Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Dog Brothers
What do I not like about these guys?
They are famous and I'm not.. yes.
The whole stick focus.. yes
But what really bothers me the most is this whole stick wrassling thing.
Ok, for me doing filipino martial arts and thinking only about the stick is just not how I think. I study a primarily bladed art, Pekiti Tirsia which of course transfering to impact weapons such as the stick and is also used as a training tool.
Ok, so anyway, these guys have the matches and they do full contact stick fighting. Anyway the part I like less than the "stick" part of it, is that let's say one of the guys whacks the other guys arm, hand and head(they wear fencing masks and hockey gloves). The guy who for me is totally out of the fight, many times then comes in and does a take down and starts doing jiu jitsu and wrestling with or without the stick in hand with the other guy. Come on... Anyway, it is what it is, but that is what bothers me about it. So it would seem to appear sometimes that the guy who would actually appear to "win" the encounter in the end really wasn't the winner at all, but a weiner with a missing leg, hand and head. But that is just a blade guy talking. Heck, without the protective equipment, the guy might be out of the fight as well with the very same stick.
I'll give them an A+ though for marketing, balls and action.
Some guys have all the luck..
They are famous and I'm not.. yes.
The whole stick focus.. yes
But what really bothers me the most is this whole stick wrassling thing.
Ok, for me doing filipino martial arts and thinking only about the stick is just not how I think. I study a primarily bladed art, Pekiti Tirsia which of course transfering to impact weapons such as the stick and is also used as a training tool.
Ok, so anyway, these guys have the matches and they do full contact stick fighting. Anyway the part I like less than the "stick" part of it, is that let's say one of the guys whacks the other guys arm, hand and head(they wear fencing masks and hockey gloves). The guy who for me is totally out of the fight, many times then comes in and does a take down and starts doing jiu jitsu and wrestling with or without the stick in hand with the other guy. Come on... Anyway, it is what it is, but that is what bothers me about it. So it would seem to appear sometimes that the guy who would actually appear to "win" the encounter in the end really wasn't the winner at all, but a weiner with a missing leg, hand and head. But that is just a blade guy talking. Heck, without the protective equipment, the guy might be out of the fight as well with the very same stick.
I'll give them an A+ though for marketing, balls and action.
Some guys have all the luck..
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Might I just say that the whole point of a Dog Brothers Gathering of the Pack is its a stick! Not a blade. There's no pretending here. So it is realistic. The guy who just took a full throttle hit to the arm from a rattan stick can still clinch and wrestle and BJJ the other guy because it isn't a blade! You're looking at it from entirely the wrong persepective.
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