From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V7 #14 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Monday, February 5 2007 Volume 07 : Number 014 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] aaaart show [LAS ] [chakram-refugees] renee o'connor's sai work [LAS ] Re: [chakram-refugees] renee o'connor's sai work [KLOSSNER9@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:59:21 -0600 From: LAS Subject: [chakram-refugees] aaaart show i am doing my own "xena" thing this weekend. i've been an artist for several years, and am coming into my own. with a total of 20 women, i'm in an art show called Jewish Women and Prayer. second time the show is happening, different location. and i have a different piece in than the first time. however, this is the most radical that has been put out. i took the genesis creation of the sun, moon and stars, and changed "God" to "She." throughout the piece. a bit radical for these parts, but i'm glad. clearly glad it's going out. large 30 inch high by 22 inches across watercolor, with gold metallic letters for the text, and bright colors of rainbows, suns, moons, stars, and flowers. pretty bright piece. i'm hopeful that people will get it, and support it. lilli ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:26:27 -0600 From: LAS Subject: [chakram-refugees] renee o'connor's sai work hi there. was looking over the imdb.com database - an extensive tv and movie database on the internet. and learned some things about the show i hadn't known before. but knowing this list, it's already been said many times in the past. i didn't know that renee o'connor's staff and sai work was based on what is called okinawa kobudo. apparently, that is the style of okinawan martial arts that focuses specially on special weapons including the bo (staff) and sai. i found this site http://kobudo.okinawa.free.fr/index.html if you click on links for Hojundos, and then on either "bo" or "sai," it shows the salutation moves for both the bo and the sai. with the sai salutation, i noticed it was what o'connor did on the ship in "who is gurkhan" when she was doing several moves with the sai's. interesting! anyone know who was training her in these weapons? lilli ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 10:14:46 EST From: KLOSSNER9@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] renee o'connor's sai work Xena had an excellent stunt coordinator, but I don't think I ever heard that they had a martial arts trainer. I believe the stunt coordinators worked out the fight scenes. I read somewhere, probably in the official fan magazine, that O'Connor was simply given a box containing the sais and a video of sai instruction. She took the box home, put the video in and started working out. She recalled that her boyfriend, who was living with her, abruptly left the room. Okinawa developed non-sword weapons and fighting techniques because the island's Japanese samurai occupiers banned swords for the local population. Boeotian In a message dated 2/4/2007 12:27:19 A.M. Central Standard Time, spri0037@tc.umn.edu writes: interesting! anyone know who was training her in these weapons? ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V7 #14 *************************************