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Post by Vince on Apr 22, 2006 12:10:56 GMT -5
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Post by Vince on Apr 6, 2006 13:55:09 GMT -5
Update: This contest will be over on April 14th at 11:59pm. The winner will anounced shortly after that in a newsletter.
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Post by Vince on Apr 2, 2006 14:59:09 GMT -5
In an effort to get more RMATA forum member involvement in our newsletters I am going to give away one of my Leglock DVD Instructional Sets to whoever submits the best contribution for our next newsletter. There is no limit on what subject you can submit, other than it being your own material and it generally being something appropriate and relavent to the Realistic Martial Arts Training a*sociation.
Here are some ideas for contributions;
- You can write an article about your personal journy through the martial arts.
- You can submit a technique with pictures of you doing it joined by a step by step description.
- You can submit an online video clip of you teaching a technique or something similar.
- You can write about your experience learning something from an RMATA member, seminar or training camp and how you have applied the technique or concept to your real life.
The sky is the limit folks, just get busy on your best contribution to our next newsletter and you could find youself with a free leglock DVD instructional set. If you already have my leglock instructional set you can pick from either a free pair of RMATA fight shorts or a free RMATA T-shirt.
Just e-mail your contribution to me at "vincentfields@yahoo.com" with "RMATA Newsletter Contribution" in the subject line. The RMATA Board Members will vote on their favorite contribution and the winner will be notified via e-mail. This contest will be over on April 14th 2006 at 11:59pm.
Good luck!!
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Post by Vince on Mar 12, 2006 7:23:57 GMT -5
Hey Rex,
I'm glad to hear he's competing. Regardless of the outcome of the match it is a victory for him. Competition is the fire that burns away impurities and he will be better, learn, find weaknesses, etc because of it. Many people never experience this due to their ego (afraid of getting beat).
Wish him the best for me and tell him to keep training hard and competing, regardless of the outcome of individual matches.
GOOD LUCK!! Train hard.
Vince
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Post by Vince on Mar 12, 2006 6:02:52 GMT -5
Happy birthday. How's life in Amsterdam?
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Post by Vince on Mar 17, 2006 18:58:52 GMT -5
Socal (from Chicago actually, as a trace of your IP shows),
Mud slinging (or slander) is one thing, and that won't be tolerated here. A logical discussion in which different parties disagree is certainly allowed. Lets keep it respectful and discuss the facts in a respectful manner. Otherwise censorship (or banishment) will certainly follow.
Let me take this time to remind all RMATA forum members about the type of members we want on this forum. No other type will be allowed to contribute here. If this is not you please go elsewhere;
"This forum is for our members, friends, and anyone interested in the martial arts to communicate and benefit from our collective knowledge. Hopefully you will find this place to be a breath of fresh air compared to other online martial arts communities; since we are comprised of friendly, mature people who are serious about realistic martial arts training and discovering what really works in all sorts of combat situations. Feel free to contribute with your questions, answers, thoughts, comments, and discussions while you’re here."
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Post by Vince on Mar 17, 2006 12:20:40 GMT -5
I appreciate everyone posting in a relatively cool headed manner. Regardless of any name calling or personal attacks that have happened on any other sites in the past, that will not be allowed here.
If this discussion is to continue all parties must keep it fact based, logical, and with due respect to all involved.
Thanks.
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Post by Vince on Mar 12, 2006 15:24:46 GMT -5
Interesting thread victor. There's no problem in discussing things like this, and it is certainly fine if people disagree and discuss different points as you have done. Hopefully Mr Shannon will come on here and discuss this with you and we can all learn something from the interaction.
I would like to remind anyone who later posts on this thread to keep things respectful to all posters. I mention this because I can see the potential for tempers to flare in this one.
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Post by Vince on Mar 11, 2006 6:52:00 GMT -5
Hey folks, I found this catchwrestling blog online, which is done by Jake Shannon. I thought it was interesting and that some of ya'll might enjoy checking it out. www.scientificwrestling.blogspot.com/
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Post by Vince on Mar 11, 2006 6:27:39 GMT -5
Hey folks, some members have asked me how to post pics here so this post should tell you how. First, go to www.photobucket.com and make an account. It is free. Then you just upload whatever pictures you want into your photobucket account. You can load them from your computer or any pictures online that you want. You will then get a link from them, which you put in your post here and use the little icon of the picture above on it, which makes your picture show up. Let me give you a step by step example. - I went to google.com and typed in "glock 36", which is a compact pistol I am considering buying. - I then clicked on "images" on google to just seem all the images that would pop up from my search. - I liked the 3rd image over, so I clicked it. - Then I clicked on "see full size image" to make the bigger picture of it pop up. - Then I right clicked the picture and selected "save image location". - Then I went to photobucket.com and logged in. - Then I clicked on "add image from URL" there. - Then I pasted (Control + V button) the URL into the space next to "Image URL" and hit "select". - After that it said "photo successfully loaded" and I went down to the photo and copied (Control + C button). For example, what I got was this link; i44.photobucket.com/albums/f37/vincentfields/G36.jpg- Then I just come here to make a post, post that link, highlight it, and then select the picture icon above. Then the picture will show up like this; Now you don't have to go through the whole photobucket thing to link to a picture so that it will show up in a post on this forum if you just find the picture that you want online somewhere. However if you want to put one of your own pictures up on this forum you'll have to upload it to photobucket (or some similar online photo hosting service).
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Post by Vince on Apr 1, 2006 23:07:18 GMT -5
Victor,
My sentiments exactly.
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Post by Vince on Mar 31, 2006 11:07:33 GMT -5
Hey folks, I am honored to announce that we have a new board member and RMATA chartered school owner, Dr Ken Erickson. Ken runs the Hayastan/ Invicta Grappling Academy in Jamestown NY. He is someone who I respect very much not only as a martial artist, but as a Christian man of integrity.
I will include a portion of some rescent e-mails I recieved from him, which will give ya'll a little insight to his thinking about some issues in the martial arts and his background.
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I am in agreement with you regarding these guys that live in a fantasy world concerning what they are capable of doing in martial arts yet are not willing to actually test it. I think it is fine for people to train in the martial arts that do not care to compete or to even spare if they are doing so from a simple love of the art. Of if they like the history involved or for some other similar reason. But the problem in my mind is when certain so called experts teach some super deadly art to students that believe they could actually defend themselves in a real situation. To my mind this is a very sad situation. I've seen many people buy into this idea that they could actually deal with any opponent, regardless of size or strength or skill, using some technique that they were told was so deadly that it just couldn't be used in a competitive match. I think this speaks more to a fundamental aspect of human psychology that is based on fear.
Facing life head on is a scary situation. Believing in a superhuman ability to ward off those fears is very reasurring to people so they are prime victims for some guy that is selling bullnuts in the form of martial arts. I find the students to be victims and the teacher to be a manipulator. It's a sad situation but one that is unlikely to ever go away due to the nature of the human psychic.
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I think we are all on our own spiritual path and for some of us that path has taken us into this world of martial arts. Even the people that cling to untested and most probably bogus techniques or arts are searching for their own truth. It seems that my path has recently taken me into an area where I am being challenged to examine my unwillingness or inability to understand things from the other guys point of view. For several years I have been very judgmental concerning stories of mystical masters or of some guy that could kick every bodies rear end but just doesn't care to demonstrate his lethal skills. I have found myself in arguments with people trying to convince them that this stuff was all just non-sense and I never got any where with them. I started to examine things from their perspective and that is when I began to realize that what you are up against with that stuff is really fear based. Fear is an insidious foe that slips up behind us and takes hold of us on such a basic level that most of us cannot recognize it for what it really is. So we try to cover it up with drugs, alcohol or belief in some magical power in the form of a mystical martial art. There are many other ways people try to hide their fears as well but I have come to believe that this is the basis of what we are discussing when we discuss people in the martial arts world that are unwilling to truly test their skills either in competition or in serious sparring/training.
I began my athletic career in power lifting and won two national titles. At the time I was very strong and big but deep in my heart I knew that I did not know how to fight. So consequently I projected allot of aggression and fear on an unconscious level. That energy, if you will, caused me to draw a lot of aggression from other people. One day while I was lifting weights at Logan college I had an incidence with some kid in the weight room and I almost came to blows with him. At that time Darrin Pordash came up to me and asked me if I'd ever done any martial arts and I told him that I thought martial arts was make believe bullnuts and I didn't see how that stuff would work in a real fight. Just before this happened there was an Aikido demonstration at Logan where these guys would run at their instructor and he would throw them around effortlessly. I thought it looked staged so I asked if I could run at the guy and have him throw me. I was told that I was being disrespectful and that only his students had that honor. This solidified what I thought about martial arts and I told Darrin exactly what he could do with his martial arts. To Darrin's credit he was calm with me and invited me to go to Jay Damato's martial arts school (California Martial Arts Academy) in St. Louis. So I eventually go to this place and the first person I meet is a guy named Steve Yant who is a black belt instructor under Jay. Steve was very nice to me and invited me to come out on the mat and do what ever I wished. He said he could just show me some stuff or we could actually "roll" to "tapping". I did not know what tapping was so he explained it to me and so I thought to myself "there is no way this guy can tap me". Of course you know what happened. I went to sleep. Then I went to sleep again and again. Then my arm felt like it was being broken and I tapped again. Then Jay beat me up standing up. This went on for about two straight hours. At the end of cla*s I sat there exhausted and sweating and for the first time in my life I felt like I didn't have to pretend I was a tough guy. It was so ridiculous for me to even pretend to be a tough guy down there that I felt like a huge weight had been lifted from me. I actually felt safe for maybe the first time in my life. I know that sounds strange. How can you feel safe in a place where everyone can kick your a*s? But that is what happened. I felt calm and realized that I did not have to pretend to be some tough guy. I signed up to learn more and have been at it ever since.
I share that story with you Vince to give you a feel for where I came from. A place of fear. And I'm certain that most people who are believing in some form of mystical martial arts yet are unwilling to demonstrate it or have it tested are coming from the same place. They are just unwilling or unable to allow themselves to face their fears. I feel sorry for these guys to be honest with you. Now I'm not saying that there might not be some "Master" out there that could go into MMA fighting and just wipe everyone out in a few seconds. But that is not the point. Perhaps this man exists or perhaps there are many that exist. I personally have serious doubts about this but my doubting it doesn't make it so. There is an axiom in research that says "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". Just because we have not seen some master test his art doesn't mean that there couldn't be one out there somewhere that was so devastating that he could simply knock Gokor or you down with just his look or some secret technique. I concede that possibility as a scientist. But........how does that serve me? How am I affected from that fact? Do I cling to the remote possibility that someone, somewhere could take a man of your size and skill and just play with you without using strength, skill, endurance, and all the other things that come with what I consider 'reality'. If I cling to that concept then I probably am being served in some way from doing so. My fears are being covered over by that belief. Now if I say to myself. Vince is this big strong guy and he could probably beat me to a pulp, then that means that I have to face my fears. This man could actually hurt me no matter what I do. Then I'm faced with a couple of choices. Live in fear and run for the rest of my life or start down a road of hard work and hard self reflection. Actually face my fears and begin to build skills in myself that are difficult to learn and that will repeatedly expose me to my fears. It's a hard choice. But I feel that true liberation from our fears requires us to face them. As Christ said "The truth will set you free". So the question is not really if there exists some top secret technique or super deadly master but if each of us is willing to be honest with our selves so that we can come to our own truth. I find that the more people want us to believe in these untested techniques the more than are revealing their own fears. They probably need a friend or for someone to simply listen to them. I know one thing to be true Vince, you will never change a person's mind about this stuff through argument. The more you argue with them the more they dig their heals in. Of course isn't this true for each one of us? Feel free to use what ever you find of value in these correspondents my friend.
My School is the Hyastan/Invicta Grappling Academy Jamestown NY, 14701 716-969-4873 Dr. Kenneth Erickson
My back ground is in powerlifting. My martial arts background is ingrappling(BJJ, Sambo) and I have trained JKD and Kuntao for several years. I've trained steadily for about 15 years or so. My students have competed in submission tournaments as well as professional mixed martial arts competitions. I consider myself a student of the martial arts and really only beginning the journey into learning.
I'm a chiropractic neurologist which is a speciality in the profession that requires three additonal years of training and board certification. I've lectured on brain function in the U.S, Canada and Europe. I'm currently completing my dissertation for my Ph.D in Health Science at St.Martin's college/Lancaster England. I've just started working with Benny "The Jet" Urquidez on a seminar series concerning the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of martial arts as they relate to current understandings of brain function. So now you know more about me than you probably wished to;. I am happy to be a*sociated with you and your organization and will help out in what ever way I can. Best regards my friend, Ken
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Post by Vince on Mar 7, 2006 3:15:32 GMT -5
Ol Wild Bill popped out 39 years ago today. I heard he threw a rolling kneebar on the doctor and then guillotined the nurse that spanked him.
Best wishes for your future Bill!
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Post by Vince on Feb 17, 2006 12:15:53 GMT -5
Here's mine;
- The body of Bob Sapp
- The Cardio of Randy Couture
- The Takedowns of Mark Coleman
- The throws of Karo Parizyan
- The Ground and pound of Fedor
- The high kicks of Cro-cop
- The elbows of David Louiaso (The crow)
- The knees of Silva
- The boxing of a young Mike Tyson
- The submissions of Gokor
- The chin of Mark Hunt
- The grappling positional ability of Fedor
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Post by Vince on Feb 17, 2006 12:09:31 GMT -5
"Captain America" Randy Courure has long been my favorite NHB fighter... not merely because of his fighting skills but mainly because of his attitude. It is certainly a big loss for the sport of NHB fighting to lose him. I wish him the best in his retirement!
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Post by Vince on Feb 17, 2006 3:44:21 GMT -5
Cool Jeff, good luck with it and getting the grapplers guild in Kansas going!
Vince
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Post by Vince on Feb 13, 2006 5:14:53 GMT -5
Best of luck with getting the grapplers guild going strong again Jeff!!
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Post by Vince on Feb 7, 2006 2:53:01 GMT -5
Hi folks,
In an effort to keep this place a nice place online for folks to discuss martial arts related stuff I'd like for everyone to fill out their profiles and include at least their real name and location there.
This is an effort to keep people from anonomously trolling the forum or making inapropriate posts without any accountability. Filling out your profile is part of our forum rules. While your at it feel free to introduce yourself on our "RMATA sign in - intro" thread which is on the General Topics board.
This has never been a serious problem with our forum since we are mainly comprised of friendly, mature folks who are like minded in many martial arts issues, specifically in that we are seeking what really works in all sorts of combative situations with discerning minds. However the internet is wide open to anyone so we'd like to know who everyone is and who were dealing with.
Thank you all very much for your cooperation!
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Post by Vince on Jun 11, 2007 22:06:08 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum Kyle!!
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Post by Vince on Oct 18, 2006 0:27:31 GMT -5
Hi Matt, welcome to the forum! Glad to have you here.
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Post by Vince on May 31, 2006 11:59:33 GMT -5
Good to have ya here Greg!
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Post by Vince on May 10, 2006 22:58:22 GMT -5
Welcome Kelly,
Can you make another thread (don't want to get off topic here) discussing the type of judo you were exposed to that was not sport orientated? Thanks.
Vince
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Post by Vince on Apr 22, 2006 9:26:39 GMT -5
Keith, it's great to have you here man.
For those of you who don't know Keith, he is a superb athlete. He trains very hard, has great cardio, great wrestling skills, and is rediculously strong for his size. He's around 155 pound and I always have to partner him up with guys over 200 pounds with much more MMA experience than him so it is close to an even match in training. He's had his first boxing and kickboxing matches rescently and won them (on the same weekend!). You can expect to see his introduction into NHB soon.
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Post by Vince on Apr 20, 2006 17:38:40 GMT -5
Welcome Howard. Sounds like you are a busy man.
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Post by Vince on Apr 2, 2006 15:33:22 GMT -5
Thanks Danny, I'll check out that site.
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Post by Vince on Apr 1, 2006 13:28:55 GMT -5
Hi Dan, welcome aboard! I'd love to hear what you think about the Kettlebells, how they have helped you, how they differ than other exercises, etc.
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Post by Vince on Feb 27, 2006 21:04:40 GMT -5
Nice to have you here lance. We could use a good shrink!!
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Post by Vince on Feb 21, 2006 10:22:10 GMT -5
John, Boyd, and everyone else, great to have you guys here!
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Post by Vince on Jul 20, 2005 23:08:01 GMT -5
It's great to have you with us JW. Your a huge a*set to the RMATA and I'm honored to be a*sociated with you.
Vince
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Post by Vince on May 23, 2005 3:36:43 GMT -5
Hi Misery, great to have you here. I've always wanted to visit Alaska. Preferably in the summer time and go motorcycling up there.
I'm guessing that you train with a Ruas affiliate school up there? Does your school have a website? I have trained with Marco before in Southern California. What really stands out in my mind about him is his surprising strength for his size and his unlimited cardio.
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