http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/ Western Martial Arts Disscussion, Boxing, Wrestling, Fencing, Longsword, savate, pankration, rapier, faction fighting, sambo Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:43:33 GMT lordofbludhall http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24946 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24946 A new guest article on the Freifechter website on Irish stick fighting The stick is king: The Shillelagh Bata or the rediscovery of a living Irish martial Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:36:17 GMT Los Angeles Doce Pares http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24945 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24945 If you want to put a Doce Pares link in your website, blogs, tweets, Friendster, MySpace and in Facebook itself, cut the following code and paste it in the Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:59:14 GMT baronaoc@... http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24944 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24944 I will heading up to Bob Charron's villa this weekend to attend his annual seminar on Fiore's abrazare and daga plays. I will make sure to post a review when I Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:50:50 GMT Ken Pfrenger http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24943 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24943 ... Mike, Sounds like an awesome event...keep me in the loop for next year. I have relatives down in Miami, perhaps I could pretend to go visit them and stop Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:17:40 GMT cinaet http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24942 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24942 Only Justin and I today... 2 rds shadow boxing 2 rds boxing sparring 1 rd savate sparring 1 rds heavy bag 1 rd GnP floor bag 1 rd focus mitts We threw on our Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:23:27 GMT lordofbludhall http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24941 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24941 New excellent guest Articles on the Meyer Freifechter Guild website Examining the Nine Flowers of the Flower of Battle (a Fiore Resource) by Michael Chidester Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:14:14 GMT lordofbludhall http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24940 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24940 The Tallahassee Dixie Krieg event was a great success, great classes taught by Jake Norwood, Jay Vail, Colin Richard and David Tieche. Lots of steel sparring Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:06:47 GMT cinaet http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24939 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24939 ... Hi Maxime, I understand about there being a ,limited audience for these types of books. It does not make it any easier for us Western Martial Artists on a Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:32:39 GMT emperorsc3 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24938 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24938 Keep in mind that these books and video are targeted at a very small niche, and so the price follows the demand. I have seen old videotapes of Judo kata at Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:42:49 GMT Ken Pfrenger http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24937 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24937 Matt had ordered some Cold Steel longsword trainers, they came in, so this was our day to play with them. It had been a while since any of us has actually Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:16:23 GMT Kirk "Rabid Weasel" Lawson http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24936 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24936 ... Lord knows that I am too. However, that said, when I look around at contemporary books, the price falls roughly in line. Peace favor your sword, Kirk Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:38:07 GMT Ken Pfrenger http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24935 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24935 ... $60 for a 3 disc set is not too bad at all. I am not a big fan of the CS tomahawk set. Anyone who has done any FMA will get just about nothing form these Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:47:22 GMT lordofbludhall http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24934 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24934 will do Ken We have Colin Richards from Germany coming, Jake Norwood and Jay Vail all teaching classes. Should be a great weekend. There will be groups from Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:20:15 GMT Ken Pfrenger http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24933 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24933 HI Mike, Looks like a nice event. I hope you give us a report on how it goes. Ken Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:45:36 GMT Ken Pfrenger http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24932 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/western-arts/message/24932 ... That's a pretty nice score Missy! I am jealous. I paid $77 for my 35 pounder and that was with picking it up at the distributer. Now you just have to use