  A JOB I got an interview tomorrow. I guess i have a better shot at being a bartender than an artist. Heres to you ARJ, if your mom ever forces you to go here Bartenders make $130 a day and is the best tipped. Kali/Excrima A Jersey guard noticed our escrima sticks on the way to the park yesterday. This happened again today. I could not get the guards name cause the train arrived but he was nice enough to show us how to get tickets. He had been practicing for 8 years "JKD" cool. He remarked that we must be more hardcore. Well given the standard of living I said it isn't and that all the better martial artists are here.
The other guy was George who was working city maintenance, he walked over to us and asked us what school we study. I proudly remarked Doce Pares (translated as 12 pairs or what i liked to call "the 24 masters"). He learned under santos and presas school... which are the more popular schools of escrima around the world. With my understanding of medieval history and combat thanks to ARMA i can't exactly say i practice a home brew kind of fighting. I can't say that we have great fighters if we have no armor to afford mistakes... I think it is more of lucky fighters. I have been studying spanish sword and dagger and comparing it to escrima and how and why or DID? our ancestors adopt the two weapon fighting style from the spanish as ARMA suggested. and i learned that we didn't.
Fighting with two weapons a natural thing. Culturaly we did not make great shields and fightiing without using your off hand was wastefull as well as our iron smithing isn't that good to make long blades (like 2h ones) that common. So it WAS natural to have two short swords (technical term for a blade 2 1/2 feet in length that is more for skirmishing, the bolo and talibon have the rough length given) 1 to parry or attack given the opportunity. I also noticed that fighting in woody or foilaged terrain is an advantage to the short sword wielder and even more to a warrior with two.
You can use the trees to give you cover and sheilding against larger weapons (experience from the LARP). I kicked as with just a dagger and shorsword since i could close up and stab/ strike multiple times while my opponent tried to manuever through the foilage. Jasper Been teaching jasper and he has been improving steadily. He can parry faster now given the excersizes.
We both leared to pary 2-3 time a second while attacking with a riposte. Chat is Sick!!! My baby is sick and I'm not there. FAT good me griping about something i can't do anything about. Take it easy baby! I'll take care of you! so don't worry your dreary head. Blogging I've been slow to blog and will be slower once i begin "bartender school". Well i'll ry to keep you all updated. 
