I am real skeptic of learning hybrid martial arts if they are not tried and proven as effective. Especially if it's something fairly new. I was just wondering what you guys opinion of Dog Brothers Martial Arts is. It is basically a mixture of different kinds of silat and escrima mixed together in one martial art. Basically like a MMA for FMA. What do yall think about the Dog Brothers program.
Here's my thought process on this one. If you can watch this [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvmLQ_Jjqmk"]September 2013 Gathering Of The Pack - YouTube[/ame] And think the Dog Brothers aren't legit, or at don't at least have the right attitude and approach to building an effective system, then I start to question your judgement on things quite a bit. edit: Judging by the GOTP videos the thing I'll say Dog Brothers has going for it that I'm a big fan of is they seem to accept anyone and anything. They're primarily an FMA style org but watching their videos they clearly have a lot of guys who cross-train elsewhere in mma and whatnot. That might not be such a great advert for their FMA stuff that the guys seem to end up using a lot of mma and submission wrestling type moves but the fact they let them do it and seemingly embrace it is a positive to me
I don't have an opinion on it since I don't know much about it. I must say, in the video it looks like they are having fun.
I have to admit I don't know anything about their syllabus but going off those videos and talking to Freeform (Point Dog I think) on here years ago its a group I have quite a bit of respect for. Certainly looking forward to trying them out if I end up at uni up north.
They are open, honest and pragmatic. Their material is well structured and organised and easy to follow. Marc is VERY easy to talk to and an intelligent man with a wealth of experience I have nothing but mad respect for the DB's and have freely stolen many training methods from them - you cannot go wrong with them IMO
Use the Search Function on MAP, just type in "Dog Brothers" and there has been a ton of info. over the years. I think a Mapper or two trains with them as well. Not trying to tell you not to continue with this thread or anything! Just letting you know it's a subject that has been touched on with a lot of great info. already, just gotta' use that Search function.
They've applied MMA to FMA and come up with win for open ruleset, heavy contact sparring with various weapons. They've matched this with the hokeyest titles since Korea got hold of karate We have at least one guy on MAP who is well respected there as well as here. If you want MMA FMA from your training it's a great way to get it. Mitch
I just looked over a few of the old posts about DB and it seems to have a lot of stick and knife fighting in it. Thing is I wouldn't mind learning some knfe fighting, but I'm more interested in combat with no weapons. I don't know how much of that they do.
Was out with a knee injury for six months mate, doing anything martial arts related was painful including talking about it, we'll back into the swing of things now though, planning trips to Wigan, Brazil, the Euro's (BJJ), an mma fight, working my way back to gotch's bible level fitness and most importantly of all posting on MAP
I have a matted garage and access to training with Harry Smith if that counts Oh and Billy R should be coming soon too!
That is me on the left of the video still, (not the guy in the kilt) right before I cleverly disarmed myself. I fought at the LA Gathering for the first time last year and had a blast. What is important to note is that the Dog Brothers Gatherings don't represent any particular system, they are simply guys who are willing to test themselves under a particular ruleset. I don't train "Dog Brothers," I train in Pekiti Tirsia Kali, and I am not a "Dog Brother" I am just a guy who came to play that day. Now Marc Denny has developed a Dog Brothers Martial Arts system/training regimen/curriculum/whatever but that isn't necessarily what is being shown on a Gathering highlight. Check out their promo reels for various training DVDs if you want to see parts of the "Dog Brothers Martial Arts" material.
