It's my martial arts world

[Drunk Monk]

[thatguy]

That's a KFM link, not a yootoob link.

--tv

[Drunk Monk]

aw damn.



thanks for the quick catch there tg.

[thatguy]

I didn't know about this series:

https://gizmodo.com/shaloin-cowboy-cruel...1848514421

Shaolin Cowboy Returns, and Things Are Gonna Get Ugly
Rob Bricken

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Inset of Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin #1 by Geof Darrow.Image: Dark Horse Comics


Geof Darrow has worked with the legendary illustrator Moebius, partnered with Frank Miller on the Eisner Award-winning Hard Boiled, and helped the Wachowskis tailor the look of the first Matrix film. But his most beloved—and certainly his weirdest—creation has to be Shaolin Cowboy, a tale of an ex-monk who travels a surreal version of the American West full of demonic gourmets, crustacean mob bosses, and a great many dinosaurs. Now the Cowboy is coming back to Dark Horse for a new series titled Cruel to Be Kin, and, come on, that lizard is holding a gun in its tail.

io9's excited to give you a first look at Cruel to Be Kin, the next chapter of Darrow’s martial arts adventures. The ebullient official synopsis for the seven-issue series is as follows: “The series is set in Phase 4 of the SCU, where the Shaolin Cowboy finds his parenting skills being tested when he is forced to homeschool during a pandemic of unparalleled violence, in a story torn from yesterday’s viral Twitter feeds. Can he get a kung fu grip on the situation before a horde of .45-loving human monsters and not-so-human monsters send him to the ICU? Only guns, swords, and flying guillotines will tell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”




Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin #1 variant cover by Mike Mignola.Image: Dark Horse Comics


With help from colorist Dave Stewart, this will be the third Shaolin Cowboy series Darrow has made with Dark Horse, the first two being titled Shemp Buffet and Who’ll Stop the Reign. The writer/artist considers Cruel to Be Kin the third in a trilogy, as he says in an statement provided to io9 over email:

This is my third book in a trilogy I began with Shemp Buffet, continued with Who’ll Stop the Reign, and headed into with the massive pile up on Route 666 that is Cruel to Be Kin.

It is kind of my The Good, The Bad, The Ugly with Shemp being The Good, Reign being The Ugly, and Kinbeing The Bad! See how I mixed it up? Clever, huh? I worked hard coming up with that switch.

This series is also my love letter to four of my favorite film directors Sergio Leone, Kenji Misumi, Tsui Hark, and Sam Raimi. Hope it’s not a Return to Sender.

Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin #1 variant cover by Alice Darrow, Geof’s daughter.Image: Dark Horse Comics


Seriously, Darrow is beloved in the world of comic artists and beyond, which is why the series will have a multitude of variant covers by a veritable who’s who of stars including Hellboy’s Mike Mignola, All-Star Superman’s Frank Quitely, Hip Hop Family Tree’s Ed Piskor, Usagi Yojimbo’s Stan Sakai, frequent Wachowskis collaborator Steve Skroce, Blood: The Last Vampire’s Katsuya Terada, the aforementioned Hong Kong movie mega-director/producer Tsui Hark, and more.

The first issue of Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin arrives in comic stores on May 18.

--tv

[Drunk Monk]

Shaolin Cowboy is awesome. Absolutely spectacular art. Very abstract story - not even sure there is one. Ridiculous eye candy tho...

https://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/sho...the-comic)

One of the back covers was clearly derived from the KFTC cover we ran for the Abbot. 

Can't find it just now but here's the KFTC cover...

[King Bob]

A martial art I'd never heard of: Angampora, from Sri Lanka. The article is mostly about the photographer, but check out the deer antler weapon.

[Drunk Monk]

I'm getting a 404 error on your link above KB.

Angampora is rare. Only seen video but never live demos. 

Check this out - https://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/sho...-Angampora

[King Bob]

Trying again: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/an...artial-art

Updated the above link as well.

[Drunk Monk]

https://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/sho...ost1321428

I wrote an article on antler weapons. I witnessed an old folk style at the Shaolin Festival where some dude used these little antlers with ribbons on it. There's a common Kung Fu weapon known as Deer Antler Knives and I postulated a connection. 

[King Bob]

My favorite part of the video is the descriptions. It's like an incomprehensible poem.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

My favorite part of the video is the descriptions. It's like an incomprehensible poem.

Agreed. I would have to see them in use against another human. I spotted a couple of moves that looked like trapping an opponent's blade, but 97% was graceful spinning with no discernible purpose. Beautiful movement/flow.

[Drunk Monk]

You mean the names of the movements? Those are called quanpu - literally ‘fist poems’. Remember that Chinese is a highly idiomatic language so it’s akin to the metaphor that Star Trek TNG was aiming for with ‘Shaka when the walls fell’. I’ve done a lot of translating of those - sometimes they are quite revealing. They are also very subjective and never x=x. I’ve done comparisons with other schools on lyrical sets and it’s a lot like how songs diverge lyrically between versions.

[Greg]

I know. Politics, but...

World judo body suspends Putin as its honorary president


Sun, February 27, 2022, 2:16 AM


BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Vladimir Putin temporarily lost his most senior official position in world sports on Sunday.
The International Judo Federation cited “the ongoing war conflict in Ukraine” for suspending Putin’s honorary president status.
The Russian president is a keen judoka and attended the sport at the 2012 London Olympics.
The IJF is rare among Olympic sports bodies for using the word “war” to describe Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ordered by Putin on Thursday. Others have used phrases such as “escalation of conflict.”
A Kremlin-supporting oligarch and longtime friend of Putin, Arkady Rotenberg, remains on the IJF executive committee as “development manager.”

[King Bob]

Back to DM - I assume the names are keys to remembering the moves in the set. Is that standard for all styles?

And agreed that there's a lot of just spinning around in that set.

[King Bob]

DM - those move names are the key to your memoir. Just name each chapter after one, and then write about whatever you can connect to it, martial arts or not.