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Old 09-22-2003, 10:36 AM
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Updates to the website: Four new videos. Two of Merryprankster mauling some poor sods and two of my eskrima test (which is, granted, 10 years ago, but I haven't filmed anything lately, so live with it.)


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Old 09-22-2003, 10:51 AM
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p.s. As much as I would have preferred to be the shorter guy in clip number 2, I'm actually the tall, lanky guy getting schooled (for the most part).
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Cool, thanks for the update...
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Old 09-22-2003, 11:17 AM
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I enjoyed watching the clips. Question - in the second Escrima clip, was that knife-fighting or mostly bare-hand? Your friend sure likes those high kicks.

Merry - nice work, I can see that you are a technician.
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Old 09-22-2003, 11:41 AM
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Hey Ap, you don't look so bad, atleast on the second half of that first video it looks like you are holding your own. The short guy looks pretty squared away though, I think he might give most people a run for their money.
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Old 09-22-2003, 11:45 AM
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The second clip was strictly empty hand. Oddly, we didn't do any knife sparring at the test. (I was just noticing that myself when we were transferring these clips to digital.) We did do freestyle abecedario-type drills (empty hand vs. knife), which I'll be posting later.

Yep. Marty was a good kicker. Oddly, his background was mostly eskrima and aikido. But the school itself taught taekwondo and eskrima. So there were a lot of students who trained in both. We sparred with students from both programs during the test. In later clips, you'll see guys wearing the taekwondo dobok instead of the uniform I'm wearing there.

Makes me groan to see the backfists and wotnot I was throwing there. But in my defense (read: excuse), that was after an hour and a half of other test stuff. Still, it's frustrating that physically, I was in relatively good condition. But tactically... aw man!


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Hey Ap, you don't look so bad, atleast on the second half of that first video it looks like you are holding your own. The short guy looks pretty squared away though, I think he might give most people a run for their money.
Yeah, Marty's no slouch. I haven't got a problem with getting schooled by him.
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i only saw one clip with the escrimas. looked pretty cool.
some were offline the site said , i guess i'll check back later
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I think I'd groan at those backfists you took!
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neat ap. abanico!

merry seems higher skilled in these newer videos. odd.

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Help ! I didn't bookmark it. Can someone post the link?

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p.s. As much as I would have preferred to be the shorter guy in clip number 2, I'm actually the tall, lanky guy getting schooled (for the most part).
You're only the tall, lanky guy for the most part? When are you the other guy?
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Nice takedowns there Ap. I particularly liked the scissor takedown you pulled off about 2/3 of the way thru clip 2. Your opponent looked very confident and relaxed.
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I think I'd groan at those backfists you took!
Oh, the ones I TOOK, hell yeah! I think even without sound, I can hear a loud *smack* watching that video.
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merry seems higher skilled in these newer videos. odd.

Aw yeah. Gots to have the abanico, yen.
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