A special gift from Christopher Geary.

I’m not usually one to trumpet anything of Christopher Geary’s, but he has done a service by hosting a .pdf of James Mitose’s trial transcript. If you don’t currently have a copy and are a historian, it’s a must read. So, without further ado, make it a point to download a copy. Right click (on windows) or control click (on a mac unless you have a multi-button mouse). Caution – it’s a 200MB download. Make sure you have time. I found it to be absolutely captivating reading. I paid big bucks for my copy back in the olden days. Hooray for technology.

Edit – the transcript link is dead, but I put up a new one with this post.

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Bo Form done by Dave Leggeri from Villari’s

It appears that the Shaolin Temple is the hot spot for adding things to SKK schools. Dave Leggeri has posted a video of himself doing a bo staff learned there. I’m not sure we need another Chinese staff form.
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Replacing the Snake Form with the Snake Form?

There have been a lot of folks coming from a kung fu forum where they are discussing the USSD version of the snake form. They linked to the page here with the old Villari snake form and passing very harsh (and perhaps deserved) judgement on it. However, with their more recent ‘Shaolin Temple’ push, USSD seems to have replaced it with a more authentic form. It looks like this:
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Two more versions after the jump. I’m going to add one to the ‘Snake Page’ for compare and contrast purposes. Feel free to suggest which one.
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