"Hey Sticks!" - Dan Inosanto X Steven Seagal animated GIF Set

Today marks the 78th Birthday of the legendary Dan Inosanto!!


Here are the links to the other Birthday entries:

• Happy 78th Birthday Manong Dan Inosanto!! (Baston y Daga animated GIF set)
• Manong Dan Inosanto - Malong/Stickgrappling GIFs

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I made an animated GIF set (12 GIFs!) of his fight in Out for Justice which starred Steven Seagal. Enjoy!

Happy 78th Birthday Manong Dan Inosanto!! May you have many, many more birthdays!

NOTE: Please forgive me if this page loads slowly for you due to the amount of GIFs. I took a chance to include so many on one page where normally I would split them over 2 or 3 posts. I felt that most were short in length.

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"Hey Sticks!"

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Let's Get It On! - The Fight

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Here's the complete scene in one GIF

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Bonus GIF's ("recut" to highlight different aspects of the scene)

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Please check out these related Manong Dan Inosanto entries you may have missed:

• Surviving Edged Weapons (1988) (Full video)
• Poem by Dan Inosanto
• BIRTHDAY: Happy Birthday Dan Inosanto! (2009)
• BIRTHDAY: Happy 77th Birthday Guro Dan Inosanto! (2013)
• Happy 78th Birthday Manong Dan Inosanto!! (Baston y Daga animated GIF set)
• Dan Inosanto: Martial arts legend comes back home to Stockton, CA
• GM Leo Giron honored with a street named after him: Leo Giron Drive!
• Dan Inosanto - Training the Martial Arts (Full video)
• The Balisong Knife in Movies: Sharky's Machine (1981)
• Filipino Martial Arts: From Kali and Escrima to Boxing aka "Smithsonian Demo" (Full video)
• Some animated GIF's of Dan Inosanto's demo at the Smithsonian Institute
• Dan Inosanto - Smithsonian Demo GIFs - Set 2 (disarms)
• Dan Inosanto - Smithsonian Demo GIFs - Set 3 (disarms)
• Bruce Lee - A Warrior's Journey (Full movie)

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For more information on Manong Inosanto, please check:

• Manong Inosanto's Official Site
• Manong Inosanto - IMDB
• Manong Inosanto - Wiki

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Other entries on Steven Seagal I posted:

• Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."
• Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 2
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law (Final GIF Set)
• Steven Seagal - Hard to Kill GIF Set 1
• Fire Down Below (1997) (Full movie)
• Out for a Kill (2003) (Full movie)
• Out of Reach (2004) (Full movie)
• Steven Seagal - Into The Sun (2005) (Full movie)
• NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal

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Steven Seagal - Into The Sun (2005) (Full movie)

Here's another Steven Seagal full movie for you.


Enjoy!

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Seagal stars in this action packed feature about an American ex agent who's transferred to Japan to investigate a murder by a group of Mobsters called Yakuza.

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For more info:

• IMDB
• Wiki

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Other entries on Steven Seagal I posted:

• Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."
• NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
• Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 2
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law (Final GIF Set)
• Fire Down Below (1997) (Full movie)
• Out for a Kill (2003) (Full movie)
• Out of Reach (2004) (Full movie)
• Steven Seagal - Hard to Kill GIF Set 1
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Steven Seagal - Hard to Kill GIF Set 1

Following up on my previous Steven Seagal GIF Sets...

• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 2
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law (Final GIF Set)

... today's post is my first set of animated GIFs from Seagal's 2nd movie, Hard to Kill.


Enjoy!

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Irimi-nage to the rescue!

OUCHY!

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Here are some other Steven Seagal posts in case you missed them:

• Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."
• NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
• Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 2
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law (Final GIF Set)
• Fire Down Below (1997) (Full movie)
• Out for a Kill (2003) (Full movie)
• Out of Reach (2004) (Full movie)

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Steven Seagal - Out of Reach (2004) (Full movie)

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Continuing with posting of Steven Seagal movies, please check this one out.


Enjoy!

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Seagal plays William Lancing, a former covert agent turned survivalist, tracking a human trafficking ring and trying to rescue his pen pal, a thirteen-year-old orphan from Poland whom he has taught to use secret codes.

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For more information:

• IMDB
• Wiki

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Other Seagal entries:

• Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."
• NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
• Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1
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Steven Seagal - Out For A Kill (2003) (Full movie)

Please check out this Steven Seagal movie.


Enjoy!

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An unsuspecting university professor is an unwitting accomplice in a foiled Chinese cocaine deal. Wrongly imprisoned, he escapes to take his revenge and prove his innocence.

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For further info:

• IMDB
• Wiki

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Other Steven Seagal entries:

• Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."
• NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
• Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1
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Steven Seagal - Fire Down Below (1997) (Full movie)

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Been in a Steven Seagal mood. Made some animated GIFs of him in action. Please check out this Steven Seagal movie.


Enjoy!

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Steven Seagal stars as an environmental protection agent Jack Taggart. He is fighting big business types led by Orin Hanner who is dumping toxic waste somewhere in the Kentucky hills region.

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For further info:

• IMDB
• Wiki

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My other Steven Seagal entries:

• Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."
• NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
• Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 2
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law (Final GIF Set)

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Steven Seagal - Above the Law (Final GIF Set)

Here's the final set of my Above the Law GIFs featuring Steven Seagal doing Aikido. Links below to the other GIF Sets.


Enjoy!

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B!tchslaps!

One more for good measure!!

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Please check out these other Steven Seagal posts:

• Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."
• NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
• Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 2

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Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 2

Here's the second set of my Above the Law GIFs featuring Steven Seagal doing Aikido. Links below to the other GIF Sets.


Enjoy!

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Irimi-nage!

Yet another Irimi-nage!

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Do you know the names of the Aikido techniques shown above? More animated GIF's of Seagal in Above the Law coming.



Other Seagal posts:

• Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."
• NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
• Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1
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Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1

I made some animated GIF's from Steven Seagal's Above the Law movie. Early Seagal movies were awesome - no action star was doing Aikido, let alone wristlocks and takedowns... it was all Kickboxing at the time. Not sure at what point he became a 'laughing stock'.


Coincidentally it's his 61st birthday today. I am not knowledgeable on the Aikido technique names. Trying to identify them. Do you know them?


Enjoy!

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Irimi-nage FTW!

Irimi-nage - another angle.

Katate Tori (My thanks to my friend Sam M.D. T.)

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More animated GIF's of Seagal in Above the Law coming.



Other Seagal posts:

• Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."
• NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
• Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 2

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Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought

It's Steven Seagal's 61st birthday today. I'm not sure what happened to his life and movies career. When he first came on the action scene, his fight scenes were refreshing and novel for the standard kickboxing fare of the time.


For someone who was highly skilled in Morihei Ueshiba's Aikido, he didn't seem to embrace O-Sensei's philosophies though.


Enjoy this documentary about early Seagal.

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The Path Beyond Thought 

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Other Seagal posts:

• Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."
• NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
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NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal

Steven Seagal & Russian President Vladimir Putin / Photo credit: www.3news.co.nz

What is it about Steven Seagal that has 'celebrities' flocking to him? A while back MMA fighters Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida and now Russian President Vladimir Putin? This story came across my Bloomberg news feeds:

(BSW) Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
 
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Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
2013-06-14 00:21:37.813 GMT
 
 
The action star has a new career as the Russian leader's friend
 
By Claire Suddath

     June 14 (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) -- When six members of
Congress went on a fact-finding trip to Russia in May to learn
more about the brothers accused of the Boston Marathon bombings,
they sought the help of a close friend of Russian President
Vladimir Putin: Steven Seagal. The aging star of bone-snapping
action films such as Hard to Kill and Under Siege took the
lawmakers around and arranged meetings with Russian security
officials. “Seagal opened some doors,” Representative Dana
Rohrabacher, the California Republican who led the delegation,
said on CNN. “We got to meet top people.”

     Wait—Steven Seagal? As it turns out, Seagal and Putin pal
around quite a bit. The actor has dined with the Russian leader,
gone with him to sporting events, and attended state functions.
The two “have long been friends and regularly meet each other,”
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Russian Itar-Tass News
Agency in March. More recently, Seagal has cultivated a side gig
as an informal go-between for Moscow and Washington. The
state-owned RIA Novosti news service reported Deputy Prime
Minister Dmitry Rogozin asked Seagal to press lawmakers on
Capitol Hill to remove barriers to the sale of Russian-made guns
in the U.S. “Bizarre is the word that comes to mind,” Clifford
Gaddy, an economist at the Brookings Institution who focuses on
Russia, said in an e-mail.

     In Russia, C-list action stars are adored without irony, and
Putin and Seagal seem to have bonded over, among other tough-guy
traits, a shared affinity for martial arts. Putin is skilled in
judo—a fact he shows off in a 2008 DVD, Let’s Learn Judo With
Vladimir Putin —and has invited Seagal, a former aikido
instructor, to attend martial arts matches and the opening of a
school that teaches Sambo, a form of fighting developed by the
Red Army in the 1920s. The action star smiled and waved and made
Putin look cool by association.

     For Putin, using celebrities “has been a primary part of his
politics,” says Nina Khrushcheva, who teaches international
affairs at the New School in New York. “It’s partly a Soviet-era
practice,” she adds, noting that Joseph Stalin befriended famous
Western intellectuals. H.G. Wells spent time with Stalin,
reporting later that he found the brutal dictator “candid, fair,
and honest.” George Bernard Shaw and Lady Astor visited Moscow in
1931, enjoying a lavish dinner with the leader amid a
state-imposed famine. Shaw said he only saw “hopeful and
enthusiastic” citizens. Lady Astor was not as compliant. “How
long will you go on killing people?” she asked Stalin, according
to David Remnick’s book Lenin’s Tomb . “As long as necessary,”
Stalin replied.

     Cozying up to authoritarian leaders can be a tricky business
for celebrities, some of whom don’t seem to bother to do a quick
Google search before saying yes to an invitation. In 2011, Hilary
Swank apologized on The Tonight Show for attending the birthday
party of Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, a Putin ally who’s
been accused by human-rights groups of kidnapping, torture, and
murder in his efforts to suppress Chechen separatists and Islamic
insurgents. Kadyrov denies the claims. Swank promised to give
away the six-figure fee she reportedly was paid to attend the
event. On the other hand, French actor Gérard Depardieu, another
friend of Putin’s, did not apologize for shouting “Glory to
Kadyrov!” at the next year’s birthday bash. In January, Depardieu
officially moved to Russia to avoid paying French taxes; Putin
greeted him with bear hugs. The actor was given a Russian
passport, an apartment, and two kittens. He’s since fallen in
line with Putin’s politics, denouncing the Russian feminist punk
band Pussy Riot and continuing to praise Kadyrov.

     Seagal has also defended Kadyrov. In May he traveled to
Chechnya to meet with the strongman and offered to arrange an
introduction for the members of Congress. They declined. Seagal
didn’t respond to interview requests, so it’s unclear what he
sees in Kadyrov. “All these accusations are thrown around” about
the Chechen leader, Seagal told reporters at a news conference
during the congressional trip. “Is there any evidence? Has he
been indicted?”
 
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Other Seagal posts:

• Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."
• Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1

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Steven Seagal - "Kenjutsu is very, very difficult to learn. It's the hardest thing that I've ever tried to learn."

Excerpted from Black Belt 1990-04, Vol. 28, #4, Interview by Jim Coleman


BB: How long had you been training in aikido in Japan before you were introduced to kenjutsu?
SEAGAL: Maybe ten years.

BB: Do you consider ten years an appropriate length of time in aikido before someone should be introduced to kenjutsu?
SEAGAL: I don't really know. I just know that kenjutsu is very, very, very difficult to learn. When I was in Tokyo, there was a particular master who was a Zen priest that I wanted to learn from, but he wasn't accepting any students. I went to this guy for a couple of years, frequently asking him to teach me, and he always said "No." But at one point, he started to teach me. And that was my first experience with kenjutsu. Most of the kenjutsu masters I know are very quiet. They're very secretive in nature. They don't accept students from the outside. They don't talk to anybody.



 

BB: Why did this Zen priest finally relent and teach you kenjutsu? Was it your persistence?
SEAGAL: Yeah, I think it was probably my showing up on his doorstep five days a week for a long, long time. This particular teacher that I started out with was very careful with me. I've studied with a lot of different teachers where when you stand in front of them with a sword, you're afraid you're going to die; it's a matter of life and death. But this guy was very careful with me. He started me out similar to the way I started out in karate: working on a post doing kata (forms) for years before I ever got to spar. And this guy was similar. He started me out just learning the basic cuts and angles for a long time - real simple stuff. If you really know aikido well, in the advanced stages, you understand all the basics of kenjutsu. There's a lot of cutting with the hands in advanced aikido, and we started out with a basic cut to the front of the face or the top of the head. Now as basic as that sounds, it's a very frightening cut. It takes years to learn, and when you really know it, you can't see it coming. There's never a block and counter in kenjutsu - ever. It's always one move; it's always one cut. In fact, one of the mottos I learned was "one cut, one life." It's not a counterstrike. It's a strike, but a counter within the strike.

BB: Were you able to ask the instructor questions when you were confused with something?
SEAGAL: You don't ask. You don't say "But, why?" In six months or a year, you can ask that question and you might be able to understand it. But at first, you can't even understand it, so you just do what they tell you for the first couple of years.

BB: Is there any kind of advice you would offer a beginning aikido or kenjutsu practitioner?
SEAGAL: Yeah. There's an old saying that basically says rather than spending ten years of arduous training with one teacher, spend ten years to find the right teacher. When you learn something wrong for a long time, it's real hard to unlearn it. You have to find a teacher who knows his basics. And if you look at his students, you'll be able to see that. If you look at (shotokan karate) master (Tsutomu) Ohshima, you might not even know that he knows his basics, because they're gone; you can't see them anymore because he's too advanced. But if you look at his students, you'll see them.

BB: Does this concept apply to aikido as well?
SEAGAL: Yeah, people who are really good in aiki, you won't see anything that they're doing. We wear the hakama (divided skirt) to hide the feet too, so you can't see the feet.


You can find the full interview if you are interested at Google Books.

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Other Seagal posts:

• NEWS: Vladimir Putin's Man Crush on Steven Seagal
• Steven Seagal - The Path Beyond Thought
• Steven Seagal - Above the Law GIF Set 1

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