I am working on a new movie - NEED MANUFACTURERS/CUSTOM MAKERS HELP!

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Mike Turber

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OK as many of you know we supply knives to several movie houses and production crews.

I have been asked to help on the next Steven Segal movie which will start filming very soon. It will be based on a story in Detroit so you can imagine what knives will work best.

I will need to ship knives to the production crew before the end of this month. Knives not used in the film will be shipped back to me. I am pressed for time and need all knives in my office by Friday of this week.

We are looking for highly tactical style folders, butterfly knives and any unusual fixed blades and tactical fixed blades.

We would need two of each knife but if you can't do that one will be fine. The reason for two knives is one is "live" for action filming and the other is "dead" or dulled, for scenes with the actors. Again 1 will be fine as we can film the action scenes first and the dead scenes later or I can sharpen the dulled blades on demand as I did for GI Jane.

Anyone wishing to have their knives sent for consideration by the director need to get their knives to me by Friday as I have to get the customs and importation documents in order.

We can not guarantee screen time but I did get a lot of time for knives I put into GI Jane, 6 Days and Seven Nights and several other films.

You can call me @ 1-800-956-4652.
The address to ship the knives to is:
WOW
Attention:Props for Movie
5151 Sunbeam Road
Suite #4
Jacksonville, FL 32257

I will release more info on the film as it becomes available to me.

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Mike, can't send anything for two reasons:

1) I keep sold out of almost everything. My inventory is so low I can't spare even one of anything let alone two.

2) Seagal is not one of my favorites and I'd just as soon not have him as a promoter of HI products.

Sorry.

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Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
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Uncle Bill, you are a damn good guy and I love to see people stick to their convictions. I am always honest, so, Segal stinks. He is a great fighter though, and not a phoney either. I loved seeing that you didn't want to have your knives promoted by someone you don't see fit.
Matthew
 
Mike,

If you want to help the director out, tell him to replace Seagal. What a loser!

Blues

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Right on, Uncle. Bravo for sticking to your convictions. I agree whole heartedly - he's certainly not one of my favorites either - he may be a good martial artist, but I don't like him, and I'm glad you won't have him promoting for you.
 
Some actors take different kinds of promotion here in Japan, some quite different from in US. Seagal shows up in some TV ads in comimcal way, many people including me have come to love him with his humorous character that brings smiles on our face! And love his movies in the same way. I guess he keeps looking serious all the time in US, though. But I agree khukuris will not fit him.
Arnold Schwarzenegr(sp) has succeeded in popularity in Japan same way. Once he confessed to an interviewer who questioned him "What will happen if there ad films that we love show up in US?" he answered promptly "My career ends"

I guess again, HI forumites might feel the same way if in Japan.


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I saw a Seagal movie some time back and in the trailer it said, "Aikido sequences choreographed by Steven Seagal." I didn't see any Aikido sequences and when I asked a black belt MA instructor buddy of mine what I had missed he said, "there were no Aikido sequences." Suspicions confirmed!

I think it is doing a disservice to the art to say this is what you are practicing and then practice something else. And those who do disservice or dishonor to the art no matter which it might be are not the people I want to promote HI stuff.

For what it might be worth I am no MA expert but long ago and far away I once studied Aikido in a much more pure form than what is taught today.



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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
 
Uncle Bill, I am a black belt and Seagal would probalby knock me into next week. Of all the Hollywood fighters he is the most real, or maybe the least phony.
Matthew
 
I'm sure he would knock me into the next millennium and he is certainly better than Van Damme and some others -- But my question is, do you see Aikido? He says it is Aikido but I can't see it.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
 
In case of Home Invasion by Stephen Seagal:
Place mirror in hallway near door with "My Hero" inscribed below. Call 911 at your leisure.
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I see Aikido in Segal’s technique. Bill’s too. No comment on gratuitous violence, etc.

The distinctions between the styles begin to blur at a certain level.




[This message has been edited by Howard Wallace (edited 07-17-2000).]
 
Bill,
He really screwed up! Kelly LeBrock said,
"Bye, Bye! Why Screw around when you have "HER" at home? Dumb, just plain Stupid!Was told, he tried to get her back! She still said "BYE"!
jim
 
I know Segal does seem to step on some toes. His Aikido is mixed with some other style so it won't look boring on the screen. My Sensei knew Segal when she studied Aikido in Japan. She said he was an o.k. guy with a powerful technique. My martial arts journey did start with Aikido and it progressed to others. Still learning and evolving.
 
When I studied Aikido many years ago I had a book on the art put together by Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido. On the first page of this little book there appeared the motto of Aikido: THE MAN WHO NEVER FIGHTS ALWAYS WINS.

In my study I spent all my time learning how to avoid conflict and protect myself against aggression. I learned not a single aggressive move, let alone something like killing and/or maiming an opponent.

I think about Sensei Ueshiba and his philosophy so well depicted in the statement THE MAN WHO NEVER FIGHTS ALWAY WINS and then I watch Mr. Segal break arms, legs, necks, stab, slice, beat, kill and maim, and he calls what he does Aikido. Somehow this just does not seem good and proper to me but I realize that I am an old dinosaur who views things in a different perspective than many of the younger set.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
 
Bill,

Not in defense of Segal, but as I understand it, Segal practices Aikijutsu, in other words in Budo terms, Art (jutsu) as compared to Way (do). "Arts" have always been stricly combat oriented as compared to "Ways", which are more concerned with developing the spirit and character. This divergence came about in Japan during the Meiji Restoration, reflecting the governments desire to control the Samurai class.

Okay, fire away!

Finn
 
My Aikido sensei and I used to get into some interesting discussions. He emphasized "No opponent. If it is necessary to throw your partner, throw him onto the path of the Universe."

The idea was that the partner should be better off for having received the throw.

It is hard to deny that someone who understands kote-giashi (please pardon my spelling) also understands how to break a wrist. Someone who understands kokyu-nage understands how to throw a person into a wall or off a cliff. Even learning how to do shio-nage without dislocating your partner's shoulder means you understand how to dislocate his shoulder. I think that understanding these destructive abilities is part of the art. My partners and I learned attacks as we learned defenses. Otherwise we would have just sat down and had tea together. After dojo practice we would go out in the field and try all the attacks we could think of that we didn't practice in the dojo. We learned about them too.

Understanding leads to power that can be used for various purposes. The power that comes from an understanding of Aikido could be used in a multitude of unpleasant manners. "Throwing someone onto the path of the Universe" could in certain circumstances mean breaking bones or causing death, as I now understand it.

To their great credit, Aikido teachers often emphasize the moral and spiritual dimensions of the art. I must admit that Segal's movies do not seem to emphasize those dimensions. I would rather hang out with, or even go into battle with, Morehei Uyeshiba than one of the characters Segal portrays.
 
Thanks, Howard. My sensei was a middle age Japanese fellow whose name I hate to admit I have forgotten. He had three black belters as assistants and they did most of the instruction while he watched. Sometimes when he saw something not right he could come down onto the floor and help us.

He could not be attacked because he could run faster backward than most could forward and, of course, he could hop around like a fighting cock and it was almost impossible to touch him.

He practiced and preached the MAN WHO NEVER FIGHTS ALWAYS WINS DOCTRINE. This is why I signed up for the class.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
 
Bill; I'm glad you won't be sending samples for this project, but for a diiferent reason.

The knives &c used in this film will, I'm sure, be presented as instruments of violence, being used by crimnals or maniacs. They will be the villains of the piece.

At a time when politicians are trying to make weapons of all kinds into scapegoats for all our social problems, do you want your product held up in front of movie audiences wearing, in effect, a great big label saying "Ban me next!!"

The original post said the director was looking for "tactical folders" or something like that. If I made my living selling that kind of knife, I certainly wouldn't send a free sample. I'd do everything I could to make sure my product didn't appear in the film.

Seems to me it's only a very short step from "as seen on TV" to "not for sale in CA"
 
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