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Filipino martial artists use it much the same way they would wield a stick: striking is given precedence. Korean systems combine offensive and defensive moves, so both locks and strikes are taught. Other proprietary systems of Nunchaku are also used in Sembkalah (Iranian Monolingual Combat Style), which makes lethal blows in defense and assault.
A soldier applying camouflage face paint; both helmet and jacket are disruptively patterned. Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else. Examples include the leopard 's spotted coat, the battledress ...
History 1975–1979: Roots and early years Lead vocalist and co-founder Andy McCluskey in 2011 Founders Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys met at primary school in Meols in the early 1960s, and in the mid-1970s, as teenagers, they were involved in different local groups but shared a distaste for guitar-driven rock with a macho attitude popular among their friends at the time. By 1975, McCluskey ...
The up stroke begins with the tip of the stick hovering low above the head of the drum. The drummer strikes the surface and brings the stick up, or to full stroke position. In the tap, the stick begins low and remains low after striking. The buzz stroke starts at a specified position; then, the stick travels towards the drum. As the stick hits ...
Orchestration. A hand-written musical score for Act 2 of the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber, written in the 1820s. The score contains all the parts for the singers and the accompaniment parts and melodies for the orchestra. Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ...
The three-section staff, three-part staff, triple staff, originally sanjiegun ( Chinese: 三節棍; pinyin: sānjiégùn; Jyutping: saam1 zit3 gwan3) or sansetsukon ( Japanese: さんせつこん ), three-section whip, originally sanjiebian ( Chinese: 三節鞭; pinyin: sānjiébiān; Jyutping: saam1 zit3 bin1 ), is a Chinese flail weapon that ...
Fire performance is a group of performance arts or skills that involve the manipulation of fire. Fire performance typically involves equipment or other objects made with one or more wicks which are designed to sustain a large enough flame to create a visual effect.
Up and down the City Road, In and out the Eagle, That's the way the money goes, Pop! Goes the weasel. Every night when I go out, The monkey's on the table, Take a stick and knock it off, Pop! Goes the weasel. A penny for a spool of thread A penny for a needle, That's the way the money goes, Pop! Goes the weasel. All around the cobbler's bench