Anyone know anything about it or him ?
Ordered his seminar tapes today and do not live that far from him. His site is www.afs.f2s.com the stufflooks interesting enough and I am looking to get back into training.
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Anyone know anything about it or him ?
Ordered his seminar tapes today and do not live that far from him. His site is www.afs.f2s.com the stufflooks interesting enough and I am looking to get back into training.
Mr. Dunlap is the real deal and a total gentleman.
I am undergoing a long distance relationship with Phil and his Kachin Tribal arts of bando and he is a first class kind of guy and has some serious NHB and street experiance under his belt.
If you are in his area you should go see him as Bando and Mr. Dunlap tribal system of bando is as hardcore as it gets and if you can get the hands on AFS class you will be hooked up with a total fighting system that has a teacher with "real life" experiance.
Bando is a brutal and very direct combatitve fighting system from Burma that has its elements incased in a varity (16) of animal spirits that showcase's the many fighting structures, techniques and body types that different fighters may fit into and due to its war based nature it stresses alot of close quarter combat and heavy body conditioning.
I have been looking for a Bando teacher of Mr. Dunlaps caliber for a very long time and I am honored to now be starting on this path with the right people.
He has long distance students that study with him as far Australia.
Go take a look and be respectfull as they train very hard and walk the talk.
I could go into a little more detail about Bando but if he is in your area go check him out as he is a true expert on the Burmese fighting arts and has fought in Lathawe (close to Thai boxing but much more brutal with headbutts, takedowns and no gloves), Thaing (total combat) and Naban (Burmese wrestling art that includes strikes in its aresnal).
Regards
I spoke to him today for like half an hour seemed like a really cool guy. I have a private lesson with him next week and am psyched about it. The way he talks about fighting is a little intimidating.
I just checked out his site. How does Kachin Bando differ (or similar to) the styles propogated by Dr. Gyi?
I am a big beleiver in luck. The more I work, the more luck I have.
Monkeyslap:
It is to early for me to put that down in certain words yet but I will e-mail you some stuff that you may find interesting.
Regards
I have read the whole site and the forum it is pretty interesting. There are other groups of Bando? I thought I had heard about it concerning Ghurkas and the military but am not sure and can't find much on the net. It sounds like sick stuff
Snake-Style if you would like please e-mail me off this post and we can talk about this in private and maybe I can help to answer some of your basic questions.
e-mail:
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Regards
I always heard Bando was a pacifist art. Supposedly it is more about healing than fighting.
Am I right?
-Neal
"As we live a life of ease,
Everyone of us has all we need.
Sky of blue, and sea of green,
In our yellow submarine."
-the beatles
Way off bro.
Its a brutal killing art that is all about taking out the attacker in as direct as manner as possible.
Pure combat art through and through and it has seen some gruesome war use in WWII by the Gurka's and the Jingapaw tribesmen.
What you may be thinking of is the Bando internal system which is simply translated as the "Monk" system which is alot like a yoga in apperance but it is also full of martial information such as a deep knowledge of stick grappling methods I believe.
Regards
Dunno about anything else, but his Grapplers always do VERY well at tournaments. One of his guys had a long hard match with Jeff Monson, who is a grappling BEAST. He must be teaching something right.
Black Jack you have mail
Neal this guys system is not for a pacifist unless they are a cannibal. It sounds really rough
if you read the stuff on stickgrappler's site it is over the edge.
Prankster I used to wrestle in high school and college not very good though and asked him about competition and he said he does not push competing but prepares guys and coaches them.
I took the private yesterday and can't move today my body hurts in places I didn't know existed!!!
Phil really blew away my ideas of what fighting is all about.
Jim
Black Jack
Never got an e-mail from you on the Bando info I am really curious about the different stuff and Phil doesn't say much about the other guy in the US.
Had my second lesson and got my ass beat up on bad.
Jim
Very tactfull Black Jack. I think this says alot about about Dr.Gyi
www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies33.htm
Are the Burmese arts of Bando, Lethwei, Nabam, and Banshay different aspects of the same style, or are they each a separate art in and of themselves? Also, how dangerous is the sparring in these styles? What kind of injuries are common? Thanks in advance.
ttt.
Sorry that no-one has answered, but I dont think that many people have experience with it.
try to do a search on the main board, I know a thread was made about it some time ago.
-cz
I've not studied bando myself, but I've known people who have. As I understand it (big disclaimer), various skills were taught under the blanket name "bando." Some people in the club I visited did lots of weapons forms. Others specialized in the kickboxing elements. So I believe that lethwei and the other specialized areas are taught as components of the overall bando.
But don't quote me on that.
Stuart B.
I confess that I´m probably just shifting the weight,but this forum seems like a reasonable place to go ask;
http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/for...?s=&forumid=60
So whats the deal with it? anyone hear train it? I watched some of the thaing.net fights, nasty stuff.
Really, no one has anything...jeeze, i guess its not that popular then eh.
Maybe someone can answer this, did/does muy thai used to/still have bear knuckle fights, as bando seems to, as a regular occurence?
muay thai is a ring sport. I'm sure any bare knuckle fights in some shady bar would be considered low level.
It's not a "popular" style, in some sense, because there's an edict against commercial bando schools. You don't see them. People who teach bando do so as a hobby. Not a job. Making schools more a rarity.
There is one near here, mind you. Mr. John Collins, if memory serves.
Stuart B.
thaing.net is as good as you'll get
ahh thanks
apoweyn, can you explain a little more on the edict against commercial bando schools?
muchas gracias
I know that there used to be or may still be a bando full contact tournament. Some of my older classmates went around 90 or 91 and won the tournament cup. I thought bando was burmese, more or less the same as thai boxing but with weapons training and some military training also, but I'm probably wrong.
yeah, it's burmese and some aspects of it bare similarity to muay thai. I've got an old issue of IK from around 1994 that has a write up about it.
Watch the other video of the Burmese boxer vs. Japanese boxer.
Beautiful ending! :eek:
the question people have had for years is which came first, bando or thai boxing. Since the records were lost, nobody knows for certain.
The history is very intertwined with different empires spreading over the areas now defined as 'Burma' and 'Thailand.' Kinda hard to determine the whole 'first' thing.
A buddy of mine went to a Muay boran camp in Thailand, then crossed over to Burma and fought in Burma. As he put it 'Those cats are good.'
yeah, cambodia, vietnam, thailand, laos... all very intertwined.
Don't forget to add Golden Village Boxing to that list of what came when and what came where.
http://www.ironlife.com/mag/issue11/traditional2a.shtml
that sh*t is hardcore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97L9jVcKb1k
waiting for knifefighter to com in and say it isnt crap cause they dont fight on the ground.
Anyone have info on the structure of the art? There's a guy that teaches it at Georgia State Univ. where I'm going to grad school....taught it since '73. I'm gonna try and take it, once they announce the schedule. I heard it's mostly muay thai/kickboxing oriented, and they train it like that. But I also read that once they teach beginners all the basics, punching, kicking, and drills, there's some forms associated with it.....
Anyone know anything about that? I'll ask when I get contact info for the guy, once the schedule's posted. Just wanna see if any of you know.
I put up a thread elsewhere to see if we can get Phil Dunlap's attention, when it comest to Burmese martial arts, he's the guy to talk to