I understand. The approach in Tres Puntos is different from what I've seen in PTK, so it may show a different perspective.
If I'm not mistaken, you're in Texas. Gat Puno Baet (the head of the system) is in San Antonio once or twice a year for a seminar. You could get...
Not really. There are a few videos out there of Garimot knife, or Tres Puntos, but they're generally core basics, or slightly altered versions of...
Garimot tres puntos. It's not well known, but it's damn good stuff. Originated in Batangas. Or if you're more into Visayan styles, Baraw Sugbu...
I find that hard to believe, unless you drive a tractor. What town are you in? Tim
Depending on what aspect, it's called buno, suntukan, sikaran, sikadtukan, or arnis. As far as an overall term for fighting without a weapon, we...
I certainly wouldn't call myself a Spanish fencing expert. Given the assumption that the two circles on the ground are the small and big...
What I do is to attempt to understand without assumption.
Let's presume I have a very poor imagination. Please explain which drawn circle you're referring to (including page number), what exactly is...
Where in those pages are the small and big circles discussed or shown?
So, you believe that a handful of vastly outnumbered Spanish swordsmen on horses, who refused guns as too cumbersome and crossbows as too slow,...
...if you don't count their guns, crossbows, pikes, and hordes of allied native troops. But hey, that's not as romantic, right? ...or because...
Nothing of Spanish fencing survived. European sword arts do not lack "corto stuff."
Wow. I can't fathom the mindset of someone who, after having watched a few videos, tells me that I'm wrong about the style that I train and...
It's not taken out of context - you're making an assertion about the nature of FMA to make your case against a PTK style without corto. Rather...
I did read the whole thread. For instance, in response to Janno saying that showing corto techniques is more art than martial, you replied:...
Late to the party, but I have to chime in to say that this is flat wrong. If you want to make this case for a specific style of FMA, feel free....
I'd second Stuart's encouragement, but I'm biased (I practice Garimot, and I'll be up in Chicago for the seminar in a couple weeks). That said,...
While the use of a historical dictionary is good, the rest of it is just the same old folk etymology that creates the confusion in the first...
i don't know about publishing, but either way the first few bits of my research (strictly on 16th-18th century iberian fencing, no fma connection)...
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