The filming of the Battle of Bannockburn was fun, as expected there was hours of waiting around as both armies where marched into their positions and horses set up. The weather was pretty foul as expected...just above my cleaved face. The day ended with the guys from the Clanranald Trust, doing a fight scene in a freezing cold river as 'bodies' floated past. Looked fantastic, can't wait to see the film
Here's a possible Irish martial stick 'dance', The Droghedy's March, from county Wexford described in 1812 by Patrick Kennedy in "On the Banks of the Boro" The tune called Droghedy's March...hoochings in the reels....The steps, which we have forgotten, could not have been difficult, for we mastered them.....This war dance is (or was) performed to a martial tune resembling Brian Boru's march...
halflang , a Glasgow-based member of the International Marxbruder, has been posting about celtic martial arts. Thing is, unlike much of the BS you read on the Interweb, he actually knows something about them and can cite sources. Go look...
It may come as a surprise to the Western reader that Europeans too practiced and developed systems of armed and unarmed combat with dance-like forms or kata, an abdominal shout similar to the Japanese...from a variety of sources including historical accounts, language, folklore and the still living traditions of Highland wrestling and dance. These included kicks, punches, elbows, knees, sweeps & throws
A few years ago when I last trained with Irish cudgeller John Ramsey I persuaded him to try out some Indonesian Silat as I could see a lot of similiarities to what he was teaching, so he went along to...as he's now promoting John's Irish stick in the USA and regards him as his teacher!!! http://www.cimande.com/blackthorn/intro.html [IMG]http://www.cimande.com/images/black2.jpg[/IMG] Louie
So, lately, I've been constantly thinking about Western Martial Arts, German Longsword, and Fighting in general. I've found myself daydreaming/remembering back in the days when I was a pack of solid...in any way more than minor.), you probably will want to skip it. I'm reading it again to try to help drive away the desire. It's hard sometimes. i miss it. A lot more than I like to admit sometimes
...back on the compatible device. In order to enjoy them on incompatible devices, you have to remove the protection mechanism and convert the music files. There is a simple method to remove DRM from WMA within two steps: 1. Burn the protected WMA files to a CD. 2. Rip them off to your computer, then the DRM should be removed from the WMA files. But it's not very convenient and may wear out your CR...
