Steve Perry

[whiterock....@gmail.com]

I kept forgetting to ask if you guys had read the Matador series. When
I win the lottery, I'm making a screen version of "The Man Who Never
Missed", in which I shall play Pen.

"The Mushashi Flex" had a lot of silat stuff in it

Perry really writes MA scenes well, but the novels themselves are
great!

[si...@yahoo.com]

This is definitely one of my favorite sci-fi series. Another one,
though, also with a fair bit of MA in it is the Aubry Knight series by
Steven Barnes.

I love the fact that both Barnes & Perry train in Silat - under the
same instructor, in fact.

Another *great* MA related book is "The Kundalini Equation" by Steven
Barnes.

Mike



On Dec 12, 9:28 am, "whiterock.kenshin...@gmail.com"

[Sterling Heibeck]

Actually, Mushtaq Ali, one of my teachers, is friends with both Steve
Perry and Steve Barnes. I think both of those gentlemen are incredibly
talented writers and I'd assume very accomplished martial artists as
well. Steve Barnes does a workshop with Scott Sonnon that really is
something every martial artist should look into. Scott does the RMax
stuff clubbels, et. al) and he and the RMax crew really know their
stuff when it comes to the priming the human body.

http://www.rmaxi.com

I'm also going to plug my friend Cody Fielding. He's one of the most
incredible people I've ever met and knows his stuff.

http://www.empoweredhealth.com/

[Dan Williams]

Cody Fielding's interview with us can be found at:

http://www.roxormedia.com/CodyFielding

Along with several other Codyfied links

[whiterock....@gmail.com]

Yeah, the first time I read Perry "The Man.." I was thinking
that he had to have some kinda MA background.

"The Musashi Flex" was really good from an MA angle.

[mcasto]

When I met & worked out with Steven Barnes back in '00 I wasn't
particularly impressed with him as a Silat practitioner. He seemed
pretty mediocre to me. Keeping in mind that was 7 years ago, there's a
good chance that he is a good Silat man at this point. His instructor,
Guru Stevan Plinck is a great Silat man and instructor. Barnes was an
*incredibly* cool guy, though. Very laid back and easy to talk to -
with a lot of knowledge/understanding about a lot of things. And his
wife was just as cool and fun to talk to.

I met Mushtaq in '01 (if memory serves) at a seminar in Lawton, OK and
kept in touch with him for a few years after that but haven't heard
from him recently. If you guys talk to him regularly, can you give him
my e-mail address - guru...@sikaltactical.com - it'd be cool to talk
to him again.

Mike

[mcasto]

The funny part, though, is that when he wrote the original trilogy:
"Man Who Never Missed," "Matadora," "Machiavelli Interface" he had
never studied Silat.

He had, though, studied quite a few other martial arts. He developed
the "97 Steps" as his vision of what the ultimate martial art should
be like. He said once in a discussion forum, "When I was introduced to
Silat with Guru Plinck, I was blown away. I realized that the 97 Steps
really existed and that I had finally found it!" (paraphrased, of
course, since it's been several years since I read that discussion).

Mike




On Dec 13, 10:36 am, "whiterock.kenshin...@gmail.com"

[whiterock....@gmail.com]

Well crap, that could apply to any of us, depending on who's
talking. Sometimes MA practitioners are well versed in the concepts
and applications, just physically sucky.

Paul