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An alternate review was done by Kev in Defend.net I believe
The first in the Dogbrothers new series, Dog Brothers Martial Arts.
The BD
Pt.1 WEKAF 1988 Tournament (interviews with various masters, the first fight between E. Knaus and A. Sanford)
Pt.2 Footage of the various masters
After a written intro we're taken to the 1988 WEKAF tournament
where the founding Dogbrothers first met and fought and we're treated to interviews of Leo Giron, Angel Cabales, Dionisio Canete, Narrie Babao, Sam Tendencia, and Burton Richardson. Lots of forms, demos, and some fight footage along with discussion on strategy, the future of FMA, and politics (a very ugly thing in FMA).
The very brief footage of Master Floro Villabrille was interesting, lots of long stick play and circling. There's some footage of Master Cabales from the movie Tiger's Revenge with Leo Fong. At the time of the interview, I believe Cabales was undergoing chemotherapy but he had showed that passion which a lot of folks still talk about. A fighter to the end, RIP. Possibly the longest interview was with Master Tendencia, a good thing as there's not much written about him or the late Jack Santos. Interesting training history to say the least. Master Babao was pretty soft spoken for a fighter, Master Canete passionate about promoting tournaments. The brief interviews with Burton Richardson and Eric Knauss covered traditional fighting and the experience of fighting with no armor.
For fun, check out the folks in the background from time to time. I think I saw Marc Wiley, Roberto Torres, and Master Ramiro Estallia. I could be wrong of course.
Pt. 2 starts with Sam Tendencia and Dan Inosanto doing a demo at the IMB Academy, check out the heavy sticks on that on. Next was footage of Angel Cabales demonstrating the Serrada system as a fighter you can see that he was pretty smooth and that he could hit long range when necessary. Next was Leo Giron showing Dan Inosanto staff disarm concepts, passing, and elastico/environmental training. Footage from one of Edgar Sulite's videos was next, Sulite rescuing a woman on the street from 2 muggers (one played by Marc Denny). If you've seen the Sulite excerpt from Ron Balicki's tapes, you know that Sulite was big on fighting spirit and making his opponent retreat, pretty much the same here.
The interview with GT Leo Gaje was next and had a brief clip of him showing disarms and the tres cantos short sword (similar to the colichmarde/kaborata horsewhip). I've seen footage of a Gaje seminar from '84, the man is smooth particularly with pointed sticks. Next is Dan Inosanto in a kung fu flick vs Bruce Li or Le, lots of double stick florete and a bit more entertaining than the duel in "Game of Death" (at least the edited 4 min version). There's also some old demo footage of Inosanto, one at the same event as the Cabales demo, another outside. The former also featuring a young Chris Kent and Jeff Imada, Inosanto does an interesting balisong demo, still showing his trademark methodical fluidity in his moves.
Last was footage of Inosanto training with Master Juanito LaCoste. This was the reason I wanted the tape, as Master LaCoste was supposed to be real fast with a stick and he was. His style was dancelike, his dagger method had short, explosive cuts, his stickwork big on guiding, passing, and thrusting. Overall, it was interesting to see that a lot of the disarms among the styles were similar and that each master moved fluidly but each had a subtlety in how they did it and taught it.
A great general reference, hopefully one of many to come, and a good entry tape for those traditional folks who don't really like the Dogbrothers.
An alternate review was done by Kev in Defend.net I believe
The first in the Dogbrothers new series, Dog Brothers Martial Arts.
The BD
Pt.1 WEKAF 1988 Tournament (interviews with various masters, the first fight between E. Knaus and A. Sanford)
Pt.2 Footage of the various masters
After a written intro we're taken to the 1988 WEKAF tournament
where the founding Dogbrothers first met and fought and we're treated to interviews of Leo Giron, Angel Cabales, Dionisio Canete, Narrie Babao, Sam Tendencia, and Burton Richardson. Lots of forms, demos, and some fight footage along with discussion on strategy, the future of FMA, and politics (a very ugly thing in FMA).
The very brief footage of Master Floro Villabrille was interesting, lots of long stick play and circling. There's some footage of Master Cabales from the movie Tiger's Revenge with Leo Fong. At the time of the interview, I believe Cabales was undergoing chemotherapy but he had showed that passion which a lot of folks still talk about. A fighter to the end, RIP. Possibly the longest interview was with Master Tendencia, a good thing as there's not much written about him or the late Jack Santos. Interesting training history to say the least. Master Babao was pretty soft spoken for a fighter, Master Canete passionate about promoting tournaments. The brief interviews with Burton Richardson and Eric Knauss covered traditional fighting and the experience of fighting with no armor.
For fun, check out the folks in the background from time to time. I think I saw Marc Wiley, Roberto Torres, and Master Ramiro Estallia. I could be wrong of course.
Pt. 2 starts with Sam Tendencia and Dan Inosanto doing a demo at the IMB Academy, check out the heavy sticks on that on. Next was footage of Angel Cabales demonstrating the Serrada system as a fighter you can see that he was pretty smooth and that he could hit long range when necessary. Next was Leo Giron showing Dan Inosanto staff disarm concepts, passing, and elastico/environmental training. Footage from one of Edgar Sulite's videos was next, Sulite rescuing a woman on the street from 2 muggers (one played by Marc Denny). If you've seen the Sulite excerpt from Ron Balicki's tapes, you know that Sulite was big on fighting spirit and making his opponent retreat, pretty much the same here.
The interview with GT Leo Gaje was next and had a brief clip of him showing disarms and the tres cantos short sword (similar to the colichmarde/kaborata horsewhip). I've seen footage of a Gaje seminar from '84, the man is smooth particularly with pointed sticks. Next is Dan Inosanto in a kung fu flick vs Bruce Li or Le, lots of double stick florete and a bit more entertaining than the duel in "Game of Death" (at least the edited 4 min version). There's also some old demo footage of Inosanto, one at the same event as the Cabales demo, another outside. The former also featuring a young Chris Kent and Jeff Imada, Inosanto does an interesting balisong demo, still showing his trademark methodical fluidity in his moves.
Last was footage of Inosanto training with Master Juanito LaCoste. This was the reason I wanted the tape, as Master LaCoste was supposed to be real fast with a stick and he was. His style was dancelike, his dagger method had short, explosive cuts, his stickwork big on guiding, passing, and thrusting. Overall, it was interesting to see that a lot of the disarms among the styles were similar and that each master moved fluidly but each had a subtlety in how they did it and taught it.
A great general reference, hopefully one of many to come, and a good entry tape for those traditional folks who don't really like the Dogbrothers.