... Yes. It is my _opinion_ that the Uisce Beatha Bata Rince "ready" stance (as displayed on the website) offers a stronger defensive position than an ...
Jean that sounds awsome! With the practical training, what kind of gear did you guys use for protection? also did you use padded or wood bata's? chuck ... I'll...
Hi Kirk, I totally understand what you're saying and I was just being goofy. Sifu himself says to use our Uisce almost as an interceptor and let the attacking...
Hi Chuck, We use replica blackthorns made from either purpleheart, granadillo, or jatoba wood, and they are not padded. As for equipment, we wear Hockey helmet...
Hi Jean... I practice single-stick & bata in Scotland, great to hear that your enjoying the classes. You mention that you use Hockey masks.... Is it the...
Hi Louie, We use the grill. One of the junior instructors was telling us that they originally used other forms of face guards, but guys kept getting busted...
... Partially that depends on the mask. Fencing masks are rated in Neutons. This ranks how much force they can withstand without deforming, iirc. The higher...
Hi Jean.... The form of Bata shown to me involved a lot of stabbing to the face: Hitting down on the head with the root ball, rebounding with the lower half of...
Hi Jean and others. Thanks for the reply about protection, A heads about hockey helmets, I have a clear plastic protection on the top half of my grill over my...
Louie You remember well. my style loves using ricochet/multiple hits, flowing from hit to hit using the natural rebounds to add speed and power as well as...
Hi Louie, Talk to Sifu Doyle about the fencing masks, he said he'll try anything once, but so far he's found the hockey cage works the best. And the cages we...
Since we are just a few short weeks away...I thought I would post this reminder. Cumann Bhata Western Martial Arts Seminar Cumann Bhata is proud to announce...
... Will the bata class be no-contact to light-contact or padding? Noting some of the discussions of helmets, whether external bruises, cuts, hits, still there...
... Hi Bo, Light to no contact with the Irish stick class. Of course people are welcome to wear helmets for added safety but we won't be going hard at all...I...
Great, thanks Ken. Any word on if we can stay the night of the 19th & break camp on the 20th? If necessary, I suppose that I could try to get a motel for that...
Hey guys, I just got to witness first hand, the differences between the Irish and Filipino styles. It was kinda intense but intereesting. We had a new guy in...
I watched the Bata and Dempsey videos recently. I have a Black Belt in Modern Arnis, but I favor Serrada Escrima of which I have trained at for over a decade....
... Hi Stephen, my email way more belated than yours... ... I think you have hit on it exactly with this post. Sometimes it is nice to be fed information but...
On 6/4/05, Cydonian Warrior <cydonian_warrior@...> wrote: Have any other ... So far I have been fairly lucky with teach the western material.....maybe...
No question. Dirk "Walk softly...." Well, you know the rest. ... From: Ken Pfrenger [mailto: kenpfrenger@...] People are nuts and I sometimes get the...
... I was once asked (back when a brownbelt) by soneone stopping by, if I "knew all that karate stuff", to which I replied "that I know some, still learning" =...
PS. To quote 1 phystics teachers who was quoting someone else, something liek "Math & science are left-brain thinking, thus prooving that scientists aren't in...
I must thank whoever used the "full cup people" term to describe those who feel they have nothing left to learn . It is close to being perfect for describing ...
Neat story. I saw something similar to this with my own training group (we train primarily in Medieval Italian sword arts, but I think it's similar enough to...
One of Sifu Doyle's students is a fencing student and he brought his mask to class to test out the durability. To make a long story short, we just got back...
... That's where I disagree with the writers of the Karate Kid movies, in their stating through Miyagi that there is "no bad student, only bad sensei". That is...
Hi Jean, any chance that you could videotape your training, at least if Sifu Doyle doesn't mind? Esp if it progresses in a class by class schedule, to maybe...
... Ouch ... taking a bata to a fencing mask is like crash-testing a cardboard box with a baseball bat. I'm surprised that anyone would stress-test a piece of...
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