Assisting Fight Master Simon Fon

First Year

• Group 1: Monday, 9 March 2009 2-5pm
• Group 2: Wednesday, 11 March 2009 2-5pm

1. Warm Up
2. Knife Fighting
   1. Grips: Heaven (hammer), Earth (ice-pick)
   2. Attack lines 1-12
   3. Defanging the Snake

Second Year

• Group 1: Wednesday 11 March 2009 9-11am
• Group 2: Wednesday 11 March 2009 11-1pm

1. Quarterstaff: Review choreography
2. Unarmed Fight Choreography

Assisting Fight Master Simon Fon

First Year

• Group 1: Wednesday, 18 February 2009 2-5pm
• Group 2: Wednesday, 4 March 2009 2-5pm

1. Plyometric Workout
2. Movie Fight Analysis

Second Year

• Group 1: Wednesday 4 March 2009 9-11am
• Group 2: Wednesday 4 March 2009 11-1pm

1. Sword
   1. Review choreography
   2. New parries: High 7, Low 3
   3. Change-Beat
   4. Bind from quillion
   5. Disarm by injury
   6. Neck wound
   7. Finish choreography
2. Quarterstaff
   1. Review choreography
   2. Single-hand attacks and parries
   3. Disarm by leverage
   4. Finish choreography

Soul Samurai Logo, from Tor.com

Dear gods of stage combat, please grant me the means to see this show:

Soul Samurai is the joint work of Ma-Yi Theater Company, which is devoted to “develop[ing] new plays and performance works that essay Asian American experiences,” and Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, which tends “towards the creation and production of new works of theatre based in stage combat, dark comedy [and] a comic book aesthetic.” While both of these goals are fulfilled to some extent, VCT’s is certainly the more prominent of the two, especially their allegiance to comic books: every fight scene seems to have at least one freeze-frame that obviously would have been that issue’s splash page.
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Vampire Cowboys’ Soul Samurai brings hip-hop, martial arts, and comic books to the New York stage

Samurai Sword Handle Umbrella from ThinkGeek

The rain falls softly.
The samurai draws his sword.
Look, an umbrella.
ThinkGeek :: Samurai Sword Handle Umbrella

And Nick Oddson suggested this one. Also an excellent choice for those with a higher budget for my gift: The Unbreakable Walking-Stick Umbrella

Our Unbreakable Umbrella has no unusual parts, no more metal than an average umbrella, it does not arouse suspicion, can be carried legally everywhere where any weapons are prohibited, unlike a walking stick it does not cause strange looks if carried by an able-bodied person, and it does protect from rain. Anyone who can use a stick for defense can use this umbrella.

Assisting Fight Master Simon Fon

First Year

• Group 1: Monday 9 February 2009 2-5pm
• Group 2: Wednesday 11 February 2009 2-5pm

1. Warm up
2. Review of Aikido Roll
3. Martial Arts Striking Techniques:
   1. Palm Strike
   2. Knife Hand
   3. Ridge Hand
   4. Spear Hand (including Crane Beak, Tiger Claw)
   5. Back Fist
   6. Hammer Fist
   7. Crane Head
4. Martial Arts Blocking Techniques:
   1. Crane
   2. Tiger Claw/Eagle Talon
   3. Karate Inside/Outside Blocks
   4. Wing Chun Bong Sao
5. Film fights: They Live, Rumble In The Bronx, The Bourne Identity

Second Year

• Group 1: Wednesday 11 February 2009 9-11am
• Group 2: Wednesday 11 February 2009 11-1pm

1. Test and review whole glossary
2. Sword
   1. Diagonal Slash versus Evasion
   2. Punto Reverso
   3. Pommel Strike with Victim Knap
   4. Hand Parry
   5. Beat-Parry High Prime

Assisting Fight Master Simon Fon

First Year

• Group 1: Monday 2 February 2009 2-5pm
• Group 2: Wednesday 4 February 2009 2-5pm

1. Warm up
2. Kicks
   1. Review: Front kick, Front Snap kick, Side Kick, Roundhouse/Round kick, Crescent Kick
   2. Reverse-turning Heel Kick
3. Wing Chun Slap Block
4. Filipino Sun Sequence
5. Figure-4 Arm Lock to Takedown (Back fall)
6. Judo Major Hip Throw: Ogoshi
7. Jiu-jitsu Prone Arm Bar
8. Film fights: Rapid Fire, Flash Point, Thirst

Second Year

• Group 1: Wednesday 4 February 2009 9-11am
• Group 2: Wednesday 4 February 2009 11-1pm

1. Quarterstaff
   1. Test and review quarterstaff and acting glossary
   2. Mid-staff Croise
   3. Deception of Parry (circular)
2. Sword
   1. Sentiment du Fer in motion

Assisting Fight Master Simon Fon

First Year

• Group 1: Monday 26 January 2009 2-5pm
• Group 2: Wednesday 28 January 2009 2-5pm

1. Warm up
2. Watch and critique 15-move fight
3. Kicks
   1. Front kick
   2. Front Snap kick
   3. Side Kick
   4. Roundhouse/Round kick
   5. Crescent Kick

Second Year

• Group 1: Wednesday 28 January 2009 9-11am
• Group 2: Wednesday 28 January 2009 11-1pm

1. Sword
   1. Test and review accoutrements and unarmed glossary
   2. Yielding Parries (Glissade)
   3. Deception of Parry (Degage)
   4. Passata-Soto
   5. Wounds
2. Quarterstaff
   1. “Darth Maul”
   2. Spin Overhead

Assisting Fight Master Simon Fon

First Year

• Group 1: Monday 19 January 2009 2-5pm
• Group 2: Wednesday 21 January 2009 2-5pm

1. Warm up
2. Watch and critique 10-move fight
3. Aikido Rolls
4. Lapel Throw
5. Falls
   1. Kneel
   2. Straight-back Fall
   3. Front Fall

Second Year

• Group 1: Wednesday 21 January 2009 9-11am
• Group 2: Wednesday 21 January 2009 11-1pm

1. Sword
   1. Test and review sword glossary
   2. Envelopement
   3. Attacks on the Blade: Pressure, Graze and Froissement
2. Quarterstaff
   1. Staff Bind
   2. Slash head versus duck
   3. Crane Stance (Long Form)

Assisting Fight Master Simon Fon

First Year

• Group 1: Monday 5 January 2009 2-5pm
• Group 2: Wednesday 7 January 2009 2-5pm

1. Warm up
2. Punching
   1. Jab with operator chest knap
   2. Cross with operator chest knap
   3. Victim reactions to protect the spine
   4. Hook versus Forearm block
   5. Rounhouse (aka Haymaker, aka Wild Hook) versus Bob-and-weave
   6. Uppercut
   7. Punt-kick to face with operator thigh knap
3. Cool down and stretching

Second Year

• Group 1: Wednesday 7 January 2009 9-11am
• Group 2: Wednesday 7 January 2009 11-1pm

1. Parts of the hilt:
   1. Pommel
   2. Grip
   3. Knuckle-bow
   4. Guard
2. Parts of the blade:
   1. Tang
   2. Ricasso
   3. Shoulders
   4. Forte
   5. Midblade
   6. Foible
   7. Tip or Point
   8. True Edge
   9. False Edge
   10. Flute or Fuller
   11. Flat
3. Footwork
   1. Advance
   2. Retreat
   3. Pass and Full Pass
4. Parries 1-5
5. Cuts
6. Attack on the Blade: Beat
7. Taking the Blade: Bind
8. Slash Centre and Evasion: Rassemblement

Got up 8am, very restless night

Gainer, Workout, Gainer

Wednesdays brainstorming day. Every Wednesday, sit down with one other person – either an employee or someone in your industry – and write down 10 ways you can build more business with existing customers, or get new ones. Don’t worry if you repeat week to week.

Go back over Macbeth cues (erase aiff files from itunes, re-export existing files from Garage Band with Normalization OFF)

Pick up and install TV

Gainer, bed around 1am