Sensei Vigil's Musical
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It is customery in Bakido, while testing for your Black Belt, to perform what is called a musical. The musical consists of the student choosing music and demostrating through a series of moves and forms what Bakido means to them. In this clip instructor Jacob Vigil is performing his musical during his Black Belt test.
Student Belt Test
Students are required to test to
recieve the next belt. Test are 
usually scheduled once a month
and cover everything the student 
has learned. In this clip you can see
part of one of these test and 
how they are conducted.
 
South Austin Karate Bow In
The Bow In is a sacred part of 
martial arts and is done by marial
arts studio's all across the world.
During the Bow In the martial 
artist demonstrates respect to 
his/her country, his/her art, and 
finally to his/her instructors.
In this clip we see what a
typical Bow In is like at South 
Ausin Karate.
This is a team I took to Las Vegas
for the Martial Arts Hall of Fame
World Championships. Rules were
traditional Martial; Arts and at
least two one handed cart wheels.
I choreographed it and the kids
competed with it. Believe it or not
we won 32 teams of ten or more.
Hope yopu enjoy it.
Michael J Bainton, Ph.D
South Austin Karate Demo Team 2002
This is the South Austin Karate Knife team representing the International Knife Throwers Hall of Fame. We go to the Alamo the first Saturday of each month and perform the song Deguello, Bowies lament. We have knife throwing competitions and raise money for the preservation of the Alamo. I have tried to find a letter from Bowie written on March 5th ,1836 but although almost every man there wrote to their loved ones that evening Bowie's, if he wrote one, has never been found After many years of research with no results I decided to write it myself. On january 25th of 2009 I wrote this song for Jim Bowie to his wife Ursulla who had died of Cholera in 1834 . I wrote what I hope Jim would have written about the men who were to die with him the following morning. I would like to thank Cliff Awol Hill and Dandy Dan Mink for their guidence and help with the song. I hope you enjoy the kids singing this song and would like to invite all knife throwers to join us at the Alamo the first Saturday of each month. Dr. Winders the curator of the Alamo and Steve Catfish Jackson and his wife Pat were our special guests this time, and we did raise a very good amount from donationsfrom the tourists. They enjoyed watching the kids compete in knife throwing and singing their song Bowie's lament. I have many things to be thankfull for and this is my way of giving my students knowledge of the history of Texas and so i can give back to Texas what Texas has given me, a wonderful life every day I have been here.
Mike Alamo Bainton Ph.D
Executive Director
IKTHOF
Students and members of the Alamo Preservation team sing "Bowie's Lament" written by Michael Bainton Ph.d