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[quote="Grant Hall
A decent boxer could not only take on these guys but he would decimate them once he closed range. The videos that Dog Brothers present show clearly that you can take repeditive hits from their sticks with little real damage.[/quote]

Just speaking for me personally, I am a pretty ...

I'm pretty sure these eveents are heavily video'd so there will almost certainly be video posted after the fact.

Kat, greetings. I have never met you, being a relative new guy (1 1/2 years in) but I did watch your highlights video that you posted, I look forward to eventually meeting you and getting some good scrapping in. I have a few questions for you though: You say that you have been out of ARMA for a ...

If you look at the dog brothers as a group of people playing with sticks that they pretend are swords then what they're doing is silly..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz-iGAJhZ6c

I have to say that I don't see much use in this at all, as far as Martial Arts go I consider Kali as one of the worst as it has a always go forawrd mentality in its fighting that results in both opponents getting hit multiple times.

I really hate the WEKAF style where everyone is armored to the ...

My interest is in primarily testing my voiding skills and well...i just love a good beating which is why i do muay thai and MMA as well.

I don't consider them to be tha much alike except there are weapons involved


One of the ones i look most forward to is playin with the shock knives they;ll have

I'm sure they had to test cut something before going to fight a man. Probably small sapplings and the like, thats what I always kiled when I was a kid

What club do you fight out of in Muay Thai? I have practiced (and taught) for over 10 years.

I've trained with a number of different instructors and clubs, a lot of boxing training. None of which I have any paticular loyalty to,my last instructor an I ended with bad blood so I basically consider ...

LOL?

I think you will not find it as easy and "mindless" as you think. Good luck...You will need it. Kali is serious stuff. Don't go in thinking it will be a game. These guys are for real.

If you still think this then...I for sure want to see pictures of what happens. I will send flowers to you ...

My hope is that when I return I can post video of myself doling as many hits as I can and taking as few as possible. Always in the back of my mind I will have the thought that if this were a blade I would be finished regardless of what style the rules allow or arguably encourage.

hi Aaron, I completely agree with you and I hope to have the opportunity to represent WMA well in this event. One of my skills as a fighter, be it fencing or kickboxing has always been my evasive and counter skills, I certainly wont go out with the give a hit to take a hit mentality, we'll see howit ...

For instance, if I have a long sword and you don't blindly rushing me is a bad way to try to win the bought.

Take out the blindly and you have the only way to win the bout. As soon as your opponent looks to bring their weapon into play you need to be in their face.

To add some further thoughts, I had just watched a Senior Free Scholar prize playing (Aarons I think?) and while Armateers certainly seem overall more skilled at avoiding blows I think that to call oneself a fighter one needs to built the martial spirit that the kind of fighting the dog brothers do ...

It takes a lot of martial spirit to fight like that. Take multiple hits from a rattan stick and keep fighting. Rattan HURTS, especially the big staffs, i'm sure they pack a whallop.

But that's the point of the Gathering, to develop that martial spirit. I think many of us would benefit from this ...

I'm thinking about attending and either fighting with a modified rattan "staff" or modified bamboo shinai. Probably some knife work aswell.

Anyone else thinking about going?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVg1LMET46c