cool interview with a chess grandmaster rapping about chess, hip hop, internal martial arts, street style vs sport etc
http://onthemat.com/articles/Control...6_06_2006.html
gets good from page 2 on...
cool interview with a chess grandmaster rapping about chess, hip hop, internal martial arts, street style vs sport etc
http://onthemat.com/articles/Control...6_06_2006.html
gets good from page 2 on...
Chess grandmaster? ...yeah, right....whatever....so, what lineage is he from?Originally Posted by stricker
Sapere aude, Justin.
The map is not the Terrain.
"Wheather you believe you can, or you believe you can't...You're right." - Henry Ford
I met Adisa Banjoko. He's very sincere and authentic. He doesn't claim to be a great martial arts master, but he enjoys the practice. I wrote an article on his Hip Hop Chess Federation Invitational in our 2008 January/February issue, which is on the newsstands now, and we just posted an unabridged version of the article on our e-zine.
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I've just agreed to sit in on a discussion panel with RZA and Josh Waitzken on Martial Arts as a Path to Non-Violence. The panel is to be moderated by JoshRakaa of Dilated Peoples. Mind over Matter: Chess & Grappling Exhibition will be held at the Riekes Center for Human Enhancement at 3455 Edison Way, Menlo Park, CA on April 12th, from noon to 5pm. Seewww.hiphopchessfederation.org for more details.
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very cool Gene!
Very Jealous that your getting to meet the Rza
Let us know how it goes.
Robert James
5th Gen. Bak Hsing Kwoon
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"Whip the pole like the dragon whips its tail. Punches are like a tiger sticking out its head!"
that sounds like a great opportunity Gene...I never knew RZA was a practitioner
I wrote a cover story on him in our 1999 September issue (see Hip Hop Fist: Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and his Sifu, Shaolin Monk Shi Yan Ming) and I went to Wudangshan with him (see Wu-Tang Enters Wudang). It's always a pleasure to hang with RZA. He's brilliant, absolutely brilliant (but you knew that).
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if any of you forum members show, say 'hi'
Mind Over Matter
Celebrity Chess & Grappling Exhibition
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Menlo Park, CA
Free to the public
Students, Teachers, Music Lovers, Grappling and Chess Fans - You are Invited
Be our guest as the Hip-Hop Chess Federation host the Mind Over Matter Celebrity Chess & Grappling Exhibition on Saturday, April 12, 2008 from 11:30am to 5pm hosted at the Riekes Center located in Menlo Park, California
Events of the day include: XBox Live Hip-Hop Weekend Play & Win Sweepstakes, special giveaways and a very SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM A CELEBRITY GUEST. The best part is the event is free to the public!
Spread the word and see you there!
Adisa Banjoko, CEO and Founder
Hip-Hop Chess Federation
a non-profit organization that uses chess, music, and martial arts to promote unity, strategy and non-violence
Schedule of Events
Mind Over Matter Celebrity Chess & Grappling Exhibition
HHCF brings together top entertainers and fighters to inspire today's youth
11:30am: Doors Open
12:00pm: Chessmaster LIVE Hip-Hop Weekend Play & Win Sweepstakes (for details visit http://xbox.com - click on XBox Live - Events)
Open Gaming (Closes at 4:45pm)
Chess Tutorials with DLamont Robinson
1:15pm: Riekes Center Welcomes the Hip-Hop Chess Federation
1:30pm: HHCF Panel: Martial Arts as a Path to Non-Violence
Panelist:
Adisa Banjoko, HHCF CEO and award wining author & lecturer
RZA, Wu-Tang Clan, platinum recording artist, actor (recently seen opposite Russell Crow & Denzel Washington in American Gangster)
Josh Waitzkin, International Chess Master, Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands World Champion, author of The Art of Learning
Gene Ching, Associate Publisher Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine, noted author
Rakaa, BJJ practioner, member of the world renowned rap group Dialated Peoples
3:00pm: Judo Exhibition featuring Mike Pechina, Judo Black Belt, Cahill
3:15pm: Jiu Jitsu Exhibition hosted by Denny Prokopos, 10th Planet
3:30pm: 36 Chambers of Shaolin Screening
5:00pm: PEACE OUT!
Location: Riekes Center, Menlo Park, CA
Riekes Center is located at 3455 Edison Way, Menlo Park, CA
Directions: *we recommend that you map from your departure location using one of the many online mapping systems to verify the directions that work best for you
From 580: Take 580 (toward San Francisco) follow the signs to merge onto 880 San Jose/San Mateo Bridge, Merge on to Dumbarton Bridge towards Menlo Park, Turn left on Marsh Road, right on Bay Rd., left of 14th, take first turn on Fair Oaks, left on Edison. (You will drive through a residential area for a short period of time, Riekes Center is at the end of the residential area)
From 880: 880 towards Palo Alto, Merge on to Dumbarton Bridge towards Menlo Park, Turn left on Marsh Road, right on Bay Rd., left of 14th, take first turn on Fair Oaks, left on Edison. (You will drive through a residential area for a short period of time, Riekes Center is at the end of the residential area).
From 280: 280 towards Palo Alto, merge onto 85 towards Mountain View, exit 101 North toward San Francisco, take Marsh exit towards Atherton, left on Marsh Rd., right on Bay, left on 14th, take first turn on Fair Oaks, left on Edison. (You will drive through a residential area for a short period of time, Riekes Center is at the end of the residential area).
Gene Ching
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...it's tough to be on a panel with RZA. He's the master of the mike.
Check us out.
Gene Ching
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Robert James
5th Gen. Bak Hsing Kwoon
bakhsingkwoon@gmail.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/SatoriScience
"Whip the pole like the dragon whips its tail. Punches are like a tiger sticking out its head!"
Nice to see we made press in CS...
Hip hop chess
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 - 07:42 AM
Teens and young adults from California's bay area are being shown a new way to put mind over matter.
It's a program that mixes hip hop music, martial arts and the game of chess.
"It's a perfect blend because you are unifying the convergence of the physical, the mental and the artistic. And we all have those things in us," explained Adisa Banjoko of the Hip Hop Chess Federation.
The Hip Hop Chess Federation is mixing a soundtrack of physical and mental strategy to give kids a new kind of inspiration.
Recording artists including members of the Wu-Tang Clan and Dialated Peoples are passing the mic for this message.
"These kind of strategies are embedded in us as a young person. When you grow up and go out there into the world, you're faced with a decision. The decision making is more powerful now. You're not just reacting, you're thinking, focusing and then moving," said RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.
"It's not magic. It's still going to be a situation where once you have their mind focused off the nonsense on to something positive, now you have to reinforce that positivity as well," added Dilated People's Rakaa.
How all this relates to education is the topic of a best-selling book by a world champion martial artist.
"This dialogue between these role models from different arts like this, it's exciting for kids. They see it and they want to get involved and they want to start looking for connections of their own. And then when kids start to get creative and discover thematic connections on their own, that's when things really get exciting," said author Josh Waitzkin.
Waitzkin is the now grown up subject of the 1993 film "Searching for Bobby Fischer", based on his life from six to nine years old.
"I think people have these stereotypes in their minds to think that rap is for one kind of person, chess is for another, martial arts for another. But it's not true. These people who are at tremendously high levels of all these different disciplines, they speak the same language," he said.
Adisa Banjoko agrees.
"We're not trying to change the world overnight, but we know that one chessboard and one rap song and one martial arts move at a time, people's lives will be improved and that's why we're here."
Gene Ching
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This one's from Rakaa. More cool lanyards. More pics of me taking pics.
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The next step, or should I say square?
WuChess
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This reporter was there for most all of the event. Note Josh's cool lanyard.
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Check out Assault & Battery: Rakaa Mixes Martial Arts & Masters Hip Hop by Rahman Jamaal McCreadie
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