. (A very cool moment for me-- Just seconds before, a friend in the crowd had just called out "C'mon Marc Denny-- This is your house!" and then bam!)
I began staff fighting towards the end of my fighting days, but my sense of things is that with a bit more time I would have figured out to apply staffs on second or third motions of an exchange. Right now I suspect the problem is that people trying for Single Direct Attacks with thrusts.
Staff fights are scary things because the staff is scary powerful and scary deceptive. I am working on preparing DBMA fighters who will apply further the understandings that I started with. It can be tough finding opponents.
The WMA thing is very interesting. Some of our Euro members have good background in this and I look forward to the contributions that they will bring to all of this.
Woof,
Guro Crafty
PS: The thrusts in our aforementioned DBMA Staff DVD are shown more as part of a fighting self-defense structure "Keep the neighborhood Tank Abbot off of you" i.e. a big mean angry fcuk vs. ordinary citizen with a small light staff.
Assuming all goes well with Spike, they will shoot through the Fall Gathering, do some post Gathering interviews, then edit. The webisodes should appear on their website around January.
I don't know. XMA was such a disappointment and this seems to be in the same vein. I am interested in the addition of BJJ and FMA this time around.
Unfortunately, I tend to check out when I see or hear the following:
1) Guys yelling and breaking bricks
2) See the words "Dim Mak, or Ninja Death Punch"
Maybe my years in film production have jaded me
Have you had a chance to watch "Knife Ruminations" and "Rambling Ruminations"?
