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Can anyone tell me which manuals have the most information on unarmed skills? I'm familiar with the Petter Manuscript of course but I'm looking for things that are a little earlier. Fiore's work of course has a large section on unarmed skills, but other than that, what can people recommend ?

Kevin

Hey Joel, Kevin here in Issaquah. Feel free to drop me a line and I will give you the lowdown on our practices. Take care!

There are a number of ARMA members in washington, but most of us are in the Seattle, Tacoma Everett area. I'm afraid we're all kinda old fogeys in comparison to you. I know of no other youth types, sorry.

All of us in seattle arma are still waiting to hear what's going on with this. if someone has any information, please contact me.

Hey fellow Seattleites, yes, we have a number of people in the area and one official study group! Most members are either in the Tacoma area, or, like myself, on the eastside. Feel free to contact me via PM and I will provide you with more information as well as a time and place for everyone to meet...

To the best of my knowlege it will occur sometime in the spring. Details are still being worked out.

Jonathan_Kaplan wrote:Does anyone know of any eastern textual sources in general? I remember seeing a movie that had some discussions of some of them. If there are copies online, I would love to see them!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muyedobotongji

here's one. Korean.

It's portugese in origin, though it has been said that it may have been strongly influenced or straight imported from India.

here, the wikipedia article is pretty good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jogo_do_Pau

I'm not familiar with when the first contacts were, but I do seem to remember katanas being described as scimitars or sabers in literature from the earliest contact with japanese culture.

Can't recall anything more useful than that.

Just my 2 cents. We all strive for accuracy in what we do, and that's a good thing, however, sometimes it seems like we can end up bogged down in minute details, and forget the larger picture. Yes, when we practice a technique, we may be doing it "wrong". But what is wrong? If it's a devia...

Something else to consider is that concepts of perspective and anatomy didn't really show in europe until the 15th century, and weren't terribly common until much later. Many of the plates that I see I tend to assume are fairly stylized and attempt to see them not as they are, but as what the artist...

Only moderately related, for the escrima equivalent of pell training, I've seen them use stacks of old car tires before... just a thought....

Speaking of, it's been over a month since I sent my application in. How long does it typically take to hear back? Anyone?

Kevin

http://www.revival.us/index.asp?PageAct ... ProdID=173

Cheapest gorget I know of. Can't give any recommendations as to how effective it is. They also have kendo/baton sparring helmets for a reasonable price.

I've posted some stuff in the unarmed discussion area, but here is my official greeting to all of ARMA. My name is Kevin, I'm a bartender and bouncer by trade. My (largely unrequited) love affair wth European Martial arts started in 1988 when my mother took me to see "Willow". Yeah, I know...