with Bill Newman, head instructor Latosa Escrima UK. 110 pgs, no chapters B&W photos and currently out of print. I figured I would review this book as I mentioned it in my review of Mark Romain's book. This book has possibly the largest photos of FMA instruction anywhere and is written in both English and German.
The foreward contains articles written by Terry O'Neill of Fighting Arts Magazine fame on the history of FMA and Rene Latosa on his personal history and his teaching structure at the time.
Here's the BD
Grip and 5 angles of attack are shown (same as Romain just done properly)
Defense against the 5 attacks show the old reinforcement block ala Remy Presas though hitting with the first six inches of the stick, the wing block, and the side and cross block (Latosa escrima's version of the Inside/Outside deflections) which make up the bulk of the book. Going further 2 disarms are taught, I forget the name of one
the other is called an outside vine (outside snake for most others).
Double Stick Sparring (3 sequences) follow showing the roof block, double thrust, and defense against the double thrust
Next is what I call the 'fun stuff', different weapon scenarios.
Long stick vs short stick (1 sequence showing abanico)
Defense with a Machete (1sequence machete vs machete)
Single stick vs 2 Kama (Japanese sickle)
2 Kama vs Sai (Okinawan blunt daggers used in pairs)
Double stick vs Sai (Cool disarm in this sequence)
There is no conclusion but plenty of advertising with German articles on Muay Thai, Wing Chun, Karate, and other Kung Fu styles. Okay this book is more of a piece of history with a LOT of photos. Rene Latosa's system in terms of actual techniques
and learning structure is different. I learned under Rene and his crew in the late '80s till he went back to the seminar circuit and by that time a lot of the moves in this book were no longer taught. When I was shown some of these moves, they were in a different context than shown in the photos.
Obviously this book will be of value to Latosa Escrima-PMAS/AEWTO students, the overseas students can get their copy
from seminars I believe. The book is also on reserve in the San Francisco Public Library system, don't try to steal it please.
The last section is in the same flavor as Inosanto's "Filipino Martial Arts" and the photos are large enough (4"x 3", one close up takes one page!) to give a great breakdown of disarms. The only negative point maybe the huge amount of photos which
comes off as advertising to a lot of folks.
A compliment to any FMA book but specifically Inosanto's "Filipino Martial Arts" and Romain's "Escrima Self Defense".
[This message has been edited by Smoke (edited 08-03-2000).]
The foreward contains articles written by Terry O'Neill of Fighting Arts Magazine fame on the history of FMA and Rene Latosa on his personal history and his teaching structure at the time.
Here's the BD
Grip and 5 angles of attack are shown (same as Romain just done properly)
Defense against the 5 attacks show the old reinforcement block ala Remy Presas though hitting with the first six inches of the stick, the wing block, and the side and cross block (Latosa escrima's version of the Inside/Outside deflections) which make up the bulk of the book. Going further 2 disarms are taught, I forget the name of one
the other is called an outside vine (outside snake for most others).
Double Stick Sparring (3 sequences) follow showing the roof block, double thrust, and defense against the double thrust
Next is what I call the 'fun stuff', different weapon scenarios.
Long stick vs short stick (1 sequence showing abanico)
Defense with a Machete (1sequence machete vs machete)
Single stick vs 2 Kama (Japanese sickle)
2 Kama vs Sai (Okinawan blunt daggers used in pairs)
Double stick vs Sai (Cool disarm in this sequence)
There is no conclusion but plenty of advertising with German articles on Muay Thai, Wing Chun, Karate, and other Kung Fu styles. Okay this book is more of a piece of history with a LOT of photos. Rene Latosa's system in terms of actual techniques
and learning structure is different. I learned under Rene and his crew in the late '80s till he went back to the seminar circuit and by that time a lot of the moves in this book were no longer taught. When I was shown some of these moves, they were in a different context than shown in the photos.
Obviously this book will be of value to Latosa Escrima-PMAS/AEWTO students, the overseas students can get their copy
from seminars I believe. The book is also on reserve in the San Francisco Public Library system, don't try to steal it please.
The last section is in the same flavor as Inosanto's "Filipino Martial Arts" and the photos are large enough (4"x 3", one close up takes one page!) to give a great breakdown of disarms. The only negative point maybe the huge amount of photos which
comes off as advertising to a lot of folks.
A compliment to any FMA book but specifically Inosanto's "Filipino Martial Arts" and Romain's "Escrima Self Defense".
[This message has been edited by Smoke (edited 08-03-2000).]