VIDEO CLIPS OF INTEREST

[Glewis007]

http://www.wimp.com/samuraibaseball/

Isao Machii is a legitimate badass with the katana.  Here's another vid with him doing incredible cuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p35S_OPvlo

Aloha, Poi

Is it me or is that katana forged by Hattori Hanzo?

[Rarick]

sorry I thought I had posted this one earlier instead of that movie link.   It looks like some European sword technique mirrors the stick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAM4TWobdLM  Has a familiar look to it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQHxJdDI_Fo
youtube.com/watch?v=nmoSedeqrHo

[Crafty_Dog]

http://www.dogbrothers.ch/pages/en/multimedia.php

[Rarick]

In regards to die less often and knife defense.  A new coldsteel knife and what it does to a rack of ribs.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OO9gHsscyc&feature=sub

[Crafty_Dog]

That is CERTAINLY to be kept in mind!

As are the facts that
a) the people weilding those knives have been training cutting skills for many years- with the same knife most of us could not do the same thing,;
b) those that knife cannot legally be carried in many jurisdictions due to blade length and that most attack knives (speaking only SWAG here) are not as big, as sharp, etc

[Rarick]

They do pretty massive damage with a lot of their smaller knives too.  On the order of your average "buck folder" size.  I did post the "attention getter" video, but the sidebar has a whole bunch of their other demos.   I remembered a remark you made about lack of respect when sparring with practice knives, and figured this would help with that issue.

Quite frankly I would rather be shot than cut- less trauma in my opinion.

[Crafty_Dog]

Agreed 100% on the trauma potential of knives small too. 

I forget if I have mentioned it here on this forum, but the idea to use a hanging piece of meet in what was then a video, was my suggestion to Paul Vunak back in , , , 1985 IIRC.

[Rarick]

Check out the Natchez Bowie in the More from column.   About 3 minutes in they have a kid doing some chopping with it- I guess they wanted to make a point that it is sharpness and not strength doing the cutting..........

I just watched the whole thing, I suggest anyone curious about what a big knife can do watch it too.   They use a whole pig carcass, so if you are squeamish you are warned.

[Crafty_Dog]

URL?

[Rarick]

youtube.com/watch?v=bRk93Vlrd48

Natchez Bowie........

[Crafty_Dog]

Well, sh*t howdy!

[Rarick]

[Crafty_Dog]

It's an idiomatic expression meaning "Very impressive"  

[Rarick]

Okay, I was wondering.

Her is another Video- It is about WHY the general populace should be armed.  6 parts I an just posting the first part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSsNdMsXTNU

[C-Kumu Dog]

Funny clip about a guy acting like an ass to some bouncers - no violence but strong language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWfetF1jCO4&feature=player_embedded

[maija]

Savate documentary from, I'm guessing, the 50's/60's?
Great footwork, not to mention the outfits, and self defense example at the end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKDkBlKEY1g

[Sebresos]

Great clip, wonder how heavy those staffs were. How about those French gi's.

[Jerome]

The french "baton" is cut on a chestnut tree.
The length is about 1.40 meter (54") and the weight is 450-500g (~1 pound)

[youtube]YTS2xhTZUD8&hl[/youtube]

C-Frisbee

[Rarick]

Hmmm, pool cue sized?

[Crafty_Dog]

Great moment of baseball

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7364830?fr=yvmtf

[maija]

Fencing clip - This guy's timing, faking and movement are really good. Fun to watch 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HgKYKnRgME

[maija]

Senegalese 'Lutte':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRr53w91GMo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jWaqYUJMc0&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDKTmkbzgc4

[Freki]

I saw a show on the travel channel on this, it was very good.  Love the vids!

[Crafty_Dog]

Those guys look really strong.

[Rarick]

Nice entries for the takedown too, I guess when the focus is get em down, you get some good moves to do that.

[Freki]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5PoK9BArWw[/youtube]

I thought some of the blocks were interesting combined with triangular foot work

[Freki]

I do not know the weapon but found these vids fun to watch.  If anything it looks like a great workout.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqVB7MMwDxw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7I3qaoHB7g[/youtube]

[amok_hodges]

Guro Harley Elmore with Nok Talon
http://guroharley.blogspot.com/2009/08/nok-knives-talon-wooden-knife.html

[Rarick]

When I get a noisy site- I usually move on to less annoying pastures.

[amok_hodges]

Is that directed at the video clip I posted of nok's talons If so what wrong with the post?

[maija]

Irish Stick Fighting:
This part 2, other parts are interesting also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDhDn8Y1xYg

[Bambi]

For various reasons, the chances are that this stuff is about as irish as a bowl of lucky charms.    Although it might have some intrinsic worth in it's own right

[maija]

Bambi - Care to extrapolate re - 'various reasons' ... Obviously I have no idea what would be authentic or not, just curious what you see?
I do like the material though - changing ranges, switching hands, combinations with kicks, knees and punches .... very enjoyable.

[Bambi]

For a start, stick fighting is no longer extant in Ireland and hasn't been in living memory to the best of my knowledge. Glenn Doyle claims his family style came over to canada with his grandfather or some such, which to me sounds implausible. Originally he claimed that his father/grandfathers' style was called "usice beatha bata rince " which sounds like someone looked up the words "whiskey", "stick" and "dance" in an irish dictionary and literally stuck them together. It appears that he has since changed the name to "rince an bheata usice bheatha" which is grammatically correct at least even if it's kinda amusing (I mean c'mon, not only did his family have a stick fighting style but they happened to name it after two of Ireland's most well known cultural exports?).  Everything about it set's my spidey sense's off.

There's a guy called Hurley who started this shillelagh renaissance off, he bases his stuff on period accounts of stick fights I believe. I'm not sure how accurate his sources are but at least he's a straight up WMA recreationist.

[maija]

Thanks for the info, Bambi - though I kinda like the sound of 'whiskey stick dancing'

[Bambi]

this kind of irish stick fighting is much more entertaining, more common weapon than a shillelagh too 


[youtube]6DYVaHvzEVI[/youtube]

[youtube]OkWNQkPtriI[/youtube]

[Rarick]

Took out the referee?! major uncool!  What are they doing having the teams enter the field at the same time anyways?

[Scuttery]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guT76kAPYs0[/youtube]
Irish hurling's answer to Sun Tzu (some swearing involved)

[Sebresos]

Look at this!

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f2/anderson-trains-seagal-video-1235956/

 

[Tony Torre]

Here's a clip showing european broadsword work.  This one is particularly interesting since a lot of the material resembles fma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHEs2m0IXAk

Enjoy,
Tony Torre
Miami Arnis Group
www.miamiarnisgroup.com

[Rarick]

some of that I remember from SCA, invented from doing rather than any reference as far as I know.  I later became familiar with at least one of those names mentioned, although I haven't done much more than look at the pretty pictures.  SCA is sword and shield stuff, so some of those simple disarms wher the hand comes out for a pivot work with a shield. 

The old movie "Excalibur" with the shiny plate armor, had some of these moves too, I wonder.........

[Crafty_Dog]

Woof Tony:

Nice find.  They take the time to edit enabling efficient use of time with good clarity showing the book example and their footage thereof.

[Crafty_Dog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY6M1gZ6uMU

Some really nice body shots in here.

[Rarick]

youtube.com/watch?v=2RC0yLWnusU

it is mostly about guns and shooting, but they do talk about adrenal state as well.  Massad Ayoob, one of the shooting gurus.

[Freki]

Found this on youtube thought people here might like to see it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNentRsIkWE[/youtube]

[Sebresos]

Anyone ever notice how the old masters were so dapper. A lot of the old videos I've seen of them training, they are usually wearing dress shirts and slacks of some kind.

[Stickgrappler]

Watched America's Got Talent with my kids tonight. Illusionist Dan Sperry's act

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n7Y9EA17yQ[/youtube]

Weirded us out a little.

[Rarick]

Way cool, it is about time someone started coming up with unique stuff.  Yep, creepy, but the cool kind.

[Stickgrappler]

Way cool, it is about time someone started coming up with unique stuff.  Yep, creepy, but the cool kind.

Woof Rarick:

Yes, it is cool to see new illusions. Some years ago, The Masked Magician came out with a series of specials, Magic's Greatest Secrets Revealed (or something similarly titled) and glad to see that "magic" is not dead and stagnating.

~sg

[Stickgrappler]

This bear has better stick skills than I do! He may fight at the next Gathering.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVFW19ctoqA[/youtube]