Kerambit video

Just in case there's any misunderstanding...

Thanks for posting the vid, Dan. I can honestly say that that's the first time that I've seen a 'bit in action and it is appreciated.

It was not my intent to ridicule anyone. My little crack was directed mostly at combat methods (some of which I've seen) that base their perceived effectiveness on a partner's willingness to be abused. A demo video is a different story entirely.

I'm not a martial artist. I've spent most of my adult life swinging a machete and a maul; that's the extent of my experience with edged weapons. On the weekends I chop up beer cans and plastic milk jugs and videotape it. (That ought to say something about my sense of humor right there.) Anything that I say ought to be taken with a healthy grain of salt. :)
 
Another round on me. And Puh-leeze be kind to one another.
Barkeep, make this one cold sarsaparilla. These boys seem to be over-heated tonight.
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Will somebody please put a nickel in the cantina jukebox and play something soothing? Thanks
 
I was thinking we ought to rename the kerambit.
Like:

Karam-shee
Hanbit
Keramkuri

I am partial to keramshee myself....
 
"Will somebody please put a nickel in the cantina jukebox and play something soothing? Thanks"

...always a pleasure sir :)


"Hehehehehe, someone tried to ding me negative rep points but didn't have enough clout. And they didn't leave their name"

I will happily accept any RED chiclets, anonymous or otherwise. Thanks :)
I appreciate it.
Never have enough.


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Yvsa - just so you don't feel bad, here's what my rep shows:


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For all I know....mine was probably intended as a positive (how could there be anything inflammatory in my thread-starting post? :confused: ), but turned up gray - probably because of the newbie-itis of the giver.

That's how I look at it - if somebody gives me a gray and doesn't sign it - I take it as a positive - whether they intended it that way or not. :D :p
 
The last movement in the video shows 8-9 strikes in 4 seconds....how is that slow?


At the Blade Show in 2003, there was an informal demonstration on the Kerambit in "The Pit". It was mesmerizing. It is certainly a formidable close-quarters weapon. There's a lot of thought behind this....hundreds of years of martial arts training....I wasn't quite ready to own one at that time, but I wasn't about to ridicule its practitioners. ;) :eek: :footinmou
 
P.S. My explaination of events is in no way influenced by the fact that I just mailed a check for $300 to DK.

Just had to clear that up. :D

I would like to see some kerambit work with a "less willing" partner. DIJ, do you have any kerambit work planned for your DVD? If not...
 
Yes I do, actually.
Now, this isn't specialized kerambit "martial arts", this is taijutsu that happens to be happening with a kerambit in the hand.
You guys know that we consider all weapons to be the same, so it will probably explain some of the differences in style.
On request, I have already filmed one sequence of two guys using knives, one of them has two knives: an HI khukuri in one hand and the HI kerambit in the other.

As to the "less willing" part: We practice slowly. We believe in practicing slowly. Having said that, when we punch we punch to connect with the nose and we pull our arms back when we finish the punch.
When you are watching a video though, you cant see some things. You may not be able to see that the defender has moved to his left and has subtly locked the attackers' elbow against his own body. It may look like he's just standing there. As a matter of fact, he may be just standing there, but it's not because I asked him to. It's because I have taken his balance, blinded him, confused him, moved in a way that he could not understand, or he might just be scared to move. All of this happens to me every week.

Hell, just yesterday I watched a visitor punch at Hatsumi Sensei and he didnt even get close to him. He just fell down.
Nobody in the world but Sensei and the guy who fell down know what actually happened and if you saw it on video you'd swear it was a joke.
(It isnt a joke, its real, that's why I left Texas and moved to Japan.)

Hatsumi Sensei himself says that his own videos and books are no good. They are dead things, devoid of feeling. Martial arts is feeling. You have to feel it being done to you before you can do it yourself. It takes a certain level of skill just to learn from watching a video!

There is a dojo rule about punching straight and true. To a certain degree, your partner does need to punch straight and true and stand there so you can learn about distance and rythym. As you get better, this becomes less and less necessary.
For beginners or for people who are not students of a particular art, this "statue-like" training method is probably the only way to learn anything.

Yes, we could do it full speed and it might be "entertaining" but it would not be "educational" and I dont make DVD's for the former purpose, only the latter. I hope it IS entertaining, but education is the primary purpose.
 
(A few more thoughts.)

As one progresses you dont need a willing partner, at a higher levels, you dont even need to see them attacking.
(as demonstrated in the godan test)

Also, in a real fight, "full speed" does not mean "as fast as you can" You can move realtively slowly in a real fight, as long as you move correctly.
I know that might sound strange, but it is true.
 
UH, BilltheCat?

Wasnt' that the song that was playing when one guy lost his arm and another got shot to vapor in a booth?

We gotta talk about definitions of "soothing." :)
 
DannyinJapan said:
Also, in a real fight, "full speed" does not mean "as fast as you can" You can move realtively slowly in a real fight, as long as you move correctly.
I know that might sound strange, but it is true.
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What you're saying makes sense. My gripe might better be applied to the times when martial artist friends demonstrated something to me that didn't work simply because I wasn't willing to go along with it. I've also seen what you described in your previous post - it didn't make sense to anyone except for the two involved.

I'm going to leave the subject of this movie alone - it's done to death. I've already spoken my piece on it.

Don't sweat the technical differences with your kerambit demonstrations - the purists already understand the "right" way to do it and yokels like me won't know any better. ;)
 
You are onto something Satori.
Your "not wanting to go along with it" is something that a good martial artist will sense and use to his own advantage.
That is sign of someone who knows what he or she is doing.

But, remember, everybody has to start at the beginning. Even then, you will hear high-level guys saying to low level guys "slow down, dont use so much strength, don't just focus on one opponent, dont get focused on using the weapon, etc.."
 
You're giving credit where credit isn't due. I just didn't want to get thrown/choked/locked/kicked/punched is all.

I hate to be pushy, but how's that DVD coming along? You've got me really interested now.
 
Satori said:
You're giving credit where credit isn't due. I just didn't want to get thrown/choked/locked/kicked/punched is all.
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Me either!!

Satori, true martial arts are never beyond the nature and reality of any human being. Your desire to avoid harm is the highest level, the deepest desire, the greatest secret of any martial art.
Any "art" that claims anything else is a joke.

An honest, kind man is 9/10ths a Master.
 
Oh yeah, when will it be ready?

Well, I have about half of the things people wanted to see on film. IT has been snowing and raining here in Noda and I have had too look for a new demo partner since the guys from the first DVD went home.
I have been talking to some new guys and they are wanting to know who will be seeing this stuff, so I dont have any definite date yet.

With your prodding, I will get off my buttocks and try to shoot some more footage this week. I need to make a manjushree prop!
 
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