“Actress Priyanka Chopra will be seen in an action-packed avatar in her debut Hollywood film. For the big screen adaptation of the popular American TV show, Baywatch, the actress will be training in a martial art form called Kajukenbo.Previously, Priyanka has performed numerous stunts and action sequences in several projects, including her latest release, Jai GangaaJal, and older ones like Mary Kom (2014), Drona (2008), and Don (2006), and also her ongoing American TV show, Quantico.
A source says, “She is always up for trying new stunts and techniques, and she is really excited about preparing for this role. Apparently, one of the best Kajukenbo trainers in America has been hired to work with her.” She will start training next month.”
If anyone knows who the Kajukenbo instructor is, please contact me.
“New abilities, some of them apparently superhuman, began to appear in the rewritten sacred texts. Suddenly the Shaolin martial artists were resisting spears thrust into their necks. They were standing on one finger. They were breaking bricks and sticks and stones with their heads. They were walking on fire and laying on beds of nails. They were resisting the most savage blows to every part of their anatomy, from punches, kicks, and sledgehammers. They were even doing all kinds of things with their testicles.
Without exception, all of these amazing feats are stage show tricks, performed all around the world in many different cultures. Martial artists call them bullshido. There’s no need to go into each of them here, if you’re curious about any of them — breaking the spear against the neck, for example — Professor Google will show you how you can do it too.”
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“The Marine Corps admitted in a statement on Thursday that it had misidentified one of the six men pictured in the iconic flag-raising photo taken during the battle for Iwo Jima in 1945.”
The man who took almost a century to identify, who stood where Sousley was thought to be, is PFC Harold Shultz from Detroit, Michigan.
Shultz, a mortarman with Easy company 2nd Battalion 28th Marine Division, accompanied the 40-man patrol that snaked up Mt. Suribachi on the morning of Feb. 23. 1945. Atop the 550-foot tall mountain positioned at the southern tip of the tiny volcanic island, the Marine Corps determined that Shultz would help Marines Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, Harlon Block, Michael Strank and Franklin Sousley raise a piece of Japanese irrigation pipe affixed with the American flag that would soon make history.
Shultz, who was wounded on the island three weeks after the flag raising, died in 1995 at the age of 70. He never spoke publicly of his part in the flag raising.
“The Marine Corps has opened an investigation into whether it misidentified one of the six men shown raising an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in February 1945, the Associated Press reported Monday. The picture, taken by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal, became one of the most enduring images of World War II and the identities of the flag raisers is something that has been accepted for decades.
In 2014, two amateur historians began raising issues regarding one service member supposedly depicted in the picture, Navy Corpsman John Bradley, according to the AP. Their evidence was first published in the Omaha World-Herald and the paper was the first to report on the Marines’ new inquiry Saturday.
The picture, taken Feb. 23, 1945, actually depicted the raising of the second flag that day. The first was quickly raised, taken down and replaced with the second, larger one. The second flag, taken off a nearby landing ship, was raised by five Marines and one Navy corpsman. The battle for the island was still in its infancy and the Marines had made it a point to take the mountain on which the flag was raised. The 550-foot-high mound of volcanic earth was a piece of important terrain that overlooked the small pork-chop-shaped island.”
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“Whitaker studies yoga and has a black belt in kenpō. He also trains in the Filipino martial art of Kali, under Dan Inosanto. Inosanto is best known for having been a student of the late Bruce Lee and has trained actors such as Denzel Washington and Brandon Lee.” — Wikipedia
I am not sure which episode it is from. Seems like early on,
The Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) have been a part Kajukenbo from the beginning since several of the Founders were of Filipino descent.
Training with -and against- common weapons like clubs, knives and guns is required at “white belt” in Kajukenbo and in FMA. This is in contrast with many Traditional Martial Arts where “classical” weapons are frequently taught later in the program and sometimes separately from the “core curriculum.”
The club/knife/gun requirement is so combatants are not as surprised or scared if someone does pull a weapon; “The worst-case scenario” principle of Kajukenbo says to train for the possibility.
The corollary follows: If you are accustomed to training at full-speed and force against attacks from clubs and knives then a simple punch or kick is trivial to deal with by comparison.
Kajukenbo Self Defense focuses on weapons that you may have with you or are likely to encounter on the streets, so “classical” weapons such as the sai, kama, nunchaku are rarely trained.
Rattan sticks are used in the beginning of training to emulate knives and then training progresses to live blades like pocket knives and even machetes.
“If you can do it with a stick then you can do it with a knife; if you can do it with a knife then you can do it with an empty hand.”
Sometimes called “Kajukenbo Sticks”, training with sticks & knives is integral to nearly every branch of the Kajukenbo system. No matter if it is a single stick/knife, two sticks/knives or a stick and a knife, FMA teaches a lot of dynamic skills that transfer directly to empty-hand fighting. This also develops attributes such as speed, timing, footwork and coordination under stress against an active, resisting opponent instead of one who is “pretending to resist” in a passive drill.
To that end, we at the CQB Kajukenbo Club are proud to announce that we are bringing in Kajukenbo Grand Master Dean Goldade [ http://www.austinkaju.com/ ] to teach a FMA stick seminar at CODA on Sunday, March 20th. This seminar is open to the public.
GM Dean was promoted to 9th degree black belt in Kajukenbo by the last living Founder of the Kajukenbo system in October 2015.
Two 28 inch rattan escrima sticks will be included at no additional cost while supplies last – a $30 value!
From the http://www.senkotiros.org/ site: “Do you need five blocking techniques when one will suffice? Should you have thirty types of attacks when several are really all that’s needed? What about defending against all points on both sides of the body when only one side is sufficient?
Senkotiros Arnis basically reduces the art of stick fighting to its lowest common denominator. No frills, no wasted movement, no pre-arrangement, or sequential defense and attack maneuvers, and no complex footwork patterns that must coincide with the opponent’s divisive tactics.”
When: Sunday March 20th, 2016
Times:
First half 10:00 – 12:00 noon
Lunch 12 noon to 13:00 (1pm)
Second half 13:00 – 15:00 (1pm to 3pm)
Where: 11025 Gravois Industrial Ct, Sappington, MO 63128
You will turn at the blue USPS mailbox off of Old Gravios,
Turn left into “Gravios Industrial Plaza”
CODA is in the back of the “Gravios Industrial Plaza”
Price: $50 for all 4 hours and includes a pair of 28 inch rattan escrima sticks (while supplies last!)
The fee is due at the door or you may contact Dave if you wish to pay in advance.
This is a beginner-friendly seminar. All Ranks and Styles are welcome!
Including Black Belt Candidates: Doug McDaniel, Joanna Bennett and Adam Smith
Underbelts are testing as well.
Where: CODA Martial Arts
11025 Gravois Industrial Ct, Sappington, MO 63128, United States
When: 09:30 to 16:30 on Saturday March 19th 2016
You will turn at the blue USPS mailbox off of Old Gravios,
Turn left into “Gravios Industrial Plaza”
CODA is in the back of the “Gravios Industrial Plaza”
