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| bro |
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| Pat OMalley |
| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 11:49 am |
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Yep I have heard of it and I want one, I have read their articles and all good stuff.
Do you have the contact details of the publisher??? As I am sure my wife's company Eskrimador Supplies would be very interested in this.
Sounds like a very education read indeed.
YBIFMA
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| jonbroster |
| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 5:15 pm |
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| lhommedieu |
| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 5:09 pm |
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Got my copy the other day and have had time to scan it but not really read it. I'll post a review once I've finished it.
At first glance, however, I think that it does a very good job highlighting older generation Cebuano teachers that are not part of the mainstream and deserve greater recognition.
One of the book's theses is that many veteran Spanish soldiers retired to the priesthood and were often sent to remote villages to minister to the poor (of course this also helped Spain to consolidate its hold on its territories). These "warrior priests" taught trusted Cebuanos the rudiments of European medieival swordplay - generally because the villages were subject to raids from outlaws and pirates and needed a force to protect them. Often these sword techniques remained within clans and families for hundreds of years, and often they were assimulated within already existing native sword traditions, tested under combat, and altered gradually to reflect prevailing practices and biases. This is a primary basis, according to the authors, of the influence of European sword on Cebuano martial arts.
There is also a discussion about "Kali" - about which, as Winston Churchill might have said, "Never has so much been written about so little."
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