DE-FANGING THE SNAKE: A Guide to Modern Arnis Disarms
by Dan AndersonAdobe Acrobat (January 2002)Click here to send me any technical questions
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August 2005 Update!
Defanging The Snake has been revised now span more than 200 pages. Revisions include more
on countering disarm techniques outlining the different options your opponent gives you when he
executes a disarm. There is also a completely new appendix delineating the scientific breakdown
of disarming techniques not included in the first edition.
From the author of the bestselling book "American Freestyle Karate: A Guide to Sparring", comes the first martial arts book in electronic format. Dan Anderson, a 6th Degree Senior Master in Modern Arnis, has compiled and broken down over 80 disarms including single stick, espada y daga (sword and dagger), reversals and empty hand, into detailed instruction using over 800 Full Color photos. Also included is a history of Modern Arnis and its founder Remy Presas. This book is filled with instructions for anyone with and without experience in Filipino martial Arts and is truly regarded as "The book of basics."
"This book is a technical analysis of exactly how to disarm any opponent. One of the things I observed my instructor doing was that he could disarm by finesse rather than rely on power. 20 years studying his art and him has shown me the secrets to disarm anybody. This skill saved his life in the Philippines and these secrets are now fully disclosed in this book" - Dan Anderson
Defanging The Snake is available in Adobe Acrobat Reader format on CD-ROM or for Internet download. With easy to follow, step-by-step instructons for each disarm you can learn right from you computer or print off the pages you need for that day. This Ebook also features thumbnail page views and bookmarks so you can access any one of its 167 pages with ease.
April 2003 Update - Dan Anderson's first book on the subject of Modern Arnis is now printed in hard copy form. This is the answer for many requests for a book one could hold and make notes in while studying this aspect of the Filipino art. Along with the many cane disarms shown are a full presentation of the basics which make up Remy A. Presas' art. Now is the time to get yours!
"The last request I received from my teacher, Prof. Remy A. Presas was, "Danny, get involved." I consider this book to be my tribute to my teacher" - Dan Anderson.
A review by Loren W. Christensen -
There is a proliferation of martial arts books on the market today, some quite excellent and some, well, not so good. The elements that make a martial arts book excellent are clarity of writing, quality of the photographs, and information that fills a need.
As a veteran martial artist of 30 plus years, and a former Top Ten tournament champion, Dan Anderson knows what makes for a good book. He first showed this in American Freestyle Karate, which after 20 years is still the definitive book on sparring, and he shows it again in his newest release, Defanging the Snake: A Guide to Modern Arnis Disarms.
Until now, books on arnis disarming have been few in number and of poor quality. The very thing that readers desperately need - picture quality -- has been consistently lacking.
Now, with the aid of digital photography, the brilliance of personal computer screens, the skill of an excellent photographer and masterfully posed subjects, Defanging the Snake brings you perfect images, hundreds of them, so that you can see clearly and exactly what you need to be doing with your feet, body, arms, hands and stick as you execute the perfect disarm.
I've always had a personal philosophy that if I can get just one, usable technique from a book or a seminar, my money has been well spent. Dan Anderson gives you dozens and dozens of techniques in this information-crammed text.
As an author of two dozen books, 13 of them on the martial arts, I highly recommend Defanging the Snake: A Guide to Modern Arnis Disarms.
Loren W. Christensen
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www.lwcbooks.comA review by Jerome Barber, Ed.D. -
I have just completed reading Guro Dan Anderson’s new e-book, De-fanging The Snake: A Guide to Modern Arnis Disarms. It is a natural extension of the 1983 publication of Modern Arnis: The Filipino Art of Stick Fighting, as authored by the late Professor Remy Presas and published by Ohara Publications. Whereas the Ohara publication was devoted to serving as a limited introduction to the art of Modern Arnis, with 12 stick to stick and 7 empty hand against a sword disarms shown, Mr. Anderson’s current book greatly expands on the disarming theme found within that earlier book.
Mr. Anderson, has presented the most definitive written exploration and explanation of the art of stick disarming from within the Modern Arnis perspective that I have yet come across in my training within the art. For those of us who have had the privilege of training with the late Professor Presas, in the late 1970’s through the mid 1990’s, the bulk of the disarming material presented by Mr. Anderson is both familiar and comforting. We have already seen it and yet it allows us to see so much more, through a ’different set of eyes’. This stuff is vintage Remy Presas, it is the art that this man made famous and it is ‘the magic’, the slight of hand trickery that first amazed us and attracted us to Modern Arnis. The disarms are not the bread and butter of Modern Arnis, they are really the deliciously scented, eye appealing, taste busting sensational desserts within the art, that made us all want to know how to do it for ourselves.
While Mr. Anderson, can not capture the full aura and magic of Professor Presas at a seminar, in his hey-day, on the printed page, he has certainly shown us the essential elements that are necessary for one to master in order to understand how to do the disarms which are part of the total Modern Arnis system.
The disarms are presented in a clear, concise and detailed manner. Each disarm presented is one that I have seen Professor teaching and in that sense there were no surprises. The explanation of each disarm is depicted in both text and photographs. None of the explanations violate the principles of mechanical motion and is actually quite simple in application. In short, Mr. Anderson, has written a definitive “how to book”. He has also loaded his neat, orderly e-book with good number of logically sequenced photos, devoid of the annoying missing segments, that so often plague most magazine articles. The written text, photos and captions are geared toward providing the reader with a solid, factual explanation about how and why each disarm presented actually works. Within the text and photos, Mr. Anderson, demonstrates the principles of leverage, push-pull, snaking, striking and strength utilizations within the concept of Modern Arnis disarming. He uses single stick, double stick, stick and dagger and empty hand techniques within his text arsenal of tricks. I particularly enjoyed his examples of left handed vs. right handed stick confrontation and how one would proceed to gain a disarm in that situation. Those explanations alone confirm and as well as validate the IEAA teaching practices from my 1991 notes after a long involved training session with Professor Presas.
All in all, I am happy to report that De-fanging The Snake: A Guide to Modern Arnis Disarms, is an excellent book, because the author has taken care to notice and report the details, he has stayed focused on his task, thus meeting his stated objective of teaching the reader about Modern Arnis disarms. I believe that this book is an essential item for those people who want to know about disarming in general and Modern Arnis disarming in particular.
Jerome Barber, Ed.D.
Principal Instructor, Independent Escrima/ Arnis Associates
Letters From Book Buyers
When I read your books I can hear the Professor's Voice... Thank You
Sincerely,
ChrisA good background to Modern Arnis and lots of simple disarms. I intend to add it to my merchandise page, with your permission.
- Bill LoweryGreetings Mr. Anderson,
I recently purchased your Modern Arnis Disarms book, "Defanging the Snake".I have been impressed with your presentation of the material in a clear and consise manner. Finally, a martial arts book that delivers worthwhile material in a meaningful way. Thank you for taking the time and focusing your energy so that your teacher will live on for many generations yet to come in part due to your efforts. I am looking forward to your upcoming works.
Peace be with you,
Mark HarrellPS: I have studied and taught Villabrille Kali and the Serrada Eskrima systems for more than
twenty years and unfortunately neither system had much to offer in the way of disarms. That
journey was left up to me to take on my own... Your teachers books on Modern Arnis and now
your book have contributed to my knowledge and on going research. Thank youDear Dan,
Sorry for the delay in replying, just finished reading the book, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The material itself is excellent be the presentation is the real selling point of the book.The progression in technique is something I haven't seen in any other Arnis books.
Keep up the good work,
John Hoey
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