WHAT IS CELTIC FAENNA?

CELTIC FAENNA – SYMBOLIC OF ‘DEATH BEFORE REBIRTH’ in Gaelic means ‘THE BULLFIGHT’, and the Gaelic warrior word ‘FIONA’ (actually meaning ‘white - Aryan - warrior’) was where only the most unique martial arts warrior was chosen for the ultimate challenge concerning life and death, between man and beast. About Atlantis, Plato referred to the Aryan Celts and their singing and dancing and crucifying of the bull (perhaps unknowingly Plato was referring to Fado, Fandango and Faenna – never one without three). At this time in Atlantis and for another 4000 years, the bull suffered great humiliation. He was crucified by simply being led with a rope around his neck over to, and tied to a tree. Thus, simply having no defence to his throat being slashed, this cowardly crucifixion being an offering to a deity remained in vogue for thousands of years, eventually a sympathetic Druid said, “no more”.

During the Celtic Sun God solar cycle timeframe of approximately 6178 to 4018 BP, being the Zodiac sign of TAURUS (The Zodiac Age of the Bull lasting some 2,160 years during the aforementioned BP,(Before Present) timeframe – this being just prior to the Zodiac signs of Aries, which preceded the more recent Pisces). Our sympathetic Druid was the immortal Mystical Merlin that pointed out to several of his followers, that if it was good enough for the Sun God to revere this time in space as The Age of Taurus. And this magnificent beast of the animal kingdom was good enough to be selected for the sacrifice to the Sun God.

Then it was time for the Celts to acknowledge this spirituality of the bull, “how should this be done?” was the natural response from Merlins companions. There shall be a contest for everyone to bare witness. There shall be a battle to the death between man and beast. The bull shall have an equal chance of survival; if successful the bull shall live a full life with equal respect and dignity along with us chosen immortals. “What human would dare accept such a challenge?” was the natural response from Merlins supporters. Merlin poised, and then he answered in his usual knowing tone, the Fiona, our own superior warrior class. They are known to be afraid of nothing, unless the sky shall fall upon their heads (Merlin, all the while knowing this was due to the catastrophe at Atlantis). We shall have during our Lusugna Funeral Games, a superior contest to define our most superior Fiona (warrior) and he shall fight to the death with the bull, to be known as THE FAENNA – THE BULL FIGHT, as the highlight and climax of the CELTIC LUSAGNA FUNERAL GAMES (these funeral games were major ‘open invitation’ events staged by all of Europe’s Celtic tribes during an unspecified timeframe prior to the recorded Ancient Greek Circuit Games which were staged six times every four years in the cities of Isthmia, Pythia, Nemmia and Olympia. Fully recorded as early as 2776 BP. – to 1650 BP. (i.e. 776 BC. – to approximately 393 AD.) never being cancelled for any reason, not wars, catastrophes or natural disasters for more than this one thousand years, which was now, almost two thousand years of our modern history.

CELTIC FAENNA, the concept was born, and there shall be rules that I will rely on you, my respected advisors to compile. Then Merlin laid down the Mythology of Faenna to last for eternity. Merlin, knowing the bull to be colour blind, gave his purpose for the precise colours. The Fiona shall have a golden threaded mesh linked body suit - styled to fit from neck to elbows and from neck to his knees. The gold must be pure and shine brightly in the afternoon sun, as this way; dressed in gold the Fiona actually represents the manifestation of the Sun God. His protection shall be a shoulder height bright red cape (coloured yellow on the reversed side) that he can use to disguise his physical movements from behind and or around this cape.

As all that witness this event, these red and yellow flashing movements flowing around the ‘sun’ – they will imagine this to be the connection between the diurnal journey of the sun representing dusk and dawn, or the death (dusk) before rebirth (dawn) of the sun, and or of the bull, and or of the Fiona. And further to this, the mythology of the outcome of this ‘death match’ shall represent the ‘misfortune or the wellbeing’ of the people, guaranteeing the peoples unwavering eternal attention and devotion of this sacrificial and spiritual ‘event’. “Why is this?” asked Merlins disciples enthusiastically. Well, if the bull should be successful and kill the Fiona, although he is a mere man – on this day at this contest he was representative of the manifestation of the Sun God – to demonstrate his anger, the Sun God would have to make his dissatisfaction felt upon the people. One way was to cause a variety of one or more disasters in the form of no rain and intense heatwaves creating droughts, followed by bad crops causing shortage of food and starvation of these people. Or perhaps the exact alternative, extreme storms and floods with blinding lightening and deafening thunder, mixed with even one or more of the following - earthquakes, tornadoes, cyclones, hurricanes causing total devastation. In short, it ‘would not be good’ for the people if the Fiona should embarrass the Sun God. Then again, should this special offering of a sacrifice of the bull to the Sun God be successful, the Fiona has killed the bull in fair combat (i.e. If the people shall bare witness to this murdered ‘black bull’, killed by a ‘golden warrior’ and laying there on his side bleeding sacrificial ‘red blood’ upon the earth), then the Sun God will demonstrate his pleasure with the event by creating pleasant weather and ample crops, supplying ‘ for the people’ much more food and supplies than they will need for the distant future.

CELTIC FAENNA, this is mythology the people shall come to know and respect, and with the Fiona standing triumphantly in the centre of the arena, the people shall be so over joyed… each time the Fiona shall salute the Sun God with his right fist over his heart and his left hand open with his fingers outstretched, he will reach towards the Sun God signifying the Celtic victory salute, as a response the entire audience will passionately scream with an almost deafening roar…HURRA, HURRA, HURRA. Each time, and always three times, this is their response to the Fiona thrusting his salute to the Sun God three times.

Within three and a half thousand years from now, our Fiona will have catastrophic battles with the Romans, and the Celtic Fionas battle chant shall be their unmistakable call for victory - HURRA, HURRA, HURRA. And this shall set total fear in the hearts of these Roman adversaries. Two thousand years after this as the world enters the third millennium, ‘All European countries’ will celebrate the winning of international sporting events, funerals, weddings and many other events will have all the people of the world still continue acknowledging this victory call of the Celts as HURRA, HURRA, HURRA (in some western countries I will allow the words HOORAY, HOORAY, HOORAY) was Merlins prediction and acknowledgement of a distant future phenomenon. This celebration mythology, which originated from the battle between man and beast, will also be felt throughout the world as a celebration of life. In today’s society it is significant of the victory over ourselves.

The black bull of mythology now represents the only real enemy of the human race, that dark side deep within our own human psyche, that inward fear that can manifest and conquer us in a magnitude of life’s experiences and challenges. Modern religions for reasons of their own have us believe this fear is from an external force. This way they have a degree of control through fear with the teachings of their faith. If this fear is outside of us, then of course we will need assistance from ‘their faith’. This is not the way of Celtic Culture, we defeat our own enemy within… and we shall fear no man or beast – we shall fear nothing, except the sky may fall upon our heads.

Since the beginning of human time, and right around the world today, this HURRAH (HOORAY) is always celebrated three times, “Why?” The Gaelic dictionary tells us that HURRA actually means just that… VICTORY. Thus VICTORY, VICTORY, VICTORY is the universal subliminal message of this ‘celebration chant’ for the winning of all battles over all adversaries, especially this battle within ourselves. About now! Merlin feels it’s time to pull us back to his beginning of this lesson in mythology, back millenniums, there at the time of Taurus. Well now my fellow Druids, I have been busy establishing this wondrous event and displacing this Planetary problem of fear, but what by now have you prepared in the way of the rules that shall make this event fair for both contestants?

CELTIC FAENNA, after much study and debate, we have decided it will be illegal for the Faia to challenge for the honour to compete, due to their lowly street toughness and questionable and sometimes highly immoral nightly behaviour, makes them unacceptable. We must accept only the warriors with the highest morals, and are proven to be the most disciplined of the Fiona. With regard to respect for the bull as you requested, the Fiona must not at any time advance to attack the bull.

He must incite and draw the bull to attack him. The Fiona must prove to the people at all times, he is acting purely, out of self - defence. This is a strategy allowable for the Fiona to tire the beast, just enough to set for the kill, but to wait too long for this tiring process would insult the Sun God, and this would be intolerable, and not a good result for the people. When the Fiona feels the ‘pinnacle’ of the battle for him, the beast and the audience and most of all, the pleasure of the Sun God has finally arrived… he will request his swords and kill cape. This cape must always be of one colour, ‘blood red’ and it must only be hip height. At this time the Fionas assistant shall present him his sword with the cape precisely folded over the blade, this in turn is how the Fiona must present it to the bull.

Now, each time the bull attacks, the Fiona must have the horns of the animal all but ‘touch’ his own body, to exemplify only the bravest of fighting spirit. One overriding rule which is for the advantage of the beast… if the audience should ever acknowledge the bull at any Faenna death - match exemplifies exceptional bravery, and a cosmic fighting spirit to attest his Zodiac sign of Taurus, the chant of the audience will spare the life of the bull, and on this occasion, there shall be no kill!

Somewhere down through the centuries with this event giving the bull immortal spiritual status, the bull acquired enough prestige that various human statements have taken hold around the globe; such as a “Bulls eye” being right on target. Doing anything like a “Bull at the gate”, this is being determined while at the same time frustrated. “No Bull” and or “No Bull - Shit”, was for ‘no word of a lie’ – ‘the absolute truth’. Plus “Bully for you”, as in, this would be good luck for you. “Strong as a Bull” is self - explanatory, plus an epic “He’s as wild as an uncut bull”, still with testicles, sexually strong! “As untamed as a scrub bull” (this refers to possibly the bull’s first encounter with a human – to be this untamed is relative to the Fiai fighter mentality), then there’s an old Australian outback station hands expression “Beware of the rogue bull”, they say this bull is pure evil and should always be put down immediately. Parents of today’s world warn their children to always “Be aware of the schoolyard Bully”. These are truly our global reflections of the courage of the bull grown out of this antiquity of the SPIRITUAL AWARENESS OF THE BULL - THE AGE OF TAURUS WITHIN THE ZODIAC ASTROLOGY, this time being approximately six thousand years ago during the years 6628 – 4468 BP. (2160 years prior to both the Ages of Pisces and Aries).

• Archaeological artefacts of this ancient period in time have unearthed glorious paintings, jewellery, statues, plaques, intricate carvings of stone etc; with possibly one of the most intriguing, being many depictions of this magnificent beast as half man-half bull, as the one entity. This Aryan Culture of respect for this beast also found its mark within Egyptian philosophy during the middle of this Taurus - timeframe (Approximately 5548 BP.) Where Egypt’s creator, King PTAH founded the Divine Cults of Sacred Bulls; The Apris Bull was also the soul of fertility, symbolic of the death and rebirth of the people of Egyptian birthright.

• From this point in time, and into the future as these Aryan Celtic Druids, warriors and their communities spread across Asia and Europe, this revering of the spirituality of the Bull went to all corners of the globe with them. Most Kings of countries these Celts were instrumental in establishing throughout this history have wished and prayed to have the qualities of strength and sexuality associated with the reverence of the Bull, eg. The King of Portugal named himself, El Rei D.’ Alfonso, literally translated represents Bull, King, Land, followed by Alfonso (his name).

CELTIC FAENNA… during the ensuing years, the people more often than not, experienced the wrath of the Sun God. Many Fiona faithfully gave of their lives during this attempt to respectfully sacrifice the bull to the Deity. This gave credence to the concept of half a dozen protectors; these brave defenders of the Fiona were developed to take the seriousness out of these warriors occasionally being mauled to death. Being selected from a mixture of famously retired and young trainee Fiona, they dressed in official Fiona uniforms of assorted colours… albeit never, with the prestigious Gold. These six Comitatus (Bodyguards) were very successful in distracting the bull, and learnt quickly to humorously entertain the people, so as to distract them from thinking they actually were saving the Fionas life (not unlike the role of the ‘clowns’ that are so popular in the bull ring and the modern Rodeos of today). Apparently by now, it was enough to lose the battle; there was no need for the Fiona to die in this situation. The bull had won and was liberated and still alive, this meant the people had no need to fear the Sun Gods wrath normally attached to human warriors deaths of this time.

It is believed that from this, ‘stalking the bull’ was derived. A definite crowd pleaser, this event grew from six men lining up in very close proximity of formation with one man behind the other, giving the bull the impression only one man was stalking him. These bulls were riled up prior to entering the arena; they were angry and looking for retribution. This took a little insanity on behalf of the lead stalker to be successful, as the bull came charging at full speed directly at him… the concept was, he must let the horns pass by him while locking himself around the head of the bull with all the might of his arms and legs, thus partially smothering the horns and obstructing vision. Giving some form of protection to his assistants, the next four had to side step, throw themselves to the ground and grab onto a leg each. The last man standing had to side step everyone and as they all passed on by, his task was to grab the bull’s tail. Then it was actually his job to ‘flip’ the bull over onto its side by whip lashing the tail, this being the sole intention of the occasion. Then everyone got the hell out of there as the bull regained his footing and really wanted revenge, this invariably received a standing and roaring ovation. Mayhem exploded out of control whenever the bull was successful with either or both horns entering the legs or body of this front line stalker, throwing him high into the air, the bull then set about impaling and dismembering everyone he could catch and pierce.

This ‘stalking the bull’ event was particularly popular in northern China at THE GENTLEMENS GAMES – For the coming together of Gentlemen, as the games were aptly named. These were staged in several cities where a mix of Chinese and Gaelic was the language of all of the competitors and the fans. This was approximately 3500 BP. Mostly up north on the Mongolian borders where this Chinese Celtic mix has for centuries, and up until today, has these Chinese Celts speak with this virtually unknown mix of our languages. Plus all around this area, they are much taller than is normal within the general mainland of The Peoples Republic Of China, which is universally typical of this cultural mix with the Celts.

CELTIC FAENNA, with this advent of ‘stalking’ it was not long before those Faia warriors, having been banned from competing in Faenna due to their rough and tough image, rebelled with a concept of *their own. Having not been allowed to compete for so many years, they had become even more identifiable for their rebellious ‘briga’ (street brawling and their questionable all night escapades). Faia warriors covered their bodies in continuous flowing circular Celtic tribal markings. These thick shadings of grey to black skin art with no colour gave them half of their evil appearance. Their other half was their ‘war head’ – ‘ brig alia’ from either bald and heavily tattooed skulls, or extremely long hair and spiked Mohawks deliberately stiffened and dyed into multiple colours, giving them sometimes up to an extra 25 centimetres ferocious appearance of height. Make no mistake, these Faia were not to be judged mildly by their personal appearance, they were an extreme warrior caste and although not well educated they were mostly cunning and briga (battle) wise, and their meticulously honed hand to hand combat skills, were second to none. Plus, they were more than prepared to take any altercation ‘all the way’ to the edge - and beyond whenever necessary. They gave full credence to their daunting battle code, ‘DEATH BEFORE DISHONOUR’. When these Faia often doubled as ‘Fadista’ (i.e. professional fighters that could also sing professionally), they sang their Fado with haunting passionate conviction, and of course, with a little intimidation mixed in.

With this rebellion, *The Fiai, had developed this third event that was uniquely theirs, and interestingly for no known reason, this did establish itself as an event for Faia only. Today in the 21st Century, it still remains a popular worldwide event that mostly attracts a modern mentality of this outlandish camaraderie - Faia mentality.

* The Faia, being true to the Celtic philosophy of ‘never without three’ had them follow the Druidic concept of fighting the bull, and then stalking, now they decided to ride the bull. They devised the concept of leaping fearlessly onto the bare back of the bull and holding onto a harness type holster strap. This was in the shape of an X attached around the shoulders and chest of the bull, and the one simple rule was; the Faia who could stay on the back of the very angry bull the longest… was then and is still today, recognised as THE CHAMPION!

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FIGHTING FIT - 1990

This is a concept I devised in 1990. Like everybody, I had noticed the power of international marketing, the multi-nationals competing for the consumers elusive dollar. Having developed over the years several different types of self defence disciplines (see Martial Arts of website) which in turn we encourage all instructors to develop an awareness of debit/credit. We do this by promoting all to develop their own club logo/insignia, t-shirts, track suits etc. This is a quick lesson in small business principles, if they don''t have many students this is not particularly cost effective. In television they call it ''the rating points game'' in business it''s called ''the numbers game'', there is no difference.

Instructors are encouraged to ''discover'' how to attract new students, and our teachers are encouraged to develop more instructors for new clubs for new students.

Back to why I devised Fighting Fit Leisurewear, with clubs expanding around the world on a regular basis, this is ''our label'' as a unified group. All of our different martial arts within the BJC (all with their own merchandise, giving them their own individual identity) can stand and be identified as unified members of the Bob Jones Corporation (BJC) under the banner of ''Fighting Fit''.

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FLEETWOOD MAC - 1980s

As our Qantas flight landed in Japan, the whole band broke into spontaneous laughter. Everyone had left their seats and were tripping over one another to peer through the aircraft’s porthole windows to a banner that read:

FLEETWOOD MAC

The message ‘Welcome to Tokyo’ was printed in small letters across the top of a large horizontal canvas banner, which hung off the side of the airport lounge, in the distance, as we taxied alongside on the runway.

The Japanese promoters had no problem linguistically with the ‘L’ in ‘welcome’, but the spelling of the band’s name had been a serious attempt at Western humour. It’d worked, not only on the band, but on everyone on the flight. Everyone was laughing as cameras flashed from one end of the plane to the other. However, many tourists entering Japan may have been laughing because they’d thought Freetwood was a spelling mistake.

HANDS OFF

Every morning I’d go swimming, convalescing the knee. While thinking about the advertorials on late-night television, where busy people got fit running on a machine, or pedalled like mad on a stationery bike, I had this image of swimming, non-stop, the second leg of a triathlon. A simple harness, securing the elastic band to either the waist or shoulders could be used to cater for either aerobic or anaerobic training. This gave birth to the swim-a-sizer concept.

Christine was very impressed and suggested we make tracks straight to her lawyer, Mickey Shapiro.

‘He’ll know what to do.’

Shapiro suggested he’d start the basic legals and we should get some quotes for the production of the shoulder harness, including the basic surfies’ elastic cord, straps, Velcro, buckles and packaging. During this period Dennis and I’d visited the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). Two Aussies, (one with a limp!) wanted to research violence against women.

Sure, you could see them thinking, let’s keep an eye on these two characters. And they certainly did!You could feel the cameras as Big Brother followed us every inch of the way. True to our word, we found more than we needed, and the cameras recorded every God damn thing.

One day we were over at Stevie’s, and she’d asked how it was coming along. She was keen to understand the concept of how I intended to make it a train-at-home-alone manual.

‘What can I do to help?’

‘How about a photo shoot of you and me for the cover?’
Swear to God, I honestly meant this to be a throw-away line.

‘It all sounds fabulous! I’d love to!’

‘Great Stevie, I’ll ring your publicist to do a photo shoot here by the pool.’

Stevie’s publicist was astounded.

‘Tell me, Bob, first, what’s the concept? And, second, how the fuck did you pull this off? Stevie’s flatly refused to have any photos ever. I’ve been in negotiation for months with one of the world’s top monthly magazines … last offer in was $250 000 and she flatly refused. How the fuck did you pull this off?’

‘Macho charisma,’ Dennis joked. ‘He makes me walk on fire, jump off cliffs and swim across the deepest rivers. To him, what’s a coupla fucking photos: he’s the Chief!’

Stevie’s publicist had one of those special LA laughs: the one they use when they don’t think the situation at hand is all that funny.

On this day of the shoot I was standing in my martial arts training uniform, wearing my Black Belt. Then Stevie appeared, her hair done to resemble the mane of a lion. She was psyched up for some serious photographing. Stevie wore her familiar thick-soled, thick-heeled, knee-high brown suede kid leather boots. High roll-over socks appeared over the top of these elegant Swedish boots and hung tentatively around her knees.

The seductiveness of her partially exposed cleavage was the next thing any red-blooded male would have his attention drawn to … Stevie also had on the most unusual dress, with a snow white multi-layered, multi-lengthed hem-line. The white chiffon had multi-colored flowers. With the sun behind us during the shoot, Stevie would kick, sometimes over my head, so her dress would spread like a giant Japanese fan or butterfly wing.

In these kicking-style photographs the sun also made her dress partially see-through: just enough to be artistically interesting.

''My book Hands Off! is centered around nine mnemonic movements, I need a shot of each one’, I’d told the publicist.

‘That sounds easy. We’ll do six to ten of each pose, that’ll give you a good selection.’ She then checked the light and selected several different lenses for the camera set-up.

This lady was a professional: in two hours I had a hundred of the most magnificent photos ever offered to the martial arts, and just one would make the cover. I remembered what her publicist said. That a magazine had recently offered Stevie a quarter of a million dollars, and that she’d knocked it back.

‘Thanks a million, Stevie!’ - What else could I say?

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WELCOME -

to the personal World Wide Website of yours truly.

As you explore your way around this website you will notice that the information comes to you continually interweaving in the narrative of first and second person (and frequently in the third person, this is to signify where I feel my story is bigger than just me, and is my attempt to include my many Associates – and my thousands of Black Belts – these are my Family by choice, rather than by chance. This is, as much as being a part of me… also to a large extent - their story).

The artwork here signifies the duality of splitting a personality (As I have already stated in the opening paragraph, there actually is a trilogy to the Bob Jones phenomenon, but there’s plenty of time… more on that at a later date – see TWENTY FIRST MILLENNIUM, Second and Third Decades later in this article titled ‘The Greatest Story Never Told’).

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Basically the opening vision here of Bob Jones shows the Journey of two different warriors (this is the metaphorical significance representative of matter and spirit – within our life journey of martial transcendence, our warrior consciousness is ‘our ability to penetrate and unite all things of matter and spirit’, aggrandizing the constant inner turmoil between you and your other/inner self’), an interpretation of understanding of ‘The Self-Observer’.

Throughout a lifetime you will only ever have one true enemy; your inner demon is the only true fear to cause you any real concern. Do not over exert yourself with perceived external enemies, fears and saviours; it is you only that must come to terms with yourself, ‘dissolve your demon’. This can be achieved and controlled through personal self esteem and a positive outlook on life.

Self empowerment can be constantly elevated via either regular meditation and/or martial arts training. This ability for you to step outside yourself (matter - physical), and to experience this other ‘you’ (spirit - soul) as this other entity who has a very personal interpretation of impregnable *self-esteem, plus undying faith and unshakable self-belief, every set back ever, has the sole purpose of being a new learning experience. Then, beyond your meditation and/or your martial arts training session, you simply relax and comfortably step back into you (your own physicality). This provides you with an improved understanding, more awareness and control over your day-to-day insecurities!

*SELF-ESTEEM… ‘Impregnable self-esteem’ is used in BJMA to give the expression its true ‘Value’. To us Martial Artists self-esteem is a human emotion whose ‘true’ power ranks right up there with the impetus of love and hate.

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