Lamont Glass and Belton Lubas are pleased to announce the date for this year’s Tipon-Tipon: it will be held Saturday, March 16 at 10am at Warrior Strength Martial Arts, 2273 140th Ave NE, Bellevue, Washington 98005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Weapon sparring exists as a compliment to skills training: all techniques are taught, but not all techniques work in all situations, or for all students. This is why Maelstrom offers Fight Lab<\/a>: see how to apply what you’ve practiced. For those of you considering participating in a Dog Brothers Open Gathering (or for those of you who come to Fight Lab, and want to have that experience with a new group), the Tipon-Tipon is a great example of the format. From the Tipon-Tipon Facebook page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The term \u201cTipon-Tipon\u201d is from the Illongo dialect for \u201cGathering\u201d and represents the hosting schools connection to the Filipino culture of weapon based martial arts. However, this is intended as a meeting of like minded weapon based martial artists who are meeting in a venue designed to improve their skills through simulated combat … For more information, please see the Warrior Tipon-Tipon Facebook Event: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/396631614413472\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lamont Glass and Belton Lubas are pleased to announce the date for this year’s Tipon-Tipon: it will be held Saturday, March 16 at 10am at Warrior Strength Martial Arts, 2273 140th Ave NE, Bellevue, Washington 98005. Weapon sparring exists as a compliment to skills training: all techniques are taught, but not all techniques work in all situations, or for all students. This is why Maelstrom offers Fight Lab: see how to apply what you’ve practiced. For those of you considering participating in a Dog Brothers Open Gathering (or for those Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,74,42,72,5,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630\/revisions\/7634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
this is not a tournament, there are no drawings for pairs, no record of a win or loss, no progression to find a champion, no referees, no judges, no trophies, no prize money. Each fight is purely for the experience, the challenge against the skill of the opponent and the mental challenge of dealing with the fear of the fight.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n