Kali Tudo (tm)

[Crafty Dog]

For those of you who have seen our first Kali Tudo (tm) DVD, here is an example of the technique taught therein called "The Zirconia"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1hTrO8FSTs&feature=player_embedded

[arnisador]

Hammerfisting a downed opponent?

[Crafty Dog]

Well, that was witty.

No, the forward diagonal step with the rear leg while punching up the center with the front hand.

[PG Michael B]

He stepped with the front leg first (more a shuffle)..then he stepped on the diagonal with the right or rear leg (even the rear step looked more like an accident then planned)...as to punching up the center..hmmm looks like a winging left hand..nothing up the middle about it...it was a haymaker that landed. The hammer fists were what they were, cave man bashes to the dome (nasty and effective).....

I just don't get into the MMA thing....my friends dig it but for me..hmmm I'd rather watch Boxing or Food Network...LOL.....

[Crafty Dog]

By "up the center" I mean between Liddell's hands.

The distinctive point here is that opposite hand and foot fired forward simultaneously. The greater distance covered this way is unexpected. Liddell thought he was out of range but because of this technique he wasn't, and got nailed.

[The Phalanx]

Yes, stepping in with the jab with the corresponding foot... Very textbook... Great execution by Shogun...

[Crafty Dog]

Freeze frame 00:55.

What do you see?

[PG Michael B]

At 00:55 I see a flat footed Rua....looking at Lidell who is heading to the canvas. Nothing more nothing less. Rua hit him with a strong hay maker..and BOOM out go the lights.

As for stepping in with a jab..HUH? On this clip there is no jab..just a big ole hay maker that nailed him square as a Dutch mans nugget!

I understand what your saying by the off hand and foot...from what I see it looks more like a OH S*** shot that happened to land.

Hey, Rua won and can continue on until someone separates his grey matter. As for Chuck, he definitely needs to go into broadcasting....he is done...screw the fork..DONE! He may have the chutzpa but he doesn't have the ability...in that game just as in boxing time catches your butt..and on this night in this fight..Chucks clock chimed a foreboding midnight on a good career. He has a butt load of cash. Time to call it a day and go get fat!

[Brian R. VanCise]

Yes that is a good blitzing style of movement very quick and actually their is quite a bit of technique involved. I use very similar movement both empty hand but also particularly with the knife. It allows you to take the center. The key is when you blitz and at what time. You do not want the other person in balance because if they are then they can of course counter effectively. http://www.fmatalk.com/images/icons/icon6.gif I spend a lot of time on that when to blitz.
That is the key! http://www.fmatalk.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

[The Phalanx]

After looking at that video from a different angle, Shogun looked like he made a hook strike not a jab... From a different angle it looked like a jab...

It didn't look pretty but it took Chuck right out...

But the point is that Shogun was able to deliver that shot then was able to take Chuck out with the hammer fists...

Still a great execution by Shogun... He covered a great amount of range with that step-move... Chuck apparently did not expect that shot to cover so much range...

[PG Michael B]

Agreed..he landed a honey punch.....Chuck was on queer street quicker than crap through a goose....his legs went rubbery and timber, down he went...LOL. Having seen the last few fights of the once highly touted Lidell I would say he hasn't seen much coming in quite some time....that dude hits the floor like nobodies business!

[Carol]

Thanks for the comparison, Crafty Dog :bow:

I'm personally not as familiar with your system. How much of your Kali Tudo DVD contains empty hand material such as this? :)

[gagimilo]

Actualy, it is all about the empty handed material...and good one if you ask me!

[Combative Edge]

I definitely see the technique there. I actually have my class doing that down the floor. Left jab/palm, Right cross/slap (more of a fake), and then step 45 with rear leg while simultaneously striking with left.... from there your in a right lead so then you Go Right jab/palm, Left Cross/slap...step 45 with with left.....strike

Maybe Rua didn't mean to do it but he did. That technique does work well.

[WuLord187]

Agreed..he landed a honey punch.....Chuck was on queer street quicker than crap through a goose....his legs went rubbery and timber, down he went...LOL. Having seen the last few fights of the once highly touted Lidell I would say he hasn't seen much coming in quite some time....that dude hits the floor like nobodies business!

This should be put on a T-Shirt!
Punched him into retirement

[Crafty Dog]

I'll be looking to write up something more thoughtful tomorrow, but for the moment a couple of quick points.

1) yes, the left hand was more of a hook than a straight left/jab, but as far as I am concerned the distinction is a difference without meaning IN THIS CONTEXT. To score the hit he had to throw a hooking motion instead of a straight one and the hook is still "up the center" i.e. between the opponent's hands. The larger point is that the punch arrived because of the opposite hand-- foot action.

2) I can't say whether Rua has trained the motion, I only point to it as evidence that the first motion of something I showed in our "Kali Tudo" DVD called the Zirconia works. My life in martial arts has been dedicated to the congruence of Art and application and as part of that mission I seek to apply Kali empty handed. I put myself out there saying that it would work (as it did for me in my MMA sparring) and feel it fair to point out that it worked here at world class MMA level.

3) I have invented nothing. What you see here is quite similar to old school boxing's Fitzsimon's shift. That said, when I showed our Zirconia in 2005, I am not aware of ANYONE who was doing it AND I know how many people doubted it to me directly.

4) The Zirconia motion of our KT is a combination on some very aggressive triangular footwork (what we call completing the outside diamond triangle). Please note well that here that would not have been necessary because CL went down on the first hit, so what we are seeing here is only the first motion of something that has quite a bit more to it ;-)

5) For the historical record, the Zirconia arose for me out of a single stick combination that in DBMA we call "Variation 5"-- not because there are 4 variations that come before it, but because I vary the Ilustrisimo Crossstep footwork of Lameco single stick combination 5A by substituting on the first motion a forward diagonal step. The second motion of the stick is accompanied by a step that completes the outside diamond triangle and the third motion , , , well too hard to articulate in these final moments before I go to bed.

Small story: I was very tickled with myself to have thought of the forward diagonal step with the rear leg and over time have worked it along with the rest of the triangular footwork it initiates rather sedulously.

A couple of months ago I found a youtube clip of Tatang Ilustrisimo doing the same thing at a pivotal moment in a serious sparring match!!! A thing of understanding and beauty. Brian's comments about the importance of understanding WHEN are quite on point.

In DBMA the Zirconia is an example of what we call "portal techniques" i.e. techniques were are only to be done at well-chosen moments to create transition of structure and idiom of movement-- as we like to say "Stepping through the portal to the magical dimension where martial arts and crafts actually work" (tm)

The Adventure continues!
Crafty Dog

PS: Carol, thank you for your question and the wonderful opportunity to do some shameless marketing. A good place to start answering your question would be
http://dogbrothers.com/phpBB2/index.php?topic=597.0
As noted in a nearby thread here, and a long one of the same name on our forum, the second DVD in our Kali Tudo series, called "The Running Dog Game" is now taking pre-orders. As explained more fully in those threads, the RDG is an anti guard game. Whereas the hand strikes used in KT-1 were mostly boxing type (i.e. all forehanded thrusts) in RDG we take the next step and show how to use slashing strikes as well as thrusting strikes. This creates an idiom of movement that in my experience enables one to overwhelm many people whom one would not otherwise to overwhelm. In Kali Tudo 3, which is already partially shot, I will be going into standing striking structures/games such as the Arfful Dodger, the Dodger Malayu. Kali Tudo 4 and 5 will be Kali Tudo for the Guard (Guard Dog game) and Clinch.

[Sicilian]

Nice one Guro Crafty. Seems similar to the Cruzada footwork from KI. :)

[punisher73]

CraftyDog: I respect what you have done and think that, from my limited exposure to it, Kali Tudo is very effective and translates well into empty hand and MMA.

But, I have to disagree with you on Shogun's movements. At 54 seconds if you pause it, you can see that Rua is already stepping into Chuck with his lead leg to punch Chuck. If you pause it at 07 seconds, you can see that Rua is leaning forward at about a 30 degree angle from lunging into Chuck. Chuck drops his hand down when Rua initiate's his lunge and opens himself right up, if you watch even closer you see that Rua shoot his right shoulder forward to fake a punch and draws Chuck's hand to the right side. Rua's punch threw all of his body weight into it because of his lunge into Chuck. The back leg wasn't stepping as much as coming forward to regain balance. He takes a small hop with his left to reweight that leg and picks his leg up to prepare for a roundhouse kick to Liddell.

[selfcritical]

It's difficult to evaluate Rua, because like Fedor, he begins his motion as a jab and then whips his hips in mid-motion to create a "russian hook", as opposed to a normal tight hook. So the line between jab and hook is a fine one.

[Crafty Dog]

Thanks all for the comments.

It will take me a couple of days to get to this thread with what I hope will be a substantive post.

[The Phalanx]

I just love the way how everyone is Monday Morning Quartebacking this thing about Shogun's movement...

Was it a jab? A hook? Dissecting every moment of what happens within a couple of seconds like it's the JFK assassination tape...

ONLY Shogun knows what happened, anybody ever tried looking up on what he said about that technique?

[selfcritical]

Only shogun knows what he was TRYING to do. What actually happened is handily recorded on video tape, and can be interpreted normally. People generally don't have perfect body omniscience.

[arnisador]

a "russian hook"

I hadn't heard this term before. Does it come from Systema/Sambo or the like, or was it associated with a particular boxer from Russia?

[arnisador]

Only shogun knows what he was TRYING to do.

Yeah, that's sure been the case for me before...someone will say "Hey, great technique there!" and when I see what happened I have to agree, although I was trying for something different (or just reacting to what was presented to me).

[selfcritical]

I hadn't heard this term before. Does it come from Systema/Sambo or the like, or was it associated with a particular boxer from Russia?

A lot of russian kickboxers throw it. It's present in Sambo, as well as a lot of chinese subsystems(longfist types). Chuck Liddell also throws them. It's basically using a whipping motion to throw the hook. For a number of reasons it's probably suboptimal in a boxing ring.

[PG Michael B]

I just love the way how everyone is Monday Morning Quartebacking this thing about Shogun's movement...

Was it a jab? A hook? Dissecting every moment of what happens within a couple of seconds like it's the JFK assassination tape...

ONLY Shogun knows what happened, anybody ever tried looking up on what he said about that technique?

Well young fella then you must be rookie of the year..LOL..see below..your words..this thread!



After looking at that video from a different angle, Shogun looked like he made a hook strike not a jab... From a different angle it looked like a jab...

It didn't look pretty but it took Chuck right out...

But the point is that Shogun was able to deliver that shot then was able to take Chuck out with the hammer fists...

Still a great execution by Shogun... He covered a great amount of range with that step-move... Chuck apparently did not expect that shot to cover so much range...

LOL...three step drop back eh?...

As to a Russian hook....hmm I thought that was a bereft bird on the sly in Gorky park! ;)

[Crafty Dog]

Woof All:

At today's "Kali Tudo" (tm) class Kenny Johnson came to help out. For those of you not familiar with the name, he is a world class MMA-wrestling coach. You saw him as Noguiera's MMA-wrestling coach on Spike's "TUF", and he regular works with people like Anderson Silva, BJ Penn and others of that ilk. After our two hour class, he left to train Anderson.

I know KJ from Rigan Machado's place. I took a wrestling lesson from him several months ago to clean up a wrestling based hold that I learned from Rico Chiaparelli; no problem with how Rico taught it!-- simply I was running into a particular problem that I wanted to solve as well as work on my underhooks, which have always been a bit of a mystery to me.

He was intrigued by the moves I was putting on top of what he was showing me and we began to spar on various occasions. He is a gentleman as we play (good thing or I could get hurt!).

Today's session was videoed and may appear in future DB Productions.

The Adventure continues!
Crafty Dog

[gagimilo]

Speaking of Kali Tudo, I got the second installment couple of weeks back (Running Dog Game), and was very pleased with the material. But then again, no surprise there... anyway, it makes a really nice package along with KT1, so I would recommend it to all those who have seen the first series.
As always, I also liked the rumination at the end, since it puts things into perspective for me. It was always a welcomed addition, as I see it, to get to know someone's background and reasons for taking the directions they did when developing the material.

[selfcritical]

Question about the Dracula....

When using it to crash, do you find that you sometimes eat body shots against sparring partners who are more boxing than MT/MMA-minded?

[Crafty Dog]

Excellent question SelfCritical!

Right now my favorite variation of the Dracula for crashing is "the Dodger-Dracula" when the opponent is my height or taller. When I am taller I like the Dodger-Malayu better.

Not saying what you ask can't be done, but so far for me the answer is "no" because my elbow is flying towards his face on the half beat. This is set up by the Kali triangular footwork so that we are closing the gap
a) much more explosively than expected,
b) closer on a different angle than expected, and
c) striking the lead arm in the process-- which makes his shovel hook distinctly less likely.

Actually where I find more of a problem is with someone like Kenny-- who, like many wrestlers, has superb ability to shoot under high-line attacks. For example during last week's sparring he was consistently nailing me with a double leg during what we call the Trigg 101. As seen on KT 1, the Trigg 101 is done against mirror lead. As a right handed wrestler, Kenny tends to favor a right lead and when playing Kali Tudo I tend to favor mirror lead-- in this case a left lead. Thus when I was playing the Trigg 101 he was dropping under my high right cross and stuffing my low right cross with very powerful double leg takedowns. He's very technical with me as he does it. If he were to apply it with intention I would be badly jarred. Great experience for me to have him to engage with!

Yesterday I played the Zirconia instead-- which even though I am still using my right in the moment in question changes which leg is forward. This took away his desire to enter that way. Then, when I applied the Dodger-Dracula this set up the machete kick (a silat kick that can be mistaken for a MT kick, but it is different in that the standing leg does not pivot and we deliberately plant foward. Because the angles are different, the head is not zoned to get rocked by counter hands//elbows. The name "machete" is the English for the Indonesian term.)

The machete kick sets up what I call "the tri-gi". The tri-gi is a very high % move with high KO potential. It starts with what looks lack a very bad single leg (e.g. head is to the outside) but sets up a shove that leaves his front arm out of position and leaves me with strong body mechanics to really rock his world with a great shot to his trigeminal nerve (hence "tri-gi).

This variation Kenny thought sound. Then he showed me how to use the "bad" single leg to takedown without falling into half-guard/giving back-- which had always been a problem for me with the move.

The Adventure continues!
Crafty Dog

PS: I also noted yesterday that when I used the Dodger-Dracula to flow into a shovel hook/uppercut that this seemed to have a lot of potential for greeting somebody looking to shoot under the attack.

[Crafty Dog]

Two of the guys in my Monday "Kali Tudo" (c) class have a school out in Moreno Valley and yesterday I taught the first of bi-monthly Kali Tudo seminars at their school.

I was very pleased to see the foundational work that they had already accomplished and so we were able to get into some intereting variations of "the Dracula Game".

The DG has moved forward quite a bit from what was shown in Kali Tudo 1; indeed the concept has expanded to where the DG is simply a subset of what we call "the four headed snake", which is an idiom of movement based upon double reverse grip knife.

Anyway, we worked the DG and then had an outstanding Thai dinner.

[arnisador]

Sounds great!

[selfcritical]

After the weekend spent working on the Puntadas subsystem at the texas kali mastery camp, which is a subset of the tri-v method focused on using the thrust as a primary offence and counter, I feel like i have expanded my understanding of the angulation and methods of drawing for the dracula. I was slowly building over the weekend, but once we did the dumog section, I had a lightbulb moment. Vigorous testing in sparring should come soon.

[Crafty Dog]

PT is a major influence on DBMA so no surprise to me that there would be synergy in your understanding of DBMA.

BTW, although I showed the Dracula as an ABD in KT 1, it is much more than that. Shhh , , , martial arts secret ;-)

Anyway I'd be curious to hear about your research :-)

craftydog@dogbrothers.com

[selfcritical]

I do remember the other dracula applications you showed while in texas, but so far they haven't as neatly mapped on to my understanding of the high thrust as counter to an opponent getting "behind" your attack, particularly when you give the appearance of falling for a feint.

The dodger-dracula seems to mesh with some empty-hand material i have seen, such as the caya-calup(palm-up, palm down) patterns and entries for backhand slaps, but I don't map it neatly onto my weapon understandings yet. I attribute this to my utter lack of double-stick sparring.

[Crafty Dog]

Actually, the Dracula variations are based upon reverse grip knife.

[selfcritical]

From experimentation, they map onto forhand thrusts with the stick/bolo as well. I used the basic ABD from KT1 in stick sparring at the camp with some success. Of course the the transferability from a reverse grip slash to a forehand thrust in terms of angulation is fairly high i would think.

[Crafty Dog]

A point taught to me with a nifty little drill in one of my private lessons with PG Edgar Sulite.

[Crafty Dog]

At www.dogbrothers.com (http://www.dogbrothers.com) we now have up an animated GIF of an early Kali Tudo sequence. It was shot in Spain around 1999 or 2000.

[Crafty Dog]

Two people from my Monday KT class have a school of their own about 90 minutes east from here and they have begun bringing me out to their school every few months for a one day seminar. Not only is it nice to see my work with them taking root with their students, working with a group that has the basics in place enables me to go further and deeper into the material.

Here's some fotos from the first of these:
http://dogbrothers.com/gallery/20091010_kali_tudo.html (http://dogbrothers.com/gallery/20091010_kali_tudo.html)

[Crafty Dog]

As some of your know, I have a slightly deranged sense of humor when it comes to naming things. Today we named a particular Dracula combination:

"Dracula brings a stake, a hammer, and a cross". When you see it, the puns contained therein will become apparent.

[Crafty Dog]

Great times in class yesterday-- a strong group operating at a good level, enabling me to really go into things. We are getting really pumped up for the camp that Kenny Johnson and I will be teaching in early February.

Yesterday included spending some time solving front leg kicking counters to our portal moves (In DBMA terminology we say "Stepping through a portal to the magical dimension where martial arts and crafts actually work")

The Adventure continues!

[Crafty Dog]

New Dracula combo: "Dracula prays to the cross".

I think this one should solve the problem that Brandon Vera's front leg presented to Randy Couture.

[Crafty Dog]

A package deal of our Kali Tudo (tm) products:

http://dogbrothers.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=35&products_id=153

[Carol]

A package deal of our Kali Tudo (tm) products:

http://dogbrothers.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=35&products_id=153

Nice deal! Pity it only comes with mens-cut clothing. :(

[Crafty Dog]

Well then, how about this? :-)

http://dogbrothers.com/store/index.php?cPath=27

[Crafty Dog]

Good times with Boo Dog this morning. Boo has some really nice things with regard to our Kali Tudo anti-guard that will be appearing in DBMA curriculum. We have The Running Dog Game, and Boo is bringing what we will probably be calling The Dog Leg Game. Very slick and very Kali Tudo (tm) (i.e. consistent with weapon realities and idioms of movement, etc)

[Brian R. VanCise]

Good times with Boo Dog this morning. Boo has some really nice things with regard to our Kali Tudo anti-guard that will be appearing in DBMA curriculum. We have The Running Dog Game, and Boo is bringing what we will probably be calling The Dog Leg Game. Very slick and very Kali Tudo (tm) (i.e. consistent with weapon realities and idioms of movement, etc)

Cool that is some thing that I think is very important in any grappling system. (ie. addressing the weapon issue) Unfortunately most have left it out. :(

[Crafty Dog]

The Dog Brothers have allowed grappling in our fights since before we were the Dog Brothers (we founded in 1988) so integrating weaponry and grappling has always been part of our experience. It was in the summer of 1990 that I began in BJJ with the Machado Brothers and after 9 lessons had my first fights using BJJ.

I am a BIG believer in what I call "consistency across categories"-- indeed our Kali Tudo is in great part about using weaponry striking movements empty handed for that very reason i.e. that our unarmed movements and mind are the same as our armed movements and mind.

Thus we TEST Kali Tudo in the context of the cage, but we evaluate what happens by our own criteria.

One simple example: the Greco-Roman based MMA clinch game prefers underhooks, whereas we often prefer overhooks.

[Crafty Dog]

Woof All:

Night Owl just shot an interview with Kenny Johnson this morning for the KT-3 DVD and some footage of the two of us moving together and Pretty Kitty shot a bunch of photos for the box cover.

The Adventure continues!
Crafty Dog

[Crafty Dog]

The edit of Kali Tudo 3 is coming along nicely. We will be integrating some footage shot last year in Hawaii with the Hawaiian Clan of the DBs of the Malayu Game.

As discussed and shown in our "Staff" DVD, "Malayu" means "Malaysian" and is a reference to the Malayu Sibat (Malaysian Staff) structure that I learned in the Philippines from GT Leo Gaje. For us it is the name of the core power strike in this system.

Friday afternoon is open mat time at Rigan Machado's and is one of my favorite sessions of the week and has become part of my conditioning program. Rolled last night for a solid 75 minutes, including the last 15 minutes doing friendly stand up MMA sparring with a nice purple belt. Integrating the Malayu Game and the Bolo Game was working really nicely. :cool:

Now a big tough young blue wants to try me next week.

The Adventure continues!

[Crafty Dog]

Spoke with Night Owl this morning at 05:30, just before he was going to bed http://www.warriortalk.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

He tells me Kali Tudo 3 is going to be a razor sharp 105 minutes and that I should have a fine edit by this weekend.

[Crafty Dog]

Class today:
1) Either I wasn't pronouncing it clearly or the punny name "the Arfful Dodger" was going over most people's heads so I modified the name to "the Arf-Arful Dodger" ("Arf Arf" for short) to make the dogginess of it more apparent
2) I showed the guys (good to see Jason's infant daughter is now old enough that he can rejoin us) the stickfighting foundation of the Arf Arfful Dodger, then we turned to its "Kali Tudo"(tm) application. Normally the Arf Arf is easiest to apply by the taller man against the shorter, but today we also went into a drift shot of the Malayu portion of it for the shorter man against the taller man.
3) Also covered were:
*intro to the Lost Dog Game
*flying bong sao
*Zirconia with a Dracula burger

[Edgedweapons]

i like this motion. i dont see it often, but it basically turns your jab into a cross and gets a lot more explosion and power behind it too.

[Crafty Dog]

EW:

If I understand correctly what you are thinking of, it is something we like a lot too.

[Crafty Dog]

Today's workout was mostly about achieving peak quality of movement. Such workouts for me tend to begin with a vague plan, which gets vaguer as the workout continues :-)

Today what came about was working double ice pick knife and what we call "the four headed snake" of Kali Tudo hands-- which is a hitting structure based upon double ice pick knife. Also I mixed in a bit of South African Piper knife.

The more time I spend with the Art, the more I become persuaded that weaponry movements ARE applicable to empty hand-- exactly as The Art promises.

[punisher73]

I loved the first Kali Tudo set. Can't wait until 3 is released.

[Crafty Dog]

, , , ahem , , , its been out for a few months now :-D see www.dogbrothers.com (http://www.dogbrothers.com) for the promo clip and the store/catalog to order it :-)

[punisher73]

, , , ahem , , , its been out for a few months now :-D see www.dogbrothers.com (http://www.dogbrothers.com) for the promo clip and the store/catalog to order it :-)

Day late and all....

Looking forward to purchasing with my tax money!

[Crafty Dog]

We are continuing to work on double ice pick knife and Kali Tudo interface. This is very fertile material. There is also interface with the Die Less Often material too, though some of that will be ice pick in one hand and hammer grip in the other.

There is a drill I have had in my head for a while now and on Monday we had a good group at a good level and so we were able to go deep into developing this drill.

The Adventure continues!

[Crafty Dog]

Check out the new picture on our front page at www.dogbrothers.com (http://www.dogbrothers.com)

Thanks to Guro Inosanto for providing it!!!

[Crafty Dog]

Some really nice Filipino boxing movement with some really slick tricks craftily ;-) mixed in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eypbxKXI1ag

Some good footage in here showing how knife training teaches a different kind of boxing movement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY6x2lvTW_c&feature=related

For the record,DBMA's "Kali Tudo" (tm) includes the double ice pick knife movement seen here, but also includes a lot of double stick and a decidedly distinct concept of range and footwork.

[Crafty Dog]

I've started up in the Submission wrestling class at Rigan Machado's Redondo Beach school on Wednesday nights. Some of the moves are beyond my athleticism, but I'm having a good time when it comes time to roll. Amidst my taps, sometimes it goes my way too-- I've gotten three twisters and two Running Dog footlocks (see Kali Tudo 2 DVD) each of them on a young athletic guy. I confess that this tickles me greatly.

[Brian R. VanCise]

Excellent Mark it is always good to be a student at someone else's school! Keeps you young and motivated! ;)

[Crafty Dog]

I remember a goodly number of years ago when the Inosanto Academy was on Rayford St in Playa del Rey/Manchester that there was some sort of fundraising effort for a charity, $X per round on the heavy bag or something like that. We sat there slack-jawed as we watched Guro Inosanto (then in his mid-60s) go for 45 minutes NON-STOP at a pace that would have put any of us to shame.

I asked him about it later on and he said to me "As we get older, it is good to take stock of where we are at from time to time."

I have tried to remember this in my own training. In this case here it is good for me to take stock of where I am at on the mat. With stickfighting I accomplish that sparring with students who are getting ready to fight at a Gathering.

[Crafty Dog]

Did anyone catch the Nate Diaz fight the other night?

[Crafty Dog]

My explorations continue. The repertoire of ideas continues to grow. As is my wont, I like naming them. The most recent additions are the "Burger Bolo" and the "Bolo from Hell". I am placing a lot of emphasis on Bolo variations because they seem to diminish the proclivity to try to shoot under quite nicely.

[Crafty Dog]

I love working Kali Tudo!!! I need people to show what it can do in the cage!!!

[Crafty Dog]

I've been on a kick of applying the anti-knife technique "the Dog Catcher" to Kali Tudo. Seems to work really well. Even more encouraging is that I have a couple of guys who are talking about taking Kali Tudo to the change this year. We shall see if it comes to pass, but both of these guys have the potential to represent with this material.

TAC!