LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL - 2001

In 2001 Bob Jones wrote a biography of these behind the scenes touring adventures titled ‘LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL’ which still sells today to most new members of his Martial Arts Empire.

Bob Jones Corporation

From the very beginning, even before my beginning in martial arts, my organisation has always been known as the Bob Jones Corporation and/or BJC.

From the early sixties when I first began dance hall promotions and then as I moved into the security manpower business - all the guys that formed an alliance with me, were proud to be known as the BJC.

Then in 1970 (after having begun my training in 1965), I became a professional martial arts instructor.

In what seemed no time at all, I had hundreds of black belts and many of them worked nights with my bouncers (crowd controllers). As this was all connected to me, they all felt apart of this new growth pattern of the
Bob Jones Corporation (BJC).

Then came the festivals and major events, we just kept producing more and more black belts and the BJC continued its growth rate, and the pride grew equally as powerful.

Then came the touring around the world with anyone who was anyone and the rest became history.

In the new millennium, I became aware these black belts were now ten, twenty and some thirty years older than when this all began. From the scope of this, I saw how diversified these thousands of black belts had become throughout our community and indeed throughout the entire world resulting in the coming together (the gathering) of these thousands of black belts as:

Bob Jones International Associates - Resource Management Group

INSTRUCTOR TO STARS COMES TO BLACKTOWN

A KARATE ''instructor whose students will provide security for the Fleetwood Mac Australasian concert tour is to open a school in Blacktown.

Bob Jones karate school will run each Monday and Thursday night at Blacktown High School. Bob Jones has been involved with karate for more than 15 years and his built hist talents into a highly profitable business.

 

INSTRUCTOR TO STARS COMES TO BLACKTOWN

A KARATE ''instructor whose students will provide security for the Fleetwood Mac Australasian concert tour is to open a school in Blacktown.

Bob Jones karate school will run each Monday and Thursday night at Blacktown High School. Bob Jones has been involved with karate for more than 15 years and his built hist talents into a highly profitable business.

The Blacktown school will be run by Mr.Tom Slaven,an exponent of martial acts for more than 20 years. Mr Jones said his.schools placed strong emphasis on traaining women in seld-defence.

His technique is made up of a variety of Oriental styles which have been developed into a hghly successful format in America. Mr Jones has 120 karate schools throughout the country. Mr Jones said apart from the obvious benefits to women karate was an ideal discipline for Childrento learn. He says that children who have not performed formed well at school sports can usually improve their performance by studying karate.

Mr Jones says it can also have a good influence on young trouble makers. These school bully and fighter types can learn to channel their energies into the martial arts and in some cases can take advantage of their ability by becoming tournament fighters.

30 years of Zen Do Kai...Part 1

Interview in Blitz Magazine - Vol. 15 No.1
by Mark Castignini

Bob Jones is one of the pioneers of martial arts in Australia and has come along way in 30 years.

Mark Castagnini caught up with the founder of the Bob Jones Corporation (BJC) to congratulate him on his 30th anniversary and throw a few curly questions his way.

30 years of Zen Do Kai...Part 1

Interview in Blitz Magazine - Vol. 15 No.1
by Mark Castignini

Bob Jones is one of the pioneers of martial arts in Australia and has come along way in 30 years.

Mark Castagnini caught up with the founder of the Bob Jones Corporation (BJC) to congratulate him on his 30th anniversary and throw a few curly questions his way.

BJ: Anyone who really knows me, knows I am not the kind of person to dwell on the past. I try not to oversleep (which means never); five to six hours sleep is enough for me. The rest of the time is spent helping all my instructors to put the big picture together, which is like creating this big jigsaw puzzle with many of the pieces having to be handmade. My 30 years (really 35 years counting my coloured belts since 1965) martial arts career has afforded me a million wonderful memories (which by the way I am writing a series of books about).

My most recent memory, which gives me most pride, was the Victorian State Gradings for the end of year 2000 and our 30th year annual ball. Wow! What a day and what a night. Our largest ever blackbelt gradings, with so many 5th, 4th, 3rd degrees and so many browns to black and second degrees (The Zen Do Kai Marathon). I wouldn''t mind betting it could have been a world first. I personally don''t know any style to grade that many in one day.
(Check out www.zendokai.com.au)

That night, as always, the evening was sold out. BJC representatives had come from all over New Zealand and every state of Australia for a week of positivity and planning for 2001. That night we had banded together, with only one thing on our minds, and that was to let the good times roll. And we did.

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MC: Tell us about the formative years. Memories of training in those early days?

BJ: On March 3, 1965, I entered the East St.Kilda training hall at the rear of the post office. Jack Rozinsky put me through two hours of hell. This was the day 1 met the crossroads of my life. I had been almost totally undisciplined up to this point in time. Jack introduced me to the way (the path) of the martial arts.

Through his Tae Kwon Do training I saw a self discipline that would create such a positivity that I would imagine anything to be possible. He sparked within me the concept that if you can conceive and believe... you will achieve. Jack Rozinsky''s classes were raw, tough, he expected and demanded only the best of every student in every class. Many years after I remember trying to make my blackbelt classes as physically demanding as Jack''s pioneering training sessions.

From the Korean style of Tae Kwon Do, I then continued this martial arts journey with Tino Ceberano and his Japanese Goju Kai style. Tino''s popularity had him expanding into new clubs at an incredible rate. Within one month I was a white belt helping teach beginners and feeding them onto Tino in the advanced white belt classes. Tino taught all of us advanced white belts on Saturdays at the Goju Kai Canterbury headquarters, then every weeknight, we were out there in the suburbs teaching the Goju gospel.

Some time later my teaching skills earned me my first green tags ...then another two green tags ...and then later still, yet another two green tags on my white belt. Then those beginners would look at me in awe, with my six green tips and I''d sense them thinking `Wow, if only I can make it that far, one day''.

My next experience on this martial arts journey came years later as a brown belt, when Sal Ebanez arrived on the scene. He came in the guise of a short, bald, fat man and taught me one of my major lessons about being a man among men. You cannot judge a book merely by its cover. To really learn from a book you must go into its pages one chapter at a time. He taught me that the softest gentlest man, could also be one of the most powerful. Training with Sal Ebanez, I saw that there really was a light at the end of the tunnel. The knowledge of the martial arts really was through the other side?just waiting to be found and explored.

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MC: To what do you attribute your success and the growth of the BJC?

BJ: A large part of my success is due to my grounding, the grass roots of my three initial instructors giving me a strong base. Due to each of them I was able to build myself a foundation that today has produced a martial arts empire of more than a thousand clubs. My personal logo tells the story by having the three primary colours of red, yellow and blue within a triangle surrounding a white circle. At first viewing you would be correct if you interpreted the colours, being mixed in perfect proportions as producing the white circle of karma. Any of the three primaries mixed even slightly out of balance ventures off into many varied colours, symbolically giving us strength in only certain areas. Endeavouring to balance the three primaries along our journey is the way to experience the vision of the white tunnel to seek out the truth while exploring the martial arts way.

"Due to each of them I was able to build myself a foundation that today
has produced a martial arts empire of more than 1000 clubs"

Jack Rozinsky (Red Physical) taught me to channel aggression that for every day of hard work comes a day of good pay was not necessarily about money.

Tino Ceberano (Yellow Psychological) taught me above all to have respect for rank within the martial arts. I might not like the person wearing the belt, but it is the `belt they wear'' that guides us along the way. Through Tino I also saw a way to mass produce the clubs something as good as our martial arts philosophy should be for everyone, not just a few.

Sal Ebanez (Blue Spiritual) gave me three principles to help me balance my colours: Never set myself up to be a judge of others; The way of a group leader is to lead by group example ...
And lastly, if you want respect, you have to first give respect.

I was given this information during the five years prior to 1970, this gave me the people skills and my work in security gave me the people. Martial arts, Bob Jones, the security industry and people just started coming together ...on mass. Nationwide we took over security of pubs and clubs. We did everything, major outdoor rock festivals and we toured the world with every major rock act as the bodyguards. Nationwide I just kept opening more and more Bob Jones clubs until now there are well over one thousand in Australia and New Zealand.

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MC: Bob, can you explain the evolution the BJC has undertaken: The changes fighting systems and techniques and how they have progressed?

South Australian Head Instructor Charlie Kambouris with Bob Jones

BJ: The last question explained the grow of the BJC the biggest advantage of building such a large empire where we have mass communication with all kinds of people from all walks of life ...feedback! Twenty years of myself, Richard Norton, Noel Rush, Tony Quinn and dozens of other blackbelts travelling the world as bodyguards. More than 30 years myself, Stan `the Man'' Longinidis hundreds of kickboxers travelling the world as competitors. All of this kept the BJC abreast of trends anywhere in the world as they happen sometimes even before. I always knew that to become the biggest and remain out in front, BJC would need room to change and evolve. With the influence of every BJC black belt as far the 1970s always working in security there has, since day dot, been the philosophy that if it works use it, if it doesn''t work, put it aside until your understanding of the arts has more depth.

Thus simple and practical techniques we always prescind.

From a wild adolescence of gang days our ethnic population explosion due to our Prime Minister of that era offering a one way ten pound (the equivalent then of 20 dollars) passage from Europe to Australia, to running of a Sly Grog establishment prior to extension of 6pm (Liquor laws every closed at 6pm), to my very violent bouncing escapades of the ''60s , this 20 years of street smarts gave the BJC advantage over opposition dojos.

Plus, from the beginning we boxed, played Judo, wrestled and always made plenty of contact as a part of character development. Severe and multiple injuries had us finally don boxing gloves and kick with shin pads and boot pads. A trip to Thailand (12 trips in 10 years) introduced us to new rules that allowed us to get rid of all the padding and at the same time more weapons. The Thai style stand up grappling proved so effective, it led us to ground fighting of course we went to the best to the best of Brazilian grappling.

From Australia''s violent past and our disgusting abuse of indigenous people, to the British enslavement of Welsh, Scottish and mostly Irish prisoners, to the days when `bare knuckle boxing'' was this country''s most popular sport. Major world wars with Japan, Korea and Vietnam would expose their ancient Asian fighting arts to the western world. Currently we are borrowing from the Philippines their Escrima Kali techniques, as sadly sticks and knives are becoming more prevalent within our society''s violence. Along with this little romp through history ...the most exciting thing I discovered recently (since 1990) was my own Celtic heritage, now I read everything I can find on Celtic literature and as I acquire this literature of the ancients and the millenniums change, I find myself more at peace with myself as a martial artist.

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Two Masters, Tino Ceberano and Bob Jones

MC: Do you believe that martial arts training is as tough as it was 20 years ago? What do you perceive to be the main differences in training styles today as compared to yesteryear?

BJ: This is often the first question I get all the time and it still pisses me off. Put simply, you get out of martial arts what you put in. This bullshit of olden times being the tough old days is just that ...bull! Just prior to this coming Christmas, the BJC had gradings in all regions of Australia and all over New Zealand. I saw literally hundreds of brownbelts traded for ShodanHo (The First Step) and as many again, maturing blackbelts trading their current degree for one higher. Now, I do not judge a father in his late 40s who has been recommended after two heart by passes by his doctor to take up Zen Do Kai with his two teenage sons.

I don''t sit in judgement of the sole parent mother in her late 30s carrying those extra unwanted kilos as a result of childbirth she''s desperate to learn self defence because even the cops can''t do anything about her drunken ex who comes home just long enough to beat on her and her kids.

I don''t even pass judgement on the 18 year old who fell off his motorbike and was told by his physio that receiving his brownbelt would improve the coordination of his new limbs above all else. So you don''t think martial arts training would be tough on these guys. Okay, how about you get your weight up to 110kgs and train to take on Peter Aerts at the next K1 or Sam Greco in the WCW. Perhaps you''d prefer the next UFC against Maurice Smith or one of the Machados or Gracies. Then again you could weigh in around 80kgs against Paul Briggs whose new boxing career has him knocking out Australia''s best boxers. Yes, I remember the good old days when we were all first, second and third degrees.

Answering question one I said anyone who really knows me, knows I am not the kind of person who dwells on the past. I have far too much work (plus my own personal training) to prepare for my next grading in 2003. That will be eight years since I took seventh degree. The BJC expects that when the number of years coincide with the number of the next degree you do it! Zen Do Kai''s 8th Degree states that we must break our world down and replace it back in in its correct constituents. Who ever it was that said it was tough 20 years ago, I''d like to punch you!

The major difference between training today and 20 years gone is knowledge. You are cheating your students and worse, yourself, if you do not travel and do the seminars. There is so much knowledge out there these days. You have to cross style train, no one style has all the answers. One other thing about the students of today ...they expect you to be their friend as well as instructor. In today''s self defence market you have to be more approachable, more accessible.

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New Zealand''s Head Instructor Brett Kimmins and Bob Jones

MC: Who has had the most influence over Bob Jones throughout the years and who do you admire most outside the BJC.

BJ: During the late 50''s and early 60''s, I was constantly attracted to magazine articles, daily newspapers and television exposure about these amazing blackbelts in Sydney and their escapades. I remember first thinking "I wonder what" and secondly "how" these Sydney guys became blackbelts in this new karate craze. That was just a decade after the Japanese World War and Australia had just returned from the Korean war. It would be another 20 years before Vietnam, thus my questions: "what?" and "how?".

The very first person I ever knew as any sort of `blackbelt'' was Joe Miessner. Joe was tall (two metres six foot plus), good looking, reputed to be one of the strongest (via weightlifting) teenagers ever to come out of Bendigo, Victoria.

Now in his late 20s in Sydney, he was a definite celebrity who got all the girls whether they aspired to be movie stars or hookers. A self promoted `first time ever'' world champion (by winning a Japanese tournament) was taken to task and debated by Mike Willisee on a national Current Affair show. The second blackbelt of notoriety at this time was Fred Vella. He first hit the national media by demolishing a whole house in Karate Gi no padding or protection of any kind he chopped and kicked the whole house down with bare hands and feet. Fred was equally as good looking as Joe and both men were strikingly handsome. Both of them were naturals to be action plus Karate movie stars, what a pity no one thought of it at the time.

After I got my black belt and ventured into Sydney in my role as a bodyguard to the rich and famous rock stars Joe and Fred and I became buddies (this makes for good reading in my series of books, this one entitled `The Greatest Story Never Told''). One of them went to prison for attempting to borrow a bunch of MI6''s from the NSW''s army base ...and the other always argues with me that the BJC in .martial arts does it all wrong.

1963

I can''t believe it! Thursday, August 25 at 1pm. "Live": Martial Arts Expert in Karate, Kendo and Aikido at the Melbourne Sports Depot. Famous American author, (Don Draeger) lives in Japan, speaks fluent Japanese, has beautiful Japanese wife...One appearance only...Come and see him. He will be signing copies of his new book that can be purchased at this demonstration.
At 46years of age he looked more like 26. Bare topped, wearing only a black hakama, he moves with the grace and fluidity of a python while seemingly he contained the power of a panther, As he sliced the air with double swords, the long Katana and the short Wakizashi. I was spellbound, mesmerised, I had never seen anything like this. All I knew was somehow, someway, someday this was going to be me. Out of the hundreds of people at this demonstration at the Melbourne Sports Depot, I''m not sure if he sensed the effect he had on me, or if instinctively knew August 25 was my birthday. Either way he scribbled something inside the cover of his latest book and said

"Here, this is from me to you, consider it a gift."

On the way home I realised that I had not said hello, thank you or anything at all. When I got home I looked at what he had written inside the book.

"When you see a worthy person, endeavour to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, take a closer look at your inner self."

It was signed "From your Guide" along with his signature. It would be 18 months of serious searching before I would find Mr Jack Rozinsky and begin my journey that so many others would follow.

1972

Victorian Head Instructor, Steve Nedelkos and Bob Jones

In six months extensive training and competing in Canada and North America, I met, trained and/or fought the best: Peter Urban, Aaron Banks, Mike Anderson, Steve Armstrong (10th Degree), Jimmy Jones (BKF Tournament Promoter), Tadashi Yamashita, Fumio Demura, Joe Lewis, Chuck Norris, Howard Jackson, Pat Johnson, Skipper Mullins, Ken Knudson, Joel Ward (he beat me in Chicago), John Nativitad, "Super"'' Dan Anderson (he beat me once, I beat him twice) and the list goes on. Hundreds of fabulous martial artists who were an influence on me in the ''70s. One name in this era does stand out as a major influence on me (I was 2nd degree at this time), "Mr Unbeatable" Mike Stone (Mike was the reason Prescilla and Elvis went separate ways). Mike was my major instructor during the American Tour of Duty in 1972.

While training with Mike I often worked out with one of his green belts whose name was Howard Hanson. In a couple of years Howard would become the founder of the WKA, which would soon be the first worldwide kickboxing organisation sanctioning fights in Japan and Europe. Hanson gave me the reigns for the WKA South Pacific Region in 1976.

Kickboxing during the ''70s and ''80s, I was strongly influenced by Benny `The Jet'' Urquidez, Don `The Dragon'' Wilson and Pete `Sugarfoot'' Cunningham when he fought on a card in 1983 in Edmonton, Canada. On this card I refereed a heavyweight kickboxing title defence with Jim `The Stalker'' Walker.

I also refereed an exhibition boxing bout between Muhammad Ali and local ice hockey giant, Dave Samenko in a three round friendly war. Sometimes I still have to pinch myself - me in the ring with Ali! On that night I knew Pete would go on to be a true champion. Later in 1983, Benny Urquidez and I met up at a promotion at a military base in Hawaii. Benny was there as a special guest and I was there as an international referee for a world cruiserweight title fight. This title was won by a really ripped cruiserweight having his first shot at a world title. He won by knockout in the seventh round. It was the beginning of his fame. His name was Maurice Smith.

Western Thai style fighters to influence me during the 1970s - 80s were Tekkin Donmez, Ramon Dekker and of course, Rob Kaman. Tekkin was a Chukuriki student of Thom Harink, who was one of the first modern, western fighters to venture into Thailand and into their major stadium, Lumpini. The first time he was knocked out in the first round. Still licking his wounds, in his second trip he was stopped half way. On his third trip to the country of warriors, Tekkin Donmez made it to the final bell only to lose on points. Some say three strikes and you''re out. Not Tekkin. He started winning in Thailand and is now fighting in Europe. He was far too strong for anyone. What Benny Urquidez had done to the Japanese in the ''70s and ''80s is what Ramon Dekker did to the Thais in the both knocked everyone out! Kaman influenced me simply because he was the ultimate fighting machine. Rob Kaman in the ring is what a white pointer shark is in the ocean ...don''t go there!

Hopeful 5th Dan''s go through their paces

So my training with Howard Hanson is the reason I brought kickboxing to Australia. Benny `The Jet'' Urquidez is the reason I introduced leg kicks. Those three Dutch champions influenced me to bring Thai fighting here.

Just being on that global circuit, away from home for long extensions of time, just so Billy Black Belt and Wally White Belt can share their latest technology in stand up, takedowns, groundgrappling, pressure points, human anatomy, diet and nutrition etc, that the different masters have to share ...I have admired every one of you, you are all gentlemen. Many hundreds have come and gone, but one man I met in 1972 and who is still doing his thing spreading the word of the martial arts to millions via his movies for almost 30 years Chuck Norris.

Don''t miss part two of our Bob Jones special when Bob pulls out the big guns and answers his critics in the only way he knows how, with all guns blazing. Commercialism, the security industry, training methods, quality control, splinter groups and government legislation. It''s all there in the nest issue of Blitz.

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30 years of Zen Do Kai...Part 2

Interview in Blitz Magazine - Vol. 15 No.2
By Mark Castignini

Bob Jones has done an enormous amount of work for the martial arts, spreading his teachings from Australia all across the world.

In part two of our interview with the BJC founder, Blitz''s Mark Castagnini finds out just how far Bob Jones'' influence extends.

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30 years of Zen Do Kai...Part 2

Interview in Blitz Magazine - Vol. 15 No.2
By Mark Castignini

Bob Jones has done an enormous amount of work for the martial arts, spreading his teachings from Australia all across the world.

In part two of our interview with the BJC founder, Blitz''s Mark Castagnini finds out just how far Bob Jones'' influence extends.

Bob Jones with his master Tino Ceberano

MC: There are many instructors who have questioned and criticised you in the past who now appear to be taking on some of the commercial ideals you employ. What do you say to those people?

MC: The security industry was once a very large facet of the BJC. Do you feel this prominence has diminished and if so, why?

BJ: The answer to this question is both yes and no. Many years ago I made a conscious decision due to some negative publicity to go full steam ahead with the expansion of the martial arts and move away from the security industry. This is the `Yes'' of the paradox.

The `No'' is the fact that black belts all over Australia kept working in security. In almost any city in Australia security personnel are wearing their BJC crosses on the inside of TShirts and jackets to avoid confrontation. Many black belts started their own companies and knowing they were all imitators, some of them were happy to pay a `concept commission''. Well, they were happy before our government imitated Europe''s GST.

During the last ten years security has been one of the major growth industries worldwide, this will double again during the next five years. Negotiations are currently under way for a mother company (Axiom Security) to marry all of these individuals back together under one banner by 2003 in a win/win situation for everybody. But I guess you already saw that coming...knowing my 8th degree is all about putting my world back into its correct constituents.

Security played a prominent role in the BJC

MC: Can you tell us how your training has evolved?

BJ: My training, after 35 years in the martial arts, has never been more exciting. All those seminars we talked about in the last issue, they have introduced so many ''new'' techniques. The scope now for crossstyle training is very exciting. Seems like every advanced rank in the BJC is getting really good ''at this'' and others are getting good ''at that'' and when they get together now on black belt workshop seminars, you can''t shut them up ...and that''s healthy for the BJC in general.

Probably my greatest challenge in training now is trying to work out where all these ''other style'' innovations fit into our Zen Do Kai forms (Katas) and what new technique fits in with what set of form movements…Once this ''Mnemonic Principle'' is accomplished the technique is set, locked in.

This way I can recall it at will and I won''t forget what seminar I saw it. Other than that I''m working up a new seminar to go out on the road to promote `Let the Good Times Roll''. It will be all about responsible self defence, plus it will feature how to use what, when, where of your techniques and avoid going to prison simply because you were protecting yourself!

This seminar is being compiled by Bryson Keenan (Gold Coast, ZDK), Trevor and Julie Rimmington (Sunshine Coast, ZDK), Peter Shannon (Vic, BJC Escrima Kali) Steve Nedelkos (Vic, ZDK Chief Instructor). Mick `Magic'' Marshal - WKA Ex World Champion) and Kevin Smith (Fighting Fit, stolen from Perth, WA).

I will take this seminar right around Australia in May/June. The seminar is open to all imitators of all styles and all are welcome. If you are at the seminar you will receive a copy of my book, signed by me. I''m looking forward to training with everyone."

Bob looking out for the Rolling Stones

MC: How do you maintain quality control over so many clubs and branches?

BJ: This is generally quite simple, as long as everyone abides by two very simple rules: communication and participation. To participate you have to do seminars. If not the cross?style training then the BJC `Train the Trainers'' seminars. Taking this information back to your students is the communication.

Once or twice a year (depending on numbers of students) we hold stage gradings, everyone comes together for these gradings.

I always try to make these days personally to keep my finger on the pulse, if I can''t there are always enough higher grades to check on lower grades. Most grading days and seminars are videotaped for the local area higher ranks to judge for themselves the standard of their area. When I am not present these videos are sent to head office. Between gradings, seminars, videos and our two simple rules of communication and participation, we have good quality control overall.

MC: The BJC has always been proud of the fact that you have had very few splinter groups given this what do you attribute the current Queensland situation? (Malcolm Anderson has recently broken away from the Corporation.)

BJ: Again your question has two parts. Of course 30 years without splinter groups has been something without monetary value, how can you put a price on loyalty. Zen Do Kai sticking together has been its strength, this has always given me great pride.

On a recent training camp (about a year ago), Patrick McCarthy had just finished a three hour weapons seminar for more than a hundred Zen Do Kai black belts. He and I were sitting together in the shade waiting for Richard Norton''s turn to take control. "You know Bob, travelling the world doing my seminars, I train so many different styles, nationalities, customs and different egos ...but in New Zealand and Australia when I teach Zen Do Kai students they are so accepting, so respectful. The unity of your black belts is so strong, there is nothing like it anywhere in the world. Zen Do Kai is so strong, you could never be harmed from without, you could only be harmed from within."

Bob Jones and Richard Norton in the early days

Around about ten years ago (perhaps a little longer), on a training camp in Perth sitting in the shade, Rod Stroud said to me: "You now chief, this thing about Malcolm Anderson being number one, Billy Manne being number two and Rod Stroud being number three ...well could you do me a favour and not ever make me number one, I''m the kinda guy who always needs to be climbing up the mountain. I''d be better off if I was about number 20, that way I would be less conspicuous and I''d be better at doing my job protecting the style. You''re the founder, you''re the only real number one, you''re the one on top of the mountain. Us black belts shouldn''t have any bloody numbers."

One year later I''m not sure if Patrick was giving me a compliment or a warning. Ten years later and Rod will be right, there will be no bloody numbers.

The second part of the question asks me to "attribute the current Queensland situation", if I did that I''d be setting myself up as the judge and a wise spiritual advisor once told me never to do that. The fact of the matter is, for whatever reasons, Malcolm Anderson has decided to go his own way to break away and do his own thing separate from me. Like any family breakdown it is often the child who suffers, in this situation it is the blackbelts and their students whose loyalties become divided. Worse still, they may not even be informed.

That wise man also once said, "Good leaders lead by good example", that''s what I''ve always done and plan to continue doing in the future. Remember whatever decisions we make in life, if it doesn''t kill you it makes you stronger. All Queensland blackbelts and all Queensland students do have the choice to stay with Zen Do Kai with me as their leader if they wish to make that choice.

The third thing that wise man taught me "If you want respect you have to first give respect." Malcolm Anderson, I respect your decision and I wish you well. Perhaps you could return that same respect to me. Go your own way with your own name. When I chose to take my own direction, I respected my master, Tino Ceberano and his system of Goju Kai. Today, 30 years down the path, Tino and I are the best of friends, we have each other''s respect. Perhaps you and I can go our separate ways and still remain friends?

MC: Finally Bob, new Government legislation has banned all martial arts weapons. What are your thoughts on the use of martial arts weaponry and this current ban?

BJ: Those bloody idiots, can''t they get anything right! I didn''t make that statement simply to grab your attention (but I''m glad it worked), it''s just that the topic of martial arts, government and legislation frustrates me.

Years ago I got a phone call from Inspector Stephen Frost.

"Hello, is that Bob Jones. My name is Inspector Frost. Of course you don''t know me but I''ve heard a lot about you. I''ve been given the job to head up a committee to go about some form of legislation for bouncers. Now I know absolutely nothing about bouncers and you invented the word, therefore I would really appreciate it of you could come to some meetings and and help me put this legislation together. I''m also going to ask Dave Hedgcock and a few other people in the industry and see if we can bowl this legislation thing over asap. "

"What seems to be the problem with bouncers?" I asked at the first meeting I ever attended.

"Well Bob, you know they always seem to be punching people and of course this can''t be tolerated. At first we thought ban the bloody bouncers and then we thought, no, that would be bloody stupid."

Four years of meetings like that and presto! Legislation for bouncers says ''If a bouncer punches anyone yesterday, today or tomorrow, he/she will be out of a job for ten years no exceptions to the rule!

Now in Australia I also invented the words `Martial Arts Freestyle'', `Kickboxing'' and `Thai Boxing''. But no one from any government body has ever, not in 35 years, rang me and asked me what I thought about any of these things.

Although there was one time they invited me to a meeting and I started to ask, "What seems to be the problem with..."

Just then a member of the martial arts board of Victoria screamed at me in front of about 30 black belts from as many different styles..."Shut up you don''t have a voice here."

At least Inspector Frost let me ask questions. I remember back around 1985, Canberra was going to ban all martial arts weapons.

Our BJC barrister, Mr Peter Rowe (six degree blackbelt) and myself flew to Canberra for a Monday 10.30am meeting.

Prior to the meeting I went to the Canberra base hospital and did some research on causes of injuries. Then at the meeting the first question I asked was, "What seems to be the problem with martial arts weapons?"

The woman and the other three male Government representatives all looked down at their files and flummoxed through their notes, then had a look at one another''s notes. I felt someone should break the silence so I offered:

"I called into your hospital early this morning and told reception about the meeting and could they supply me with any stats on types of injuries. The duty nurse told me they had 28 injuries in casualty on Saturday from all of the rugby matches played in the ACT. She said there was nothing unusual about this number, except two young teenagers had their necks broken. Two females had been admitted due to assault and rape and there was a bouncer in a serious condition due to being beaten with a baseball bat. I asked if during the weekend or during recent times they had any stats on martial arts injuries regarding the use of weapons. She said she did not know of any, if there were any it was not enough to show up as any sort of statistic. By the way I also picked up a copy of this morning''s Canberra paper here''s the story about the young kids with their necks broken."

The meeting pretty much felt flat after this, particularly when I suggested we could discuss the possibility of banning baseball bats. They must have added to their notes for this matter to be reviewed again in the year 2000, because here we are again, talking about banning martial arts weapons fifteen years later.

For 30 years, since 1970, I have taught every one of my blackbelts the art of weaponry and they perform with weapons for 4th degree blackbelt (average time for this rank in training is 12-15 years). But I suppose if they ban our martial arts weapons, and even of they did ban baseball bats, I guess my 4th dans will use golf clubs at gradings.

MC: Thank you Bob for your time.

In the next issue Bob Jones talks about the emergence and evolution of kickboxing and Muay Thai in Australia., the K-1 concept and the future of martial arts. Don''t miss the third and final instalment as we celebrate Bob''s 30 years in the martial arts industry. His book "Let the Good Times Roll" will be available shortly.

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30 years of Zen Do Kai...Part 3

Interview in Blitz Magazine - Vol. 15 No.3
by Mark Castignini

In this third and final part of our interview with BJC founder and pioneer, Bob Jones, Bob fills us in on the future of the BJC and his kickboxing years.

It has been 30 years full of excitement and great developments in martial arts and Bob Jones has been at the forefront.

Mark Castagnini gets the story, but first recaps on Bob''s thoughts about government legislation and weapons bans.

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30 years of Zen Do Kai...Part 3

Interview in Blitz Magazine - Vol. 15 No.3
by Mark Castignini

In this third and final part of our interview with BJC founder and pioneer, Bob Jones, Bob fills us in on the future of the BJC and his kickboxing years.

It has been 30 years full of excitement and great developments in martial arts and Bob Jones has been at the forefront.

Mark Castagnini gets the story, but first recaps on Bob''s thoughts about government legislation and weapons bans.

BJ: I know the question was asked of me in the last issue, but I just wanted to regroup on this subject of our self defence/martial arts industry and its connection to weapons. It would seem to me that it is a matter of common sense. Every household is littered with a variety of objects that are capable of being used as a dangerous weapon, far too numerous to ever consider government legislation and the outlawing of every second utensil used in our day to day existence around the home.

Simplicity and common sense suggests to me that a Shinnae and Bokken or a Bo etc., standing next to a set of golf clubs in the study or in the son''s bedroom wardrobe next to a fibre glass baseball bat or in the garage next to a pick shovel would be no more dangerous than one or the other. It is not cars or even guns that do harm ...it is the human in control or lack of control.

If I play baseball or golf or I do gardening around my property, I am allowed to possess the above, I do not have the right to ignore the rules of society governing any of the above. Whether I am going to or coming home from baseball practice or a weapons class at my dojo, and I am not acting irresponsibly against our laws of the land Kai and our associated what are we even discussing here. If I have any of the above, away from my home , not within reasonable times of going to or coming from practice, and there is an infringement of any governing law, then of course I should suffer any legal ramifications of my actions.

MC: Bob, how has your own teaching style changed and what progressions do you feel you''ve made personally?

BJ: Several years ago, Steve Nedelkos, my Victorian Chief Instructor started organising various inter style training via seminars being held by people touring Australia. One of the early ones we attended was by Wally Jay with his small circle defence system. I was so impressed we decided to become more involved with the various touring martial artists.

We pursued Rick Clarke and several of his pressure point seminars and found him extremely interesting. Then Vince Morris came out from England and was an immediate hit with his no nonsense street applications. Rick Moneymaker was most interesting with his theories of energy transference…between the three of these gentlemen''s world of knowledge, Zen Do Kai and associated BJC systems found many new interpretations of our Traditional forms (kata''s).

Along with these seminars, during the past decade we had a dozen trips to Thailand (see part 1 of the Bob Jones interview of this account of the influence of Thai fighters Tekkin Donmez, Rob Karmen and Ramon Dekker and their experience in Thailand). The superior techniques of Thai Boxing really improved a lot of our basic techniques, especially our stand up grappling.

Then Rod Stroud in WA raised the question of what happens in Zen Do Kai if our black belts fell to the ground with someone bigger landing on top of them.

John Will

It was decided to ask a favour of an old friend (John Will) who had recently earned his black belt in the Machado system ...and we began attending John''s seminars. Some of my black belts also began grappling classes with Peter de Been. Then an original student of Dave Berry''s and Billy Manne (down on Victoria''s peninsula), John Donoghue came home to Australia. These three have all been instrumental in improving BJC''s student groundwork ...especially John Will, who has been doing seminars for me all over Australia and New Zealand.

The next thing we felt our teaching style needed was a better understanding of weaponry. One of my managers, Peter Shannon suggested Escrima Kali from the Phillipines had a structure that would be suitable for improving our current fourth degree grading syllabus. We have since aligned ourselves with Doce Perez; this system has been invaluable and greatly improved Zen Do Kai''s fourth Dan standard.

Patrick McCarthy

For even more depth, and many new insights into our forms, plus an endless realm of historical facts and the intricate lineage of Asian Masters of the arts, we began working with Patrick McCarthy.

He and I also have a strong Irish (Celtic) connection, and it is in this area of ancient martial arts that we both share a passion. My own teaching style is constantly evolving along with Zen Do Kai and all of these masters of these various arts have been instrumental in these ''changes''.

MC: You brought kickboxing and Muay Thai to Australia, how and why did this come about.

BJ: During all of my early years of traditional training (1965-''70) I had felt that when the day came that I might earn the rank of black belt and start teaching that I might add some of my ideas and see if I could help my students learn a system that would transfer to street practically that anyone could learn. During the early years (1970-''75) of formulating Zen Do Kai, we experimented with many variations of contact training ...

After a few years of trial and error, we found the basics of boxing was the answer a boxing ring, using boxing gloves and the Marquis of Queensbury Rules slightly modified to incorporate kicking above the waist. This was the basis of full contact Karate and we staged our first event on September 9, 1976.

At the suggestion of Benny the Jet Urquidez in early 1983 we introduced kickboxing into Australia with the inclusion of leg kicks. Other than above and now below waist kicks, everything was based on conventional boxing concepts. Much to the displeasure of everyone connected to the world of boxing!

In 1986 during a world tour (fully paid for by Allan Bond for the Americas Cup celebrations in Perth) of myself and Rod Stroud ...we did some training with Tom Harinck in Holland, and he introduced us to Thai boxing. Two years later in 1988, I trekked off for the first of 12 trips during the following 10 years to Thailand. This was the beginning of Thai boxing as an Australian sport.

Mr Ishi
Stan the "Man" Longinides

MC: Speaking of kickboxing, K-1 is now very popular and you actually judged the first K-1 in 1995. How did this come about and what do you think about the K-1 concept?

BJ: Stan Longinides was booked for the main event draw card supporting the first K-1 promotion of Mr Ishii''s in 1995. Stan''s manager at the time was Nick Kenos and he told Ishii they would not fight without at least one Australian judge. They said there would be no problems if I went over with them, and as Nick said at the time, I would also get to see that inaugural event.

As for what I think about the K-1 concept, the evidence is the proof in itself, the K-1 has just got bigger every year for the past six years. Don King paved the way many years ago by being the first promoter in the world to pay an athlete one million dollars ...He paid Ali ahead of any other sportsperson at the time one million dollars. King charged television sponsors .and a casino double that amount to be involved, paid all, kept as much for himself and then sold 25,000 tickets.

Listening to Mr Ishii talk via his interpreter at a prior meeting to that first K-1, he told us a story that I related to the above Don King story. Except Mr Ishii started at $100,000 and promised a million sometime in the future.

MC: What new martial arts innovations are there to come from the BJC in the short/long term?

BJ: Well, we''ve just covered kickboxing, Thai boxing and the K-1. Since 1976 kickboxing is well established on the Australian scene, since my world trip with Rod Stroud in 1986 Thai boxing is still gaining popularity on a national basis with very strong roots in Queensland, WA and New Zealand. Having been responsible for introducing both sports into Australia gives me great sense of pride. Since that first K-1 in Japan in 1995, I have watched Mr Ishii take this idea and develop it around the world. With careful planning Tarik Solak will take it to the next level. As for the BJC (Bob Jones Clubs), the gound fighting is finally spreading around my system.

With the recent stabbing murder (Lalor, Victoria) of Nick Serrevski, one of my 18 year old black belts (Shodan), we have picked up the pace of the Escrima Kali training for our students nationwide purely for self defence strategies against knife attacks.

Personally, I am back into training with a passion. I am training with a 30 year plus Aikido master, Mr David Brown. He is sharing his wealth and knowledge with myself and higher ranked instructors several mornings a week at my house, which is really a giant training centre (dojo). His Aikido is extremely effective and practical, but the big bonus is its flowing principles of internal strength really suits some of us ...our mature age disciples.

I''m excited as I see it as a direction for my next 30 years of training in the martial arts I hope to have some of the basics down for my upcoming extensive tour of Australia to promote my biography ''Let the Good Times Roll.''

MC: Bob, finally, 30 years have passed, what is the future?

BJ: The future for all Bob Jones Clubs is the web. I can''t turn on a computer (not my job), but when I look at the amount of work Steve Nedelkos and Tony Shearer (and associates) have done in establishing: www.bobjonesmartialarts.com.au and the plans they have for the future our website will be a Disneyland for all martial artists. Personally, I am writing a series of books. Part one of this series is an autobiographical trilogy of my life''s adventures and experiences. These are colour coded into the three primary colours: Red, yellow, blue (Physical, Psychological and of course spiritual).

The story of the yellow dragon will be the first book released on May 1 (Celtic Mayday).. As you may have already noticed it is titled ''Let the Good Times Roll''. It does not matter what style of training you are involved in, this is a book I believe, if you study the martial arts, you will enjoy.

Anyway, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Silvio Morelli, Mark ''The Hammer'' Castagnini and Blitz Magazine for giving me this ''space'' in their magazine allowing me to share some of my martial arts journey with you guys. Remember, whatever your art, train hard, stay strong.

MC: Bob, thanks for the last 30 years.

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BOB JONES - The Untold Stories

Interview in Blitz Magazine
Vol. 15 No.1

This interview follows on from the previous article featured in the last issue of Blitz magazine.

It focused on Bob Jones'' autobiography ''Let the Good Times Roll'' the first part of the triology reflects on Bob''s 20 years in his securty industry and the big name martial arts that he and his corporation was responsible for, both in Australia and overseas. It chronicles his rise as a misguided and troubled youth to the lofty heights of security specialist to the stars.

The following is a candid interview with Bob that reminisces on a different part of his life. One that most of us were probably unaware of.

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BOB JONES - The Untold Stories

Interview in Blitz Magazine
Vol. 15 No.1

This interview follows on from the previous article featured in the last issue of Blitz magazine.

It focused on Bob Jones'' autobiography ''Let the Good Times Roll'' the first part of the triology reflects on Bob''s 20 years in his securty industry and the big name martial arts that he and his corporation was responsible for, both in Australia and overseas.

It chronicles his rise as a misguided and troubled youth to the lofty heights of security specialist to the stars.

The following is a candid interview with Bob that reminisces on a different part of his life. One that most of us were probably unaware of.

Blitz: Bob, you have met many talented people over your lifetime throughout the security industry is the lifestyle of a celebrity or rock star, from your point of view, as glamorous as we all perceive it to be?

BJ: Working in security as long as I have you meet a lot of interesting people and characters. It''s been quite an eye opener actually. The lifestyle can be great... money, variety, fame and people bending over backwards for them. But, it can take its toll. I''ve seen so many of these guys succumb to the quick fix of drugs or alcohol because the pressure can sometimes be too much to bare. You have to keep a level head if you''re going to head into the entertainment industry. It can be very destructive.

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Training with Stevie Nicks at her Beverley Hills home in Los Angeles

Blitz: Was it hard to distance yourself from the drugs, alcohol and sex that many of these bands got involved with? Did you find that you got caught up in their world? Was it hard to say `no''?

BJ: When you''re so close to these bands like I was, you almost become part of the family, pact of the band. But being a professional, you have to distance yourself sometimes. Security can be a 24 hour job and you have a reputation at stake, so you don''t want to muck that up. It takes time to build that confidence and respect amongst the entertainment community.

Bob with the new book

Blitz: How did it feel to be the man in `charge'' of looking after the superstars? Did you feel like a `God'', or was it just a job?

BJ: Oh, without a doubt, you get this power surge and you think you''re the greatest (laughs). It was, and still is a huge privilege and responsibility to look after some of the biggest names in rock''n''roll an honour. Initially, you''re on a high, but it settles down, and it''s business as per usual. But we made it fun to work, we kind of let the good times roll.

Blitz: Do you think you could have been as successful as you were without the aid of your students helping you out?

BJ: Well, that''s right. I had my own brown and black belts working for the BJC and they were fantastic. I couldn''t have had a better bunch of guys helping me out. I could rely on them when it came to the crunch and you need people like that.

I could not have done such a good job at massive festivals like Sunbury, Mulwala and Walacia, if it had not been for the mass numbers of our Zen Do Kai students who had been trained to work in security. And of course the elite of the elite, like Richard Norton, Dave Berry, Nicky Pappas, Paul Flemming and Turn Joe. These were the elite of my Blackbelts that went on tour as bodyguards with the Rolling Stones and every major act from then on.

Bob with movie star Chuck Norris

Blitz: Any memorable moments when it did come to the `crunch''? How graphic is the violence in your book?

BJ: There was a moment at a concert in Auckland where I confronted, alone, a group of bikies known as Highway 61. They were causing a disturbance and I knew that if I didn''t sort it out, there was going to be chaos.

Let''s just say that my methods of persuasion were quite effective on that day. I would have to admit there is a fair amount of violence in the book. In fact I would advise that no one under 15 years of age reads it because of how graphic the descriptions and language is in some parts. All the violence, sex and drugs and rock and roll. Among others, there is a description of me having a fight with an islander in Maui, one of the Hawaiian Islands. Richard Norton and myself were backstage at a concert (in Maui) and I threw one punch, a short right hand punch, but it is described in the book over eight pages. The lead up to it, the strike and the effect. Needless to say the book is full of memorable moments while being very explicit and up front.

 

Blitz: Out of the people that you have looked after, who would you say has been the best individual?

BJ: Joe Cocker is the best guy I ever worked with and is the reason the book was written, because he got busted in Adelaide in October 1972. By February 1973 the Rolling Stones wouldn''t come here without the best security because of the bust with Joe. Of course BJC promised the best security and that is the only reason why they came to Australia.

So Joe Cocker is responsible for me getting the job touring in the first place. He is mentioned several times through the book and the last chapter is about him. The finish of the book, which I can''t spoil, is Joe Cocker and I doing something together that shows what good friends we were. But you will need to read the book, and not read the last part first.

Blitz: The best Band?

BJ: The best band I ever worked with was Fleetwood Mac. It was the longest story in the book because there was the most to tell. There are some amazing insights into the sex and drugs behind the scenes of rock and roll with Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham and Christine McVie, the five members of Fleetwood Mac. Most of that story is set in Japan, and begins at the martial arts capitol of the world, the Budokan.

Blitz: Who would be the worst and why?

Agentha of ABBA and Bob Jones

BJ: It won''t take you long to find out, it''s around chapter four, and it is all about a guy called Paul Rodgers. He was the baddest guy I ever had to work with. His band was called Bad Company. He was a bit of a knock about guy from England, from the same bad area as Joe Cocker and Keith Richards and many of Rocks `Bad Boys''.

He had heard from the promoter that `Bob Jones'' was some sort of martial arts expert, so he had a keen desire to see me fight. So everywhere we went Paul Rodgers tried to get me into fights, and halfway through the chapter he and I get into an explosive situation. It''s a real fight scene which you will have to read about as you journey through the book!

Blitz: Do you think your book offers a realistic view of the drugs and violence of the times?

Bob with Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwod Mac

BJ: I think that young people are going to enjoy the book. I had one girl, Donna, read the book who unknowingly is responsible for some of the recent marketing decisions. At 20 years of age she thoroughly enjoyed Let the Good Times Roll. I asked her why she enjoyed the book so much and she said to me, "you took me back to the Rolling Stones tour, backstage with the limousines and all."

She said, "it really felt like I was there with you with the Rolling Stones tour and also at the Sunbury rock festival:" She said that was really why she enjoyed the book, because these days people go to rave parties at the Docklands, and all the crazy kids are doing two and three ecstacy pills, and all sort of other drugs and crazy things, but she said it was interesting to find out about all the drugs that were around when her parents were teenagers.

Bob Jones with Jimmy Barnes, one of his important students

Instead of going to rave parties, they would go to a farm with 50,000 people for three or four days, like Sunbury and smoke marijuana and drop acid tabs.

Because of her feedback Perdiem Publishing is marketing the book so that " 20 year olds can find out what their parents got up to." There is a saying, "if you can remember the seventies you weren''t really there." I guess I should be warning people over 40 years of age that they should be very careful reading the book. I can remember the seventies because I stayed straight. The warning is there because the book may cause some people to remember things they have done, things they have tried to forget.

Blitz: Looking back at some old photos and press clippings your outward appearance was pretty menacing and visual. Was that a deliberate decision on your behalf?

BJ: (Gives a scary stare then breaks into laughter) Well, I guess I needed to look a little intimidating. Yeah, when you look back at those early press clippings I do look kind of impressive.

No, it was just me, it was the ''70s what do you expect

Blitz: Bob, could you give us your brief thoughts on some of the following people you''ve met over your time.

BJ: Sure.

Richard Norton:
Back then he was my right hand man. The best. He was there from the start and he''ll be there till the end.

Billy Thorpe:
Again, another Australian icon, and true friend. Made it worthwhile. Great talent.

The Rolling Stones:
Those guys are special. Mick, Keith, Charlie (when I did see him) were all entertaining and charming. They have their own personalities and that''s what makes them great.

AC/DC:
It sure was a long time ago, but those guys are so down to earth and were great fun to be with. It was sad to see Bon go. He was a true entertainer.

David Bowie:
I think Bowie tried to sh#!?stir me on a few occasions. I wasn''t sure where this guy was coming from.

Bob Jones and Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker:
I had to seriously keep an eye on this bloke. Boy, did he like to drink.

ABBA:
Fantastic, can''t say enough kind words about that band.

Fleetwood Mac:
Stevie Nicks was gorgeous. Such a dreamer and a fantastic voice. Mick (drummer) is a fantastic individual, and one textreme practical joker.

Blitz: You have said that `the miracle in your life was being introduced to the philosophical principals of the martial arts''. How was it a miracle, and does the book contain insights of those philosophies?

BJ: The miracle was the martial arts, because there was nothing else that could get me out. I''d been through 20 years of extreme violence. My whole life was violence and it was getting worse and worse. People were getting killed, dying from drugs or going to prison.

I even got married because I thought it would get me out, but the marriage didn''t work. After I split up I found Jack Rozinszky and he introduced me to my crossroads. That was the night in 1965 that I said `this is the new life for me''. He knew I was coming with a bunch of my bouncers so he clamped five bricks with five big steel clamps to a long bench seat. Between the two classes, beginner and semi advanced he smashed these five bricks with every part of his body. His elbows, his knees, the heel of his foot and his palm heel. And we went `God Damn!'' If we could fight like that we would be unbeatable! So we joined up that night. Jack introduced us to honour and valour and everything else that goes with martial arts. As I became a better fighter I used violence less and less. It got me back to normal and now it has taken me beyond normal in that after thirty years of training I feel very good in my life. That is the miracle of martial arts, and Let the Good Times Roll also explains part of that journey.

align="left" />This is a company I established in the very early stages of my martial arts career. The concept was devised for all of my many instructors running Bob Jones martial arts clubs.

They could purchase stock from Clubshop International for a percentage discount. This enabled these instructors to subsidize the running of these clubs, and in some cases they could develop an extra income. Add this to the security work they did for the BJC, many of them could go full time.

We have always manufactured our own club uniforms. When we import safety equipment, training gear or anything to do with the martial arts, we always demand quality control to assure our students ''only the best''.

Our Head Office -Showroom/warehouse is at Suite 6-26 Miller Street, Victoria, Australia, 3076. It is open weekdays from 9.30am to 5pm. The manager is Michael Kenna and he can be contacted during these working hours on +613 8401 4861.

Our Head Office is also our major distribution point, and stock is sent out daily, fulfilling stock orders to clubs in towns, suburbs and major cities nationwide. Instructor pick-up points in all states of Australia and both islands of New Zealand have this stock delivered to our students in the quickest way possible.

Thus the name ''Clubshop International'', we deliver from our shop to our clubs allowing all of our students to have that direct service delivered to them while they are in training.

Magazine Front Covers

Current Affairs Programes

 

All through out the decade of the eighties, I alternated between Queensland (three times) and Western Australia (four times) doing a ''violence awareness'' segment.

The more often we did the segment (always with a different theme) the higher the ratings became (after all that''s the name of the game as ''60 Minutes'' and explained to me.

Glen Taylor was the host in Brisbane with ''Today Tonight'' and Terry Willisee was the host in Perth with ''TPW'' (Terry Willisee Perth).

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Current Affairs Programes

All through out the decade of the eighties, I alternated between Queensland (three times) and Western Australia (four times) doing a ''violence awareness'' segment.

The more often we did the segment (always with a different theme) the higher the ratings became (after all that''s the name of the game as ''60 Minutes'' and explained to me.

Glen Taylor was the host in Brisbane with ''Today Tonight'' and Terry Willisee was the host in Perth with ''TPW'' (Terry Willisee Perth).

The concept was to train any female member of their team: secretary, publicity, research, preferably a female journalist off the show that the audience could identify with. I would teach them for an hour a day for a week, then go on the show to see if the techniques would work under pressure. We would then assimilate all kinds of scenarios, again that the audience could relate to.

Each time I did this between the two states I found I could condense the training time , the next episode I got it back to one hour of training. This was a result of a newspaper article in Perth on a Monday morning about a young woman who had been dragged from a phone box in broad daylight on the Sunday afternoon. She had been raped and hospitalized with absolutely horrific multiple injuries. After the mornings paper report we re-enacted the exact scene as it had been reported...with only one hours instruction we had Terry Willisee''s researcher capably defending herself.

Eventually on Glen Taylor''s show we did a live assimilated rape attack with Glens private secretary. Directly after the mock rape scene I trained her for five minutes on very basic techniques. The rape scene was so graphic she was still in shock during my training, it worked and actually she applied everything I had shown her, all in a five minute instruction.

With the rape segment taking less and less time we covered other community assault issues: The house wife at home alone during the day, taking a cab driver to a remote area to assimilate a mugging, elderly women in a car park after leaving a shopping centre, assaults on public transport (filmed segments on trains in railway underpasses), abducted young girl on her way home from school and many more. The ratings just kept on climbing due to the fact our segments really taped into the viewers ''every day'' lifestyle.

Glen Taylor culminated my segments by promoting a free lesson at my main school...Three hundred and fifty women responded at the time the free lesson had been promoted. There was no way they could all train at once, we had to organise them into groups and they were coming to lessons for the next month.

In Perth I mentioned to Terry Willisee that we should promote this free lesson, except we should use a public venue. We promoted the event to be staged at at the Fremantle Town Hall, also warned his production team that we might get a crowd as big as Brisbane. They must have felt it would be mediocre and draw perhaps a couple of hundred, and sent enough sound and lighting effects to suit. This was filmed to go to air that night....we were all caught unaware...I didn''t even have enough assistant instructors to help handle this crowd not to mention the lights and sound were lacking. This turned out to be one of the biggest crowd seminars I have ever stood out front of....Twelve Hundred and Fifty (1250) concerned women turned up for this free lesson with Bob Jones.

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Delta Promotions

The following letter is a press release sent to our Chinese partner Mr James Xu in Shanghai on March 14th 2003.

This has been translated into Mandarin and will be sent to all major media in the Peoples Republic of China.

This will coincide with Mr Gianni Caldarera and myself arriving in Shanghai.

March 14th,2003

To whom it may concern

The Bob Jones Corporation Pty Ltd is a company that with great honour and respect trades under my personal name. This company has associates in every quarter of the globe. These associates of Bob Jones come together to combine their resources and unite as a management group (RMG) for business ventures.

Bob Jones Martial Arts Pty Ltd is a company that trains all of these associates through to Black Belt and instills all of the traditional values of the martial arts. This develops an unbreakable bond and the diversity of characters within his organisation allows Bob Jones to draw expertise in any area of business endeavor. Besides my martial arts empire I have worked extensively in entertainment, security, hospitality, construction and property investments.

Recently I was blessed with the luck and good fortune of meeting my Chinese business associate Mr. Zhi Ming Xu. We have since formed an alliance of Delta Promotions - Shanghai, to promote a major event titled Delta 3 - Pyramid Kickboxing. This will bring the eight best heavyweight champion fighters into Shanghai from Eight different countries. At the one event, they fight and eliminate down to only one Grand Champion for One Million Dollars (US$1,000,000) prizemoney.

On behalf of Delta Promotions - Shanghai, I have been negotiating with various entertainment performers to tour the Peoples Republic of China. Currently Elton John and Billy Joel are on an extensive four-month tour of America finishing in June of this year. This tour could be extended into China during July for Delta Promotions - Shanghai. There are several other international entertainment acts that Delta Promotions - Shanghai would like to tour throughout China during 2003.

I am leaving Australia to come and live in Shanghai and plan to launch a National Sporting/Entertainment magazine to promote all aspects of Delta Promotions. Leading up to the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, we plan to stage an Australasian Expo called ''Treasure Island''. This will be ''a state of the art'' cultural and social exchange between the governments of Australia and China.

Yours truly,
Bob Jones
Delta Promotions - Director

Update: We departed for China on Tuesday 15th on a midnight flyer via Malaysian Airlines. The war in Iraq is all but difused, now the SARS virus is the latest danger alert in Asia. The Shanghai press conference is soon after the Easter weekend, by then we will have signed contracts for the Delta 3 Major Event to be filmed by a Shanghai media group. Much more to come via this section ''Delta Promotions''...stay tuned.

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“The most beautiful thing we can ever experience – is the mysterious… It is the source of all true art and science.”
-Albert Einstein

NEVER WITHOUT THREE

1. FADO: The Beginning (songs of long ago via the debate)
2. FANDANGO: The Journey (dancing, poetry and comedy)
3. FAENA: The Future (fertility – birth, life and death)

WHAT IS CELTIC FADO?

CELTIC FADO – SYMBOLIC OF THE ‘WONDER OF BIRTH’ is the bardic fadisto passing on their version of ‘true’ history through their songs. In the Ancient Gaelic language, Fado literally means ‘songs of long ago.’ Modern Fadisto singing Fado in this new millennia have a larger role than ever before in history, they must inspire the people of the world to work together to bring about the change. From the time known as Pisces (our previous 2,160-years) to now, this time of our future on earth, known as Aquarius – the time for new awareness wisdom. What is seriously important for all songwriters’ lyrics being written for today and tomorrows fado, we must study the pre-history of Antediluvian Celtic Culture. We must learn from our mistakes of yesteryear, so as not to repeat them again today, or create any distortion of what is happening worldwide, now and in the immediate and distant future.

CELTIC FADO, in the modern world it is not uncommon for Fadisto to sing their songs of Fado as songs of Destiny, although not necessarily wrong, as it is not wrong to have such a word open to interpretation. But, according to the Gaelic dictionary Fado has one meaning, and that is ‘long ago’. When anyone sings Fado with a true heart, in today’s entertainment market they will become a ‘FAD’ (an abbreviation of Fado) ‘a new fad’ unknowingly, a common Gaelic expression in many countries. And as a fad, they will enjoy being extremely popular. When one has achieved this acclaim from Fado, one must remain diligent in bringing forth the Truth, this way you are sharing with the source, and all Fad status will be maintained. If not, if you deviate from any of the Truths, your notoriety will surely suffer the duality of ‘Fado’ and ‘Fade’, quickly and simply - disappear.

CELTIC FADO, what is not only WRONG, but is a part of the crime against all Celtic Consciousness is that some of the oldest countries around the globe are ignorant of their own Celtic blissfulness. Take Portugal for example, the academics there think Portuguese Fado is less than 200- years old. And even worse, they think it came to Portugal from Brazil, with origins in Africa. One would think that Portuguese with their thousands of years of Celtic Culture, prior to being named Portugal by ‘the powers to be’ in relatively modern times (in fact, only eight hundred years ago), would be more aware of their Lusitanian Celtic cultural heritage. The word Lusitanian is Gaelic, Fado is Gaelic, and either one is more than likely, as old as the other. During December 2004 our company, Celtimania Productions was negotiating to start a Television Series in Portugal. During our research stage we had phoned and spoke to a Marketing Director of The Lisboan ‘Museum for Fado’. She was promoting a new book release, penned by its author from Brazil stating that’s where Fado came from? Less than 200 years ago? With its origins dating back to Africa? This same Marketing Director was using this book for the sixth annual acknowledgement of the death of Portugals most famous Fadisto singer. Amalia Rodrigues with her extra extraordinary singing, had helped sustain her compatriots through decades of the fascistic Salazar dictatorship. We endeavoured to explain to this Marketing Director that due to this fascism, Amalia was restricted to singing only hygienic Government accredited Fado, totally edited and controlled by that dictatorship. We tried reasoning with this woman wether she thought this word Fado, was either Portuguese, Brazilian, African or perhaps it might even be of Gaelic tradition - totally negative response - nothing… we hung up the phone!

CELTIC FADO, another of countless examples of this ignorance is my Country Australia, founded as a ‘British colony’ by Celts just two hundred years ago in 1788 AD. (Another part of this cultural crime is that Australians in general are also ignorant of their Celtic lineage). Early convict settlers were given 20 lashes with the cat of nine – tails, enough to rip multiple layers of skin entirely off their backs, for daring to speak in Gaelic, this being their native tongue, and the second most common language spoken in Australia at this time. Those early arrivals did however at some stage communicate with Australia’s Indigenous peoples, the Elders of this truly ancient race (having been on this continent for much more than - perhaps as much as double – the current popular belief of 60,000 years). And from this, these Celts learned of their music Fado being passed on to these aboriginal tribes by these early Portuguese (Lusitanian) Celtic seafarers visiting Australian shores in the sixteenth century (between four and five hundred years ago). ‘Dreamtime’, it was explained is about Aboriginal creation mythology, and for more than 60,000 years this indigenous race have passed down their knowledge of the ages by ‘oral communication only,’ including their ‘songs of long ago’. Their warriors, in preparation for battle, would paint their face and entire bodies with indigenous war-like artwork. They loved nothing better after a ferocious battle than to perform their spiritual ‘Corroboree’ (dance of appreciation to their Gods), their sacred lore stated that this must occur down by the ‘Billabong’ (the waters edge), and after having crucified a ‘Kangaroo’ (never tied to a tree – this battle for survival was truly man against beast – and man occasionally lost) for a feast around the fire these warriors loved bragging of their exploits during the winning of the battle, both against their ‘very brave’ opposing tribe and of course, the kangaroo, for their on going battle with nature for their own survival.

WHAT IS CELTIC FANDANGO?

CELTIC FANDANGO – SYMBOLIC OF ‘THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE’ is Gaelic for The God of Love and the worship of the sacredness of water. Fand is a feminine word representing The Goddess of Destiny and she understands the intertwining cosmic fibre of which she weaves the destiny of all men. Her affinity with the sacredness of water is the natural phenomenon of her connection of water and the miracle of childbirth and nature’s connection with moon rotations, the tidal movements of earth’s oceans and her. Angos is a male gender word meaning ‘Love’. Just as Tara is a very popular feminine name and more than not is given to the first-born Celtic daughter as a symbol of great beauty, or even ‘the most beautiful’. Likewise Angus is a masculine symbol for love, and is commonly given to the Celts first-born son. Religion has given a modern twist on this ancient belief with ‘Cupid’ as he fires the arrow of love from his bow, which inevitably lands in the heart of his desire… In a time long travelled, this Celtic philosophy had Angos always kiss one of a flock of elegant white doves with a magical kiss. And have them set flight in search of his romantic desire, when his loved one saw this flock of flying angels, the magical kiss of Angos would be passed on from ‘the dove of love’.

FANDANGO, The God of Love has for millenniums been represented in their fighting ‘dance’ typified by two men and a woman dancing together, each man vying for the attention and affection of the woman. Her sensual provocative response aimed at each one in turn, was always to assure her champion would be, not only the best dancer (fighter - fiona), but also the best protector and lover. FANDANGO even more traditionally, is the concept of humans coming together to celebrate an event and to rejoice in the company of other like- minded humans. This has been symbolized throughout the millenniums by the Celts, as they have kept in tune with nature with their festivals celebrating the interchanging of the seasons.

FANDANGO also meant the celebration and rejoicing any given ‘event’ and particularly after any great battle, by much revelry and mayhem with singing and dancing for extended periods of time. Always accompanied by lavish wining and dining, extravagant feasts with copious amounts of alcohol, and most importantly, always around a huge fire and near the waters edge. Be it river or lake. Like Australia’s indigenous people have done for much longer than 60,000 years, this was the ideal setting for the Celts to ‘brag about the days briga’ (i.e. briga is the Gaelic word for a ‘big brawl’ (i.e. battle) or ‘fight at the fort’. Briga has been mixed into several European languages for many centuries if not millenniums; in English (being the Gaelic equivalent language of the 21st Century), today we use the terminology ‘big brawl’. *Thus it was not surprising to any Celt why the recent phenomenal exposure of (down by the…) River dance and Lord of the Dance took the entire world by storm. As this was truly Celtic Fandango, and it definitely brought our blood to the surface of our skin. Even though America and Australia are very new countries compared to the history surrounding Europe. The United States Of America has 60.000.000 of their current 280.000.000 population are Celts, and my country Australia also has 10.000.000 direct linkage United Kingdom Celts (exactly half of our population) and most of the rest of our European, plus some of our Asian ‘Australians’ are 1st – 2nd generation related, add to this the interesting mix of our 500 year old Aboriginal - Celtic association, and that is certainly a lot of Celtic blood, flowing with super-charged adrenaline.

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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Are you a civilian?

That is to say, someone who is not involved in any form of physical exercise, and you have simply stumbled across this website by sheer accident or coincidence (By the way there is no such thing, if you are here there is a reason!).

• You may already train in another martial art?

• Perhaps you are a parent of a child student within my organisation?

• Maybe, you are a registered member of my various martial arts organisations?

• You are a white, coloured belt or any level (Degree) of black belt?

• Possibly, you are an employee of our various business interests and are checking up on US?

• You may be a current or interested corporate sponsor of our many sporting and business activities, thinking of giving your support?

• Perhaps you are a potential business associate with mutual financial interests, wanting to run a check as a part of your due diligence and knowing more about ME?

Whichever of these categories you are coming from, I sincerely hope YOU enjoy sharing MY journey here at my personal site. And as the first word written here in my introduction, has already expressed to you as a visitor, WELCOME…

BJC-RMG -

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

Many years ago I attended a seminar where one of America''s best-known speakers was out here on the Australian talk circuit. He was covering the age-old topic of correct self-image, positive thought and how to be successful at anything you put your mind to...

During his delivery he touched on the subject of loyalty, both from a personal perspective and loyalty within the environment of business, setting us up around the flanks with some well used clichés like... ''Never give up'', ''Never help your needers - only give help to your deservers'', and... ''It''s not the size of the dog in the fight - it''s the size of the fight in the dog''.

Then he quoted that old time favourite of General George S. Patton...

"If you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body - never let the body tell the mind what to do".

Pausing, he took a deep breath and asked me and around 2000 other ardent listeners to make sure we had our pen and paper handy, to make notes on his following comments.

"LOYALTY... There are two ways in life that we can develop loyalty. One way is that two (Or more) people can know one another for a lifetime. Many years of ''trial and tribulation'' can develop into an impregnable loyalty..." he continued, “the second way to develop unquestionable loyalty can be as simple as ''the size of the cheque’ that you paid that person last week".

Now he took an extended pause that gave him enough time for a slow ten count giving us time to catch up on the notes, and just enough time for ''the apparent paradox'' to set in as a result of his seemingly conflicting statements. Then with perfect timing he threw us the punch line, "And after a lifetime in the people business, even today, I still don''t know which of these *loyalties is the strongest".

BJC - BOB JONES CORPORATION…

RMG - RESOURCE MANAGEMENT GROUPS…

After careful consideration of these two concepts, I realised that this man had unknowingly acknowledged to me the power base of my BJC-RMG organisation (Bob Jones Corporation - Resource Management Groups). Whenever we take on a project involving ''Business Associates'' and ‘Associates’, which constitutes either ‘CIVILIANS’ who have either a recent track record of favourable Business Associations with us (i.e. Thus we relate to them as ‘Business Associates’), and/or BOB JONES ‘BLACK BELTS’ (Who have known one another for long periods of time, and are simply referred to as ‘Associates’).

The right RESOURSES together with a decisive MASTER PLAN backed by correct MANAGEMENT with all these three concepts working together as a GROUP made up of ‘Associates’ and ‘Business Associates’, generally affects the financial outcome of that project favourably for all concerned.

*LOYALTIES WITHIN THE BJC… with the ‘size of that cheque last week’, being shared amongst ‘many years of friendship’ along with recent ‘Business Associates’ achieving a win/win situation for all concerned, this surely, is the ‘double-edged sword’ power base of my organisation…

OBSERVATION OF UNIVERSAL TRUTH - THE BEGINNING

This websites profile endeavours to tell the ‘entire’ Bob Jones story, to coin a legal phrase, “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. Complete with uncomprimising anecdotes about the many business adventures, the unbelievable martial arts journey and intricate personal profile (within reason of course).

For every one of you involved with me in any of these three aspects, or those of you, simply having a passing interest, we sincerely hope all of you make a diary note to come on back to this website occasionally. This is the greatest compliment you could share with me, simply – come on back!

These days I am never happier than when I am involved in the three ‘R’s, Reading (Celtic culture), Researching (the human story of mythology) and wRiting (an interpretation), and here it is on this website for you to share.

At this stage of my life, to me these three R’s are my ‘Meditation’. They are the aggregative extension of my regular martial arts, weight training and fitness sessions. This is my way of developing my dexterous skills of being ‘my own observer’.

As you visit from time to time, whether you are a martial artist of any code, weight training enthusiast, athlete or team - sports competitor or simply, a civilian (‘anyone’ who doesn’t physically train outside of taking the dog for a casual walk in the park). Who ever you are you can all hone your skills at becoming ‘your own world observer’ through the eyes of yours truly and our bjc world movement.

Perhaps it’s important to note at this point in time, this character Bob Jones is not a teacher per se, I am a guide. I don’t profess to know it all, except when it comes to this ‘pathway’, this eclectic ‘journey’ of the warrior that is the same age as human mythology, I have been on this path since my conception. Ok, let’s get this story started… where? I guess we should start at the beginning… the conception.

Crowd Controllers – The Beginning (*Early sixties Bouncers)
From Left: Dave Milne, Dennis Williamson, Bob Jones (Already referred to as ‘The Chief’) and Bill Sabodtka
on duty outside the infamous Catcher Discotheque
right down the bottom end of #471 Flinders Lane, Melbourne (One and a half blocks from Spencer Street).

The Violent Years - Part I

The Violent Years - Part II

The Violent Years - Part III

ALL VIOLENCE

The Greatest Story Never Told

Esoterical Degrees

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The Eliminator

In the pre production days, Pat rang me and asked if I could play the role of ''The Eliminator'', meaning could I eliminate the hundreds of applicants down to an amount of ''potentials'' to select firstly, the soon to become super stars - Gladiators.

Then secondly, how long did I think it would take to ''eliminate'' many thousands of applicants in each in each state of Australia - to select each series contestants. Apparently in America and European cities it took months to perform these selections.

"One day" was my answer - Afterall, I had spent most of my life going around Australia constantly testing many thousands of my martial arts students for for their coloured and black belt gradings, and all that took one day.

When Pat Condon told his counter parts in America and Europe what ''his Eliminator'' was capable of they flew in from everywhere to see first hand how what took them a month, I could do in a day!

John Forsyth (www.intercepttraining.com/People.aspx), my associate in Sydney accepted the role to help do the eliminations.

John also became Head Trainer of the Gladiators and organised other associates of ours to be incharge of training the contestants to an elite level of fitness.

I then devised a series of exercises to test the fitness of these thousands of contestants in each state of Australia. It was a ''gruesome'' nine (9) minute program that eliminated 97 out of 100 contestants within the nine minutes...like I said ''Gruesome''. We still use this program today to test our kickboxers within the Bob Jones martial arts clubs.

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Gladiators - Malaysia & the World Series

Pat Condon then sent me off to Malaysia for a national press conference to announce the coming national Malaysian Gladiator Tour. My process to find Gladiators and contestants for this tour was done in and around Kuala Lumpur.

My job done, I went home to Australia as John Forsyth bought in the Aussie Gladiators. After this tour they all went onto Europe for the World Gladiator Series and John was selected as the international referee.

Pat Condon has since formed ''Condon Entertainment'' and most recently he promoted a spectacular Chinese ballet in Australia - The Wild Zebra Ballet - produced by Shanghai Oriental TV Station.

Pat is currently in and out of China on a regular basis due to the fact his company is involved in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.

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Channel 7's Gladiators - The Making of....featuring the BJC

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Channel 7's Gladiators - The Making of....featuring the BJC

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Bob Jones and his students have been featured in a wide variety of media - newspaper, radio, television and film.

In this section you will find out about how Bob Jones has promoted his organisation making it become a household name.

Choose from:

• Newspaper
• Radio
• Television
• Film

 

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Good Morning Australia

Since the time of those early Don Lane Shows, a type of friendship has developed between Bert Newton and myself.

So much, that like Don, Bert has given me numerous appearances on his many shows over the years...most recently (Christmas 2002) he gave me a great introduction prior to introducing my autobiography ''Let The Good Times Roll''.

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Good Morning Australia

Since the time of those early Don Lane Shows, a type of friendship has developed between Bert Newton and myself.

So much, that like Don, Bert has given me numerous appearances on his many shows over the years...most recently (Christmas 2002) he gave me a great introduction prior to introducing my autobiography ''Let The Good Times Roll''.

Back in the late nineties, long time associate of mine and good personal friend Robin Jolley was producer of Good Morning Australia. Robin had me teaching self-defence on a regular spot every Thursday for twelve months. Robin teamed up with ex Miss Australia Michelle Downes (who was also ex Mrs Peter Brock - Australian Champion racing car driver).

After about six months our fan mail had really picked up, and many of these women watching the show right around Australia said they loved my segment - One problem, I was always teaching Michelle in a standing position, but when women need self defence, most likely they will wind up in a lying down position...Could anything be done about this?

No problem, only solutions, I asked Robin Jolley if I could have a queen sized bed on the set as of the following week?

This way I could teach Michelle while we were both wrestling around on the bed. That first morning Bert Newton introduced us "Bob Jones and Michelle Downes on a bed together demonstrating self-defence, but know I ask you viewers, hasn''t Bob Jones got the best job on Australian television?"

 

 

This is an interview Bob did with GMA''s host Bert Newton upon the launch of his book, Let The Good Times Roll

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Back in the late eighties, Bert''s producer rang me about coming on the show to discuss rape statistics (this was not long after my first book release - ''Hands Off'' An Awareness of Violence Against Women) and to do a couple of easily applicable techniques on camera.

Unbeknown to me this producer had also invited a good friend of mine - the then current Heavyweight Boxing Champion Title Holder Dave Russell to assist me in this easily applicable technique.

As I arrived at the television station and headed for the ''green room'' for a cold drink, there was Dave Russell in a foul mood. As it turned out Dave was asked to "help Bob out".

At the rehearsal (a deliberate half hour before my set arrival appointment time) they said to Dave, "At this point you come out from behind this curtain and grab Bob in a head lock from behind."

"Great" says Dave, "When do we rehearse with Bob?".

"No, the point here is to suprise Bob and see how he reacts when he is suprised," replied the producer.

"Far que" says Dave "No way...I''d box him with gloves on for twelve rounds, but no way would I grab him from behind without him knowing about it", with that Dave stormed off. That was half the problem, the other half was he had a parking ticket on his car, hence his ''green room'' foul mood. "Dave, just relax - stay here and watch the segment - I''ll square it up for you."

It couldn''t have worked out better, towards the end of the segment I was teaching a female guest on the show how easy she could hurt me by applying a basic ''figure four'' wrist lock. I explained how I would ''tap out'' with my free hand when she had applied enough pressure to cause pain. Bert, totally unexpected challenged me to put this wrist lock on him to see how much it hurt.

Having demonstrated this technique at hundreds of seminars I knew exactly where and when it would hurt...a fraction beyond this point had Bert leap out of his chair and almost say "far que" live on television (just as Graham Kennedy had done with Bert on ''In Melbourne Tonight'' many years earlier).

Dave Russell had also ''convinced'' management to pay for his parking ticket, we both went home extremely happy.

For the next couple of weeks on his show Bert Newton was shaking hands with his guests left handed, with his right wrist all bandaged up, he often told guests "Recently I had this karate guy on the show and..."

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PAUL DAINTY & THE ROLLING STONES - 1972

In 1972 the Paul Dainty Corporation employed the BJC and Bob Jones personally to bodyguard and secure ‘all aspects’ of the ROLLING STONES TOUR, and every major act in the world that toured Australia for the next eighteen years until 1990.

Since this date, his predecessors continue to protect international celebrities and dignitaries.

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Rolling Stones Story - Extract from ''Let The Good Times Roll''

21 November. I’d looked up my diary early on that sunny Melbourne morning. There were several meetings regarding my dual role: my involvement as a martial artist and as a security consultant. There was a security luncheon booked for 12.30 at the South-ern Cross Hotel: I had to meet a Paul Dainty of the PDC (Paul Dainty Corporation). This was to be a very important meeting: on the phone he’d mentioned ‘making me an offer I could not refuse’.

I knew from his eloquent English accent he was not in the Mafia. I was intrigued, and on asking how I’d know him he’d answered: ‘Don’t worry about that, I know you.’

We’d arranged to meet in the lobby of the Cross, one of my stomping grounds. I’d worked here during the 1960s as a supervisor (bouncer). As I waited, old names and faces came to mind: The Beatles, co-median Shelley Burman, Terry Riley, the Tavern Bar manager, Vinnie Scott and that funny man of the bouncer fraternity, Pat Housley.

Then here was that American chiropractor who used to fix our occasional occupational hazards. He did a great job on an injured shoulder of mine one time about four years earlier. What was his name? Oh yeah, Gus Mercurio.

‘Hi Bob, we’re both early.’

It was 12.25. I turned around to see a young man of sartorial elegance. Very British, groomed hair and nails, impeccable English-tailored three-piece suit and patent leather handcrafted Italian shoes. They were as shiny as the polished timber floor of the Southern Cross foyer, and I just knew he’d have bought those patent leathers the last time he was in Milan.

Over lunch we small-talked about the Australian rock ‘n’ roll scene, then he slowly led into,
‘Bob, I’ve checked you out, I’ve heard about your promotional days with the suburban dances, your trouble-shooter days, the years in the discotheque arena, and the last couple of years you and your martial arts empire have secured all of the major outdoor rock festivals …’

I didn’t bother responding that I’d checked him out, that at only twenty-six he was a multi-millionaire, had a worldwide organisation with its head office in London, that he was now spending most of his time in Melbourne and was annoying many of our local entertainment entrepreneurs due to the quality of the acts he was beginning to bring out …

‘I’ve spoken to a lot of industry people, both here in Melbourne and Sydney, and also my Australian manager of the PDC. All highly recommend you and your organisation. At the end of the day, I was wondering if you could manage the security for a big-name band I am touring here later this summer season?’

‘After a rap like that, I damned well better give it a try. Who’s the band?’

‘The Rolling Stones.’

Shit! Shit! Shit! Did he just say The Rolling Stones? Since The Beatles rolled over, The Stones were possibly the biggest act in the world. Okay, okay, look cool, don’t muck up …

‘Look Bob, the problem I’ve got is that bloody Joe Cocker bust a month ago, those bloody headlines ricocheted around the planet. Now, The Stones are paranoid about coming here. After what Joe got done for, they’re afraid they could get life down here.’

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, I could see the reason for their paranoia.

‘Their tour manager Peter Rudge is due in three days and he’s said that unless I can guarantee them the best security in the country, they just won’t come. That gives you three days to get your act together, do a proposal for the tour with your plans to give them the best security there is in this country. Oh, and by the way, I could use a good security manager for my tours; pull this off for me and there could be quite a bit of work for you in the future!’

Shit! Shit! Shit! The Rolling Stones, I thought as we shook hands and as I gave Paul Dainty one of my most confident smiles.

Bob Jones on stage protecting the Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, 1973

 

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THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD

ESOTERICAL DEGREES - THE TRILOGY YEARS
What rank will you be?

PREFATORIAL

"When you see a worthy person, endeavour to emulate him,
when you see an unworthy person then examine your inner self"

When any beginner experiencing that first lesson eventually finds himself dressed in his brand new BJMA training uniform. And ‘someone’ has bothered to assist you with ‘that’ awkward wrap around jacket, what exactly ties with what and where? “And what do I do with this extremely long ‘white belt’? Does it actually go around my waist two or three times?” Was probably your first esoteric question to yourself?

Here you are now, in position at the back of the pack, on your own but not alone on the basketball stadium battlefield with so many likeminded military (martial) devotees.

With uncanny discipline everyone in the room is responding to every command from a daunting solitary voice constantly chanting in cadence from somewhere out the front of the class. “Push ups, sit ups now run from one side to side,” screams that voice. “Now bend and touch the floor on each side as you are running” was a deliberate demand as if it was meant directly for you. “Line up, quickly, double time now punch, kick… be punched, be kicked, knock one and other down, pick yourselves up. Don’t help anyone! Everyone gets up on their own steam”, held even more deliberation.

THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD

- TEN DEGREES -

1963 PREFATORIAL

• PROSPECT YEARS
• FIRST DEGREE
• SECOND DEGREE
• THIRD DEGREE
• FOURTH DEGREE
• FIFTH DEGREE
• SIXTH DEGREE
• SEVENTH DEGREE
• EIGHTH DEGREE
• NINTH DEGREE
• TENTH DEGREE

THE TRILOGY YEARS -What rank will you be?

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PREFATORIAL

“When you see a worthy person, endeavour to emulate him…
when you see an unworthy person then examine your inner self.”

When any beginner experiencing that first lesson eventually finds himself dressed in his brand new BJMA training uniform. And ‘someone’ has bothered to assist you with ‘that’ awkward wrap around jacket, what exactly ties with what and where? “And what do I do with this extremely long ‘white belt’? Does it actually go around my waist two or three times?” Was probably your first esoteric question to yourself? Here you are now, in position at the back of the pack, on your own but not alone on the basketball stadium battlefield with so many likeminded military (martial) devotees. With uncanny discipline everyone in the room is responding to every command from a daunting solitary voice constantly chanting in cadence from somewhere out the front of the class. “Push ups, sit ups now run from one side to side,” screams that voice. “Now bend and touch the floor on each side as you are running” was a deliberate demand as if it was meant directly for you. “Line up, quickly, double time now punch, kick… be punched, be kicked, knock one and other down, pick yourselves up. Don’t help anyone! Everyone gets up on their own steam”, held even more deliberation.

Just as you was thinking, ‘Maybe I should not even be here?’ that daunting voice suddenly modified and became a caring, compassionate educational authority. Answering all of your ‘What ifs?’ Suddenly, when you least expected, ‘that cadence voice’ re-emerged “Push ups, sit ups now running from side to side… “Why?” You almost thought out loud. Then as you have observed all the differing ‘degrees’ of abilities from all of the black belts up the front, to the many coloured belts throughout the floor space. You suddenly realize why you arrived here in the first place. You had been told by several friends and now you have observed it for yourself! Everyone in this room could kick your butt, including and especially all these other white belts that you know have had less than ten lessons. And they are almost as good as those yellow belts.

Now you get it, why you took up the challenge! “Bring it on”, you inwardly scream to yourself. Now you know it does not matter how many times these white belts knock you down, you will pick yourself up on your own steam. After only a few lessons as you have been observingthe instructors style and methodology of teaching these martial minded enthusiasts, you’ve noticed that before attaining the coveted black belt a student is merely learning self defence. And from observation of all the higher ranks it is obvious that after black belt the BJMA individual now becomes a student of a multitude of diversified martial arts, at least one art for each country of the world. The more you travel – the more you learn!

“A true Black Belt following the path of the Warrior unwittingly changes their way of life…
for they can never be the same person again.”

What is now even more obvious from your observations is that as martial artists they are introduced to a lifelong journey of self-improvement. The ladder of ones own life is laid out as a journey of ten steps (i.e. Ten Degrees), where each step must be observed and studied before making that next step ‘up’ the ladder and venturing onto the next level.

“Limitations you thought you had… No longer exist.”

Generally the amount of time in years you will spend on each degree is equivalent to the actual number of that next degree. Thus, a new first degree will really observe and evaluate themselves for approximately two years. This couple of years is generally just enough time to observe the difference within yourself as you changed your mind set from your journey as a prospect through the coloured belt divisions, to waking every morning, as a brand new Black Belt.

After just two years of living you’re life as a black belt, constantly thinking, training preparing for that next level, second degree. The day of blood, sweat and tears finally arrived. And now having just graded to second degree, you observe this post grading entity is an entirely new you. Complete with the realisation you can never be that same person again (i.e. that first degree), you have not only entered the marathon, you have won your third major battle. Going through the brown belt grading ‘was’ tough’. Going through the fist degree grading thinking the alternative was death! At the second degree grading, well that was something really different. This was perhaps to some, thought as being something unachievable. We all experience this level as an extremely difficult and physically demanding endurance test, the absolute test of a lifetime.

This is even titled the ‘MARTIAL ARTS MARATHON’ and it is here that the serious practitioner will spend the following three years comprehending where this personal journey is heading. You find now that communicating with coloured belts and sparring with ‘those’ first degrees is no longer any where near as challenging as it had previously been. Second degrees are identifiable to everyone due to the red embroidery on each end of their belt stating both names of the person and the style. This is symbolic from antiquity of giving of yourself to the system; the amount of sweat you left on the floor at your grading and now the red embroidery on the ends of your black belt are both a part of the metaphor representing the giving of your blood as a sign of your allegiants to the ‘Brotherhood’.

In Japanese culture this is referred to as ‘Bushido’ – “The way of the warrior”, involving three elite warrior levels being Samurai, Yakuza and Ninjas (With separate mountain warrior priests known as Yamabushi), always armed with double swords, Katana (Long blade) and Wakisashi (Short blade). Physically identified with a top knot hair style and body markings (Tattoos) showing their rank status. In the much more ancient Celtic culture the reference here is ‘MacFinn’ – “The way of the Brotherhood”, Mac signifying brother and Finn being three elite warrior levels. Fionna, Fiai and Filhi (With separate mountain warrior priests known as Druids) always armed with double swords, Falcuta (Long blade) and Faca (Short blade). Physically identified as always wearing a torque (Symbol of freedom) around their necks with a crest (Mohawk hair style) and body markings (Tattoos) showing their rank status.

Almost immediately, following your grading and the application of that ‘red’ embroidery you will become aware of a new found respect shown to you by third and fourth degrees, this new found respect is your ‘new challenge’. Although there is merely one and two degrees between you and them, you know they have all been training more than double the years you have. Learning, training and sparring with these higher degrees is a whole new dimension to be added to you journey. And they give you no choice… you have to be up for it!

Up to this point in time the journey has been almost entirely presented to the practitioner as ‘physical’ with the focus almost entirely on ones personal power, self esteem awareness, peak conditioning, nutrition, muscle strengthening, correct stretching technique to elongate these stronger muscles, correct body fat content, due to correct food intake. All of this attention and direct focus aimed at you has had its purpose of developing ‘you’ as an individual martial artist with a base core as strong as could be developed for and by you.

Now you and the system have three years to scope you ‘beyond’ this individualism. You will be inspired by the actions of others, you will enjoy passing on your current acquired knowledge to the brown belts and all of the new black belts coming through after you. Be prepared, these browns & blacks will flock to you seeking advice, they will have difficult questions! You will find many previous unexplored ‘mental’ pleasures from assisting others in their quest to achieve what you have just achieved, the MARATHON.

From the fourth degrees you will learn much more about the ‘mental – psychological’ aspects of fighting than everything you have learned thus far. Many new experiences will unfold as you learn from the third degrees about compassion and the martial ‘ART’ discipline of the martial arts journey as a philosophy of ‘TRUTH’, the selflessness of sharing ‘all’ of your abilities with ‘all’.

“As a third degree you are a mirror reflection of self through students.”

Three years have passed before you know it; you have completed your grading. As a third degree wearing your red uniform you are recognised by your peers and the system as a teacher. You are no longer simply an individual looking out for # 1. Generally at this point the decision to open your own club has become an issue. TCB – Taking Care of Business, right location and rent and overheads coupled with right marketing and advertising, with a realisation you already were aware of… nothing is for free. Up until now you have been a student, you were an instructor as a second degree (You may have instructed for some time as a first degree – you probably served as an assistant instructor much earlier) and now you will officially ‘teach’ for the next four years.

Now you have the added pressure of developing your own ‘white belts’ all the way through to ‘black belts’. Undoubtedly each of them will be a reflection of self, this is the reason third degree is the most self stressful and self demanding of all grades. They simply become total reflections of YOU, in effect you are actually seeing your own mistakes through them! When any white through black is solely under your direction, at first you see every minor detail. Every minor discrepancy is illuminated, setting off a chain reaction of mini neuron explosions between the brain cell activity of your conscious and sub conscious thoughts. Now you are so keen to share so much with so many, it can become a catastrophe.

Four years later and the saviour has arrived, your next grading level of fourth degree, this is known as the ‘Lower Masters Level’. You are no longer a teacher, you have elevated to the status of ‘Guide’. You are now identified by wearing a plain (No badges or any other identification, this is a form of humility, you being happy with who you are) all white uniform with ‘equal’ red and white stripes added to your black belt around your waist with the white specifically on the top and the ‘red’ on the bottom. This Lower Masters Level is symbolic of knowing the black belt is the journey and the white stripe is the knowing where you have come from, your beginning. While the ‘red’ is intrigue, the unknown quantity of the journey and where you actually are going.

Five years later and your next grading of fifth degree is the opposite of the MARATHON and known as the ‘Upper Masters Level’. This grading is titled the ‘SPRINT’ due to the actual timeframe of ‘physical activity’ is merely three minutes. Strangely though, everyone who has done this last of our gradings performed in view by the public – all agree the fifth degree SPRINT is by far the most demanding of all our gradings to this point. To transcend through these two MASTER levels while the emphasis is to remain within their duality, the practitioner kneels on their right knee. From here they meditate on the asceticism and the metaphoric zymology of the simplicity of slowly removing their belt and upon replacing it to their body, they have reversed the action which gives the red its new dimension – Worn On Top. Their duality is more than simply visual, besides looking so similar, after so many years training together they have bonded. They are definitely brothers and sisters by choice rather than by chance.

After five years and on completion of the fifth degree grading in most BJMA Systems (Bob Jones Martial Arts) practitioners at these two ranks and everyone above all wear white uniforms. In Celtic culture this wearing of white is symbolic of the constant battle of light over dark (our known versus our unknown). Lower ranks wear black as they are searching, and higher ranks wear white as they are discovering. For many millenniums in our ancient mythology the bull being black was our unknown source, he had to be sacrificed to the mid afternoon Sun being bright white. As an offering to the Gods he would be defeated in battle by the Fiona Warrior (In the Gaelic language Fiona means one of the light, one of intellect). Our red and white belt represents the mid afternoon SUN and the Sun at dusk as it turns bright red. And as the crescent of the Moon appears within the darkness of night – we see the horns of the bull reappear, declaring yet another potential challenge of the future. Mythology warns Celtic warriors to be aware for three days prior and after the time when the moon is full, as a challenging paradox this is also a time for celebration.

At BJMA seminars, gradings and functions all fourth and fifth degrees tend to congregate together more than any other ranks. You will notice them as they slowly role the hem of their sleeves three times reminding themselves of those three physically demanding gradings (Brown belt plus first degree black belt… and the second degree MARATHON. And also as a respect to our Anglo Celtic forefathers who built this nation, they rolled their sleeves three times to prepare for a hard days work!). After battling their way through those three physical levels and then that third degree Teaching dilemma, they now have this Twin-ship of Lower & Upper Master-ship, four and five years consecutively of slowly replacing themselves within their organisations. Through these nine years each of them will develop many of their own third degrees and of course much larger numbers of second & first degrees and one can only guess how many new ‘Prospects’ will evolve through their coloured belt systems, and so the paradox of our ‘ascetic cycle’ continues.

This paradox, of on the one hand everyone is expected to be successful at building their own martial arts network while from another perspective… the purpose of self replacement is to once more have extra personal time for advancement. This being their original studies of the Physicality (Body), blended with the multiple sharing of the systems Psychological attributes (Mind). Now it is imperative to continue to build their organisations under their control so as to prosper, but all fourth and fifth degrees must individualise amongst themselves and work regularly together to progress in all areas of the Spiritual aspects (Soul). As these three simple words of Mind (Circle), Body (Square) & Spirit (Triangle) are in essence – ‘The’ Actual Journey, thus the personal logo of our Creator, Patron & Founder is a triangle within a circle protected by a square.

These gradings from white belt beginners up to and including fifth degree, the Masters Level are always witnessed by all students of the organisation, the more advanced gradings of sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth & tenth degree are more personal between the individual and the organisation at the higher end of this degree structure. Every aspect of this of course, will be covered in explicit detail later in these writings, this is significant of the transparency attached to the name, “The Greatest Story Never Told” – Until Now. Whether or not you are an avid reader, to truly understand the Bob Jones Story – You must read this, “The Greatest Story Never Told”.

 

PROSPECTIVE YEARS

THE BEGINNING

THE COLORED BELT JOURNEY

The Bob Jones Story following on from what happened before “Let the Good Times Roll”… with this part two being titled, “The Greatest Story Never Told”, while also having the sub-title, ‘THE TEN ESOTERICAL DEGREES’.

In 1963, I had several situations arise that had turned my entire lifestyle around. My marriage to my wife Pauline had fallen apart; the police had advised me it would be better if I simply closed down my illicit sly-grog shop (an illegal bottle shop due to our Government controlled 6 pm. closing of all licensed premises. For more on this, see part three in this series - The Violent Years). Both these situations, plus a riot set up by a rival dance promotion group, had local councils disqualify my permits and close down three separate successful rock and roll venues. Talk about being pissed off!

Have you heard that expression about one door closing and another door opening? Just as I thought life was giving me the rawest deal ever, coincidentally on the same day as the assassination of Americas president John F Kennedy - Dave Milne and Bill Sabotka, a couple of good mates and ‘BOUNCER’ associates of mine made me an offer I could not refuse.

They proposed that the three of us start up a security company to be called The ‘BJC - Trouble Shooters,’ specialising in venues heading out of control, allowing us to quote three times the normal rate of pay. From that point on I found myself in a completely new and exciting lifestyle, doing what I had always done best, using my fists, except this time the deal I had been offered, was to get paid exceptionally high pay for what had always come naturally.

A couple of weeks after the 23rd of November, that fateful day that JFK had his life closed off from the rest of the world, that same day that my own world took on a new turn of events… I was having breakfast and while browsing through the morning paper, I came across an advertisement for a Martial Arts demonstration by renowned International author Mr Donn F. Draeger.

He was an American who had spent the last twenty years living and working in Japan while also studying many of the ancient oriental arts. He had married into a local Japanese family and it wasn’t long before he spoke the language fluently. This gave him exceptional insight into his writing about the philosophy and the esoteric realms of this countries code of Bushido (the way of the Samurai or more literally, the way of the warrior). The actual demonstration was set for a few days later at 12.30pm at the Melbourne Sports Depot in Flinders St, Melbourne.

For the past year or so during all of my dilemmas I had co-incidentally been intrigued with this whole cultural concept of these secretive fighting arts, our local media was affording a lot of exposure to a couple of colourful characters in Sydney. Fred Vella (Born in Malta) and Joe Meizner (Yugoslavian) were being promoted as two local Australians who had achieved these mysterious titles known to us, the general public, as Kara-te Black Belts.

Mr Vella achieved national fame when he demolished a suburban house using only his bare fists and feet while wearing only a white Kara-te suit held together at the waist by his ‘mysterious’ Black Belt. That night on the evening news, we all witnessed this young man pulverise this house into a rubble of broken bricks, splintered timber and a cloud of lingering dust.

Mr Meizner achieved national fame when he was approached by one of Sydney’s major property developers… this developer was losing hundreds of thousands of dollars each week, this was due to his property being invaded by squatters. Hundreds of back packers, unemployed street people and drug addicts had moved in and were calling his development home. Armed with only his bare fists and feet and all available television cameras, and wearing only a white Kara-te uniform held together at the waist by his ‘mysterious’ Black Belt. Joe Meizner had entered the building and made everyone an offer none could apparently refuse… on the evening news that night we saw all those squatters leaving that building by all available doors and windows, taking their worldly possessions with them – never to return. Rumour has it that Joe had the foresight to request some small percentage in the deal if he was to be successful, this over the next period of time would make young Joe, a very wealthy martial artist come celebrity around Sydney. Especially within the infamous downtown area known as Kings Cross, Joe will eventually become involved in NSW dirty politics and corrupt members of the NSW Police Force. And along the way of course Mr Fred Vella, Mr Joe Meizner and Mr Bob Jones will all become very good friends (See Bob Jones ‘The Violent Years’).

Did I mention that every time I saw either Mr Fred Vella or Mr Joe Meisner on national television or in the press, without fail they were always in the presence of different representatives of Sydney’s most beautiful women? Somehow this image gave the distinct impression that this mysterious Black Belt phenomenon and Beauty were inter related. And for a single guy like myself at the time this simply doubled the intrigue, ‘mysticism and seemingly magical powers’ backed by a touch of ‘feminine sexuality’!

The exposure of these two Kara-te ‘experts’ and their seemingly impossible exploits was my original introduction to this way of Bushido, this ‘way’ of the fighting arts…

Perhaps you can comprehend my anticipation when I arrived at the MSD and amongst a apprehensive crowd of several hundred I found myself totally mesmerized. This man, the Martial Artist, was a man of intrigue. Mr Donn Draeger was a human being of quality and substance that I had never experienced before to this point in my search for a mentor… he talked of the sword (Katana) as being the Soul of the Samurai, the true path of Bushido (the way of the Warrior). He explained that this journey he had dedicated his life to, was an actual journey of self-discovery and self empowerment and that Black Belt tied around his waist and the esoteric Dans or Degrees that were to be achieved thereafter, were guidelines. Not much unlike a roadmap that could direct a man through the journey of life while gaining an impregnable strength of character. He discussed the philosophy of his training with the sword; this ancient mode of survival, this act of killing with the sword was actually the antithesis of our inhumanity towards others. He endeavoured to have us understand that the word martial represented the ‘fighting arts’, the word ‘art’ was the paradox. He further explained, “The distinction that will develop us as ‘artists’ was that the more knowledge we acquire, eventually the highest order of our belief system is to defend ourselves under any/all conditions without ever having to harm the perpetrator/s”.

Mr Donn Draeger made this concept sound so exciting and so adventurous, that I even forgot that he was talking about the same race of people, the Japanese, that only twenty years earlier (1943) were responsible for the death and suffering of so many Australians, much later in life I will also learn that my own biological father’s death was a result of his time spent as a POW in Japanese prison camps. I will learn this during the time of a new awareness creation of ‘political correctness’ having us forgiving (although we will never forget, which you can only know and respect if you were there) all past atrocities, just in time for the next round of wars!

After this almost spiritual experience, Donn Draeger’s demonstration would impact on my life much more than I was even conscientiously aware of. For the next two years (Until 1965) I will search diligently for any sign, any possibility that might eventuate whereby I may have the opportunity to pursue this seemingly belligerent lifestyle of this unusual man. On this day that would begin to completely change my life, I had purchased a copy of ‘Asian Fighting Arts’ the author’s latest book release. I had waited patiently in line for his signature and it was as if he could see I was not the average fan, he seemed to be aware of my potential as a protégé of his journey and asking my name, he added the following inscription;

To Bob Jones - my new found friend,

“When you see a worthy person, endeavour to emulate him…
when you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.”

Signed: Captain Donn F. Draeger

1965 - PROSPECTIVE YEARS

March 3rd, 1965 was a typical Melbourne warm pleasant spring day,life for me had never been better,and by the end of today my lifestyle will be turned around to such a ‘degree’ I will never have time for looking back, and my future will be forever – ‘A Constant Adventure’.

1970 - FIRST DEGREE

1972 - SECOND DEGREE

1975 - THIRD DEGREE

1979 - FOURTH DEGREE

1984 - FIFTH DEGREE

1990 - SIXTH DEGREE

1997 - SEVENTH DEGREE

2003 - EIGHTH DEGREE

2012 - NINTH DEGREE

2022 - TENTH DEGREE

THE TRILOGY YEARS - What rank will you be?

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Guest Appearance on Shirls Neighbourhood

At the height of the Bob Jones Corporation, Bob Jones (aka Tom Jones) is asked to personally protect Shirls Neighbourhood character, Claude ''The Crow''.

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Guest Appearance on Shirls Neighbourhood

At the height of the Bob Jones Corporation, Bob Jones (aka Tom Jones) is asked to personally protect Shirls Neighbourhood character, Claude ''The Crow''.

Shirl''s Neighbourhood was an Australian afternoon children''s television series aired on the Seven Network between 1978 and 1983.

The half-hour show featured former Skyhooks frontman Graeme "Shirley" Strachan and co-host Liz Rule alongside a cast of characters including Norm The Kangaroo, Ol'' Possum, Claude The Crow, Stanley The Snake, Greenfinger the Garden Gnome, Yippee the Bunyip, Bartholomew the Sheep and a band of monkeys. Franciscus Henri appeared in the show as a regular, both as himself presenting musical segments and as "Professor Henri" in comical sketches. He left the show in October 1980.

Norm the Kangaroo was played by Don Bridges. The other characters were puppets created and brought to life by Ron Mueck. Shirl''s Neighbourhood was produced by Jennifer Hooks and Richard Bence of Puppetstuff. It ran from 1979 till 1983 and clocked up over 900 episodes. Jennifer Hooks later went on to head Film Victoria and Cinemedia.

The show was very popular with kids and adults alike. This was due mainly to the character of Claude the Crow. Claude had a slightly more cynical view of the world than the other characters, and adults could identify with this.

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CELTIMANIA PROJECT #4

EMILIA - The Voice

‘A Voz da Lusitania’ (ie, ‘The Voice of ancient Celts’) - The Album

As for my third trip to Portugal and Spain in three consecutive years I am really disappointed with my aspirations for Emilia, she’s that 15yr girl I found singing in a downtown fado-house on our first trip to Lisbon (three trips later and she’s now 18 years old).

During this third tour of duty we recorded an amazing (Celtic Arconic Music) fado album, which we titled - ‘A Voz da Lusitania’ (ie,’The voice of ancient Celts).

Emilia sings all the tracks with the voice of a Celtic angel. Currently at University in Portugal studying choreography, her passion is her desire to be a ‘professional entertainer’ and fadista. She is in great athletic shape – her birthright makes her an unquestionable Brazilian beauty – and her natural choreographic skills already give her an incredible stage presence.

As Emilia was born in Brazil I am sending her demo tapes to the major Publishing & Distribution Houses of her country of birth. If you are a Marketing Exec’ in Brazil and you have recently listened to this amazing voice and you want to move on to the next step – do not hesitate to contact us at; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

I am confident and I feel you will agree this album is a natural for the Brazilian Market and every Portuguese migrant world wide. Having had the ‘voice of fado’ touring the world during all of the 20th Century with the amazing Amalia - plus during this first decade of the 21st Century with Mariza - is solid proof there is a growing market for these incredible voices exporting these Portuguese and Brazilian Cultures to the English speaking fraternity.

What it needs now to capitalize on these proven statistics and open a new market to the young at heart, is youth; here is an eighteen year old with a voice powerful enough to shake the world on its axis. We have a hundred ‘Celtic mythology based songs’ written and ready for selection and production for both Portuguese fado and the exciting style of up tempo Brazilian samba influence. Add to this the professional production mixture of both Portuguese-Celtic and Brazilian-Latino Cultures – and we have a special effects stage show to entertain the planet. Why delay? We look forward to your contribution

EMILIA - PORTUGUESE FADO (HYGENIC FADO)

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BACK FROM PORTUGAL

For the third year in a row I have spent more time in Europe than here in Australia and each time gets more exciting than the previous experience. Another nine months from June last year until March this year seemed more like nine weeks.These three european research trips laid the groundwork for all Celtimania Projects listed on this site. This website is ideal for pro-active Marketing Executives to have a ‘wander/wonder’ around and if they spotanything they ‘feel’ would suit their companies profile then its as simple as them contacting This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and our Marketing Division will send all relevant information of any enquiry regarding TCB and P-M (Total Cost Budgeting and Prize-money etc,).		EUROPEAN PROJECTS CLICK HERE
		AUSTRALIAN PROJECTS CLICK HERE

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CELTIMANIA PROJECT #1

My first idea of note is a phone-in contest asking European football fans to nominate their... ''PLAYER OF THE DECADE''

All this project needs is a Tele-communications Company and a major naming rights Sponsor to make it work. Actually, the reason I mention this project first is that it needs immediate attention. Due to its format it must be put into action ASAP as it has to be promoted and finalized prior to Xmas this year (2010).

For any enterprising Marketing Executives reading this paragraph, “I have a feeling this idea of mine will generate in excess of a billion phone call responses – that should fit in with almost any companies profile – plus you will be surprised how user friendly this is!”. A billion calls - that should spark a flame in the gut of a Tele-communications Company, if it sparks a burning hot-flame – maybe we should set a meeting yesterday?

PLAYER OF THE DECADE

MORE INFORMATION - CLICK HERE

 

 

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CELTIMANIA PROJECT #2

My second of many ideas is to stage a EUROPEAN KICKBOXING CUP - 2012 to coincide with the finals of the EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CUP - 2012 in Poland and Ukraine.

Simply click here for a basic run through and/or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for a full break down.

If you have a desire to be ‘first cab off the rank’ then phone +61.419.586.559 and organize with CELTIMANIA PROJECT GM – Mr Michael Kenna for the possibility of an ASAP meeting with our Executive Director, Robert V. Jones (yours truly).

EURO CUP - 2012

WORLD CUP - 2014

MORE INFORMATION - CLICK HERE

 

 

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CELTIMANIA PROJECT #3

My third idea is not only one of our most outrageous projects it is also one of my major passions.

With the assistance of five groups;

1. Irish Government bodies of tourism and major events;
2. A world player in Tele-communications;
3. Prior agreement and partnership with business sector financial input;
4. Major Corporate Naming Rights plus Gold, Silver, Bronze Sponsors;
5. Multi-media & Television including free to air and pay-per-view.

This idea is for just prior (by three weeks) to the MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES, LONDON - 2012… I would like to stage the ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES, IRELAND. With one of the priority marketing grabs being;

TEN TONNE OF GLADIATORS
COME HOME TO IRELAND

• ONE HUNDRED COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

• ONE HUNDRED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS

• WEIGHING MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED KILOS EACH

• THAT’S TEN TONNE OF GLADIATORS COMING HOME TO IRELAND

• WHEN THEY LOSE - THEY ARE OUT OF THE GAMES!

• AFTER SEVEN MAJOR EVENTS - 99 COMPETITORS WILL HAVE LOST

• ONLY ONE GRAND CHAMPION WINS EVERY BATTLE & THE WAR

• THE GRAND CHAMPION WILL WIN THE LIONS SHARE - OF THE EURO PRIZEMONEY

ANCIENT GAMES IRELAND - 2012

MORE INFORMATION - CLICK HERE

 

 

 

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“What is waiting for us around the next corner?” Is it just another one of those recessions we have to have, or are we headed into another PRE-WAR full blown DEPRESSION. Either way the common man is in for a storm. The housing market for the first time in a long time has faltered; values are stagnating and beginning to decrease. The business man is also feeling a pinch as his Stocks and Bonds are being pounded and could possibly fall much further ‘tomorrow’ or in the very near future.

Sensible parenting and family home management responsibilities are currently checking their cost of living regularly and re-evaluating their level of disposable income. Following on from these downmarket trends of our property and stock markets there is this incredible economic slowdown, fuelling the flames of fear that Government policy for possible hikes in interest rates will place those mortgage payments under further undeserved pressure.

International Oil problems, thanks to our BIG BROTHERS aborted manipulations, are now creating record petrol prices. This affects transport; this in turn affects our cost of living across the board! Now it’s time to put our ‘disposable income’ under the microscope and consider giving it a new identity, ‘discretional spending’ will have to play a major role in dictating where our money is going to be spent in the immediate future.

If Bob Jones life’s experiences have taught him anything, it’s that absolutely nothing is new, everything repeats itself eventually. Having been in the self defence industry, security business and the fight game since prior to 1963, there has been many times our beautiful country has had its share of hard times, and he has noticed the trends repeating themselves.

And these trends are that everything you have read here in this chapter of PROMOTIONAL FACTS… is that when things finally get bad enough, WE WILL FIGHT! There are three signals to identify our desire to fight one and other, ‘inflation’ before ‘recession’ followed by ‘depression’.

INFLATION:

As the masses begin to argue with one and other. Not earning enough? Spending too much? Liberal or Labour? Of course it’s always our Governments fault for everything that goes wrong? Sack this one hire that one, thank the heavens our first ever female Prime Minister is very unique, she’s a red headed Celt who is a very religious non - believer.

But then again it is definitely the Presidents fault? America, Iraq, Iran – Israel, Palestine, Lebanon? But then again it could be North or South Korea and now Russia is getting angry? But then again, everyone knows this ‘inflation’ has ‘something’ to do with India and or China. These tit-bits constantly flounder from pubs, clubs, factories to our corporate board rooms, all the while building in aggression.

RECESSION:

Now the masses begin to fight one and other, this social inter reaction of violence always begins at the basic level, very soon to sour out of control from the schoolyard to the workplace. At the same time our ‘night-life’ entertainment scene and domestic violence becomes a real problem within our homes.
The above listed cities are just a few that have cultural, political and age old religious indifferences that are all at the time of writing - beginning to escalate their presently volatile violence.

The next stage is usually the Government approval of police abusing demonstrators and political activists. If these normally law abiding citizens respond in their own defence (as in Thailand most recently) then the military intervene and up the anti. At this point if this anti-social behaviour continues escalation - if this ‘recession’ is not diffused there is a historical possibility, it will not be long before we potentially could see a surge of warfare in cities around the world!

DEPRESSION:

If the elevation continues from ‘inflation’ through to ‘recession’ all the way into a ‘depression’ one of two things throughout all of history have always eventuated. Either most of the above named cities will escalate into quiet serious BATTLEZONES or just a couple of them will escalate their indifferences into possibly, another WAR of world potential, which has us then – all being pressured to take sides politically.

“Why the doom and gloom?” you must be asking by now, especially in a document suggesting some investment/sponsorship potential in a new project.
As Martial Artists and not unlike any conservative business man, we try always to turn a positive from a negative - even in total adversity as was just exemplified.

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”.

In hard times and even in seemingly impossible times our natural instincts gear our psyche towards the battle, the fight at hand. How do we respond, generally we try to go around the situation or we may be forced to hit it head on with varying levels of success, depending on the integrity of our psyche.Â
For Bob Jones it’s time to go back into what he knows best, the entertainment industry, self defence, security and the fight game, and he plans to come back bigger than ever before!

‘BOBS BACK’ PROMOTIONS:

This time around and if the future gets gradually tougher and tougher, there will be an army of civilians looking for a direction, a light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak. Well, BOBS BACK and as you have already digested the CIRCUIT – SERIES Reality Television and all associate promotions are going to be in everyone’s face - Boxing, Kickboxing and Wrestling in every conceivable aspect of the ‘competitive human war machine’.

Proving to everyone that if you stand up and fight YOU can make a difference (even if only to yourself), don’t take it lying down, if you do it will run over you, fight with your heart and take no prisoners, and please say hello to Bob Jones at the next BJC – CIRCUIT PROMOTION.

Today, across Australia and New Zealand there is only approximately one to two percent of practitioners involved in ‘any aspect’ of this sport that has not been trained by someone who was taught by Bob Jones. Promoters, fighters, trainers, seconds, referees, judges, doctors and anyone to do with venue and event support.

Also inclusive, is the Victorian Government Martial Arts Board, who Bob Jones supplied his original WKA Rules to assist them in the original Legislation of the sport.

Last but not least he passed on his personal MBO (Management By Objective) instructional format to every Promoter, Manager, Trainer, Fighter, Event staff including Referees and Judges in Australia and New Zealand. This MBO is all you need to understand the entire business of promoting including Financial Investors, Sponsorships Packages and Media Relationships. Right now even as you read this chapter this entire MBO - Marketing Package is spreading around the Globe to interested parties wanting to become involved with this BOB JONES CIRCUIT - MARKETING MACHINE.

In the inaugural state of Victoria Bob taught and handed over the reigns, first of all to one of his more successful entrepreneur students… Christopher Chronis, who was already famous within the fashion industry and had expressed interest in becoming involved in this form of entertainment, he took control instantly without a problem being in charge of all BJC - SUPER SHOW Promotions for the next ten years, only retiring to pursue his new career internationally with the Hugh Heffner family and the famous Playboy merchandise syndication.

Upon this departure of Christopher Chronis, Bob Jones quickly turned to another young student of his with aspiring entrepreneurial skills and once again, spent the necessary time passing on his knowledge. For the next fifteen years, like him or hate him Tarik Solak and his Promotions Company would take the sport to exciting new levels, and he continues to do just that extensively internationally and he still finds time for the odd promotion in Australia.

Since the very beginning (inaugural BJC event 9th September 1976) Bob Jones has travelled to all corners of Australasia assisting, training, teaching ‘everyone’ from grass roots beginning with teaching students how to fight up to and including the teaching of ‘all promoters’ in every state in this country and both islands of New Zealand exactly how the Promotion Machine works.

Due to this experience he has always been in demand as an advisor at International Conventions orchestrated by the WKA as well as many other opposition sanctioning bodies, which developed the concept of co-sanctioning between these groups.

If you check out the WKA – MMA site you will see that Bob Jones is planning a huge resurgence for new promoters of suburban and all country areas nationwide. He is currently taking seminars teaching all interested parties how to approach Investors and Sponsors and Media for this level of promotions from levels 1, 2, 3 & 4 (i.e. #1 Promotions without any titles, #2 State titles, #3 National & #4 International titles. If you are a promoter anywhere in the world or if you are interested in becoming one – if you are reading this chapter and you have an interest its as simple as contacting Head Office c/o Mr Michael Kenna: +61 419 586 559 – we can do business.

Right now is the time to capitalize on this foundation that has been put together over such a long period of time. Â As well as working with well established promoters while training new identities to fill this void from Chris Chronis to Tarik Solak both moving overseas to improve their careers. It is now time for the Original Creator, Founder and Architect of this exciting sport sweeping the Planet at this very moment - to come back and show everyone how Level #5 Shows can be put together, in an exciting and completely new format. Again this will put us years ahead of the competition, which is something he has always been known for. For a simple easy to understand preview scan down the windows on the left side of this site from Hells Belles! & Who will Win?

For these brand new exciting theme Level #5 Shows to expand Nationwide immediately Mr Bob Jones needs Promotional Business Partners right now in every state of Australia. Another reason for this opportunity of Promotional Business Partners is that Mr Bob Jones time is more and more in demand in Europe.
Here is an opportunity for International, National and State Sponsors to get involved.

Here is an opportunity for National & International TV Networks to get involved in record ratings SUPER SHOWS.

‘BOBS BACK’ AND HERE WITHIN THIS WEBSITE IS THE DOCUMENTATION TO PROVE IT.

BOB JONES CIRCUIT - SERIES REALITY TELEVISION WITH HELLS BELLES & WHO WILL WIN?

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TEAMS EVENTS EURO CUP & WORLD CUP FOR 2012 & 2014

MMA - MIXING MARTIAL ARTS INTRODUCING THE BJC – BOB JONES CIRCUIT CONCEPT OF FORMULA III (SUDDEN DEATH ELIMINATIONS) WITH TEN TONNE OF GLADIATORS COMING HOME TO IRELAND – ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES - 2014 SUPER SHOWS FEATURING THE BJC CONCEPT OF WAR! (Win Another Round) – Boxing, Kickboxing & Cagefighting.

PLUS THE BJC CONCEPT OF WW1 - WW1OO ETC WHICH ARE ALL SUPER SHOWS OF EPIC PROMOTIONS…

“Are ‘you’ up for that?”

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YOUR DUE DILIGENCE

THE PROOF OF SUCCESS IS RIGHT HERE!

If you have the time to browse through the below listed websites there is a connection to everything in this BJC – Proposal for Investment and or Sponsorship Involvement, especially in that last chapter BOBS BACK regarding PROMOTIONAL FACTS, as you will see within AVENUES OF RESEARCH with all or any of these websites.

All of America, much of Europe and some Asian countries are at least a year ahead of us here in Australia in this world wide ‘recession’, and they are beyond the argument stage and are beginning to fight.

The action and reaction graph lines of social oppression and self defence awareness and mass interest are indicative of the information intertwined between all of the following websites:

THE JAPANESE K1 – INTERNATIONAL

Are selling out 65.000 seater stadiums and going world wide on pay per view. This is all about the eight BEST HEAVYWEIGHTS coming from EIGHT DIFFERENT COUNTRIES and on the one night seven will lose and one reigns supreme as undefeated and K1 – INTERNATIONAL  GRAND CHAMPION.

UFC – ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHALLENGE

Are selling out Major Stadiums in 20 minutes of opening sales. Recently Pay-Per-View had UFC topping a MILLION buyers for a single event; they plan to crack the million Pay-Per-View sales numbers regularly during 2010. This is promoted as men in a cage fighting with about as many rules as Greece had for it’s Pankration fighters on the CIRCUIT almost three thousand years ago (776 BC;).

Their pay-per-view has overtaken BASEBALL one of the USA four traditional sports. And now the other three majors are keeping an eye on this CAGEFIGHTING WAR ZONE SPORT as it climbs the charts.

*A very recent success of UFC was their Sydney, Australia UFC 114 which broke records selling 18,500 seater in two hours without having mention of the Fight Card – Sold Out literally by UFC name! Releasing fighters names one week later…

WEC – WORLD EXTREME CAGEFIGHTING

The name says it all and this concept is following in the footsteps of its big brother the UFC, and is sweeping across America. This is promoted as the lighter weight division men fighting in a cage with about as many rules as Rome had for its GLADIATORS more than two thousand years ago.

TARIK SOLAK – A1 PROMOTION MACHINE

Recently enjoyed mass Media, Sponsorship and Television support all over Turkey, he personally starred in a recent feature film with the promise of a future second career in the wings in this his home city.

His A1 Promotion Machine recently broke all records with sold out stadiums with capacities of 40-65,000 fans. His better known Australian fighters are now household names in his native country of Turkey.

CONTENDER – AMERICA SERIES 1

Sammy Soliman from Melbourne, one of Australia’s most popular boxers went to the USA and competed and came third in the CONTENDER - AMERICA SERIES 1, again proving “When the going gets tough – the tough get going”. This is the Latest reality show with a difference, eight boxers in the same weight division living together as mates in-house during the week - then punching the crap out of each other on the weekends.

CONTENDER – ASIA SERIES 1+

John Wayne Parr from Brisbane, one of Australia’s most popular Kickboxers went to Asia and competed and came second to a much more experienced Thai-fighter, this was in the CONTENDER - ASIA SERIES 1, again proving ‘Its not the size of the DOG in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the DOG’. This time it was eight famous kick-boxers in the same weight division living as mates in-house during the week – then punching, kicking, kneeing and elbowing the crap out of one and other on the weekends. And yes, the ratings are also way over the TOP!

WORLD COMBAT LEAGUE – CHUCK NORRIS Â

Chuck Norris giving back to the concept that gave him so much, his WCL is now into multiple series and has increasing ratings ongoing. The WCL has more rules than its competition as Chuck Norris has more concern for his fighter’s chances of serious injury and their staying power as competitors. No cage, no ropes, they fight on an elevated round stage within three colours giving their distinction of aggression for their points.

FIGHT GIRLS – AMERICAN TV

Master Toddy Situjana (a good friend of Robert V. Jones from many promotions of the early nineties and training in Thailand together) is the mind behind this Reality Television concept which has proved its popularity with multiple seasons. Tons of sex appeal with the excitement of women donning boxing gloves and going for it with a passion in between all of the typical feminine social disasters.

THE BJC - BOB JONES CIRCUIT Proudly Presents:

‘BOBS BACK’ Promotions featuring these CIRCUIT CONCEPTS displayed throughout this website are in the initial stages of being launched across Australia, Europe, America, Canada & Asia in the very near future. Â And yes, the ratings will definitely be way over the TOP everywhere!
Listed here are some websites for your due diligence & personal satisfaction that all ‘inferior products’ to the concepts discussed here are already extremely successful receiving high ‘live show attendances’ & ever growing ‘television ratings’.

NB: WE ARE THE SUPERIOR PRODUCT BY FAR…

BJC – BOB JONES MARTIAL ARTS.COM.AU

BJ – BOB JONES.COM.AU

BJC – CELTIMANIA PROJECT.COM

BJC – FIGHTING FIT.COM.AU

BJC – WORD KICKBOXING ASSOCIATION.COM

K1 – INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL WEBSITE

K1 – INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL RULES

UFC – ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP

UFC – PRESIDENT – DANA WHITE – WIKIPEDI

UFC - OFFICIAL RULES

WEC – WORLD EXTREME CAGEFIGHTING

WEC – APPAREL COMPANY – www.tapout.com

WEC – OFFICIAL RULES

WCL – WORLD COMBAT LEAGUE

WCL - PRESIDENT CHUCK NORRIS

USA – FIGHT GIRLS

CONTENDER SERIES I – AMERICA

CONTENDER SERIES I+ - ASIA

AUSTRALIAN REALITY SHOWS CNET.COM.AU

JACK BROUGHTON – WIKIPEDIA

BOXING – WIKIPEDIA

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FIGHTING HISTORY

In 1927 Dr E. A. Speiser an Archaeologist discovered a stone tablet in Baghdad Iraq depicting two men getting ready for a prize fight; the tablet is believed to be 7,000 years old. Fist fighting is depicted in Sumerian relief carvings dated to 5,000 B.P. Two depictions show bare fisted contests.
Fist fighting with kicking and throwing is also described in several ancient Indian texts including the Vedas, the Ramayana, and the Mahabarata, as well as excavations done in Moheniadaro and Harappa. Early evidence of limited rules for fist fighting with a kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete (c. 3,500 B.P.).

A similarity to these Ancient Celtic Games, in fact a very precise copy was followed on in more modern times in Greece (only three thousand years ago). The celebration of fighting based Festival Games known as the ‘GOLDEN CIRCUIT’. These were held in four different cities of Greece, these being Isthmia, Pythia, Nemia and Olympia and are fully recorded for a thousand years from 776 BC; until their religious demise in 393 A.D.
The Greeks were the first known to record extensively their rules, fighting divisions and all the results of their Athletics. During these thousand years before Jesus Christ the word ‘Athlete’ symbolised ‘Abstinence’. They swore on the Olympic oath that as long as they were competitors representing their various cities they would not have sexual intercourse with members of their opposite sex.

(Many trainers still today ask their fighters to forgo any sexual activity for various periods of time leading up to a serious bout, controversially believing it to be a drain on energy recourses. Some trainers with an alternative train of thought think their protégé, by abstaining, will really want to punish their adversaries for being the reasons they have gone without).

These Greek athletes trained in a gymnasium with nasium being the Latin word for nudity, meant just that, these male athletes trained together in the gym in the nude. At these Ancient Greek Olympics ‘women’ were never allowed to enter the stadiums under penalty of instant death by stoning – all Ancient Olympians not only trained, they also ‘always’ competed in the nude. From their records we see that unlike modern fighting concepts, there were no weight classes. Fighting styles were not separated into rounds and had no time limit, ending with a knockout, or a fighter abandoning the fight or frequently at the death of one of the fighters. Although gloves were not used in practice, in competition fighters wrapped their hands in strips of hardened leather which protected the fist and caused very unpleasant injuries for the opponent.

From Boxing to the PANCRASE FIGHTERS to the Charioteers racing, every athletic event was staged in the arenas in front of 40-50,000 roaring ‘male fans’, everyone that is - except the wrestlers. They had special entertainment value for the aristocracy of the times with Aristotle himself with his top athletic student Alex, later to become known as Alexander ‘The Great’, you would have seen Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, all of the important Politicians and many other Intellectuals of the time. Seasoned young well oiled fit ‘athletic’ wrestlers entertained these wise men and their young academic students privately, away from the humdrum of the arena. They fought in front of the religious alter while dedicating their match to ZEUS, their temple God.

During this Greek Renaissance it was customary for these elderly academic leaders of the society to have this interest in these ‘athletes’ and these young boys. They believed emphatically that to be a good leader of men and have anyone take notice of you either politically or as a leader within the military – it was important for these young protégés to be extremely strong in all of the athletic competitions, especially Boxing, Wrestling and Pancrase.

“Without applying a restrictive readership rating, perhaps the reader can guess what the conquerors (these gymnasium trained athletes) ‘did’ to entertain their ‘peers’ as they eventually overpowered, locked up and pinned their ‘prey’ forcing them by pressure of extreme pain to tap out three times to signify total defeat and total submission”.

As exemplified by Raffaello Sanzio with his attitude of the times in his famous painting, The School of Athens that today hangs in The Vatican. Here Raffaello portrays Plato as the character in the centre left carrying under his left arm his major writing of the day, the REPUBLICAN. With his right index finger pointing skyward, symbolising all men being born equal in the face of God, were entitled to State education and like his finger is indicating, ‘rise to any heights’ imaginable.

Sanzio has also included Aristotle (as well as 48 other incredible academics born over a span of a thousand years in this one painting – thus the paintings name), he is holding his book of the day, POLITICS and with his right hand held out and flat facing down. He is saying “No” referring to the masses as ignorant, and that they should at all times be kept ‘down’, be kept unintelligent and easily controllable. They should be taught simply to work hard and to pay their taxes on time.

His book on Politics includes eight volumes in one book and in volume six he discusses in detail the best fitness exercise regime for his ‘chosen’ aspiring intellectuals.

In due time European academia would adapt this Oligarchic concept and call themselves Aristocrats.

Two thousand years later, four hundred years ago some very wise men from all over Europe took the Plato Republican principles to America and the idea was to create a new and different world, the rest is history for the reader to think about this, ‘Brave New World’.
My whole point for the reader here is the Ancients and throughout all of our known history, their attachment to fitness and fighting skills as a means of winning whether it be in War or Academia or both.

Homer’s LLiad (ca. 675 BC.) contains a detailed account of fighting (BOOK XXIII). According to the LLIAD, Mycenaean warriors included all forms of fighting among their Athletic competitions honouring their dead (similar to the much earlier Aryan Celtic warriors as reported in the Reg Vedas).

Another old Greek legend holds that the heroic ruler Theseus, said to have lived around the 9th century BC, invented a form of competition in which two men ‘sat face to face’ and beat each other with their fists until one of them was killed. In time the competitors began to fight standing up with wrappings (with embedded spikes) on their fists and arms below the elbows, although as stated in the previous paragraph they were completely naked besides this bandaging of the fists.

This nakedness was exactly as the Celts had done thousands of years earlier for both Funeral Games sporting events and battlefield strategies. The Celts believed if they died in the face of battle this would have their soul unencumbered as it passed to the eternal to be at rest with their SUN-GOD Father. Spartans, Vikings, Saxons like the Celts and all early warriors used no-rules or very minimum rules as a way to prepare and enhance their shield and sword fighting skills. Their overall fitness and athletic skills were honed with these regular Festival Games competitions having them all battle ready at all times.
Boxing was first accepted as an Olympic sport in 688 BC, being called Pygme or Pygmachia and also Pugilism. Participants trained on punching bags (called a Korykos). Fighters wore hard leather straps (called himantes) over their hands and wrists, to protect them from injury. The no - rules fighters were the overall crowd draw into these fifty thousand seater Greek stadiums, they were athletes known as PANCRATION FIGHTERS (PANCRASE – the Game of ‘all powers’ were the equivalent of today’s Kickboxers’).

Approximately 250 BC; the Romans invaded Greece; they liked the Games concept, and allowed the Games to continue whilst only changing the name from CIRCUIT GAMES to CAPITOLINI GAMES.

With only two other minor changes, submission by the age-old ‘Tap out’ was made illegal (‘TAPOUT’ is today’s apparel company brand name of the American WEC – World Extreme Cagefighting).

Secondly, the PANCRASE FIGHTER had a name change to GLADIATOR (They were today’s equivalent of the Octagon Cage-fighter, who by the way can legally ‘Tap out’ again) and instead of submitting in defeat, these GLADIATOR matches ended mostly in death at the whim of the events promoter, or the Emperor himself.

Very famous GLADIATORS fighting at major events would have the Emperors whim for life and death decided by his extended arm with the raising or lowering of his thumb. Continuously, bigger stadiums had to be built catering to the ever expanding crowds.

After the infamous meeting of Nicea in 325 A.D., with Emperor Constantine’s support of the birth of the Catholic Religion, it was decided Christians would no longer be crucified at the Games at the hands of the Gladiators, Lions and many other human eating wild animals.

Within seventy years it was further decided that to stop the worshipping of Pagan Champions at these events, the then Catholic Pope and Christian Emperor Theoposius banned these Ancient Olympics in 393 A.D., And in 500 A.D. boxing was banned altogether by Theodoric the Great.

However, this edict had little effect outside the Major Cities of the Eastern Empire. By this time Western Europe was no longer part of the Roman Empire. Boxing or Bare - Knuckle Prize Fighting as it had become known, which as often as not used throws, grappling with elbows, knees and kicks with no rounds or time limit remained popular all over Europe throughout the middle Ages and beyond. There were two basic reasons for such extraordinary popularity of this aggression within the community, one being the economic plight of the common man during this era, fighting was a way of survival – the other being that outside of the failing Roman Empire the populations of Western Europe and beyond were basically a very strong mix of the dispersed lineage of the ancient Celtic warriors from earlier millenniums.

Desperation following medieval times, the Dark Ages and following into the era of the INQUISITION, the common man continued to fight for at least ‘some money’ when generally there was none?

Due to the terrible conditions they had to fight under, fighting deaths were always on the increase easing slightly with the introduction of boxing rules in 1743 by English Bare - Knuckle Champion, John “Jack” Broughton. During his career he basically made kicking, grappling and the throwing down an opponent illegal, and definitely no more striking of an opponent after he had been felled to the floor. He invented ‘boxing gloves’ called ‘muffles’ mainly for protection of the hands and to avoid face cuts during sparring; although they were never designed for actual combat. It would be more than another hundred years before these rules would be expanded upon by the British boxing Association in 1883 to become known as the ‘London Prize Ring Rules’.

The 1743 John “Jack” Broughton rules came to Australia on the early Convict Gallie’s arriving here in 1788 and controlled the extremely popular Bare - Knuckle Prize fighting for the next hundred years. By the end of the nineteenth century the Baron Marquess of Queensberry had spent much time and thought to make the sport of Boxing safer as the bare - knuckle style was causing incredible injuries and death rate. They were still fighting 50+ rounds lasting 3 – 4 hours in the open in all weather conditions. The Baron (During 1863) designed the modern ring with ropes, introduced maximum 15 by three minute rounds with one minute rest between rounds, three judges to score for a winner of bouts going the distance. He introduced British Gentlemen’s boxing gloves, the eight to ten count for a knock down or a knock out, allowing the referee to have much more control over safety - all instantly halving the death rate. It would be another forty, almost fifty years (early 1900’s) before Irish Celtic bare knuckle fighters would finally be pressured into wearing ‘British Gentlemen’s boxing gloves’.
Another hundred years and we found 87% of the remaining deaths were beyond the twelfth round and through to the fifteenth. With one or both fighters damaged or simply over exhausted and/or dehydrated. Recently (30 years ago) sealing at twelve rounds dropped the death rate by this almost 90% in today’s world of boxing.

Today’s twelve rounds of three minutes being a total 36 minutes actual fighting with one minute rest between rounds means the fight lasts a total time of (36+11 minutes rest time) 47 minutes ring time.

With safety first in mind and entertainment a close second, ticket prices demand the audience enjoys what they are paying for. Bob Jones has watched boxing all of his life along with every other fighting style imaginable. Boxing often became boring to him during those fifteen and now twelve rounds as often fighters are both using several of these middle rounds for a rest. Another pet hate of Bob Jones is one fighter/boxer holding on to a better boxer to tire him which often spoils what could have been a good fight.

Separating the illegal grappling out of the boxing skills has been achieved by full frontal defensive *SHOOTS (penalties apply for attacking with a SHOOT). Three legal defensive SHOOTS during any one round will be a disqualification to the fighter that was responsible for holding. This ‘THREE SHOOT RULE’ will result by disqualification being recorded as a TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT.

*SHOOT – This concept was borrowed from modern Olympic Greco wrestling, it is a trainers command word with reference to take the opponent to the ground. Â

*Following here is a full description of all FIVE Professional WARS - Sanctioned Title Time Frames with all rest periods - all titles challenges have twenty one options of WARS – Rules of weight divisions to best suit their particular weight division for competition fairness and safety:

1. WARS - WORLD TITLES

All five round Title fights will be of five minute’s duration having two minutes rest periods, all inclusive whether they are Boxing, Kickboxing, Wrestling or MMA World Titles.

MMA Titles that are nine rounds of three minutes duration will have a majority of one minutes rest period, except rounds three & six where two minutes are allowed for removal of boots to prepare for Kickboxing and three minutes for exchanging boxing/grappling gloves to accommodate wresting techniques in the final three rounds.

WARS - INTERNATIONAL TITLES

All titles are five rounds of four minute’s duration with one and a half minutes rest.

WARS - NATIONAL TITLES

All titles are five rounds of three minute’s duration with one minutes rest.

WARS - MAIN EVENTS – NON TITLE BOUTS

All Bouts are five rounds of two/three minute’s duration with one minutes rest. Times frames here are affected by prize money.

WARS - STATE AND OR REGIONAL TITLES

Titles are five rounds of two minute’s duration with one minutes rest.

AMATEUR TITLES AND/OR MAIN EVENTS

Both Bouts are five rounds of one minute’s duration with one minutes rest. (Novice Amateur bouts are of three rounds of ONE minute’s duration and ONE minute’s rest period).

The above titles and rounds and rest times are for WARS – World All-Styles Rules & Sanctioning system professional divisions. Amateur fighters gaining WAR – (War All-Styles Ratings) by competing with three rounds of one minute duration - generally are not of the experience for these level promotions.

Amateurs simply need experience to improve before attempting five round main event or title status. Â Amateur fighters with ability for five round main event and or title status (‘generally’ 10-15 Amateur bouts would be applicable) will be used occasionally on CIRCUIT PROMOTIONAL support cards.

The Ancient Games staged in Greece 3000 years ago which ran six times every four years for 1000 years (not ONCE every four as the MODERN OLYMPICS are today) were totally professional with considerable prize money, comparable with today’s money values pro rata.
Back then a full time soldier in the militia would earn 1200 Drachmas for twelve months wages, whereas most athletes would compete for between 1000 and 1500 Drachmas per event. Fanatical GAMBLERS waged fortunes on these Ancient Games Events known then as the GOLDEN CIRCUIT Pancration fighters. Followed by the GLADIATORS of the Capitolini Games of Rome.

The highest paid athletes, the equivalent of today’s Kickboxers and Cage Fighters, were these Pankration Fighters. Actually they were the Main Event crowd draw of these Games Festivals; they fought for between 3,500 to 5,000 Drachmas for each contest. With six events every four years they could compete professionally at each of these events.Â

For the recent one hundred years since the Pierre Coubertin creation of:

MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES, 1896+

Have been promoted under strict amateur rules

Having made such a study of the history of the FIGHT GAME and having life’s experience by past and present information, Bob Jones has no intention of promoting his CIRCUIT CONCEPTS and going down the same path of amateurism as Pierre Coubertin and his Modern Olympics.

If not for the Romans and their new religion of the time cancelling the Ancient Olympics, these Games with Celtic roots of many, many millennia would have continued as always up until our times latest third millennia.

Since these new modern Games have evolved over the past ‘one hundred years’ (since 1896), the WORLD as we know it has changed more than any other preceding one hundred years.

More population, more natural catastrophes, more disasters, more wars, more violence resulting in more deaths – This century has also had more creations, inventions, air travel, mass media communication via television, telephone, pay-per-view, World Wide Web, world economics and of course all of the above fuels world corruption.

All of this society ‘power growth’ supporting these Modern Olympics ‘power growth’ added together, and if history teaches us anything over and over, it is that power corrupts and total power - totally corrupts.

Move over Modern Olympic Games amateurs, here come the professionals. The Ancient Olympic Games and their BJC – BOB JONES CIRCUIT PROMOTIONS, plus the *CELTIC (*Connecting Europe’s Lost Tribal International Cultures) Funeral Games from long-long ago, even before antediluvian times, this fighting system has a history of ten plus more millennium.

Today the Japanese K1 – INTERNATIONAL , the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championships) the CONTENDER Reality Television Series, Chuck Norris WCL – World Combat League, American Fight Girls have set the pace… now all of these BOB JONES PROMOTIONAL CONCEPTS will come to the forefront and claim rightfully the Number One Position for ‘mass entertainment’, this is as simple as the fact of:

HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF!

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What are these entities of the ‘OLD’ and ‘NEW’ BJC?

First of all, the ‘old’ Bob Jones Corporation (BJC) was initially formed during the 60’s as a ‘Rock and Roll’ Promotions Company; this was in competition to the ‘Big Three’ promoters Ivan Dayman, Brian DeCoursey and the infamous Ian Jones ‘Capri Circuit’.Â

Bob Jones’ (no relation to Ian or his 60’s Circuit) first endeavour was a Friday night dance held at the Olympic Village Hall, Heidelberg (built for the residence of international competitors of the 1956 Olympics), named the ‘BIG ROCK DANCE’ after the very successful ‘BIG ROCK TOUR’ in the USA that played multiple dates right across North America, packaged together by New York disc jockey turned promoter, Allan Freed in 1955-6 promoting black music played for the first time by white boys.Â

A second dance was soon established out at Eltham on Sunday afternoons and was titled the ‘LOOKOUT’.

Shortly afterwards a third Bob Jones promotion was held at Coburg Town Hall on Saturday nights (right out front of the then Old Pentridge Gaol) titled ‘JAIL HOUSE ROCK’ coinciding with the release of the Elvis Presley film of the same name.

Due to undesired circumstances, with compliments of one or more of the above mentioned ‘Big Three’, these dances were abruptly closed down and in 1963 the Bob Jones Corporation became a security company specialising in dance hall crowd control.

Within one decade (1963 - 1973) this simple beginning would eventually lead to the control of almost every dance, pub and club within every state of Australia and both islands of New Zealand from Christchurch to Dunedin under the BJC security banner.

During this era the BJC also secured every Pop Festival from 1970 starting with the ‘MIRACLE’ promoted by Melbourne entrepreneur Peter Stripes.
Then followed the famous ‘SUNBURY’S’ 1972-3-4-5 promoted by Channel Nine executive Mr John Fowler. This festival epidemic continued annually until the 1984 final outdoor concert staged at ‘NARARA’ (near Gosford NSW), promoted by Eric Robinson of JANDS Sound and Lighting Company. Three hundred BJC black belts with twelve motor bikes, ten horses and thirty well trained Rottweiler guard dogs from all over Australia and both islands of New Zealand travelled to Gosford and covered every security aspect of this festival, being the last, we made damn sure it was the best, all ‘security personnel’ had just as good a time as any of the ‘festival fans’.

In 1965 Bob Jones became involved in Martial Arts training, receiving his Black Belt FIRST DEGREE five years later in 1970. After more than forty years of daily training in the Arts, he is now a Black Belt EIGHTH DEGREE and into the new millennium has established more than one thousand franchised Martial Arts schools throughout Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Singapore and Indonesia (Jakarta is planned for reopening shortly). With associate clubs in Thailand (for power improvement training), Philippines (defence against stick & dagger), Brazil (for expansive ground fighting) and Serbia (control of kayos), there are nowimmediate plans of expanding into and across Europe.

In 1976 Bob and his ‘bouncer buddies’ thought it would be a great idea to put boxing gloves on and have a bit of a crack at one and other. This particular night in time was inadvertently the birth of kickboxing as it is known today all over the world! Within two years Bob was invited to Los Angeles by Mr Paul Hanson the President of the WKA – World Karate Association to represent his group in the Pacific Region. It was at this meeting with Paul Hanson in 1978 Bob Jones actually coined the phrase ‘Kickboxing’ and it was agreed that Bob would return home to Australia and be the official representative and promote the WKA – World Kickboxing Association.

The next stage was to develop and write the rules for this ‘new’ sport. For international credibility Bob Jones then formed the official WKA – WORLD KICKBOXING ASSOCIATION, the first and now the oldest and most respected Sanctioning Body in the sport.

In 1980 Bob Jones saw the need to affiliate with Mr Paul Mazluk (the personal manager of Don ‘The Dragon’’ Wilson an American hero of Kickboxing’s 80’s fame) and form the now famous ALL ‘STARS’ - Standardized Tournament Australian (American) Ratings System which would become the backbone of our full contact endeavours.

In 1973 the Paul Dainty Corporation employed the BJC and Bob Jones personally to bodyguard and secure ‘all aspects’ of the ROLLING STONES TOUR, and every major act in the world that toured Australia for the next eighteen years until 1990. Since this date, his predecessors continue to protect international celebrities and dignitaries. In 2001 Bob Jones wrote a biography of these behind the scenes touring adventures titled ‘LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL’ which still sells today to most new members of his Martial Arts Empire.

From 1990 until 1996 Bob Jones and good friend Dave Hedgcock worked at regular bi-monthly meetings with Chief Inspector Steven Frost of the Victorian Police Force and many members of the Hotelier Association of Victoria. With the backing of the Victorian State Government, ‘BOUNCERS’ had a name change as Bob Jones and associates prepared the WORLDS FIRST ‘Crowd Control’ Legislation. The BJC and these associates prepared the necessary training packages for the education of all Bouncers to become Crowd Controllers.

The BJC is currently devising a fully world patented electronic security device which he has aptly named ‘SAFECAM’ – “Where you see this Camera, You will be Safe”. A miniature ‘third eye’ television camera worn on the ear making ‘everyone responsible for their actions’, not only for Crowd Controllers, it is designed for every aspect of security work!

In 1995 Bob Jones and the BJC were contracted by Mr Pat Condon (then of Kevin Jacobsen & Associates in Sydney) to supply Channel 7 with all of the Gladiators and Contestants for the first series of the GLADIATORS. This enjoyed maximum ratings and was cancelled only due to the high cost of production at that time.

In the 2008 Channel 7 Gladiator Series II, the attractive 20 year old blue haired VIPER (complete with serpent scales), is also the current Australian - WKA Welterweight STAR RATING CHAMPION. Even without her blue hair and serpent skin, Ms Sarah ‘Missy’ Howett is a very competent female western style Shoot-boxer and Kick-boxer and also a competent Shoot-wrestling CAGEFIGHTER. She has developed awesome power from her GLADIATOR and intensive ALL-STYLES MMA training. As a result she has won most of her matches with decisive KO’s (Knock-Outs).

In 1998 Bob signed a twelve months contract with ‘GOOD MORNING AUSTRALIA’ and worked with Ex Miss Australia, Michelle Downes and good friend Bert Newton with a weekly self defence segment that soon acquired regular top ratings, and was always (with careful planning) extremely controversial (Especially the episodes where it was suggested Michelle and Bob should practise the art of self defence in bed together).

1999 was a busy year with everything. On one hand I found myself contemplating everything that had gone down during the last decade while at the same time there was a new excitement thinking about the attitude of not only the passing of a Century… we were also about to experience a change of millennium. To me personally this meant a time for extreme change, but what could this mean?

BOB JONES CIRCUIT - _NEW MILLENNIUM

That’s a brief glimpse of the ‘past’ Bob Jones CORPORATION now the entity of the ‘new’‘ BJC - BOB JONES CIRCUIT being our current corporate image for Bob Jones personally promoting to the World Wide audience his life’s passion for Celtic Culture. To achieve this, his old Corporation has made some innovative moderate ‘new millennium’ changes to suite international expansion ambitions.

The WKA has now changed as our Global sanctioning body with the new image of WARS – WORLD ALL-STYLES RULES & SANCTIONING. Plus our Global ratings have had a mild name change to the WAR - WORLD ALL-STYLE RATINGS. BOBS BACK – PROMOTIONS will trade as World Wars consecutively from one to one hundred and beyond, starting very soon with WAR #1 (Win Another Round) followed by an upgraded Super Show titled WW1.
BJC – THE CELTIC CONNECTION – NEW MILLENNIUM

Whatever country you or your parents or grand parents may have been born in, it is more than likely you are all connected to the CELTS (Connecting Europe’s Lost Tribal Societies – *Visit Ancient Celtic Games 20,000 - 10,000 Years History) at some time or other during the Antiquity of your native countries.

Australia’s population recently capped at 21 Million. Exactly half of this number is connected via their genes to the United Kingdom, this intriguing philosophic antiquity of mythology, known as the Celts.Â

Most (almost all) of the other half of Australia’s 21 million, especially those from central and western areas of Europe have Celtic connections even though very few are aware of the meaning of these historical facts thanks to the philosophical base of our modern Abraham patriarchal religions.

Plus we are discovering more alignments with Eastern Europe and many Asian connections with each new archaeological discovery.
‘Very soon’ everyone will become fully aware with everything the BJC has planned even beyond all this aggressive attention to fighting within the BOB JONES - CIRCUIT Series.

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BOB JONES - THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD

From the business prowess of an adolescent apprenticeship with the ''Phantom Twins'', Australia''s largest antisocial, irascible and dangerous street gang….to creating and building a nationwide ''Crowd Control'' security company, Bob Jones would establish a reputation World Wide as a ''Bodyguard to the Stars'' and minder (protector) of the rich and famous.

This prodigious lifestyle would have Penthouse Magazine break a tradition and serialize an interview featuring Bob Jones. It would confuse Mike Munro and Sixty Minutes as to whether the Bob Jones Corporation was a cabal or a pernicious society ?

Bert Newton and his nationally televised ''Good Morning Australia'' would contract Bob Jones for twelve months to teach Australian housewives self defence in the comfort of their homes.

The Gladiators Series credits told Australia''s young folk and their families, that Bob Jones and his corporation had ''produced'' the individual Gladiators and all contestants for a top rating show.

Bob Jones, the martial artist - during all of this time would unwittingly become the mentor to a quarter of a million Australians…guiding them along an esoterical path towards achieving self-enlightenment.

What is the Bob Jones Corporation?
That is -THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD.

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ESOTERICAL DEGREES - THE TRILOGY YEARS
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“When you see a worthy person, endeavour to emulate him…
when you see an unworthy person then examine your inner self.”

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When any beginner experiencing that first lesson eventually finds himself dressed in his brand new BJMA training uniform. And ‘someone’ has bothered to assist you with ‘that’ awkward wrap around jacket, what exactly ties with what and where? “And what do I do with this extremely long ‘white belt’? Does it actually go around my waist two or three times?” Was probably your first esoteric question to yourself? Here you are now, in position at the back of the pack, on your own but not alone on the basketball stadium battlefield with so many likeminded military (martial) devotees. With uncanny discipline everyone in the room is responding to every command from a daunting solitary voice constantly chanting in cadence from somewhere out the front of the class. “Push ups, sit ups now run from one side to side,” screams that voice. “Now bend and touch the floor on each side as you are running” was a deliberate demand as if it was meant directly for you. “Line up, quickly, double time now punch, kick… be punched, be kicked, knock one and other down, pick yourselves up. Don’t help anyone! Everyone gets up on their own steam”, held even more deliberation.

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Just as you was thinking, ‘Maybe I should not even be here?’ that daunting voice suddenly modified and became a caring, compassionate educational authority. Answering all of your ‘What ifs?’ Suddenly, when you least expected, ‘that cadence voice’ re-emerged “Push ups, sit ups now running from side to side… “Why?” You almost thought out loud. Then as you have observed all the differing ‘degrees’ of abilities from all of the black belts up the front, to the many coloured belts throughout the floor space. You suddenly realize why you arrived here in the first place. You had been told by several friends and now you have observed it for yourself! Everyone in this room could kick your butt, including and especially all these other white belts that you know have had less than ten lessons. And they are almost as good as those yellow belts.

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Now you get it, why you took up the challenge! “Bring it on”, you inwardly scream to yourself. Now you know it does not matter how many times these white belts knock you down, you will pick yourself up on your own steam. After only a few lessons as you have been observingthe instructors style and methodology of teaching these martial minded enthusiasts, you’ve noticed that before attaining the coveted black belt a student is merely learning self defence. And from observation of all the higher ranks it is obvious that after black belt the BJMA individual now becomes a student of a multitude of diversified martial arts, at least one art for each country of the world. The more you travel – the more you learn!

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“A true Black Belt following the path of the Warrior unwittingly changes their way of life…
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What is now even more obvious from your observations is that as martial artists they are introduced to a lifelong journey of self-improvement. The ladder of ones own life is laid out as a journey of ten steps (i.e. Ten Degrees), where each step must be observed and studied before making that next step ‘up’ the ladder and venturing onto the next level.

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“Limitations you thought you had… No longer exist.”

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Generally the amount of time in years you will spend on each degree is equivalent to the actual number of that next degree. Thus, a new first degree will really observe and evaluate themselves for approximately two years. This couple of years is generally just enough time to observe the difference within yourself as you changed your mind set from your journey as a prospect through the coloured belt divisions, to waking every morning, as a brand new Black Belt.

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After just two years of living you’re life as a black belt, constantly thinking, training preparing for that next level, second degree. The day of blood, sweat and tears finally arrived. And now having just graded to second degree, you observe this post grading entity is an entirely new you. Complete with the realisation you can never be that same person again (i.e. that first degree), you have not only entered the marathon, you have won your third major battle. Going through the brown belt grading ‘was’ tough’. Going through the fist degree grading thinking the alternative was death! At the second degree grading, well that was something really different. This was perhaps to some, thought as being something unachievable. We all experience this level as an extremely difficult and physically demanding endurance test, the absolute test of a lifetime.

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This is even titled the ‘MARTIAL ARTS MARATHON’ and it is here that the serious practitioner will spend the following three years comprehending where this personal journey is heading. You find now that communicating with coloured belts and sparring with ‘those’ first degrees is no longer any where near as challenging as it had previously been. Second degrees are identifiable to everyone due to the red embroidery on each end of their belt stating both names of the person and the style. This is symbolic from antiquity of giving of yourself to the system; the amount of sweat you left on the floor at your grading and now the red embroidery on the ends of your black belt are both a part of the metaphor representing the giving of your blood as a sign of your allegiants to the ‘Brotherhood’.

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In Japanese culture this is referred to as ‘Bushido’ – “The way of the warrior”, involving three elite warrior levels being Samurai, Yakuza and Ninjas (With separate mountain warrior priests known as Yamabushi), always armed with double swords, Katana (Long blade) and Wakisashi (Short blade). Physically identified with a top knot hair style and body markings (Tattoos) showing their rank status. In the much more ancient Celtic culture the reference here is ‘MacFinn’ – “The way of the Brotherhood”, Mac signifying brother and Finn being three elite warrior levels. Fionna, Fiai and Filhi (With separate mountain warrior priests known as Druids) always armed with double swords, Falcuta (Long blade) and Faca (Short blade). Physically identified as always wearing a torque (Symbol of freedom) around their necks with a crest (Mohawk hair style) and body markings (Tattoos) showing their rank status.

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Almost immediately, following your grading and the application of that ‘red’ embroidery you will become aware of a new found respect shown to you by third and fourth degrees, this new found respect is your ‘new challenge’. Although there is merely one and two degrees between you and them, you know they have all been training more than double the years you have. Learning, training and sparring with these higher degrees is a whole new dimension to be added to you journey. And they give you no choice… you have to be up for it!

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Up to this point in time the journey has been almost entirely presented to the practitioner as ‘physical’ with the focus almost entirely on ones personal power, self esteem awareness, peak conditioning, nutrition, muscle strengthening, correct stretching technique to elongate these stronger muscles, correct body fat content, due to correct food intake. All of this attention and direct focus aimed at you has had its purpose of developing ‘you’ as an individual martial artist with a base core as strong as could be developed for and by you.

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Now you and the system have three years to scope you ‘beyond’ this individualism. You will be inspired by the actions of others, you will enjoy passing on your current acquired knowledge to the brown belts and all of the new black belts coming through after you. Be prepared, these browns & blacks will flock to you seeking advice, they will have difficult questions! You will find many previous unexplored ‘mental’ pleasures from assisting others in their quest to achieve what you have just achieved, the MARATHON.

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From the fourth degrees you will learn much more about the ‘mental – psychological’ aspects of fighting than everything you have learned thus far. Many new experiences will unfold as you learn from the third degrees about compassion and the martial ‘ART’ discipline of the martial arts journey as a philosophy of ‘TRUTH’, the selflessness of sharing ‘all’ of your abilities with ‘all’.

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“As a third degree you are a mirror reflection of self through students.”

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Three years have passed before you know it; you have completed your grading. As a third degree wearing your red uniform you are recognised by your peers and the system as a teacher. You are no longer simply an individual looking out for # 1. Generally at this point the decision to open your own club has become an issue. TCB – Taking Care of Business, right location and rent and overheads coupled with right marketing and advertising, with a realisation you already were aware of… nothing is for free. Up until now you have been a student, you were an instructor as a second degree (You may have instructed for some time as a first degree – you probably served as an assistant instructor much earlier) and now you will officially ‘teach’ for the next four years.

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Now you have the added pressure of developing your own ‘white belts’ all the way through to ‘black belts’. Undoubtedly each of them will be a reflection of self, this is the reason third degree is the most self stressful and self demanding of all grades. They simply become total reflections of YOU, in effect you are actually seeing your own mistakes through them! When any white through black is solely under your direction, at first you see every minor detail. Every minor discrepancy is illuminated, setting off a chain reaction of mini neuron explosions between the brain cell activity of your conscious and sub conscious thoughts. Now you are so keen to share so much with so many, it can become a catastrophe.

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Four years later and the saviour has arrived, your next grading level of fourth degree, this is known as the ‘Lower Masters Level’. You are no longer a teacher, you have elevated to the status of ‘Guide’. You are now identified by wearing a plain (No badges or any other identification, this is a form of humility, you being happy with who you are) all white uniform with ‘equal’ red and white stripes added to your black belt around your waist with the white specifically on the top and the ‘red’ on the bottom. This Lower Masters Level is symbolic of knowing the black belt is the journey and the white stripe is the knowing where you have come from, your beginning. While the ‘red’ is intrigue, the unknown quantity of the journey and where you actually are going.

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Five years later and your next grading of fifth degree is the opposite of the MARATHON and known as the ‘Upper Masters Level’. This grading is titled the ‘SPRINT’ due to the actual timeframe of ‘physical activity’ is merely three minutes. Strangely though, everyone who has done this last of our gradings performed in view by the public – all agree the fifth degree SPRINT is by far the most demanding of all our gradings to this point. To transcend through these two MASTER levels while the emphasis is to remain within their duality, the practitioner kneels on their right knee. From here they meditate on the asceticism and the metaphoric zymology of the simplicity of slowly removing their belt and upon replacing it to their body, they have reversed the action which gives the red its new dimension – Worn On Top. Their duality is more than simply visual, besides looking so similar, after so many years training together they have bonded. They are definitely brothers and sisters by choice rather than by chance.

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After five years and on completion of the fifth degree grading in most BJMA Systems (Bob Jones Martial Arts) practitioners at these two ranks and everyone above all wear white uniforms. In Celtic culture this wearing of white is symbolic of the constant battle of light over dark (our known versus our unknown). Lower ranks wear black as they are searching, and higher ranks wear white as they are discovering. For many millenniums in our ancient mythology the bull being black was our unknown source, he had to be sacrificed to the mid afternoon Sun being bright white. As an offering to the Gods he would be defeated in battle by the Fiona Warrior (In the Gaelic language Fiona means one of the light, one of intellect). Our red and white belt represents the mid afternoon SUN and the Sun at dusk as it turns bright red. And as the crescent of the Moon appears within the darkness of night – we see the horns of the bull reappear, declaring yet another potential challenge of the future. Mythology warns Celtic warriors to be aware for three days prior and after the time when the moon is full, as a challenging paradox this is also a time for celebration.

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At BJMA seminars, gradings and functions all fourth and fifth degrees tend to congregate together more than any other ranks. You will notice them as they slowly role the hem of their sleeves three times reminding themselves of those three physically demanding gradings (Brown belt plus first degree black belt… and the second degree MARATHON. And also as a respect to our Anglo Celtic forefathers who built this nation, they rolled their sleeves three times to prepare for a hard days work!). After battling their way through those three physical levels and then that third degree Teaching dilemma, they now have this Twin-ship of Lower & Upper Master-ship, four and five years consecutively of slowly replacing themselves within their organisations. Through these nine years each of them will develop many of their own third degrees and of course much larger numbers of second & first degrees and one can only guess how many new ‘Prospects’ will evolve through their coloured belt systems, and so the paradox of our ‘ascetic cycle’ continues.

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This paradox, of on the one hand everyone is expected to be successful at building their own martial arts network while from another perspective… the purpose of self replacement is to once more have extra personal time for advancement. This being their original studies of the Physicality (Body), blended with the multiple sharing of the systems Psychological attributes (Mind). Now it is imperative to continue to build their organisations under their control so as to prosper, but all fourth and fifth degrees must individualise amongst themselves and work regularly together to progress in all areas of the Spiritual aspects (Soul). As these three simple words of Mind (Circle), Body (Square) & Spirit (Triangle) are in essence – ‘The’ Actual Journey, thus the personal logo of our Creator, Patron & Founder is a triangle within a circle protected by a square.

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These gradings from white belt beginners up to and including fifth degree, the Masters Level are always witnessed by all students of the organisation, the more advanced gradings of sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth & tenth degree are more personal between the individual and the organisation at the higher end of this degree structure. Every aspect of this of course, will be covered in explicit detail later in these writings, this is significant of the transparency attached to the name, “The Greatest Story Never Told” – Until Now. Whether or not you are an avid reader, to truly understand the Bob Jones Story – You must read this, “The Greatest Story Never Told”.

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PROSPECTIVE YEARS

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THE BEGINNING

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THE COLORED BELT JOURNEY

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The Bob Jones Story following on from what happened before “Let the Good Times Roll”… with this part two being titled, “The Greatest Story Never Told”, while also having the sub-title, ‘THE TEN ESOTERICAL DEGREES’.

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In 1963, I had several situations arise that had turned my entire lifestyle around. My marriage to my wife Pauline had fallen apart; the police had advised me it would be better if I simply closed down my illicit sly-grog shop (an illegal bottle shop due to our Government controlled 6 pm. closing of all licensed premises. For more on this, see part three in this series - The Violent Years). Both these situations, plus a riot set up by a rival dance promotion group, had local councils disqualify my permits and close down three separate successful rock and roll venues. Talk about being pissed off!

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Have you heard that expression about one door closing and another door opening? Just as I thought life was giving me the rawest deal ever, coincidentally on the same day as the assassination of Americas president John F Kennedy - Dave Milne and Bill Sabotka, a couple of good mates and ‘BOUNCER’ associates of mine made me an offer I could not refuse.

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They proposed that the three of us start up a security company to be called The ‘BJC - Trouble Shooters,’ specialising in venues heading out of control, allowing us to quote three times the normal rate of pay. From that point on I found myself in a completely new and exciting lifestyle, doing what I had always done best, using my fists, except this time the deal I had been offered, was to get paid exceptionally high pay for what had always come naturally.

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A couple of weeks after the 23rd of November, that fateful day that JFK had his life closed off from the rest of the world, that same day that my own world took on a new turn of events… I was having breakfast and while browsing through the morning paper, I came across an advertisement for a Martial Arts demonstration by renowned International author Mr Donn F. Draeger.

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He was an American who had spent the last twenty years living and working in Japan while also studying many of the ancient oriental arts. He had married into a local Japanese family and it wasn’t long before he spoke the language fluently. This gave him exceptional insight into his writing about the philosophy and the esoteric realms of this countries code of Bushido (the way of the Samurai or more literally, the way of the warrior). The actual demonstration was set for a few days later at 12.30pm at the Melbourne Sports Depot in Flinders St, Melbourne.

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For the past year or so during all of my dilemmas I had co-incidentally been intrigued with this whole cultural concept of these secretive fighting arts, our local media was affording a lot of exposure to a couple of colourful characters in Sydney. Fred Vella (Born in Malta) and Joe Meizner (Yugoslavian) were being promoted as two local Australians who had achieved these mysterious titles known to us, the general public, as Kara-te Black Belts.

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Mr Vella achieved national fame when he demolished a suburban house using only his bare fists and feet while wearing only a white Kara-te suit held together at the waist by his ‘mysterious’ Black Belt. That night on the evening news, we all witnessed this young man pulverise this house into a rubble of broken bricks, splintered timber and a cloud of lingering dust.

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Mr Meizner achieved national fame when he was approached by one of Sydney’s major property developers… this developer was losing hundreds of thousands of dollars each week, this was due to his property being invaded by squatters. Hundreds of back packers, unemployed street people and drug addicts had moved in and were calling his development home. Armed with only his bare fists and feet and all available television cameras, and wearing only a white Kara-te uniform held together at the waist by his ‘mysterious’ Black Belt. Joe Meizner had entered the building and made everyone an offer none could apparently refuse… on the evening news that night we saw all those squatters leaving that building by all available doors and windows, taking their worldly possessions with them – never to return. Rumour has it that Joe had the foresight to request some small percentage in the deal if he was to be successful, this over the next period of time would make young Joe, a very wealthy martial artist come celebrity around Sydney. Especially within the infamous downtown area known as Kings Cross, Joe will eventually become involved in NSW dirty politics and corrupt members of the NSW Police Force. And along the way of course Mr Fred Vella, Mr Joe Meizner and Mr Bob Jones will all become very good friends (See Bob Jones ‘The Violent Years’).

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Did I mention that every time I saw either Mr Fred Vella or Mr Joe Meisner on national television or in the press, without fail they were always in the presence of different representatives of Sydney’s most beautiful women? Somehow this image gave the distinct impression that this mysterious Black Belt phenomenon and Beauty were inter related. And for a single guy like myself at the time this simply doubled the intrigue, ‘mysticism and seemingly magical powers’ backed by a touch of ‘feminine sexuality’!

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The exposure of these two Kara-te ‘experts’ and their seemingly impossible exploits was my original introduction to this way of Bushido, this ‘way’ of the fighting arts…

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Perhaps you can comprehend my anticipation when I arrived at the MSD and amongst a apprehensive crowd of several hundred I found myself totally mesmerized. This man, the Martial Artist, was a man of intrigue. Mr Donn Draeger was a human being of quality and substance that I had never experienced before to this point in my search for a mentor… he talked of the sword (Katana) as being the Soul of the Samurai, the true path of Bushido (the way of the Warrior). He explained that this journey he had dedicated his life to, was an actual journey of self-discovery and self empowerment and that Black Belt tied around his waist and the esoteric Dans or Degrees that were to be achieved thereafter, were guidelines. Not much unlike a roadmap that could direct a man through the journey of life while gaining an impregnable strength of character. He discussed the philosophy of his training with the sword; this ancient mode of survival, this act of killing with the sword was actually the antithesis of our inhumanity towards others. He endeavoured to have us understand that the word martial represented the ‘fighting arts’, the word ‘art’ was the paradox. He further explained, “The distinction that will develop us as ‘artists’ was that the more knowledge we acquire, eventually the highest order of our belief system is to defend ourselves under any/all conditions without ever having to harm the perpetrator/s”.

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Mr Donn Draeger made this concept sound so exciting and so adventurous, that I even forgot that he was talking about the same race of people, the Japanese, that only twenty years earlier (1943) were responsible for the death and suffering of so many Australians, much later in life I will also learn that my own biological father’s death was a result of his time spent as a POW in Japanese prison camps. I will learn this during the time of a new awareness creation of ‘political correctness’ having us forgiving (although we will never forget, which you can only know and respect if you were there) all past atrocities, just in time for the next round of wars!

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After this almost spiritual experience, Donn Draeger’s demonstration would impact on my life much more than I was even conscientiously aware of. For the next two years (Until 1965) I will search diligently for any sign, any possibility that might eventuate whereby I may have the opportunity to pursue this seemingly belligerent lifestyle of this unusual man. On this day that would begin to completely change my life, I had purchased a copy of ‘Asian Fighting Arts’ the author’s latest book release. I had waited patiently in line for his signature and it was as if he could see I was not the average fan, he seemed to be aware of my potential as a protégé of his journey and asking my name, he added the following inscription;

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To Bob Jones - my new found friend,

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“When you see a worthy person, endeavour to emulate him…
when you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.”

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Signed: Captain Donn F. Draeger

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HANDS OFF

Perdiem Publishing was established in 1983 specifically for the purpose of marketing my first book, ''Hands Off''.

Bob Jones promoting ''Hands Off'' his first book at Press Conference held at Inflation Nightclub, King Street, Melbourne

The book taught a unique new system of self defence against assault for the women of today and was inspired primarily by Christine McVie (lead singer of Fleetwood Mac) as well as other ladies I had protected and trained on their world tours. They all agreed that I had a message for women that would be best served by being recorded in the form of a book.

As Elaine teaches you, and as you go through the mnemonic movements (memory fixers), her and you and your mirror image all move together in the same direction, making it extremely easy to learn and perfect each technique, simply check (your teacher) Elaine''s posture, then correct yourself with your mirror image.

Read the book (in approximately 2hrs) then practice every day for seven days for approximately fifteen minutes each session…Read the book again on now, the eighth day. Then practice daily for approximately thirty minutes each session - the movements themselves are the warm up.

On the fifteenth day of the program please read the book again (as its this third read that establishes the mnemonic principles), then seven more days of practice for approximately forty five minutes daily is the complete:

''TWENTY ONE DAY TRAINING PROGRAM.''

Having also experienced our wind down MEDITATION TECHNIQUES giving you insight into our Chapter
of ACTION, REACTION AND RESULT.

Plus your recently obtained sub-conscious skill acquisition has been subliminally introduced to the physiological and biomechanical aspects of our:

BJC -MNEMONIC MOVEMENTS.

From a cardiovascular point of view you will have acquired a degree of fitness, far above your capabilities of only twenty one days ago. From now on I am positive you will want to continue working out with:

HANDS OFF PRINCIPLES

Not only are they the ultimate self defence, if you wear something loose and comfy - play your favourite music nice and loud - these same techniques double as a great aerobic work out in the comfort of your own home…you would have noticed already how much you have toned up in just ''twenty one days'' from now on if you have any to lose, trust me, you will. If you are already firm these work outs will make you…''fighting fit and rock hard''.

You will need to set your work out times to exactly an hour - no more no less, a minimum of two to three times per week, this depends entirely on the individual with time restraints etc.

Now all you need is your boyfriend, brother or father to give you a hand by being ''playfully aggressive'' while they are assimilating the aggressive techniques demonstrated in the Chapter of action, reaction and result. The word playfully is a definitive issue here. As is ''control'' due to your now possible reactions, you will need to definitely use a degree of self control when defending yourself against a loved one.

In time, with constant serious practice, they and you will build up the level of aggression and make your training sessions more and more believable, thus practical.

Now you will have a newfound degree of awareness, confidence and self esteem that will give you a definite opportunity to avoid being raped. Instead of being paralysed with

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Habbey Heske

Habbey Heske is an associate of mine from Perth, Western Australia.

Habbey has an extensive ground fighting background, and was instrumental in introducing BJC-Shoot Fighting into the various aspects of my Bob Jones Martial Arts.

He has the ability to be an exiting action star and has worked on many film making projects with our own Richard Norton and many other super stars of the movie industry.

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COMING SOON

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JEFF FENECH MERCHANDISING - JUDGEMENT DAY, 1991

The big fight Jeff''s fans had been waiting for was his bout against Azumah Nelson from Ghana, Don King had finally put it all together for June 28, 1991.

All I could remember about that Las Vegas Fenech versus Nelson fiasco...was how one more time one of our fighters had been badly done by. The LA sports writers made a point that Nelson was the bigger hitter, but what does that mean when Fenech ''seemed'' (to me at least), to out class, out maneuver, out speed and out point Nelson on every move during every round...

Then how could Don King judges have given that a draw at the end of 12 rounds? Or was I just the most bias Jeff Fenech fan in town.

Wind the clock forward to March 1st 1992 Princes Park, Melbourne and its Jeffs sweet revenge, if he looked that good in Las Vagas, then what do I think he will do to Nelson infront of a good ole'' ozzie crowd.

An American associate of mine was also a mutual friend of Jeff''s, he discussed the benefits with Jeff of giving the Bob Jones Corporation the world merchandising rights to the Fenech/Nelson fight in Melbourne.

General Manager Michael Bikiki & Bob Jones counting thousands of Fenech t-shirts

On signing contracts I immediately took a BJC - five man marketing team to America, and we sourced manufacturing costs and quality control, different strengths of distributions networks, advertising and marketing cost effectiveness to our ''sales potential''. The sales potential for the United States was that id Jeff won another World Title he would go into the boxing history ''Hall Of Fame'' with only an elite few.

Our company, Fighting Fit Leisureware was responsible for Australian production etc. We decided to call the event ''Judgement Day Downunder''. This seemed like a good idea until we were told by Toohey''s solicitors that their group had contracted the television rights for the Australian production/filming rights and that they were calling the event ''The Big Blue''. We finally got over this small hurdle just in time to be hit with a major hurdle. Jeff''s hands were again giving him trouble. On this nation wide tour promoting the event and his/our ''Judgement Day Downunder'' merchandise, his hands were too sore for him to do any sparring...no sparring, no promotion of merchandise.

Another major hurdle, Mr Dave Hedgcock Senior (the father -since deceased- of my best mate) a good ole'' buddy of mine said to me "Bobby, is there any way you can get out of that merchandise deal?"

Dave Snr was an authority on the history of boxing and every time Bill Mordie, Australia''s premier boxing promoter, did any fight card in Melbourne he had Dave Snr look after all international fighters. "I''ve been watching Azumah Nelson train and spar, Jesus Christ, he''s gonna do some damage - and Jeffs hands..." Now I''d known Dave Snr for twenty years, and not once had he ever been wrong with the facts either with boxing or kickboxing.

That week I sold off the rights to a well known Doctor involved in the fight game, after having explained the dilemma, he still thought it was worth a shot.

The final major hurdle, at the press conference just prior to the fight Azumah Nelson, in a very calm and confident manner told the eager media, "On the flight over here I wrote on the back of a napkin five reasons why I will easily knock Jeff Fenech out - and ''after'' the fight, I will give this list to Jeff personally."

Dave Hedgcock Snr and Azumah Nelson were both right - Oh! The headaches of the fight game...

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BOB JONES TELLS TALES ON THE STARS OF ROCK

Macleay Argus by Tony Vermeer

Martial arts expert, Bob Jones, has a million funny stories to tell about the antics of the celebrities he has worked with.Jones, who heads his own company, called the Bob Jones Corporation, works in conjunction with entrepreneur, Paul Dainty in supplying bodyguards for the more famous showbusiness acts that tour this country.

A black belt master in the art of Zen Do Kai, Jones was in Kempsey recently to establish another of his schools that now number more than 120 throughout the country. Jones has worked for just about all the big names in the rock industry, including Fleetwood Mar, considered the world''s best band.

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BOB JONES TELLS TALES ON THE STARS OF ROCK

Macleay Argus by Tony Vermeer

Martial arts expert, Bob Jones, has a million funny stories to tell about the antics of the celebrities he has worked with.

Jones, who heads his own company, called the Bob Jones Corporation, works in conjunction with entrepreneur, Paul Dainty in supplying bodyguards for the more famous showbusiness acts that tour this country.

A black belt master in the art of Zen Do Kai, Jones was in Kempsey recently to establish another of his schools that now number more than 120 throughout the country. Jones has worked for just about all the big names in the rock industry, including Fleetwood Mar, considered the world''s best band.

While on tour, Bob and his team of five highly trained bodyguards stick closely with each member of the band. After a time, Bob believes a certain empathy is established between the stars and their protectors. And of course this close contact is bound to lead to some funny anecdotes.

Bob recalls that Mick Fleetwood, one of the founding members of Fleetwood Mac, has a penchant for practical jokes. One example especially stands out in) his mind.

Bob said: "Mick is always prepared to play a practical joke anywhere. On this occasion the barrel was touring, Japan and we were staying in a luxury hotel also occupied by a lot of other distinguished Japanese businessmen. Mick and I got into a lift packed with these businessmen. Now Mick, who''s about six foot eight, and me, at just over six foot, really stood out among these short, inscrutable gentlemen. As the lift doors were closing, Mick pushed his hand between them and they jumped back. He kept doing this until on the third or fourth time, his hand fell off and blood spurted from his wrist. Of course, he was using a plastic fake hand and blood capsules, but the serious Japanese didn''t know. You should have seen their faces."

Bob also remembers many wild times with the English group Bad Company, who he reckons really lived up to their name. He cites them as being the "best ragers" he''s ever worked with.

At one particular hotel, the band stuck all the furniture in their rooms on the ceiling, when Bob walked in he felt he was standing upside down. On another occasion, the lead singer of the band (which was atl the time staying at one of Sydney''s most exclusive hotels) set off the automatic sprinkler system on the fifth floor by standing (naked) on top of a chair with lighted newspaper.

Bob said: "The automatic smoke sensors went wild and sent a cascade of water dow from the ceiling.The band knocked on my door, laughing hysterically, and told me it was ''raining'' inside. There was so much water in the place that a little river started flowing down the hall. "Needless to say, the. band was banned from the hotel for life."

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BODYGUARD TO THE STARS

New Idea Magazine

EARNED HOW TO FIGHT WHEN HE WAS 8. NOW, AS A TOP KARATE EXPERT, HE GUARDS AND ACTS AS FRIEND TO CELEBRITIES IN AUSTRALIA AND OVERSEAS.

A row of framed pop posters hangs on the wall. Most are affectionately inscribed. One reads: "For Bob, thanks for all your help. Love and kisses Linda Ronstadt."', '

BODYGUARD TO THE STARS

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As a little scapper at school, kids called him "Ginger Mick". Now, 6ft tall Bob Jones, ''red hair an all'', has built a highly lucrative business from his skills.

EARNED HOW TO FIGHT WHEN HE WAS 8.

NOW, AS A TOP KARATE EXPERT, HE GUARDS AND ACTS AS FRIEND TO CELEBRITIES IN AUSTRALIA AND OVERSEAS

A row of framed pop posters hangs on the wall. Most are affectionately inscribed. One reads:

"For Bob, thanks for all your help. Love and kisses Linda Ronstadt."

On the poster announcing the David Bowie tour of Australia, the star has written:

"With all my thanks for your excellent work "

But the prize possession is the:

"Thanks to Bob Jones Karate Skool''''

Mick Jagger scrawled before he flew out of Australia with the rest of the Rolling Stones.

Bob Jones, 1.8 m (6 ft) tall, with shoulders almost as wide and a mane of thick, wavy red hair, has been in the business of protecting international stars on tour here for almost a decade.

Bob''s long list of clients includes Shelley Berman, the Rolling Stones, Abba, Bad Company, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Joe Cocker, ex Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Linda.

"They are crazy, fascinating, often highly intelligent and always fun people," Bob says.

Recently his charges have been taking him on tour out of Australia . . . to South East Asia, Japan, and to the U.S.

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Richard Norton

In 1975, I was prompted to design a television series that I planned to call ''The Bodyguards''.

We drafted a pilot series of thirteen episodes and I had writers develop a two hour pilot episode, ''The Final Twist''. This script caught the imagination of Fumio Demura, Japans best known actor for him to make a guest appearance in the pilot and to make a connection to Richard and myself as being well known martial artists of an incredible standard, that is, for a couple of westerners.

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Richard Norton

In 1975, I was prompted to design a television series that I planned to call ''The Bodyguards''.

We drafted a pilot series of thirteen episodes and I had writers develop a two hour pilot episode, ''The Final Twist''. This script caught the imagination of Fumio Demura, Japans best known actor for him to make a guest appearance in the pilot and to make a connection to Richard and myself as being well known martial artists of an incredible standard, that is, for a couple of westerners.

Well known Australian/American actor, Gus Mecurio expressed interest in playing the character of my uncle, who as a New York private detective had wrongfully suffered the wrath of their CIA. Barry Barkla the star of televisions (at the time) ''The Box'' and ''96'' was approached to play Police Inspector Herzog. Inspector Herzog would give ''impossible'' to solve cases to his private detective buddy Gus, then Richard and I (undercover of course) wold have an hour each week to solve these cases for the Inspector. Sounded like a great idea to Richard and I, but the ''powers that be'' thought it was a bit out there and might not get public acceptance.

This was three years prior to Americas Miami Vice (almost identical plot) becoming one of the most popular shows of the era. A year after that another version appeared in England as another blockbuster, and like Miami Vice this show would also enter television Hall of Fame...This show used the ''pommie'' equivalent of The Bodyguard and titled their epic ''The Minder''.

From 1980 onwards Richard got the film making bug and hit the road bound for Hollywood. The rest is history, as he today has made in excess of sixty movies in his own right.

As we enter the new millennium, four decades have bonded a eudemonic relationship between myself and Richard that few people could comprehend.

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PERDIEM PUBLISHING - 1983

Bob Jones promoting ''Hands Off'' his first book at Press Conference held at Inflation Nightclub, King Street, Melbourne

Established in 1983 specifically for the purpose of marketing my first published book ''Hands Off''. A unique new system of self defence against assault for the women of today, inspired primarily by Christine McVie (lead singer of Fleetwood Mac) and the other ladies I had protected and trained on their world tours. They all agreed that I had a message for women that would be best served by being recorded in book form.

With my current book, the first release of an autobiographical trilogy, ''Let The Good Times Roll'' covers my years of touring with Rock and Rolls elite of the era.

As Elaine teaches you, and as you go through the mnemonic movements (memory fixers), her and you and your mirror image all move together in the same direction, making it extremely easy to learn and perfect each technique, simply check (your teacher) Elaine''s posture, then correct yourself with your mirror image.

Read the book (in approximately 2hrs) then practice every day for seven days for approximately fifteen minutes each session…Read the book again on now, the eighth day. Then practice daily for approximately thirty minutes each session - the movements themselves are the warm up.

On the fifteenth day of the program please read the book again (as its this third read that establishes the mnemonic principles), then seven more days of practice for approximately forty five minutes daily is the complete: ''TWENTY ONE DAY TRAINING PROGRAM.''

Having also experienced our wind down MEDITATION TECHNIQUES giving you insight into our Chapter of ACTION, REACTION AND RESULT.

Plus your recently obtained sub-conscious skill acquisition has been subliminally introduced to the physiological and biomechanical aspects of our: BJC -MNEMONIC MOVEMENTS.

From a cardiovascular point of view you will have acquired a degree of fitness, far above your capabilities of only twenty one days ago. From now on I am positive you will want to continue working out with: HANDS OFF PRINCIPLES.

Not only are they the ultimate self defence, if you wear something loose and comfy - play your favourite music nice and loud - these same techniques double as a great aerobic work out in the comfort of your own home…you would have noticed already how much you have toned up in just ''twenty one days'' from now on if you have any to lose, trust me, you will. If you are already firm these work outs will make you…''fighting fit and rock hard''.

You will need to set your work out times to exactly an hour - no more no less, a minimum of two to three times per week, this depends entirely on the individual with time restraints etc.

Now all you need is your boyfriend, brother or father to give you a hand by being ''playfully aggressive'' while they are assimilating the aggressive techniques demonstrated in the Chapter of action, reaction and result. The word playfully is a definitive issue here. As is ''control'' due to your now possible reactions, you will need to definitely use a degree of self control when defending yourself against a loved one.

THREE WISE MEN - all bought the book as presents even the one on the left

In time, with constant serious practice, they and you will build up the level of aggression and make your training sessions more and more believable, thus practical.

Now you will have a newfound degree of awareness, confidence and self esteem that will give you a definite opportunity to avoid being raped. Instead of being paralysed with FEAR…(which by now would only be a False Estimate of the Actual Reality).

- HEY GUYS -

Boyfriends, brothers and fathers - you should really seriously think about clicking on the book purchasing section below, this is an ideal surprise present for the woman in your life...girlfriends, sisters, daughters, wives or mothers…all women should have the opportunity to experience this unique system of self defence as it was written for the…''woman of today''.

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GOOD MORNING AUSTRALIA, 1998

In 1998 Bob signed a twelve months contract with ‘GOOD MORNING AUSTRALIA’ and worked with Ex Miss Australia, Michelle Downes and good friend Bert Newton with a weekly self defence segment that soon acquired regular top ratings, and was always (with careful planning) extremely controversial (Especially the episodes where it was suggested Michelle and Bob should practise the art of self defence in bed together).

 

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Rolling Stones

21 November. I’d looked up my diary early on that sunny Melbourne morning. There were several meetings regarding my dual role: my involvement as a martial artist and as a security consultant. There was a security luncheon booked for 12.30 at the South-ern Cross Hotel: I had to meet a Paul Dainty of the PDC (Paul Dainty Corporation). This was to be a very important meeting: on the phone he’d mentioned ‘making me an offer I could not refuse’.

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Rolling Stones

21 November. I’d looked up my diary early on that sunny Melbourne morning. There were several meetings regarding my dual role: my involvement as a martial artist and as a security consultant. There was a security luncheon booked for 12.30 at the South-ern Cross Hotel: I had to meet a Paul Dainty of the PDC (Paul Dainty Corporation). This was to be a very important meeting: on the phone he’d mentioned ‘making me an offer I could not refuse’.

I knew from his eloquent English accent he was not in the Mafia. I was intrigued, and on asking how I’d know him he’d answered: ‘Don’t worry about that, I know you.’

We’d arranged to meet in the lobby of the Cross, one of my stomping grounds. I’d worked here during the 1960s as a supervisor (bouncer). As I waited, old names and faces came to mind:
The Beatles, co-median Shelley Burman, Terry Riley, the Tavern Bar manager, Vinnie Scott and that funny man of the bouncer fraternity, Pat Housley.

Then here was that American chiropractor who used to fix our occasional occupational hazards. He did a great job on an injured shoulder of mine one time about four years earlier. What was his name? Oh yeah, Gus Mercurio.

‘Hi Bob, we’re both early.’

It was 12.25. I turned around to see a young man of sartorial elegance. Very British, groomed hair and nails, impeccable English-tailored three-piece suit and patent leather handcrafted Italian shoes. They were as shiny as the polished timber floor of the Southern Cross foyer, and I just knew he’d have bought those patent leathers the last time he was in Milan.

Over lunch we small-talked about the Australian rock ‘n’ roll scene, then he slowly led into,
‘Bob, I’ve checked you out, I’ve heard about your promotional days with the suburban dances, your trouble-shooter days, the years in the discotheque arena, and the last couple of years you and your martial arts empire have secured all of the major outdoor rock festivals …’

I didn’t bother responding that I’d checked him out, that at only twenty-six he was a multi-millionaire, had a worldwide organisation with its head office in London, that he was now spending
most of his time in Melbourne and was annoying many of our local entertainment entrepreneurs due
to the quality of the acts he was beginning to bring out …

‘I’ve spoken to a lot of industry people, both here in Melbourne and Sydney, and also my Australian manager of the PDC. All highly recommend you and your organisation. At the end of the day, I was wondering if you could manage the security for a big-name band I am touring here later this summer season?’

‘After a rap like that, I damned well better give it a try. Who’s the band?’

‘The Rolling Stones.’

Shit! Shit! Shit! Did he just say The Rolling Stones? Since The Beatles rolled over, The Stones were
possibly the biggest act in the world. Okay, okay, look cool, don’t muck up …

‘Look Bob, the problem I’ve got is that bloody Joe Cocker bust a month ago, those bloody headlines
ricocheted around the planet. Now, The Stones are paranoid about coming here. After what Joe got done for, they’re afraid they could get life down here.’

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, I could see the reason for their paranoia.

‘Their tour manager Peter Rudge is due in three days and he’s said that unless I can guarantee them the best security in the country, they just won’t come. That gives you three days to get your act together, do a proposal for the tour with your plans to give them the best security there is in this country. Oh, and by the way, I could use a good security manager for my tours; pull this off for me and there could be quite a bit of work for you in the future!’

Shit! Shit! Shit! The Rolling Stones, I thought as we shook hands and as I gave Paul Dainty one of my most confident smiles.

Bob Jones on stage protecting the Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, 1973

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Glenn Ruehland

Glenn and I also also go back to the early seventies and our association today is as strong as ever.

Glen and I have one of those relationships that give my quote "Today will be yesterday tommorrow" merit. Even if we havn''t seen one another for a long period when we do finally cross paths its as if the last time we saw one another was the day before yesterday.

Glenn Ruehland was a ''live-in apprentice bodyguard'', half way through this five year study program, a twenty year old Glenn decided his real call in life was film making via the arena of ''stuntman''.

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DIRECTORS CUT:

From the beginning to the end of our Severa journey we the audience, are often reminded by her mother, Sarah – that for every Portuguese word she has ever learned, she knows another word of the same meaning.

She explains that these words were taught to her as a child by her mother and her Grandmother as she was growing up on the other side of the mountains. She had always done her best to teach this “language of the Lusitanian’s” and their “culture and mythology” to her daughter. Especially when she realized Severa, had the singing voice of an angel. Her mother knew that if Severa understood these unknown truths, she would not only sing fado from the heart – she would now sing fado from her soul!

During the recent two hundred years of modern fado there have been ‘three immortal singing sisters of choice’. All three were not only chosen because of their radiant beauty and magnificent voices, they were also chosen to be reminders and to be educators of these ancient ways of the Portuguese, not only at home but also to those who have travelled to all corners of the globe - It is this “Lusitanian fado” that unites the eternal spirit of all those who really listen.

SEVERA! - 1820

The first of these three immortal sisters was born in 1820; her name that you now know so well was of course Severa, she was the first chosen because it was her that woke fado from a long sleep. We know she sang fado from her heart and soul; this is evident from her overwhelming popularity almost two hundred years after her passing over.

AMALIA - 1920

The second sister by choice that also sang fado from her heart and soul, born one hundred years later in 1920, and of course everyone of you all know Amalia. She was chosen as sister number two because she understood that fado had to be taken around the world and introduced to every one of all nations, “When I listen to Amalia, I don’t understand her language, but she makes you love fado with a indescribable passion?” was the whole worlds response! And since her untimely passing over at almost eighty years of age, on October 6th 1999, she has become even more of an icon.

EMILIA - 2020

Between now and the year 2020 the world of fado will have perfect vision of the youngest of the three chosen sisters, whom you already know well from her brilliant performance as Severa – this also makes you well aware she sings from her heart and her soul. Currently eighteen years of age Emilia, is “The Voice of Lusitania”. The exclusive lyrics to her songs are all penned by Mr Ivo Rato, Lusitanian historian and Celtic anthropologist, and together as a successful singer and songwriter team, they will “tell” the world…

“The truth so that it will be easily understood – then it shall be believed”.

The one major difference between Emilia and her two mentors, Severa in the nineteenth century and Amalia all through the twentieth century is that for these two hundred years they both sang Portuguese fado.

Now in the twenty first century Emilia sings only ‘her fado‘ and that is “LUSITANIAN FADO” this is why she is ‘THE VOICE’ - of the 21st Century.

There we have it, three immortal ‘sisters by choice’
Severa, Amalia and now, Emilia!

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DIRECTORS NOTES:

These Directors notes have been included for interested parties to have a more decisive understanding of the plays intricate writings of the Lusitanian fado, as well as the otherwise complicated frequent discussions and philosophical arguments that develop from time to time between Sarah and Miai. Sarah, with her mothers and wonderful Grandmothers Celtic ‘wisdom’ from ‘beyond the mountains’, doing battle with Professor Miai and his ‘knowledge’ gained from his University studies. Here are just a few Celtic expressions to make you more informed about the Lusitanian people and ‘their’ connection to Celtic culture and Celtic mythology:

FIRST OF ALL -
THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘LUSITANIA’:

Being Australian living and working in Portugal I have had the experience many times where locals have said to me, “Well, you see Bob, I’m actually not Portuguese I am by birth a Lusitanian” upon asking why this is so? They generally refer to ‘their blood’, their ‘inner feelings’ or perhaps their ‘Grandfather’ told them.

After mutual agreement that the word Lusitanian is not from the typical Portuguese or Latin fold, then upon asking them “What language lineage do we think this popular word comes from? What might it mean if we break it down into its constituent parts – then put it back together again?” - This more often than not, draws a blank look, followed by an acknowledgement of interest?

This ancient Celtic/Gaelic word when broken down into two parts symbolizes first Lusa – the masculine, the Celtic Sun God, the power of the light, all knowledgeable, this Sun word bears heat being representative of fire. The animal astrology sign for Lusa/Lugh is the Lion, as Lugh is the ‘King of the Celts’ the Lion is ‘King of the Jungle’. From the zodiac art work shown here the symbolic connection can be seen with the face of the Sun, protectively encircling the face are the flames of the fire of the Sun. With the face of the King of the animal world, these protective flames of fire become the Maine of the Lion.

The second part of this word, Ania or Anya, is a very ancient Celtic Goddess who is symbolic of the feminine, the Moon Goddess. She has the Gnostic power of darkness; esoterically wise with the unseen mystique of the Otherworld, this Moon word is cold being representative of water. The animal astrology sign for the Moon is Taurus and that connection is most prevalent in this art work as the twin crest of the Moon is symbolic of the horned weapons of the faena.

When they are together as the one word they are the metaphor for the perfect alchemic marriage, the ultimate blending of the light and the darkness – Intellect, Wisdom – this is the true omnipotence of the word Lusitania…

(This second word fadista, when broken down simply signifies fad, another metaphor meaning something of such popularity that it constantly comes and goes – forever. This is why ‘the fadista‘ can never stop singing ‘the fado‘).

Chi re be TA’ TA’ - 
HURRA, HURRA, HURRA:

Mr Rato and myself have asked students at most of Portugal’s Universities why they chant this Chi re be Ta Ta – HURRA, HURRA, HURRA three times at their football matches and other school activities. I personally found the Coinbra University the most intriguing as Mr Rato asked the above question to a ‘student body’ principal as to “Why?” with the usual blank look followed by that acknowledgement of interest… Mr Rato then asked if the student had any idea as to the why Coinbra cafeteria lunch room was called Chi re be Ta Ta? Had he any idea why the forefathers had decided on such a name? Then due to this student’s interest, Mr Rato sufficed the following answer!

The Celtic/Gaelic meaning... After any battle it was common for the Celts to celebrate ‘Victories’ down by the waters edge. The word ‘Victory’ in the Celtic/Gaelic language translates as ‘Hurra‘ this is why in Portugal there is a common chant of “Chi re be Ta Ta – HURRA, HURRA, HURRA”. Chi re be Ta Ta will be explained in detail during ‘discussions’ between Sarah and Miai within the script of the play where time will permit such Celtic mythological detail.

Famous examples of these celebrations are ‘River Dance’ and ‘Lord of the Dance’ and if a Celtic warriors sword had given them success in battle nine times – then the sword would be gifted to the ‘Woman of the Sacred Lake’ as a sign of contempt for any attachment to material values (This was the origins for Celtic warriors folklore of them having ‘nine lives’). This is sadly misunderstood with today’s interpretation of discarding three coins into the fountain – while at the same time expecting something in return with the act of payment for wishing for something of material gain.

“HURRA, HURRA, HURRA” These three chants of ‘Victory’ are the essence of Celtic folk-lore as in the first celebration chant HURRA! Representing FADO, long ago in the beginning we had to have the victory of life, for every new life has to unfold creating a unique story for its own.

HURRA!!, celebration number two is symbolic of life today as we experience the wonders of living moment by moment being a definite cause for celebration, with singing and dancing down by the riverside being representative of FANDANGO. Birth and life are then inevitably, followed by death.

The third and final HURRA!!! – is representative of the FAENA, the ritual of killing the bull, the cycle of fertility is complete. Birth, life and death is fado, fandango and faena, the essence of the oldest Celtic Festival of celebration known to mankind.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
CELTIC/GAELIC - HARP?

In contrast to the Guitarra Portuguesa being in existence for merely a couple of hundred years - the Celtic/Gaelic harp (harp, meaning to ‘pluck’), is the oldest known stringed instrument from prehistory.

There is a very old story in Celtic Folk Lore that the idea for the harp was developed from antiquity when a Druid was training a large group of Celtic warriors in their skills of archery. Each time he commanded them to ‘draw’ and then ‘release’ he began to take notice of the rhythmic sounds made by the strings of the bows as they released the arrows into their targets. Some say, this was the birth of the harp.

The earliest (at this point in time) French archeologist evidence is 15,000 years ago; a very distinguishable harp was found in recent times, etched onto a large stone in the South of France.

Further evidence of the harp is from Assyria, Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Phoenicia varying between 8-6,000 years ago. Since these times harps have continuously been found all throughout both sides of the Mediterranean from carvings in the Middle East to sculptures in Greece . And during the time of classical antiquity, there are drawings of the harp being played by Orpheus.

Around 5,000 years ago they appeared frequently in Egypt and are depicted in drawings on the tomb of Pharaoh III. From Egypt the harp travelled to Spain and almost immediately, spreading entirely through Europe. In the pre-Christian period Celtic/Gaelic harps appeared on coins in Gaul. After this they appeared in the Old Testament being played by Jubal and King David.

The British Monarchy attempted to abolish the harp and thousands of harps where destroyed while hundreds of harpists (i.e. bards-fadistas) where unmercifully put to death. This was at the hands of Oliver Cromwell from the direct orders of Queen Elizabeth I during the mid 1600’s.

At the same time the harp became the favourite music of South America as it was introduced their, again by the Spaniards. And today the Celtic/Gaelic ‘baby’ harp will enjoy an explosive resurgence across Portugal as a quality feature of SEVERA! Being the musical highlight of our Fado house entertainment in Celtimanic fado!

WHAT IS CELTIC FADO?

Translated from Gaelic, the word Fado simply means, long ago. Irish Fadistas have always referred to it twice, as in Fado, Fado – long ago, so far back in time it was in fact… long ago. In modern Greece , their Fadistas of today refer to their identical style of music as Rambetika. Of course, when this word Rambetika is broken down it translates as long ago!

In modern Italy , this form of folklore is known as Taranella. Taran is actually Gaelic for the God of Thunder and Ella symbolises the Celtic/Roman Goddess Bella, the young maiden of extreme beauty. Again, this dualistic meaning of Taran/ella, the ancient God and Goddess is simply another way of saying – long ago… long ago.

Down through the ages of countless millennium while in its musical form in many/most European countries, Fado has suffered many hardships as a result of its attitude of ‘exposure of the truth’. Fado above all, must retain the freedom to use the medium of storytelling to entertain, inform and educate the listener on all things of the past, present and future…

CELTIC FADO - REBIRTH AWAKENING

The powers to be have ‘modern historians’ debate the 2500 to 5000-year history of the Celtic peoples – Us Celts know this was not the embryo – our Celtic ancestors already entirely inhabited Europe since time memorial. Now in the Twenty First Century, a new resurgence of - ‘Celtic Posterity’ persists in ‘every quarter’ of the globe.

Celtic Fado, in all its forms contains the expressions of the suppressed western mystery tradition still alive today. It has undergone many transformations and revivals, for millennia it has lost many battles, but never the war. Through all of this it remains intuitively genuine and echoes down the Centuries. This Gnostic reverberation will be the messenger of the modern generation – Lusitanian Celtic Fado - Rebirth Awakening!

This new millennium message comes at a time when there is a renewed vibration of the Universe of all things Natural, stirring beneath the surface, a secret urge towards the establishment of a new spirit. Today is a time when all major economic corporate entities, all major religious institutions and the ‘ New World’ government ideologies are suffering from constant media exposure of their continued atrocities against mankind; this has fallen into line with much that is spiritually retrograde in our modern civilization. The old gods can no longer be invoked with impunity; the folk-souls of the past have another mission today. Men are afraid of the real future, and seek refuge amongst the phantoms of other ages, into which they breathe the breath of their desire. And this is the other pole: the Celtic folk-soul is no longer the soul of the people, but the soul of a spiritual awakening of all mankind - Lusitanian Celtic fado‘ is the messenger!

From the antiquity of antediluvian Celtic culture, until this modern time of Severa, Amalia and now Emilia, this encyclical stage play, has drawn upon the many talents of Mr Ivo Rato, our prolific songwriter, a truly harbinger Bard. He is not only a modern day Druid - his knowledge of the Celtic renaissance will serve future generations.

WHAT IS FANDANGO - 
THE COMING OF AQUARIUS?

Celtic warriors drinking liberally of their own exquisite wines and devouring a well cooked feast of abundance, more often than not they would notoriously fight amongst themselves, as each boasted of their days exploits and conquests with stories so grandeur as to be unbelievable. Often the Bards would have to intervene and tell it like it really was - thus avoiding serious altercations.

Throughout the ages many of our greatest archaeological finds have been exquisite caches of weapons, which had been mysteriously deposited into lakes, rivers and sacred springs. This was the Celts paying tribute of expressing their love for Fand, their Goddess of Water. Well trained warriors living their lives on the battlefields of these ancient times, knew well that water was their number one commodity for health, sustenance and for - their ultimate survival (Wars will be fought in the future – due to water supplies).

In recent times Fandango is well known by its interpretation of two men dancing around a woman, each man using more and more intricate dance manoeuvres signifying they are competing/ fighting for her affections. As the woman represents a Celtic Goddess during this performance of Fandango, she of course, has an interest in seeing who has the superior ‘warrior-fighting skills’ to warrant her attention. Historically, the Gaelic word Fandango was broken down into two parts for a more informative interpretation…

Fand, representing the feminine (Matriarchal), the Goddess of Water and Angos being the masculine (Patriarchal), representing the God of Love. This connection of water with love has always been very powerful in Celtic folk-lore. Their love of water and natures other elements of earth, air, fire and the *void is constantly interwoven through all of their mythology.

(*the Void, their attention to Godliness, the Druids spiritual teachings to all the Celtic peoples revolved around their belief that the first four elements of nature were the source of all life and that in the very beginning there was the Universal Void – with which, they believed all of us are the ‘one’ and the ‘same’. They believed and taught that our connection to the Universe was – our breathing).

During the matriarchal time of the Celts and their Druids, there was an element of fascination and admiration with the ‘miracle of birth’ and our Water Goddess and her association with Angos (love). They knew we are born into the world when our mother’s water breaks; we are born with our entire human body being made up of 70% water. We are born into a world that is made up of 70% water, yet our planet was named ‘earth’?

As the 20th Century came to a close, the European psyche finally took a turn for concern for this Celtic cultural importance of water. The phrase ‘Water in Celtic Countries’ was first formulated in July, 1996 with the inaugural Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology and Management of Water Resources. This was staged in Rennes, Britanny, France . The Second Inter-Colloquium “Water in the Celtic World: Managing Resources for the 21st Century”, was held in Aberystwyth, UK , during July 2000 organised by the University of Wales. The Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium “Celtic Water in European Framework – Pointing the Way to Equality” was held in Galway, Ireland during July 2002. The most recent, the Fourth Inter-Colloquium was staged in Universidade do Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal in July 2005, thus Portugal ‘s acknowledgment of their heritage as a Celtic country.

A ‘new millennium’ science known as Quantum physics is experimenting with re-inventing the powers of the mind and its interconnection with water, the most relative of the elements. Recently a Japanese author/scientist, Mr Masaru Emoto has written several books on the subject. He – like the Druids of a long gone era – felt that the molecular structure of water was capable of a non-physical response with only human thought being the driving source. He ran a series of tests where a portion of pure distilled water taken from the Fuji Warra Dam was left to stand overnight in its natural state, the following morning, this water was photographed (this was the same state of water that as youths, our Celtic Grandmothers told us never to drink without stirring or shaking, as overnight the water had also been asleep. Our Grandmothers knew that for maximum benefit for our health - the water needed to be energised). The next day the water was blessed by a Buddhist Priest and again photographed. The following day the water was thought of with love and affection by a mother, thinking of her children and then the water was again photographed.

The final day, a third person thought abusively into the water, this photo and all of the others showed startling differences with a total reshaping and composition of the molecular reaction to each of these different thought processes of human emotions.

Recently a startling scenario was carried out in the USA , in Washington DC. Approximately 4000 meditators from more than one hundred countries came together to prove publicly the results of their previous experimentations with meditations. With the Mayor and the Chief of Police bearing witness, after one solid week of this group all together in a large venue, sharing this power of thought, everyone ‘thinking’ collectively for peace and tranquillity… it is recorded that murders and the crime rate decreased 25%. And just as surprisingly after the seven days and the mediators returned to their own countries, the Washington DC., murder and crime rate returned to its regular statistics.

FANDANGO… Just try for a moment to comprehend the magnitude of her power, makes you wonder doesn’t it? If our thoughts can do this to water and the human psyche, imagine what Fandango could have our thoughts do for us? In today’s modern society Celtic Fandango has been famously portrayed to a world-wide audience as the exciting River Dance and the Lord of the Dance.

WHAT IS FAENA?

Primarily the word faena is a Celtic/Gaelic derivative representing the ritual and rules of the Matador and the Bullfight being all about fertility.

As the Celts placed such importance on the number three, it is easy to see that relevance here. Long Ago in the past there was ‘birth – fado‘, now in the present time there is ‘life – fandango’ and the thought of our destiny into the future, except with the future there must come a time for ‘death – faena‘. The Old King simply must die to make way for the New King. The Celts had such an understanding of this that they were without fear of death. Prior to going into a magnificent battle with the potential outcome of death, lending a good friend money to be paid back in the afterlife, was even more acceptable as offering a loan to be paid back tomorrow. Many Roman writers and philosophers often discussed and wrote that the Celts response to the question of fear was simply:

"We fear no man; we fear nothing, except one day the sky may fall upon our heads”

LUGH, the Sun God is seen by the Celts to be born every morning of every day, by midday the Sun God is middle aged and of course by nightfall the Sun God dies and disappears beyond the horizon. After almost five billions years of this re-occurring, you can be reasonably certain the Sun God will be born again in the morning.

And as the first rays of sunlight break the darkness for the dawn, all the cock roosters in the villages on the other side of the mountains all over France and Portugal… will echo (as they have done every day since ‘long ago’ this is the reason these two countries share the rooster logo) the good news to all Celts of the re-birth – which by their common belief is their destiny.

Faena, so the story goes that thousands of years ago, possibly during the recent astrological time of Taurus, or perhaps the previous time of Taurus (i.e. one of our Sun Gods Twelve Astrological Disciples) a famous and powerful Druid had decided it was no longer fitting that this magnificent animal should be unashamedly dragged over to a tree and tied up to have its throat cut as a sacrifice to the Gods… instead he would have the warriors of the Tara Miliate (the ancient martial arts) compete to win the right for the ultimate death-match, to stand in the face of the bull and one or the other being the loser, offering themselves as a potential sacrifice to the Gods. The winner of this match was guaranteed immortality, either the man or the beast. From that time on, this competition would forever more be the highest honour of the:

‘FOUR SEASONS’ - MOST ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES.

Unlike the later Games of Greece known as the CIRCUIT staged six times every five years in the four cities of Isthmia, Pythia, Nemea and Olympia for a further thousand years dated from 776BC – 393AD. These games competitors had to prove their Greek Citizenship, where as the Four Seasons Celtic Games known as Somhain (Winter), Imbolc (Spring), Beltane (Summer) and Lughnasa (Autumn) – these were all Funeral Games of thousands of years prior and were open to anybody and everybody all over Europe interested in developing their fighting skills by - pitting them against the skills of the Celts.

(With the above mentioned Somhain, the Winter Games specifically celebrating the birth, life, death and rebirth of their Sun God – This astrology based information will be covered in depth in future projects)

In today’s society the world knows much of the Pierre Coubertin Modern Olympic Games that are just over one hundred years of our modern era (since 1896), whilst we know little of the PAGAN ROMAN CAPITALINI GAMES, and their fight ‘to the death’ at the whim of the Emperor, performed by the GLADIATOR WARRIORS of the time. We know much less of the one thousand year history of the PRE-CHRISTIAN GREEK GAMES known as the CIRCUIT, with their historic major crowd draw attraction, the PANCRATION FIGHTERS (Meaning Game of all powers). What is a most disgusting ‘social crime’ against the culture and mythology of the Celts is that the world knows nothing of the Ancient Games of the Celts…and their famous Tara-Mileate Celtic FIONA warriors that had the courage to - ‘death-stare’ into the eyes and deep into the soul of the Bull.

Now the time has arrived for the modern world of today to hear of, and learn all about the TARA-MILEATE CELTIC *FIONA WARRIOR (The Celtic/Gaelic meaning of the Fiona is the one of the light, and of knowledge). This was the warrior that out skilled every one of his opponents that dared stand in his way, in any of the fighting forms and the many diversified athletics competitions for the honour to face death with the bull. He knew even if he were no match for the ferocious beast, his bravery would have him reborn. In this death-match the warrior Fiona wore a golden torque around his neck plus he/she wore a gold threaded body suit from his neck to his elbows and down to his knees; this was to symbolize his representation of the Sun God. For evidence of this description of these male and female Fiona warriors, from more than two thousand two hundred years ago, one needs to look no further than the well preserved:

‘CELTIC CAULDRON’ which is on display in the Copenhagen Museum, Denmark.

CERNUNNOS (shown left) holding a torque and serpents head (symbolising freedom and rebirth).
He was the "Lord of the Forrest - The Protector of All Animals".

His brilliantly gilded suit for his minimum protection was, during the midday sunshine, a blinding sight and his red and yellow ‘defensive drape’ he artistically swirled around his body, looked to be the rays of the sun itself (This ''defensive drape'' was developed after centuries of the Fiona facing the Tauras with only his shield and sword).

Today, this ancient warrior of the Sun God is very well known to the modern world as the ‘Matador’ just like the real life Conde de Vimioso from our play. Some would like to see the demise of his craft and this point of contention is covered dramatically during the play with one of those epic wars between Sarah ‘the Celt’ and Miai ‘the academic’. This is due to the fact that during this era of Severa and Vimioso it was legal and extremely popular to kill the bull in all of Portugal, but of course the powers to be, wanted it stopped… to us Celts, this is impossible. How after all of these thousands of years – can we have only two without the third? - i.e. birth and life without death? – or fado and fandango without faena! When one observes the ‘CELTIC CAULDRON’ you can not help but notice the dress code of the fiai and the matador have hardly changed at all in well over two thousand years!

And as for the opinions of human activists and animal rights campaigners, who are speaking defamatorily about this millenniums old mythology, their comments are absolutely ludicrous… the alternative for the Matadors ‘spectacular opponent’ in the Bullfighting arena would be, simply to be killed as a part of the regime of ‘mass animal death’ in slaughter houses and factories world wide for the ever increasing ‘daily consumption’ of the planets human population. In fact, it is simply a matter of the economics that if the breeding and training of this magnificent animal for the faena was to cease for any reason, it would be no time at all – before the magnificent beast itself, would no longer exist, being totally extinct.

We hope these brief Directors Notes have shed some light on the theme of a play like SEVERA! and the many more projects that our company CETIMANIA PROJECT Pty Ltd are currently preparing to launch in the very near future – In fact, these will commence as soon as SEVERA! The play proves that there is:

A large world wide audience just waiting to experience CELTIMANIA!

SEVERA! The play – An epic true story of the heart, a tragic love affair of the woman who woke fado from a very long sleep, and her man of the moment, Conde de Vimioso, the most amazing and the most famous matador of this era, together they will be responsible for - the beginning of this Celtic Awareness Revolution!

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SEVERA! SYNOPSIS OUR FADO HOUSE TREATMENT SEVERA SARAH TARA ALIX PROFESSOR A. MIAI Phd PORTO & ORLANDO CONDE DE VIMIOSO INTERMISSION - ACT II DIRECTORS CUT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: We appreciate you taking the time to observe this exciting ‘New Project’ which is the life of SEVERA! A nineteenth century adventure experience of the true story of the rebirth of fado (Portuguese Blues). The story centres on the tragic love affair of one of Portugal’s favourite historical daughters, covering her life from eighteen years of age, to the final eight years of her life during 1838- 1846. SEVERA! - Is an ambitious undertaking: a musical play about the Portuguese Blues (fado), set in the middle of the nineteenth century, combining cabaret, theatre along with guitarra Portuguesa and fandango (music and dance). SEVERA! Isn’t just a musical, it is a drama and a drama in the truest sense of the word: it is a comedy and a tragedy both. And having the play develop a stage-life of its own is the most controversial script to hit the stage in a long time. And even more controversial than the script will be those Lusitanian lyrics, penned dramatically and exclusively for this unique CELTIMANIA PROJECT by Mr Ivo Rato in his usual Avant-Garde fashion: As only he is capable of! Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Robert V. Jones, I am one of two Directors of CELTIMANIA PROJECT Pty Ltd. Our Company currently based in Australia , is about to become a major driving force behind the current European resurgence of interest in Celtic culture. Our mission statement to this cause is the acronym of the word CELTS -Connecting Europe’s Lost Tribal Societies. Mr Ivo Rato, the other Director is currently in Lisbon establishing our business interests throughout Portugal . We met almost thirty five years ago in 1975 and have remained very good friends during all of this time. I know him to be a unique anthropologist, Lusitanian historian with his knowledge of Celtic mythology being absolutely second to none. After many years of extensive research in Australia at the State Library of Victoria, Mr Rato was astonished to discover such an exciting ‘connection’ between so many countries of Europe, all sharing this antediluvian Celtic mythology. His uncovering of the Celtic/Gaelic/language and the connection to mythology from the Iberian Peninsular, moving on to the United Kingdom many millennium ago, and how this eventually travelled down through the South Pacific Region - with the colonization of Australia in 1788. This became the recipe for the foundation of Mr Rato teaching this same Celt-Iberian history and culture to all students of my health, fitness and self defence organization for more than a decade, in Australia and both islands of New Zealand with recent expansion into several other countries. http://www.bobjonesmartialarts.com.au/ Added to all of this, the fact we have recently discovered and recorded an exciting young voice in downtown Lisbon, eighteen year old Emilia - singing with the passion of both Severa and Amalia. This discovery inspired me to draw from Mr Rato’s teachings of antiquity to create SEVERA! My creation of this play has the desire to tap into all the raw emotion of this gone by era. To be felt by everyone through the sensational abilities of this new 21st Century ‘Lusitanian fadista‘ who we have chosen to be the Voice of Lusitania. We are confident Emilia has the raw talent, that will impact not only on the local Portuguese community, but also the Portuguese ‘Brave-hearts’ that since the revolution have travelled to all corners of the Globe, now numbering approximately 40,000,000 as world wide Portuguese migrants. Both the Portuguese community at home and migrants abroad added to Portuguese speaking Brazilians and you have 270,000,000 people with the sixth most spoken language on earth. This is a huge demographic of people for EMILIA! - SEVERA! to have an impact on. Enclosed is a SYNOPSIS AND TREATMENT. To move forward from this point so that myself and Mr Rato and a Portuguese playwright can develop and adapt the script and bring it to fruition, we are in need of the following support: A Portuguese Producer and Production Company, equity involvement from potential investment partners in this ‘Project as a Play’ and the necessary sponsorships. SEVERA! The Play will certainly attract involvement from a Government level as this will be the best attraction to Portuguese ‘culture and tourism’ that has come along for the recent past and the foreseeable future! Thank you sincerely for your time thus far - please enjoy our following SYNOPSIS AND TREATMENT. To contact Mr Ivo Rato direct in Portugal on 9.2507.3532 or myself on mobile +61 419 586 559 or direct at Australasian head office phone, +61 3 9484 1760. Alternatively, please click here to fill out our contact form. CELTIMANIA PROJECT.com Australasian Head Office - 6 / 26-38 Miller Street Epping Victoria 3076 AUSTRALIA Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. SEVERA!- SYNOPSIS SEVERA!- The original Pagan version of Walt Disney’s epic love story of ‘Cinderella’, complete with the two horrible step sisters (three beautiful young prostitute fadista’s who have chosen each other as family’. Sisters by choice - rather than sisters by chance as they more often than not, enjoyed to publicly reminisce - especially when combined with more than their fair share of good Celtic wine, hashish and some superb Celtic scotch). These three self chosen siblings are dominated by a psychotic overbearing fadista who is their ‘mother of choice’ as well as being Severa’s genetic ‘mother by chance’. The two elder sisters and the ‘mother’ share a passion, and this to protect at all costs the youngest member of this unusual ‘family’. They simply want for her, a better way of life than any of them had been born into, she is their very own princess that they feel deserves the best! Severa, as a matter of historical fact which is fully documented, a larger than life real character of the mid 19th century, eventually discovered by her handsome debonair prince who enters Severa’s mundane existence and changes - ‘her life’ forever! (In this, the original pagan story, her prince is a real life Fiona i.e. Matador - the most famous of all, at this time in Portugal ) SEVERA! - The play is about love, sorrow, pain and transcendent power, through these emotions of fado the play continuously involves you in the sub-culture of the fadista’s, musicians, refugees, lovers, prostitutes and fiai’s (tough guys). Most importantly the play delves into and exposes ‘many unknown truths’ behind Lusitanian mythology and the sorrow of the ‘lost’ richness of Portuguese Celtic culture, definitely one of the richest of all - European Celtic cultures. SEVERA! - The true dramatic story of Maria Severa Onofriano, more commonly known to her admirers and fans, simply as SEVERA. Born in 1820, she died traumatically of alcohol poisoning at the tender age of twenty six on November 30th, 1846. Common thought and belief at the time was that this beautiful young fadista died of a broken heart as a result of her catastrophic relationship with her noble aristocrat. Conde de Vimioso, one of the most acclaimed Matadors of the day - The actuality was that she suffered a horrific suicide, by slowly whilst wilfully- drinking herself to death! Since the beginning of time, in all corners of the earth folk music has held a tradition for vocalizing both the joy and the struggles of the proletariat, the underground and the down and out. In Portugal (In this case, the very under privileged Alfama district) a particular strain of folk music, mostly featuring the voice and the Guitarra Portuguesa (Which Severa herself - played competently), this magic of Severa with her voice and her guitar were responsible for interest on mass rising to the fore in the urban slums of the 1840s, and the 1850s and even after her tragic death and undoubtedly as a result, the popularity of fado exploded. This word ‘fado‘ (ancient Celtic/Gaelic word basically meaning ‘long ago’) is sung by men and women known as ‘Lusitanian fadista‘ (See Directors notes for more detailed descriptions). It is the music that translates to the ill informed as Portuguese blues and was the mouthpiece for a generation of displaced Portuguese who fell between the cracks of expanding cities and straight society. At this time the underground was a bustling hive of creativity with many of the fado songs filled with stirring melodies that told the tales of the drifters, Fascists, Communists, refugees, anarchists, drug addicts, prostitutes and Fiai’s (i,e. pimps - tough guys who live off the earnings of women involved in prostitution) who haunted the local cafes and ‘fado houses’ in and around most Portuguese cities and were defiant in their - alienation from the mainstream. From the moment you enter the theatre and the usher has directed you to your seat, the music of SEVERA! is at the fore. Our CELTIMANIA PROJECT Musical Directors have painstakingly developed an internationally acclaimed ensemble of musicians, known as CELTIMANIC FADO. These fadista’s casually walk on stage while the audience is still being seated and begin to play, looking as much a part of the set as the hash pipe, crookedly hanging wall pictures and mismatched tables and chairs. Their playing is ridiculously good; even to the uninitiated ears, that much is obvious. Soon the cast appears and the music steps up a notch, cueing singing and dancing, that’s when the glasses of Sangrea and traditional Celtic delights are dished out to the audience. What? Surely you didn’t think there’d be a Celtic play without Celtic people (Lusitanian’s) offering you food and drink, did you.              Shame on you. OUR FADO HOUSE The entire play is set in a typical ‘Fado House’ of this era: Although lighting and special effects has us visit railway stations and on several occasions we visit one of our lead characters who has wound up in prison, we are also given the impression we have visited the bull fighting arena to see our Matador perform his ‘killing of the bull’. And as this is the original story of Cinderella, there has to be the Matadors Ball, the biggest night of the year, and the biggest night in the life of Severa. During this time of the Nineteenth century the fado house developed three different trading styles. The simplest was basically a ‘small coffee shop meeting place’ catering solely for the locals within a particular area, providing only a sparse menu of cheap snacks and very cheap wines. From a ‘proletarians viewpoint’ these establishments were a home away from home, a friendly game of cards supported by only very moderate wagers, during some healthy conversation with no one having that much to say about anything in particular. This atmosphere sadly was a way of life for many of the downtrodden and an ever increasing number of the social misfits. The second style catered to the growing trade of 19th Century tourism, a much larger establishment with an elaborate expensive menu and exclusive wines, always fully catered for by plenty of staff to suffice every whim affordable of the ‘bourgeoisie patrons’. Several large rooms upstairs were the attraction of these establishments. Here many a fortune could be won or lost on any given night of the year. These rooms were specifically designed and no expense sparred on the decor, with the typical gambling atmosphere being the theme. Beautiful and scantily dressed, big breasted women offering free drinks were for the taking provided you kept a healthy and constant flow of expensive chips and or cash passing over the tables. Fascist politicians, stuffy academics, police on the take, alternative members of the spiritual fraternity including the paedophile priests of the day, wealthy gangsters and dubious business men were the average cliental for these up market mini casino ‘fado houses’. Our ‘fado house’ was the variety that fitted perfectly in between these two, except downstairs and upstairs had a slightly different theme of sex, drugs and fado (a hash den, and prostitutes paradise of that era between 1838 -1846). ‘Our house’ was perfect for most members of society, especially entertainers, artists, poets and writers. All that was needed for you to fit in with this group was that you needed to already have done ‘more’ than your serious share of alcohol, regular overdosing of all forms of narcotics and tried all forms of sexual debauchery at least twice. SEVERA! The play invites you into the fadista’s subculture. All outcasts in the slums of the under privileged Alfama District and many other areas throughout Portugal , who created a utopian subculture for themselves, based on their total unquestionable acceptance of and for each other! Our ‘fado house’ is leased and managed by Sarah, Severa’s mother, and frequented by her extended surrogate family. To pay the rent every month she makes the tyrant landlord an offer he apparently cannot refuse, and he always leaves the premises smiling, albeit with no financial gain (i.e. no rent). Severa’s mother, Sarah, is now aged thirty six (exactly double the age of her teenage off spring making the opening of the plays timeframe sometime during the year of 1838), due to circumstances of her lifestyle, Severa’s mother already looks to be middle aged. Although you can see some traces, that in her youth would have been every bit as beautiful as her only genetic sibling. SEVERA! - TREATMENT ‘PORTUGUESE UNDERGROUND TAKES TO THE STAGE’ A ‘mother’ and three ‘sisters’ by choice, has these four women share the spotlight in this entangled epic love story. Four men featuring two 19th century gangsters, opium addicted Professor and a famous Matador (i.e. The Prince) all take second billing to the women. ‘CELTIMANIC FADO’ is made up of four of the best musicians Portugal has to offer. Playing Guitarra Portuguesa featuring 12 string, 6 string, 4 string double bass and as a special addition, a 19 string Celtic/Gaelic ‘baby’ harp. Four women playing the lead, four men as the support cast and four musicians is a total of twelve persons that can be on stage at any given time during the performances.   Severa: The Story is centered on this character - the youngest sister. Sarah: The ‘mother’ figure, with much lost Celtic knowledge of antiquity. Tara: A chain smoking alcoholic, drug addicted beautiful ‘soul’ person. Alix: A depressive fucked up hypochondriac suffering from schizophrenia. Professor Antonio Miai - Phd: An intellectual opium addict looking for a place to non exist. Porto: Gangster #1 - The 58 year old ‘father’ of everyone in the fado house. Orlando: Gangster #2 - A 28 year old wealthy criminal with very bad karma. Conde de Vimioso: The Matador extraordinaire, the power broker, the Prince. Four musicians, members of Celtimanic fado: A total of 12 Characters at an given time. SEVERA As a woman’s name is distinctly unique, after much research we are still to discover even ‘one’ other woman ever in Portugal (since 1846) to have the gift of this name, if there is ‘one’ that we missed with our endeavours, we feel you would agree the name would still be distinctly unique. SEVERA/SEVERE is perfect as a two word description for the two parts of our play, in the opening Act Severa is beautiful with her human frailties and natural innocence. During the closing Act and due to circumstances out of her control, our darling Severa needs only one descriptive word befitting her newfound maturity - SEVERE! Severa the daughter (played by the newest and brightest star on the fado horizon, very soon everyone will know the name, Emilia), is the youngest and most beautiful of the three singing waitresses. As the play opens her over protective psychotic mother has performed her maternal responsibilities reasonably well. Even in these degrading conditions of squalor, Severa is a hard working eighteen year old, still with her virginity and an audacious innocence in tact (amazingly for this time and place in our history - more the norm by now was to have been married and had several children). She loves and respects her mother and dedicates herself to always keeping her mothers dilapidated establishment spotlessly clean and fresh - not an easy task, even at the best of times. Severa has her private BLISS - deep in her personal psyche she carries an inner desire, a passion to sing fado that is different or at least to sing fado differently - she dreams about singing fado that will change the world to somehow be a better place. She waits patiently, and quietly, and on occasions, says a prayer for the time that her mother Sarah, might finally decide; Now is your time Severa, now! SARAH Sarah the ‘mother character’ is blessed with a complex understanding of ancient Lusitanian Celtic Culture (Written into her dialogue from the knowledge of Mr Ivo Rato’s extensive research of Portuguese Celtic anthropology) for the benefit of the theme of the play this knowledge of antiquity was passed onto her by her mother and her Grand-mother, both of whom were born and lived their entire ‘long lives’ high in the mountains of Braganca and Vinhais, Northern Portugal. And she is passionate to impart this Celtic wisdom of ‘three mothers’ onto anyone who dares to listen, For ‘every word’ of the Portuguese language that I have ever learned at school or in daily processors I have ‘another word’ that means exactly the same taught to me by my mother and Grandmother! was just about Sarah’s favorite saying. TARA Tara, at just twenty years of age is the second eldest of our three ‘sisters’, she is a veteran of several abortions and has learnt her trade the hard way. A succession of dubious men throughout her short life, continuously prove to Tara she lacks self-defence skills. And she wears many scars both physically and psychologically, but she is never deterred from being a confidence abundant smart arsed wise cracker. Tara has had a crack at just about everything and has come to the conclusion, nothing has ever paid as well as her prostitution and as she often jokingly states, I don’t have a good time - I give it. Tara loves her ‘mother’ and although she does not claim to understand her unusual ambitions, she respects her mothers’ wishes to protect the young one so that Severa may by some miracle one day rise above it all - and she is a fierce alliance to this often demanding cause. Tara is self assertive, always positive and totally unapologetic in all of her actions - she is a chronic chain smoker, mild alcoholic (in denial) and does enough cocaine on a ''high day'' and enough opium on a ''low day'' to last most junkies a week - Tara is a wild child, a stick of dynamite looking for someone to light the wick! She does find this someone, he does light her wick and sadly he is the cause of her explosion! (During a final scene in Act I Tara is sadly stabbed to death by one of her lovers in a train station subway, as she was trying to get away from it all on her way to new opportunity’s in London via Paris - It will take a very special actress to pull this character off and give this short lived life of the wonderful Tara, the true meaning and expression for the - absolute power and determination of commitment, that was within this woman’s autonomous spirit). ALIX Alix, at twenty three is the eldest of the girls, with three young kids of her own (kids we hear a lot about but never get to see) all born to three different fathers and she is not even sure, who fathered who. A self confessed ‘gold digger’, she uses her prostitution to first and foremost, support her siblings, secondly to find that elusive customer who will be ‘mister right’ and take her and the kids away from all of this, and give her the - life-style she feels she is entitled to. Alix, is a complex Jekyll and Hyde personality whose abuse of hashish makes it hard for even her to know, which of these two characters she is on any given day. She thinks she loves her ‘mother’ like she thinks she loves her kids! On the one hand, she believes she would protect her ‘little sister’ to the death whilst on the other hand she thinks Severa’s virginity and her not doing drugs is; Totally un-interesting, un-intellectual and totally un-professional, and why hasn’t she got a couple of kids already? I mean she eighteen, so what’s her problem? PROFESSOR ANTONIO MIAI Phd One of the four men and the only non fadista in our play is Dr Antonio Miai Phd, he is a mysteriously interesting sideline character that frequently fades in and out of the general perspectives of our storyline. He has only two interests, one is that he will play anyone in the fado house at backgammon, even though most times, in fact almost every time he plays he loses. What’s worse? He seems to enjoy losing. The good thing about this it shows an interesting humorous quality to the personality of his character. Dr Miai’s only other desire, is to convince Sarah that she is totally wrong about the Celts and their connection to Lusitanian/Portuguese culture and that he may one day change her beliefs to be more in line with his own, and those of his piers. This entails Sarah and Miai having many heated discussions designed to really invoke/involve all members of the cast with their diversified opinions along with every member of the audience and their own decision making processes. Dr Antonio Miai Phd, now somewhere between his late thirties/early forties used to be a well respected University lecturer of history and philosophy. For reasons known best only to him at this point in time, he is currently a perpetually stoned Opium addict lying about on the side of the stage in an indiscreet corner of our fado house. Away from his backgammon challenges and his academia disputes with Sarah, Dr Miai is spending most of his time wrestling constantly with his personal sanity, and his hookah pipe. Although Dr Miai has had several financial encounters with both Sarah and Alix in the past, his recent favourite is Tara even though he spends most of his commercial encounters with her, simply indulging in intellectual stimulus, which of course Tara is more than capable and comfortable with. As the play progresses Dr Miai has become more and more acquainted with his hookah pipe and these supposed sexual encounters of his have become less frequent. Considering Dr Antonio Miai’s time is spent amongst friends in the fado house, is for the most part only involved in idle chatter and some light humour, he seems mostly unattached from them with his habitual extravagances. (Then just towards the end of the first Act, a situation suddenly appears and results in a complete lack of ‘character strengths’ from our academic Dr Miai (We are led to believe at this time, may be the major reason for his addictions). This situation has him make some very bad decisions that cause absolute havoc to the main plot and sub plots, instantly affecting everyone. The actor that plays Professor Antonio Miai Phd will have the chance to bring his acting skills right into the face of every audience member, of every performance. During the second Act there is an intense scene set in a prison cell where he is given the chance for absolute redemption for all of his past mistakes. He informs a certain cast member and us, the audience, the tragic reasons for his addictions. He confesses to us the story behind his self-guilt ridden conscience, born from the total belief he was responsible for the deaths of his wife and two young children in a house fire - making us more tolerable to his plight. Then another devastating confession of a heinous crime to this cast member that we expect he may be murdered for, right there in the each performance will have him under intense audience scrutiny.       (We should hope his acting is better than his backgammon!) PORTO & ORLANDO - Two Fiai’s Entering on and off the stage throughout all of this ‘fado house’ mayhem - are two extremists, both colourful characters who are known to us as Porto and Orlando, two fiai’s (i.e. The ancient Gaelic word for a couple of really bad guys), both of them are always impeccably dressed, one conservatively the other flamboyantly, one in his late fifties, the other in his late twenties. Porto, the eldest of the two fiai’s, although more than twenty years Sarah’s senior, is her live-in de facto, he is the absolute protector and moralistic ‘stepfather’ to the three singing waitresses, and in particular his very favourite, the youngest Severa. An extremely tough man whose code and philosophia, is one of personal integrity and mutual respect, he values these things above everything else. He also values these traits in other people to a high degree. Porto is what is referred to as an ‘old school’ Fiai whereby violence and large scale crime were within his capability due to his personal strength and high status in the slums - but no longer existing in his current ‘way of life’. Orlando the younger is a hardened bully and extremely tough, using violence as a mode of his communication. Large scale crime, judicial and political corruption, regular police payouts, the prostitution industry, drug trafficking and even murder are all a regular part of his every day lifestyle. He could be described as a Fiai without as much respect for the old ways sometimes defined as a psuedo or œphony Fiai. Orlando is father to one of Alix’s three kids (but he’s not sure which one), right at the moment he’s having a casual affair with Tara (what else could an affair be with Tara?). Although he has not entertained the sexual conquest of the boss of the house, he constantly taunts everyone in Sarah’s control by saying - Severa is next on his list. (These two fiai’s are doomed from the start with the new against the old principles, rituals and ancient lore of these two Celtic Lusitanian warriors. Constant arguments, verbal challenges and several times to the brink of physical altercation, then just as the first act is closing with no where else to go, both with deadly weapons drawn - one of these fiai totally unashamedly - belligerently murders the other!) CONDE DE VIMIOSO A real life character that in our play is larger than life! He is a modern day Fiona of the nineteenth century, who today would be famously known as a matador. His character is proof of that age-old life-quote, Power corrupts and absolute power, Absolutely corrupts. INTERMISSION - ACT II Just as we thought we knew everyone and roughly where everything was going, it’s now time for the supposed hero to arrive. After many mentions during the play up to this point in time about this fiona super star often coming into the Alfama District, it was simply passed off as to be false rumours. Bullshit, fucking bullshit, as long as a bull’s got two balls, he would not be seen dead in Alfama. He is the King of the Arena, the conqueror of the Faena. But if by some reason, he were to come into our area, surely he would visit the famous fado house of Sarah? was Sarah’s and the general contention of the house. Then, on one particular day everyone was talking about this afternoons incredible Faena (i.e. ancient Celtic/Gaelic word for the ritual of the killing of the bull). The biggest and most ferocious bull we have ever seen, they were saying, And by far, the bravest ever fiona (i.e. ancient Celtic/Gaelic word for Matador). On this dark night with much of the sky being occupied by a magnificent ‘full moon’, distributing its silvery light of blissful intrigue, breathing life into the gathering party atmosphere of downtown Alfama, our fado house is full of much merriment with lots of drinking, constant laughing and joking mixed together with spasmodic sexual activity. All of this was about to be momentarily interrupted; with loud banging on the door ‘Knock, knock, knock,’ this interruption snapped a cold eerie atmosphere throughout the house. Suddenly, as we are about to experience, our fado house as we have come to understand it, can from this moment in time never be the same again. ENTER? was the questioning raised response from Sarah, and enter he did - our one and only Matador extraordinaire, Conde de Vimioso. It is now time for this forceful character to make his presence felt, to enter the stage and our now intriguing - fado house with its merry band of misfits. (During intermission, Severa brilliantly played by Emilia who has aged almost a decade, plus for the sake of the play she has lost her virginity. And this has all happened while you were having a drink during a thirty minute intermission. She has matured into a magnificent woman of mystery and intrigue, and the tempestuous real life love affair between these two characters - the prince and princess has already begun-‘The dove has been set free and taken flight’.) Tara is dead from the violent scene at the railway station. Porto is now serving the rest of his life in prison for first degree murder and the now deceased Orlando plays multiple roles as Duke, the policeman who put his arch enemy behind bars. And he then triples his role playing as Mario, the warder who makes Porto’s time in prison - hard time! As the play matures, SEVERA! Is becoming a play concerning potential, it explores the potential in suffering regarding love and tolerance, politics and in music. As Porto says in Act I regarding a very ancient Celtic harp, Even as it sits there, it holds the potential for joy, for love, for life itself. Even amongst all of this violence and incarceration, displacement and even death - the potential that fado music offers is what brings hope. As ACT II - is coming to a climax, the denouement of the play at this point has many turns of events turning everything upside down with the most unusual paradoxes to all aspects of ACT I, taking all the known into new and different dimensions with a climax no one will expect. Conde de Vimioso, the infamous Knight without armour has made his impact; he is now the dominant character adding as much impact to the storyline as anyone thus far. Why does Severa against all the advice of those who seemingly care - love him so passionately? What do we the audiences think of our Matador Vimioso? Do we love him? Or do we love to hate him? This is precisely the reason why SEVERA! will be enjoyed by everyone who bothers to take the unusual experience. We trust all who come will tell everyone they are in contact with and suggest they do the same. It would be much appreciated by ‘us’ if ‘you’ do not - disclose the actual ending, so that it is the same for them as it was for. DIRECTORS CUT: From the beginning to the end of our Severa journey we the audience, are often reminded by her mother, Sarah that for every Portuguese word she has ever learned, she knows another word of the same meaning. She explains that these words were taught to her as a child by her mother and her Grandmother as she was growing up on the other side of the mountains. She had always done her best to teach this language of the Lusitanian and their culture and mythology to her daughter. Especially when she realized Severa, had the singing voice of an angel. Her mother knew that if Severa understood these unknown truths, she would not only sing fado from the heart she would now sing fado from her soul! During the recent two hundred years of modern fado there have been ‘three immortal singing sisters of choice’. All three were not only chosen because of their radiant beauty and magnificent voices, they were also chosen to be reminders and to be educators of these ancient ways of the Portuguese, not only at home but also to those who have travelled to all corners of the globe - It is this Lusitanian fado that unites the eternal spirit of all those who really listen. SEVERA! - 1820 The first of these three immortal sisters was born in 1820; her name that you now know so well was of course Severa, she was the first chosen because it was her that woke fado from a long sleep. We know she sang fado from her heart and soul; this is evident from her overwhelming popularity almost two hundred years after her passing over. AMALIA - 1920 The second sister by choice that also sang fado from her heart and soul, born one hundred years later in 1920, and of course everyone of you all know Amalia. She was chosen as sister number two because she understood that fado had to be taken around the world and introduced to every one of all nations, When I listen to Amalia, I don’t understand her language, but she makes you love fado with a indescribable passion? was the whole worlds response! And since her untimely passing over at almost eighty years of age, on October 6th 1999, she has become even more of an icon. EMILIA - 2020 Between now and the year 2020 the world of fado will have perfect vision of the youngest of the three chosen sisters, whom you already know well from her brilliant performance as Severa - this also makes you well aware she sings from her heart and her soul. Currently eighteen years of age Emilia, is The Voice of Lusitania. The exclusive lyrics to her songs are all penned by Mr Ivo Rato, Lusitanian historian and Celtic anthropologist, and together as a successful singer and songwriter team, they will tell the world The truth so that it will be easily understood - then it shall be believed. The one major difference between Emilia and her two mentors, Severa in the nineteenth century and Amalia all through the twentieth century is that for these two hundred years they both sang Portuguese fado. Now in the twenty first century Emilia sings only ‘her fado‘ and that is LUSITANIAN FADO this is why she is ‘THE VOICE’ - of the 21st Century. There we have it, three immortal ‘sisters by choice’ Severa, Amalia and now, Emilia!

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KARATE MAN LED SECURITY TEAM

THE SUNBURY Pop Festival, conducted over the recent holiday week end, was generally voted can outstanding success. And one of the big factors which contributed to that success, apart from skilful promotion, was Bob Jones.

Bob, who lives in Northcote, is already well known in Glenroy as principal of the karate school in Cromwell St. He is also principal of a number of karate schools scattered throughout the metropolitan area and will open a class in Sunbury in the hear future. Controlling 35,000 people at the Sunbury festival was a king sized job. But, Bob said this week, it was made a tot easier by the excellent behavior of the big crowd.

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KARATE MAN LED SECURITY TEAM

THE SUNBURY Pop Festival, conducted over the recent holiday week end, was generally voted can outstanding success. And one of the big factors which contributed to that success, apart from skilful promotion, was Bob Jones.

Bob, who lives in Northcote, is already well known in Glenroy as principal of the karate school in Cromwell St. He is also principal of a number of karate schools scattered throughout the metropolitan area and will open a class in Sunbury in the hear future. Controlling 35,000 people at the Sunbury festival was a king sized job. But, Bob said this week, it was made a tot easier by the excellent behavior of the big crowd.

To help him, he had 100 specially chosen members of his various karate schools holders of green, brown and black belts. The security team used almost every conceivable type of equipment. A special telephone communication system operated from an onsite caravan maintain constant contact with all security points. This important job was efficiently handled by Bob''s wife, Pauline.

In addition he used a helicopter, three landrovers, three horses, 12 walkie talkies, a beach buggy style motorbike and a Goannamobile. The latter is a small vehicle with several wheels, which is capable of crossing any terrain in any conditions.

Most important job was to see that nobody skipped in without paying no mean task when it is considered that there is only one 200 yards length of fence on the entire 600 acre property. Much of the, site is bounded by Jackson''s watch had to be kept for ''prospective clients'' attempting to enter by skirting neighboring properties. There were several ingenious attempts to get in for "nix". One security crew was quick to note a car which pulled up in the car park after the driver had purchased his ticket.

He was one of hundreds of motorists who had crawled the one and a half miles in 1 1/2 hours bumper to bumper in near century heat to the ticket boxes. The Jones crew pounced when he opened his boat. Inside were two youths in a condition of near collapse. Most important job was to see that nobody skipped in without paying no mean task when it is considered that there is only one 200 yards length of fence on the entire 600 acre property. Much of the, site is bounded by Jackson''s watch had to be kept for ''prospective clients'' attempting to enter by skirting neighboring properties.

There were several ingenious attempts to get in for "nix". One security crew was quick to note a car which pulled up in the car park after the driver had purchased his ticket. He was one of hundreds of motorists who had crawled the one and a half miles in 1 1/2 hours bumper to bumper in near century heat to the ticket boxes. The Jones crew pounced when he opened his boat. Inside were two youths in a condition of near collapse. They had spent the entire time in the boot, and still had to go back to the gate to buy tickets. Another reason for the festival''s success was the banning of liquor.

Of course, some DID sneak through, but most was discovered and appropriate action taken. Some of the methods used to secrete grog into the festival made interesting reading. One youth carrying a guitar case did not took unusual, until security men noted that the case seemed to be weighing, him down a little on one side. When the case was opened it was found to contain enough "grog" to supply a small bar. Other supplies were Creek, and a constant concealed in haversacks, sleeping bag rolls and suitcases. Bob was full of praise for the conduct of young people who attended the festival. With few exceptions they were well behaved, and cooperative. There was little or no trouble. Even nude bathing and walking at the festival was in good taste, Bob assured us.

He told of two amusing incidents concerning nudes. On one occasion television and straight films were being made of a karate demonstration at the festival. It was serious stuff and little wonder photography crew were frequently thrown into confusion at the sight of nude male or female figures drifting into the line of their lenses. On another occasion a shapely lass gashed her foot badly while swimming nude in Jackson''s Creek. An embarrassed security man had to carry her 150 yards through a big, whistling, cheering crowd to the first aid station. Most tension for the whole festival was experienced when the Billy Thorpe act appeared on the festival stage.

Bob Jones was one of the 20 security men who stood shoulder to shoulder in front of the stage facing the crowd of 35,000.

"It was an eerie feeling", Bob says. "They were swaying and surging with excitement and I couldn''t help wondering what we would have done had someone started a forward rush. But, as usual, the kids behaved well."

Bob praised the promoters Odessa Productions. "Any item I wanted for security was given without question", he said.

He also praised the police for their great work, and that of an unknown voluntary organisation which attended to staff cooking, parking, etc. He also praised his own staff, many of whom worked stretches of up to 18 hours straight.

He has already been re booked for a future festival and will be in charge of security.

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BOB DOES NOT EXPECT TROUBLE

Melbourne Sun
By Lorraine De Selle
Picture: Clive Mackinnon

TRADITION has it that Okinawa peasants leapt from trees and dismounted their armored opponents…

The flying kick, they called it and karate expert Bob Jones gave a good demonstration of it. With a blood curdling yell he leapt into the air...right In the middle of the city square. Passers by were, say the least, stunned. Bob, 6 ft. and 13 stone, is a Second Dan belt, the head of nine karate schools and security manager for discotheques and pop festivals.

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BOB DOES NOT EXPECT TROUBLE

Melbourne Sun
By Lorraine De Selle
Picture: Clive Mackinnon

TRADITION has it that Okinawa peasants leapt from trees and dismounted their armored opponents…

The flying kick, they called it and karate expert Bob Jones gave a good demonstration of it. With a blood curdling yell he leapt into the air . .
right In the middle of the city square.

Passers by were, say the least, stunned. Bob, 6 ft. and 13 stone, is a Second Dan belt, the head of nine karate schools and security manager for discotheques and pop festivals.

He and 60 of his students have been hired to assist police keep order at the Sunbury pop festival this weekend. He is not expecting any trouble. "But then, if the weather is fine, up to 80,000 people may turn up. Our job will be to control the crowds," he said.

"We also want to ensure that they keep off neighboring farms and don''t get in for free. "We will have at our disposal horses, land rovers and bikes. "We won''t be wearing a uniform. We want to look just like any of the other youngsters " he said.

"I first became interested in karate about six years ago. A couple of colleagues and I held a dance for teenagers . but we could not afford bouncers.

"So we had to do the job ourselves, and, for major security, I decided to take up karate. "I have never looked back since that day." Bob, 30, is married with a 10 year old daughter, Tracey, who is already a brown belt.

"Self defence is just as important for warren as for men," Bob claims. "They should be able to defend themselves against louts in dark alleys ... . Bob is also actively campaigning against drugs.

"They dull your reflexes, and if you are addicted to karate you can''t afford to be addicted to drugs. "Karate is a way of life. We have both spiritual and physical training, not merely a bit of tile chopping." And with that, he went back to his flying kicks.

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THE ENFORCERS

By Eric Scott
TV Week Magazine
August 25th 1973

On the Wall of Bob Jones'' Karate school in Melbourne there a poster inscribed: "Thanks to Bob Jones'' Karate Skool - Mick."

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THE ENFORCERS

By Eric Scott

TV Week Magazine
August 25th 1973

On the Wall of Bob Jones'' Karate school in Melbourne there a poster inscribed: "Thanks to Bob Jones'' Karate Skool - Mick."

The Mick is Mick Jagger, for whom Bob and his boys provided a bodyguard service on the pop, star''s Australian tour. On another wall is another, notice which reads: "We are not responsible for valuables". Obviously the bodyguard service doesn''t work inside the club, but then, if a karate student can''t look after his wallet, who can.

Over the past ten years Bob has become well known to thousands of pop fans and topline entertainers. He actually registered a company, Bob Jones Security, to provide assistance to pop stare and hotel managers when the going got rough.

Through this, he established a chain of 23 karate schools throughout Victoria and has now expanded interstate. Today, Bob, a third degree Black Belt expert, is more businessman than heavyweight bouncer, but, as his swollen, calloused knuckles prove, he still keeps up his training. "Karate is not something you can perfect," he explained. "It is a life long pursuit.

I''m '' 30 years old now and the best I could manage in my own lifetime is to reach a Black Belt sixth degree. "To reach the ultimate limit you must spend every minute of everyday on karate framing, both the physical and spiritual sides. "Few people achieve that degree of perfection." Bob is happy to carry on the way he is, teaching other people the art of karate and the way of life that goes with it.

The security company has been wound up, so Bob will come out of this retirement only for very special bodyguard jobs like the Jagger and the Jackson Five tours. "We don''t cover local stars or hotels any more," he said. "It just isn''t worth while.'' "The reason we ware so successful as trouble shooters originally was the good vibes we had with the teenagers. We didn''t look like policemen anal we didn''t threaten.

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THE VIOLENT YEARS - PART ONE

The Bob Jones story commenced with his mother becoming pregnant during the early days of World War II. From the embryo stage and for the next nine months of incubation he would ‘unknowingly sense’ the stresses of his mother, and the traumatism of the world around the both of them. Being born into, and experiencing adolescence through an entire World War, caused no limitations on the amount of love showered upon this infant that was born with not only his mothers red hair, he was also born blessed with her audacious Irish temper and accompanying infallible spirit. This sharing of solo parent sibling togetherness and matriarchal lovingness, was almost as if they both knew what was about to happen as a result of this bloody war, and what it was about to take away from both of them.

', 'This bloody World War II was Created by the Dictator of Nazi Germany dir Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and his ‘Germanic Global Vision’ for a superior human race, via a breeding program of pure Germanic Aryans had come marginally close, to taking over complete control of planet earth. This would be at the expense of multiple millions of human lives, and mass devastation of much of Europe. The conflict resulted in the death of the biological father of a very young Bob Jones, his father (dada), being born of a Jewish mother and taking his fathers Scottish name of Thompson. Never knowing this son of his wife, born of her Celtic red hair… Bobs father had gone overseas in what he believed to be the defence of Australian shores, and came to a rude awakening with several years inside prisoner of war camps eventually being the cause of his early death!

Hitler’s allies, the Japanese, had bombed Pearl Harbour and bought America into a war the Yanks were not particularly interested in. The Japanese bombed their way across the Pacific, continuing down through the South Pacific, devastating Papua New Guinea and eventually Darwin, Australia. Before the end of this ‘bloody’ war his mother would fall in love and marry the boss (Victor Sydney Jones) of the restaurant where she was waiting tables. Defending our northern shores against the Japanese air attacks would have Bob’s stepfather suffer post war trauma for the rest of his natural life. This mindless cost of human life and suffering continued until the Americans introduced the world to a new dimension of modern warfare… The catastrophic ‘American Atom Bomb’, our 20th Century ultimate ‘terrorist attack’, aimed specifically at the civilian population of the Japanese Capitol city of Hiroshima, truly the ‘weapon of mass destruction’ for its time in our history.

This ‘necessary’ act of terror totally annihilating all elderly citizens, mothers and young children. Three entire generations eliminated from the planet earth in a miniscule moment of time, leaving an indelible spot within the subconscious mind of master Bob Jones. Plus the city’s total structural devastation which caused this demise of Japans military and one of the initial causes of the crumbling of Adolf Hitler and his Germanic Empire. This bellicose dictator’s supposed eventual suicide brought long awaited peace to the world. Albeit only temporary due to ongoing conflict in Korea and Vietnam etc;

This ‘WIN’ was followed by mass depression and psychological meltdown of our young heroes returning home to our shores ‘totally’ wounded; physically, mentally and worst of all, spiritually. Practically nothing in the way of support for the then hard to identify ‘psychological post trauma stress’ was provided during these times. And with what little there was, having no benefit as these men through both war and peace had been assimilated into a ‘fanatically religious’ patriarchal based society. Where it was unmanly to complain about anything, let alone ask anyone for help.

Bob Jones’ parents and his grand parents had lived through two world wars divided by ‘The Great Depression’. He remembers well his step father’s advice during these adolescent years, “Son, two world wars were bad enough, but I hope as you grow and travel through life, that you will never have to live through a repeat of anything comparative to this depression. In a war we can still be our own individual heroes but in times of depression, nothing strips a man more of his individual dignity and identity, and the basic rites of being a human”.

THE VIOLENT YEARS - PART TWO

As a result of this half a century of violence including the recent World War Two, our country had a serious genetic imbalance. Due to our conceived convict heritage, British Empire war mongering Sir Winston Churchill made a point of always-placing Australian militia right there in the front lines of all war zones. ‘Why should a British soldier suffer when it was just as easy to sacrifice the son of a colonial convict’. This fact has been emphatically proven with war records showing Australians far surpassing all, becoming the highest death and injury rates of all the British Colonies. Now, in the middle of the 20th Century, and we as a Nation identified with our problem resulting from Sir Winston Churchill’s war time decision making skills. His good mate, our *Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies in an attempt to ease this genetic imbalance, decided to open up immigration with an affordable ten-pound (twenty dollar) one-way ticket for young male Italians, followed by the male youth of Greece, and then many others. With no organised social integration programs, there was a definite ‘common man’ animosity towards these ‘unusually different ethnic males’ arriving upon our shores.

*Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, the longest serving Liberal leader in Australian history, the same leader that was exporting for profits, many thousands of tons of scrap iron to the Japanese. This was within one year prior to the declaration of commencement of ‘this, the Second World War’. Earning him the nationwide nickname of ‘PIG IRON BOB’, and with satirical endearment he was publicly criticised and condemned with: “Hey, Pig Iron Bob, we don’t mind you bein’ leader of our country and makin’ a quid or two on the side. But, if you keep sellin’ this fuckin’ steel to those bloody Jap’s, there’s a big chance they will turn it into bombs and come ‘ere ‘n blow the fuck out of this beautiful country, and us az well!”

This was the anti war and political sentiment of this time in our history, preached fervently by our Labour Union leaders and their good mates (supposedly our society’s tough ‘bad guys’, our Painters and Dockers). Their warnings fell on tone deaf ears. Finally with no other recourse these tough ‘bad guys’ disrupted our docklands. They did this with nationwide supported strikes of all their union and bad guy dockland mates refusing to load any more of that f…..g scrap iron onto any ships bound for f…..g Japan. History would certainly suggest these national strikes were finally performed, supposedly by a bunch of tough ‘good guys’. How different things may have been without them?

Some things never change, our recent second longest running Liberal Prime Minister, Mr John Howard unashamedly established his open trade export of uranium to Communist controlled China. Plus ‘his’ commitment of many of ‘our’ 18 - 20 year old kids, risking their wellbeing as well as their lives in Iraq and Iran for the New World Orders multiple trillion dollar ‘OIL’ supply and demand industry. One can only hope we do not have a World War III anytime in the near or too distant future. Can you dare to even imagine what might be used as weapons when this war eventuates? It’s beyond me but one thing is for sure… When World War IV eventuates, we will be back to ‘chucking rocks’ at one and other. I’m sure we all know, if history teaches us anything, this humbling fact is more than likely to eventuate. Especially with irrational Presidents of the United States of America, like our recent millennium war mongering George W. Bush (Johnny Howard’s best mate). I’m sure as you read this, you are also aware these same leaders have totally abolished the entire concept of Painters and Dockers of post war fame. Next time around where will our tough ‘good-bad’ guys come from to help save the day? Certainly not from our current style of pompous politicians or our overpaid corporate entity recession leaders, and most certainly not our pathetic paedophile priests. Maybe… Mick Gatto and his Carlton Crew, don’t be alarmed, stranger things have happened! (Our European, American and Australian history has already shown us the extreme passion of this Catholicized ethnic mindset, when it comes to them protecting their immediate family members, friends, home or country).

‘War Babies”, (Today’s Baby Boomers) was an expression given to all children born during and within the first ten years of the end of the war. During this decade and while experiencing national post war poverty and growing up in Melbourne’s inner suburban slums, these youthful adolescent years had Bob Jones learning the ‘social skills’ of the time. With skilful stone throwing (chucking rocks) being the weapon of the day and with hand made ‘Billy carts’ as the military mode of transport for these multiple gangs of children fuelled by religious fanaticism.This Anglo Celtic socially influenced stigma of this era was to hate Protestant pigs, Catholic dogs and definitely don’t mix with those Jew boys. Without even knowing which of these God fearing groups he belonged to, Bob learned to fight ferociously, gaining gravel rash on his knees, while still wearing short pants.

Within a few years, and now as a mature adolescent it was kosher to hate with a passion ‘anyone’ who lived in an adjoining suburb. Simply living on the other side of ‘that’ street or road was socially intolerable. Our mobility beyond the Billy carts eventually became flash fast cars. Alcohol and females became something you went to bed with… and the violence was becoming even more life threatening. (This was all many decades before major outlaw bikie gangs, movie star gangsters and Asian drug lords - all sharing a Trillion dollar industry - will come into vogue. You do not need to concern yourself with the social problems of this epidemic: we are already living with this as a part of our new millennium!).

We already had Irish gangsters that no one dared talk about and we had crooked Irish coppers (with a hierarchy of Freemasonry at the time) that no one knew anything about, but talked about constantly anyway. (A throw back result of violent blood stains on our 19th Century colonial days with blood spilt on the Eureka Stockade flag being only one of many ‘casus belli’ altercations that divided good guys and crooks from these anti social cops and their despot oligarchic political bosses).

Unlike the decade following the first World War, when ‘razor gang gangsters’ like Squizzy Taylor fought and died on the inner suburban streets over the financial control of the very lucrative heroin and cocaine trade. The number one drug of addiction of these Post War II days was ‘speed’; these pills were available from the same guys that sold them to long distance truck drivers. To be a tuned in and switched on teenager was to buy a used and emptied Bryant & Mays slide out match box (complete with that Goddess with the long flowing red hair, and that one sexy shoulder on the cover) packed with marijuana and carrying a price tag with no change out of a quid (one pound – two dollars).

These could be purchased from certain members of inner suburban and city street gangs with names like The Phantom Twins (the ‘family’ of choice of the now young teenage Bob Jones), Panthers, Ruby’s Rebels, Night prowlers. Within the areas of inner suburbs they were either North or South, East or West side gangs. Or simply by taking the name of your outer suburb, which ‘every’ suburb did, and adding the word ‘boys’ became a cause to die for. With their ever increasing numbers of membership, these individually formed extremely violent teenage street gangs became a way of belonging. An extended family, they were group protection and your very own ‘big brother’ security.

During this period in our reasonably modern history, Australia was not unique; this was a post war, world wide phenomena! And just as we thought one war had ended, there was suddenly a new global fear. Known as the ‘COLD WAR’ a title born from the catastrophic effect of the American Atom bomb, we were now media informed on a ‘every day’ basis that Russia had devised the same technology and any day, either of these two super powers may at any time use this devastation against one and other. For the next decade we all lived with the constant intimidation that any day we were living might well be our last, simply by either the Americans and/or the Russians pressing what we had come to know as ‘THE RED BUTTON’. Plus what will unfold in the next chapter you are about to read, was also identified right around the globe as war torn immigrants travelled from country to country. They were simply, looking for anywhere that they might be accepted and allowed to belong. Almost always being confronted with racial animosity by the local inhabitants, followed by questionable and intimidating suspicion and always with the accompanying violence!

As an older teenager, Bob Jones the now fully seasoned fighter, entered into a new era of uncontrollable escalating violence. With the full approval and support of all ‘his - Big Brother - peers’, with many of these ex- war heroes questioning, ‘what the hell was all the fighting about? Is this what we fought and died for? Our way of life, our jobs, our houses and our women being swallowed up by these government sponsored marauding invaders’. Him and his young *Celtic Anglo Saxon buddies rose to the occasion with what was expected of them, with what they knew well.

By now the Australian media propaganda machine was looking for a name to tag these youthful undesirables to help boost media ratings, magazine and daily newspaper sales. America had come up with the controversial as much as it was demeaning - JD’s (Juvenile Delinquents) and the United Kingdom had gone with ‘TEDDY BOYS’. Australian media showed a degree of creativity calling our misguided youth ‘BODGIES & WIDGIES’ as they identified there were both male and female practitioners of this crisis of mid-century hooliganism! According to every ounce of media exposure given to the youth of this era, everything was their fault; youth were the scourge of the earth, and what, if anything could be done about them. Apparently at this time in world history there must have been an acute shortage of trained psychologists and social welfare workers, no one suggested we may all have been a product of our environment and the current ‘world stage’ was not the best example of what could be deemed, acceptable behaviour.

Government immigration policies and media acerbic critique were the major factors these previously intolerant and separate gangs now united their hatred for these ‘invading’ ethnics with tribal warfare on the streets and in the work place. Adding to this dilemma, frequent attacks became a community menace within their newly established gambling houses, ‘ethnic coffee shops and clubrooms’. These Wogs, wops and dagoes were the newfound social, political and religious enemy of the day, and much blood was spilt for several years as Bob Jones further honed his fighting skills!

*Celtic Anglo Saxon is what an ‘Australian’ was during the first one hundred and fifty years of the ‘white man’ settlement of this historically ‘black mans’ continent. During this post war period the population of this colony of the United Kingdom was 8,000,000 with all of us now feeling ‘connected’ by our United Kingdom Celtic Anglo Saxon heritage.

During these early times of this country’s violent history, our equally violent teenage Bob Jones was euphemistically schooled with that antiquated ‘White Australia Policy’. Not only was he socially expected to ‘hate’ these ‘dark skinned’ wogs, wops and dagoes by his peers, it was government policy for him to have absolutely no tolerance for ‘anyone’ whose skin was ‘not Anglo Saxon white’. And in whichever ‘One-God’ of the ‘three’ major Abraham religions these marauding invaders found ‘their GOD’, the other two were definitely WRONG, a resolution worth fighting for, to the DEATH!

This is definitely the ultimate paradox when compared to today’s attitude towards social acceptances, political correctness and religious tolerances. This is a whole different story of ethnocentrism for another time, and one day I will tell it through my eyes and my unusual and controversially unique Celtic ‘Indigenous’ research. If post World War I street gangster Mr Squizzy Taylor had lived to see the new millennium he would be extremely pleased. His heroin, cocaine trade has now improvised an unlimited range of designer drugs making it the largest non taxable cash flow business in existence throughout the world today! He would be equally impressed with the current faltering of economic world powers, the International mass imprisonment of paedophile priests and with ‘our’ world governments simply negotiating the time and place of the next war. His razor gangs have become machete wielders and now the institutions of crooked coppers, gun blasting outlaw bikie gangs and Asian drug Lords have all joined the one corporate entity together. Yes, with all these advancements in our civilization, Mr Squizzy Taylor would be extremely pleased; in fact he would be in paradise.

THE VIOLENT YEARS - PART THREE

The Twentieth Century has now been acknowledged as the most violent ‘one hundred years’ we have ever experienced, with the catastrophic cost of more human lives than ever previously recorded. This, our peer’s education system informs us, is the natural course of civilisation, yes, of course by this we can see, we are civilised? Celtic Anglo Saxon Australia 1788-2009, a little over two hundred years and with Federation in 1901 means Bob Jones is ‘somewhere’ between one quarter to half (25-50%) of this colonies age.

From this, he has drawn personal experience and knowledge of the atrocities against our indigenous Aboriginals, the absolute abuse of those early convicts (Irish slaves would be more precise). Add to thesethe poor, the uneducated, the sick, the mentally disadvantaged and the physically handicapped, and not excluding our elderly. All of these, our fellow Australians have suffered continuously under this British Colonial Oligarchy. And, with our new millennium, agnostic political/religious agendas, not only in our beautiful country of Australia, the whole ‘world of the common man’ has much more suffering to endure. I don’t mean to cause undue alarm, but we all should be prepared… it is coming!

On the subject of history as we can perceive the written word, although much has been detailed by the best liars belonging to the Winners Club, it may well be as ‘they’ would have us believe, that our civilisation’s survival depends upon… all this violence. Perhaps there is even an effect on world economy control and world population control - culling. Whatever the reasons, the first decade of this new millennium is shaping up to be a world-wide economic disaster, global warming dilemmas, more natural disasters, more famine, much more violence with a escalation of higher death rate than we had recorded at the beginning of the last century, which turned out to be our most murderous ‘one’ hundred years ever. And today, we have learned so much from history that now this is called our modern civilisation, hmm!

Adolescence, youth, puberty, restless teenage conflict and now, at just over twenty years of age Bob Jones was married; he had experienced fatherhood and journeyed through an extremely violent, then failed marriage. Single, disappointed, extremely angry at the world and professionally working in the entertainment and security industry, he found himself living a nocturnal existence as a complete way of violence.

His whole life in tatters, it seemed to him at this point in his life that the only thing he had ever been really successful at… was violence! And even worse than that, he was economically out of control – with more than 200 staff in almost full time employment, the financial rewards just kept pouring in. Contributing to his train of thought that violence and success was one and the same, somehow in this world of Bob Jones and associates it all seemed so normal.

Spiralling out of control for the next decade, only one thing saved him from total destruction. He had become a ‘born again’, not in a religious sense, as a matter of fact, quiet the opposite! He had commenced training in the martial arts in 1965 as a ‘white’ belt and by 1970 had achieved his First Degree ‘Black Belt’ Grading. And at this pivotal point in his life, during these five short years, he was totally transformed as a human being. What a paradox, a really violent man, living an extremely volatile lifestyle, and he starts to study a hypothetically - often publicly miss perceived - really violent martial art. And as a result the man is reborn.
Incredibly forty five years of his life will come and pass and currently, during the first decade of the third millennium, he is and will be until 2012 an ‘Eighth Degree’ Black Belt. This esoteric journey from First Degree Black Belt and soon to enter a new phase with his Ninth Degree has miraculously transformed his life from, ‘The Violent Years’ and this martial art intertwining of ‘transparency, transformation and transcendence’ has now evolved into ‘The Greatest Story Never Told’, sounds like a couple of good titles for a couple of good books! Following right along from the immediate success of his already published ‘Let the Good Times Roll’. Perhaps, maybe, one day in the not too distant future…

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BOB JONES - THE VIOLENT YEARS

This is the story of Australia’s violent years through the eyes of Bob Jones with not only his mother’s Celtic red hair, but also her fiery Irish temper !

Johnny O''Keefe, Billy Thorpe, Max Merit, Bon Scott, Doug Parkinson, Jeff St John, Normie Rowe, Russell Morris, Bobby and Laurie and the list goes on.

In fact anyone in Australian rock n'' roll since the 50''s that recorded or played the main gigs…. Hay St, Perth - Hindley St, Adelaide - The Valley, Brisbane - Kings Cross, Sydney - and the busiest night club strip in the World, King St, Melbourne...
I am proud to say, are all good personal friends.

That''s five decades of priceless friendships and thousands of lead characters in this written romp down memory lane called, THE VIOLENT YEARS.

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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’).

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’.

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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.

Are you a civilian?

That is to say, someone who is not involved in any form of physical exercise, and you have simply stumbled across this website by sheer accident or coincidence (By the way there is no such thing, if you are here there is a reason!).

• You may already train in another martial art?

• Perhaps you are a parent of a child student within my organisation?

• Maybe, you are a registered member of my various martial arts organisations?

• You are a white, coloured belt or any level (Degree) of black belt?

• Possibly, you are an employee of our various business interests and are checking up on US?

• You may be a current or interested corporate sponsor of our many sporting and business activities, thinking of giving your support?

• Perhaps you are a potential business associate with mutual financial interests, wanting to run a check as a part of your due diligence and knowing more about ME?

Whichever of these categories you are coming from, I sincerely hope YOU enjoy sharing MY journey here at my personal site. And as the first word written here in my introduction, has already expressed to you as a visitor, WELCOME…

BJC-RMG -

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

Many years ago I attended a seminar where one of America''s best-known speakers was out here on the Australian talk circuit. He was covering the age-old topic of correct self-image, positive thought and how to be successful at anything you put your mind to...

During his delivery he touched on the subject of loyalty, both from a personal perspective and loyalty within the environment of business, setting us up around the flanks with some well used clichés like... ''Never give up'', ''Never help your needers - only give help to your deservers'', and... ''It''s not the size of the dog in the fight - it''s the size of the fight in the dog''.

Then he quoted that old time favourite of General George S. Patton...

"If you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body - never let the body tell the mind what to do".

Pausing, he took a deep breath and asked me and around 2000 other ardent listeners to make sure we had our pen and paper handy, to make notes on his following comments.

"LOYALTY... There are two ways in life that we can develop loyalty. One way is that two (Or more) people can know one another for a lifetime. Many years of ''trial and tribulation'' can develop into an impregnable loyalty..." he continued, “the second way to develop unquestionable loyalty can be as simple as ''the size of the cheque’ that you paid that person last week".

Now he took an extended pause that gave him enough time for a slow ten count giving us time to catch up on the notes, and just enough time for ''the apparent paradox'' to set in as a result of his seemingly conflicting statements. Then with perfect timing he threw us the punch line, "And after a lifetime in the people business, even today, I still don''t know which of these *loyalties is the strongest".

BJC - BOB JONES CORPORATION…

RMG - RESOURCE MANAGEMENT GROUPS…

After careful consideration of these two concepts, I realised that this man had unknowingly acknowledged to me the power base of my BJC-RMG organisation (Bob Jones Corporation - Resource Management Groups). Whenever we take on a project involving ''Business Associates'' and ‘Associates’, which constitutes either ‘CIVILIANS’ who have either a recent track record of favourable Business Associations with us (i.e. Thus we relate to them as ‘Business Associates’), and/or BOB JONES ‘BLACK BELTS’ (Who have known one another for long periods of time, and are simply referred to as ‘Associates’).

The right RESOURSES together with a decisive MASTER PLAN backed by correct MANAGEMENT with all these three concepts working together as a GROUP made up of ‘Associates’ and ‘Business Associates’, generally affects the financial outcome of that project favourably for all concerned.

*LOYALTIES WITHIN THE BJC… with the ‘size of that cheque last week’, being shared amongst ‘many years of friendship’ along with recent ‘Business Associates’ achieving a win/win situation for all concerned, this surely, is the ‘double-edged sword’ power base of my organisation…

OBSERVATION OF UNIVERSAL TRUTH  - THE BEGINNING

This websites profile endeavours to tell the ‘entire’ Bob Jones story, to coin a legal phrase, “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. Complete with uncomprimising anecdotes about the many business adventures, the unbelievable martial arts journey and intricate personal profile (within reason of course).

For every one of you involved with me in any of these three aspects, or those of you, simply having a passing interest, we sincerely hope all of you make a diary note to come on back to this website occasionally. This is the greatest compliment you could share with me, simply – come on back!

These days I am never happier than when I am involved in the three ‘R’s, Reading (Celtic culture), Researching (the human story of mythology) and wRiting (an interpretation), and here it is on this website for you to share.

At this stage of my life, to me these three R’s are my ‘Meditation’. They are the aggregative extension of my regular martial arts, weight training and fitness sessions. This is my way of developing my dexterous skills of being ‘my own observer’.

As you visit from time to time, whether you are a martial artist of any code, weight training enthusiast, athlete or team - sports competitor or simply, a civilian (‘anyone’ who doesn’t physically train outside of taking the dog for a casual walk in the park). Who ever you are you can all hone your skills at becoming ‘your own world observer’ through the eyes of yours truly and our bjc world movement.

Perhaps it’s important to note at this point in time, this character Bob Jones is not a teacher per se, I am a guide. I don’t profess to know it all, except when it comes to this ‘pathway’, this eclectic ‘journey’ of the warrior that is the same age as human mythology, I have been on this path since my conception. Ok, let’s get this story started… where? I guess we should start at the beginning… the conception.

Crowd Controllers – The Beginning (*Early sixties Bouncers)
From Left: Dave Milne, Dennis Williamson, Bob Jones (Already referred to as ‘The Chief’) and Bill Sabodtka
on duty outside the infamous Catcher Discotheque
right down the bottom end of #471 Flinders Lane, Melbourne (One and a half blocks from Spencer Street).

The Violent Years - Part I

The Violent Years - Part II

The Violent Years - Part III

ALL VIOLENCE

The Greatest Story Never Told

Esoterical Degrees

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BOB JONES CIRCUIT – NEW MILLENNIUM

That’s a brief glimpse of the ‘past’ BJC (Bob Jones CORPORATION) now the entity of the ‘new’ BJC (Bob Jones- CIRCUIT) is our new corporate entity for Bob Jones personally promoting to the World Wide audience his life’s passion for Celtic Culture. To achieve this, the old Corporation will make some moderate ‘new millennium’ changes to suite international expansion ambitions.

 

 

MORE TO COME....

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Celtimania Project.com Battle of the Sponsors - Bidding Wars Kickboxing European Cup - Poland/Ukraine 2012 Eight Kickboxing European Cup Teams - 2012 Gambling Connection Pay-Phone/Pay-Calls Connection Inaugural ''ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES'' - 2012 IRELAND THE GAMES - OPENING CEREMONY - The Circus MARTIAL ARTS STATISTICS: Robert V. Jones Compilation FREE FORMS - ''FIGHT DANCE'' (Patent Pending) OCTOGON CAGEFIGHTING - UFC LIVE IN IRELAND - WWE THE CAULDRON CUP - TAUROS & MATADOR THE UNICORN CUP - HORSE SPECTACULAR HIGHLAND GAMES - STRONG MAN TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS - Most controversial THE ''VICTORY'' BANQUET - Fado, Fandango & Faena 2014 - THE KICKBOXING WORLD CUP - BRAZIL 2016 - 2nd ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES - FRANCE

 

CELTIMANIA PROJECT.com

CELTIMANIA PROJECT PTY LIMITED - European Project Manager, Robert V. Jones has been recently touring Europe establishing meetings with interested parties to become involved with several multi national CELTIMANIA PROJECTS all relating to the Celtic Culture of Ancient Europe (see website: www.CeltimaniaProject.com).

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BATTLE OF THE SPONSORS - BIDDING WARS

All of the worlds Major Television Networks and all of the Major Corporate Sponsors are regularly involved in ‘BATTLE OF THE SPONSORS - Multi-Billion Dollar Bidding Wars’. This is for the ongoing ‘naming-rights’ for all of the Worlds Established Major Events.

Only one of each Network and Sponsor group win this war for each event, leaving their opponents with secondary exposure at these events or out looking for ‘something new’ – what’s next? What will be next to BOOST their potential market share of media ratings and their future domination of product awareness?

Robert V. Jones and this site (www.bobjones.com.au) are all about presenting to these Networks and Sponsors totally new concepts of entertainment. This website is the perfect medium for enterprising Marketing Executives to peruse what’s going to be next! The moment you identify a project of interest contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and our management team will organize all the relevant information immediately.

*Correspondence - attention Michael Kenna GM - CELTIMANIA PROJECT PTY Limited

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1. KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP - Poland/Ukraine 2012

With approximately two years to the FOOTBALL EUROPEAN CUP - Poland/Ukraine 2012, it is imperative to have financial arrangements (together with the right Tele-communications Company, Television Network & Corporate Sponsors) in place to give this inaugural project the commitment it needs to stand alone and be self sufficient. The Budget for ‘Total Prize Money’ for this prestigious KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP - 2012 is currently set at ** *** *** euro. With as much again for Pre Event set-up, World Marketing and Administration, making the Total Budget for this project ** *** *** euro.

There will be an excess of one hundred kickboxing countries involved that all have experience and very competitive standards. There will be incredible pressure on fighters to make their Eight National Kickboxing Teams that only consist of five members.

Each member representing one of five different weight divisions:

1. Lightweight 60
2. Super Light 70
3. Middleweight 80
4. Super Middle 90
   
5. Heavyweight 100+ kilos representing each team of the eight countries.

They will all follow the Football European Cup selections and their eliminations with extreme interest as the eight Football countries to make the finals in Poland and Ukraine - dictate the eight countries Kickboxing Teams to be involved.

Currently with every football fan on planet earth focusing on the WORLD CUP - 2010 already upon us in South Africa, and with the European and international media already building football fever to fanatic levels higher than ever before. We know that after the WORLD CUP these fans will almost immediately switch focus on the upcoming EUROPEAN CUP – 2012 one could easily draw the impression that in this modern world, “football is a religion”.

Similarly the fighting arts are having a resurgence of their own. Not seen since the explosive Greek Pankration fighters and Roman Gladiators were celebrating their extraordinary martial arts skills. Ancient Coliseums capable of seating 45 - 60,000 Games fans were the stadiums of regular competition during this one thousand year time-frame of our pre-Christian history, which was between two - three thousand years ago (776 BC - 393 AD).

Today, with the American and international free-to-air television networks, along with many opposing pay-per-view entities… plus the world-wide-web are all exposing high rating modern versions of these gone-by Greek and Roman eras, from the Japanese KI to the fastest growing sport on both live television and pay per view, the North American UFC – Octagon Cage ‘Almost No-Rules’ Fighting which is taking the modern world by storm.

Now for the first time since the Pre Christian Greek Pancration Teams (from the ancient cities of Pythia, Nemia, Isthmia and Olympia – 776BC until 250BC) and the Roman (Capitolini) Gladiatorial Teams (Provisional Regional Teams competing at all of the major stadiums from 250BC until 393 AD)… You and your Company are being offered the opportunity to become involved in these recreated European Teams Events – THE KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP – 2012. Of course your Company will have the ‘first right of refusal’ option on the following and even more spectacular KICKBOXING WORLD CUP – 2014. Which will simply be emulating record breaking statistics from these Teams Events of antiquity while at the same time - also adding to an ever growing new-age-army of “millions of martial art fight fans”

These two concepts; firstly “football is a religion” and secondly an ever growing army of “millions of martial art fight fans” would both become the inspiration for Robert V. Jones and his creation of this inaugural event; The CUP.

After intense European football eliminations, the finals competitions will commence and the disappointing continuance of the European Cup eliminations will unfold. The winners continue to move forward and become responsible for the increasing fanaticism, the losers fall by the wayside causing bitter while brief depressions.

By the time hundreds of football teams have suffered the mixed emotions of defeat and it comes down to the final eight; most of the remaining Eight Teams have generally been selected by the fans as their second choice teams. Now the European football fantasia rises to a new fever pitch and this is the precise time we have chosen to make our presence felt… the eight remaining football nations will be matched with corresponding;

EIGHT KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP TEAMS - 2012

Now, from all over Europe Eight Kickboxing Nations will have their own brand of fanatic fans arriving on-masse into Poland and Ukraine. Now each time two countries play football and the loser is eliminated – the same two countries will fight in a Major Stadium within 24 hours. Losing kickboxing teams will be eliminated by being knocked out of the competition. Every football fan world wide via television or if they are live with the Action in Poland and Ukraine – whether their teams have won or lost – they all now have a second chance at winning or losing as the same two country’s go to war in the square ring.

A paradox of opposing while also complementing THE FOOTBALL EUROPEAN CUP 2012 will be a second International television network, along with a major pay-per-view entity… equally important will be our Tele - Communications Company accommodating millions of phone calls of judging and voting (and gambling), plus our planned profile on the world-wide-web will give the sport of Kickboxing its largest ever event exposure. Eight Teams eliminations over Seven Major Teams Events. Each of the seven events being a Two Hour Television Spectacular (ie, four quarter finals, two semi finals and the Final Grand Championship gives us seven losing teams and ONE Grand Final European Champion Team. Footballs rival corporate sponsors will enjoy this multiple facet of exposure now afforded to their products (ie, Seven Events by two hours duration equals fourteen hours of prime time invaluable television exposure via ring-mats & corner-posts etc,).

‘Ring fights are the most intense exposure of corporate product as their vision is right there with the fight action continuously on camera – ever since the American promoter Don King had the dream to associate the boxing skills of Muhammad Ali with a Major Television Network, Major Corporate Sponsor and a Los Vegas Casino as the venue of choice’.

In today’s competitive marketplace – after football - the world’s most lucrative ‘ratings wars’ are won and lost by ‘fighting sports’ initials;

WWE, KI & KI MAX, UFC etc ‘AND COMING SOON - THE CUP’

GAMBLING CONNECTION

Gambling organizations will crank up their 24 hour-per-day betting facilities to accommodate this all new *FIGHT-BET global phenomenon. Soft-ware computer ‘instant-fractioning’ will allow betting during and between rounds giving *FIGHT-PUNTERS the decision to advance their winning bets and/or cover any perceived current loses.

(*FIGHT- BET & *FIGHT- PUNTERS have World Patents Pending)

PAY- PHONE / PAY- CALLS CONNECTION

A major international Tele-communications company will also be put under pressure as they take multiple millions of pay-calls from ‘our’ world-wide fan base not only will they be placing multiple gambling bets with as many phone calls – but also lodging even more phone calls with ‘their official *FIGHT- JUDGE votes as to who they think won each round of and each bout at THE KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP - 2012.

(*FIGHT- JUDGE has World Patents Pending)

THE KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP - 2012 will be the show-case for seven major events in seven major cities testing these kickboxing champions through four quarter finals, followed by two semi finals and climaxed by our seventh team losing with only one remaining unbeaten team - with three victories - claiming the title of Grand Champions of THE KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP 2012. With these five team members each earning, sharing and deserving the major share of the Euro ** *** *** Grand Prize money.

As stated in these last two Chapters, extravagant gambling strategies introduced by FIGHT-BET & FIGHT-PUNTERS along with newly created FIGHT- JUDGE… combined they will produce these multiple millions of pay-calls being generated from as yet, non existent events.

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2. Inaugural ‘ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES’ - 2012 IRELAND

TEN TONNE OF GLADIATORS COMING HOME TO IRELAND

• ONE HUNDRED COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

• ONE HUNDRED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS

• WEIGHING MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED KILOS EACH

• THAT’S TEN TONNE OF GLADIATORS COMING HOME TO IRELAND

• IF YOU LOSE – YOU ARE OUT OF THE GAMES!

• AFTER SEVEN MAJOR EVENTS – 99 COMPETITORS WILL HAVE LOST

• ONLY ONE GRAND CHAMPION WILL NOT HAVE LOST ANYTHING

• THE GRAND CHAMPION WILL WIN THE LIONS SHARE - OF THE --****** **** ******* EURO PRIZEMONEY

Simply through his own ignorance a little more than 100 years ago during 1896, the French Baron Pierre Coubertin created the MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES. Apparently his thinking strategy was that he would capitalize on the ancient traditions and mythologies of the CIRCUIT GAMES OF GREECE along with the CAPITOLINI GAMES OF ROME which had begun more than 1000 BC. To be fully recorded from 776 BC.

Suffering a constant barrage of controversial and abusive editorials from the French press for what they believed to be his apparent lack of patriotism simply proved they were equally ill-informed. Had he or any of these ‘judgmental journalists’ bothered to research and investigate the ‘war-sport’ martial arts culture of Celtic Europe, not least France - they would most certainly have discovered the ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES.

This reintroduction of the ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES – (IRELAND, 2012) are not designed to clash in any way with the MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES – (England, 2012). They are simply to demonstrate how it was for us Celts for many millenniums prior to either Greece or Rome - both of which were two millenniums prior to the French aristocrat Baron Pierre Coubertin and his Modern Games creation – named after Olympia, one of the four cities of the Greek Circuit - of little more than ‘one hundred years ago’.

** *** *** EURO PRIZEMONEY will guarantee exhaustive elimination processes in ONE HUNDRED COUNTRIES providing the best fighter that they have to represent them. Like Muhammad Ali & Mike Tyson the whole world will have interest with this event, except this time instead of one on one (and in Tyson’s case 2nd and 3rd round knockouts sent fans home early while also diminishing sponsorship value) – with this event it is the best champions all coming together from; ONE HUNDRED COUNTRIES.

ONE HUNDRED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS will compete in Ireland until NINETY NINE have lost and been eliminated – this will leave the one unbeaten true 2012 ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES and undisputed WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION.

This event for the Total Prize Money of Euro ** *** *** to be ‘shared with all winners’, with the Lions Share going to the last man standing - requires an equal amount of ** *** *** euro for a Total Cost Budget (TCB) of ** *** *** euro to cover an extensive and exhaustive Pre Event & Event & Post Event Production, including World Wide Marketing and Administration.

From the following Chapter THE GAMES - OPENING CEREMONY – The Circus, through to and including Chapter titled THE ‘VICTORY’ BANQUET – Fado, Fandango, Faena – these entire Games (*Exclusive of UNICORN CUP) as an Event requires an equal amount as that of the HUNDRED MAN Contest with a Total Cost Budget for all Inclusive Events being *** *** *** euro for all Pre Event & Event & Post Event Production, also including World Wide Marketing and Administration for the entire Project titled;

Inaugural ‘ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES’ - 2012 - IRELAND

(*Exclusive of THE UNICORN CUP – HORSE RACING SPECTACULAR Chapter)

This exclusivity of Chapter THE UNICORN CUP – HORSE RACING SPECTACULAR is due to the enormity of the financial commitment and the planned sheer magnitude of this event in an attempt to match the prestige, extravagance and major importance of this the Celtic warrior’s relationship of love of the horse during peace, war or competition.

From the first International Meet, THE UNICORN CUP is going to be the envy of ‘all’ established forms of horse racing (including cross country long distance over several days) and equestrian contests. Since the times of the Celts and their original domestication of the horse, for a thousand years of athletic competition throughout the Greek and Roman eras, after the Emperor and the Pope made the games illegal in 393 AD, and for the last two thousand years mans fascination with the horse has remained forever with the same intensity.

For all of these reasons THE UNICORN CUP will be one of the ANCIENT GAMES MAJOR FEATURES!

THE GAMES - OPENING CEREMONY - The Circus

As it was in past millenniums several Spectacular World Class Circus Acts with all of their exotic animals will be invited to perform the official opening ceremony to launch the inaugural ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES.

The worlds ‘biggest body builders’ and champion ‘Power Lifters’ (both male and female competitors) will arrive at the stadiums in all their finery in horse drawn chariots for the presentation of their ‘Final Posing Routines’ and ‘Power Lifting Finals’. They will be dressed as ancient Celtic Warriors (which will traditionally involve a lot of very discreet nudity). Within all this finery they will look not at all unlike their counter parts of many past millenniums when they were the highly respected elite athletes of all Phoenicia, Mesopotamia, Samaria, Babylonia etc.

Unlike the pre-Christian games of Greece where all athletes had to prove Greek citizenship and today’s martial artists who can only compete if they belong to an exclusive group (ie, the fighting style of Tae Kwan Do which is only one Korean based style representing much less than 5% of possible martial arts competitors)… in 2012 the Ancient Celtic Games will invite many millions of competitors from ‘All Styles’ of Martial Arts combat sports from around the world (including Boxing, Kickboxing and Wrestling) for their involvement.

A set of standard rules have been devised by the WFC (World Fighting Circuit - the official sanctioning body of the Ancient Celtic Games) to unify these millions of martial arts competitors allowing them to compete and find the best to represent their country. Sheer numbers of ‘true world involvement’ will make this one of the most important and focused events of the Games.

MARTIAL ARTS STATISTICS

Compilation by: Robert V. Jones

‘Today, in China almost the entire population of 1.4 Billion people (20% of world humanity at approximately 7 Billion) practice ancient fighting forms on a daily basis. These forms are lethal fighting techniques that are choreographed into a ritual dance. During feudal times with periods of occupation, this was often done to mask or hide their true meaning. Since the beginning of time all ancient warriors from every indigenous society have performed their *Fight-Dance (*World Patents Pending). Based on the movements of animals and performed for their health, wealth, good luck and self defence – every day, from very early in the mornings to sunset the Chinese Nation can be seen training together in all of their public parks, religious temples and on beaches, mountains, lakes and in the basements of their corporate office blocks before work – now that is serious martial arts training!

All Asian countries have historically revered this martial and mystical philosophy for its life’s longevity aspects. The ultimate paradox here must be as the Asians were unaffected by the Roman Emperor/Roman Catholic demise of the Ancient Games in 393 AD. These Asian martial artists continued their practices drawing no noticeable attention from the West.

Then there was the involvement of the Japanese in World War II, and the West experienced first hand, Kara-te that kills. Paradoxically ‘Kara’ is an ancient Gaelic/Celtic word meaning ‘friend’ while ‘te’ is Japanese for ‘hand’ – thus the linguistic explanation for the word Kara-te is symbolic for; ‘The hand of friendship’. When one trains with kara-te they are actually offering you their hand that you may be their friend. Confusing when they curtsy bow to each other with both hands by their sides, whenever I travel to Japan I enjoy confusing them by deliberately offering my hand with a grip that is both firm and friendly.

After only a few years this was followed by the Korean War and their lethal introduction of Tae Kwon Do to us, their arch enemy. Then our fiasco with Vietnam proving underground guerrilla warfare and hand to hand combat techniques can kick Big Brothers arse. The only good for us martial artists that came out of all this bloodshed, was the introduction and exposure to these Asian Arts.

Russia, India and African cultures are based on the spirituality - occultism of very ancient fighting arts that date back many, many thousands of years. Little is known of these three as we write this proposal, but currently we are in serious research and investigative mode – especially from their well connected Celtic roots.

Today, more than half a century since war time and Japan has the martial arts code throughout their education system, and although modernized the roots are based on their Samurai feudal time’s culture known as ‘BUSHIDO’ which simply means “The Way of the Warrior”. The linguistic breakdown is ‘Bushi’ – ‘Warrior’ and ‘do’ being the ‘way’.

Very popular around the world and growing in popularity is a very ancient fighting style declared the national sport of Thailand (Thai-boxing) which has had many centuries of strong competition from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and more recently (Due to the international efforts since 1986 of the author of this document - Robert V. Jones), is gaining acceptance and popularity throughout the Western World, enjoying explosive television ratings.

While the Philippines with their ‘Escrima’ are acknowledged as the supreme stick and dagger practitioners - two hundred million Portuguese speaking Brazilians all understand the expression of whether you are simply boxing or involved in a match of ‘Val Tudo’ which simply means ‘anything goes’ especially having competent skills for continuance fighting on the ground.

All throughout the western world, especially in England, America, Canada and Australia - they all market the martial arts with regular feature movies and extreme combat sports with constant high ratings on television and dominant exposure to martial arts action video games. The most recent film of note being the highest grossing film in the history of film making statistics, Pagan based intergalactic Celtic- celestial - warriors (being oppressed one more time even though they are superior in height and physique. Covered in blue markings complete with special magical powers connected to Mother Nature and the breath of the ultimate Universal God – sounding familiar?), they are Avatar within the forests of Pandora. All of these promote our Martial Arts as being the best form of self-esteem, independence and survival in the now unpredictable modern world, with its 21st Century form of ever increasing and uncontrollable statistics of social urban violence. ‘On the streets today’ in these environments you need ‘some knowledge’ and regular training of defence against mob mentality and worse - the knife, machete and gun cultures.

Actually, with a lifestyle having me travelling the world for most of my life I have discovered there is a martial arts system, style, club or some form of basic instruction of some connection to the ‘war sports’ of Ancient Celtic Europe in ‘every’ country, city, suburb, town and ‘every’ village on earth. For this reason the martial arts globally have more combined practitioners than any other human physical activity. They simply have to be united for a display of their mass affinity and that’s exactly what Robert V. Jones and his three websites www.bobjones.com.au and www.bobjonesmartialarts.com.au his major CELTIC connection www.CeltimaniaProject.com with the acronym aptly explaining the ‘five worded’ mission statement of his dream and life passion...

CELT - Connecting Europe’s Lost Tribes

: Robert V. Jones – Probationary 9th Degree – Tara Miliate

FREE FORMS - ‘FIGHT-DANCE’ (Patent Pending)

A specific highlight of The Ancient Celtic Games will feature ‘Free-Forms’ a choreographed system of competition involving an electrifying ‘new’ medium of entertainment we have titled *Fight-Dance. As already mentioned above, the fighting movements of animals were studied by all warriors of indigenous societies for millennium (‘Know your enemy’ – the fighting philosophy of author and Chinese War Scientist Sun Tzu, as he stated in his writings of ‘The Art of War’ which he compiled in 500 BC.)

“To defeat a predator one must appreciate all possible strengths to identify with any perceivable weaknesses”, was a common quote by many Druids during their instruction of Celtic warriors.

An ultra modern version of ‘Fight-Dance’ choreographed to all forms of music from pop-rock to classical concertos will feature performing warriors with extreme athletic and gymnastic skills imitating the survival skills of natures sleekest, fastest and strongest - sometimes, slowest, smallest and/or softest animals, always scoring judges points for their adaptability regarding their value as displaying lethal results – within their dance.

*Fight-Dance, performed by male, female individuals plus mixed couples and spectacular Fight-Dance-Teams from all countries involved will be one of the most entertaining competitions of the Games, ‘Fight-Dance’ non stop action displayed with ‘empty hands’ and all ‘traditional weapons’ making full use of all the special effects of computerized modern technology - perfect for television exposure to the general public, while giving our Games even higher ratings points via global television – As all remaining competition finalists ‘Fight-Dance’ for astronomical prize-money.

*Fight-Dance & *Fight-Dance-Teams, have World Patents & Copyright Pending.

OCTOGON CAGEFIGHTING - UFC

Another favourite to be featured will be the ever growing craze of the UFC OCTOGON CAGEFIGHTING, born merely a decade ago, originally from the concept of Brazils ‘Val Tudo’ by the ‘Gracie Brothers Family’. It was soon noticed, and bought out by a couple of quick thinking casino owner and operators reported to be for - four million US dollars.

A couple of miner commercial changes making everything more adaptable to television, and the whole UFC ‘Octagon Motion Machine’ has now soared to unbelievable heights. In five short years is now valued at an estimated fifty million, recently outselling baseball on the pay-per-view market.

Their Television Network and promotions group UFC (Ultimate Fighting Challenge) will be approached to package a special event for ‘our’ Games. Promoted as a Celtic theme with the right catch phrase title happening in several stadiums all over Ireland and taking place within the Ancient Celtic Games curriculum and go live to their current pay-per-view programming.

LIVE IN IRELAND - WWE

From WWF, then after a long running International legal tangle over naming rights followed by a change of identity to WWE, this ultimate entertainment package has continuously grown in popularity - until today it is a global institutional phenomenon. For many years it has enjoyed being one of the most, and as often as not the largest merchandising machine on earth. The profile of these ‘fighting athletic performers’ is meticulously marketed to one of the largest fanatic fan basis in the entertainment business.

When you are a passionate researcher of the archaeological and arcane anthropologic aspects of Celtic culture there is nothing more closely aligned to this ancient mythology than these two aspects, the UFC and the WWE. Their muscular size, their overall appearance, ‘rooster’ hair styles (Celtic warriors revered the rooster for his fighting and sexual prowess – especially within the folklore of Spain and Portugal - and his connection to the rising of the Sun), body and facial-art, pompous egos, play theatre antics, must win at all costs attitude. And above all as always, since the first rooster and the first Celtic Druid noticed the rising of the Sun – their overall popularity!

For this reason it is imperative the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) and their Marketing Promotions Company be invited to package a special ‘SPECTACULAR CELTIC THEME SHOW’ to be filmed somewhere ‘LIVE IN IRELAND – THE MODERN HOME OF THE CELTS’ during the ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES and sent out around the world on their multiple Networks.

THE CAULDRON CUP - TAUROS & MATADOR

The Celtic Cauldron, a more than two thousand year old ‘mysterious’ archaeological artefact is currently being housed in the Denmark Museum, Copenhagen. Mysterious that is - unless you can read and understand the iconography of this Celtic Treasure. This ‘holy grail’ of Celtic Culture, this Cauldron has a story that tells volumes, and it has only, just begun to tell this story. For an opener it is a MMA master piece (ie, Matadors and Martial Artists).

The engravings of all the Fiona bull fighting warriors, both the men and the bare breasted women are connected to the fertility rights of the Faena. This is a unique word of one of the earliest indo-European ‘Gaelic/Celtic’ languages to represent the ritual of the sacrifice of the bull by the hand (sword) of the Fiona. This is another of those unique words of the Gaelic and Celtic language that describes a particular class of warrior. In this case the Fiona had earned the privilege of facing the bull in a ‘death-match’ because his athletic skills far surpassed every other warrior’s at a particular event of one of the annual ‘Four Seasonal Ancient Celtic Games’ (ie, Beltane, Imbolc, Lughnasa and Samhain – being representative of the four seasons).

For more than two thousand years both before and after the time of the Cauldron this ritual has remained almost unchanged, even several of the Cauldron warriors are dressed the same as today’s ‘bull-catchers’. The only noticeable change is the name of the man responsible for killing the bull – today the Fiona is better known as a Matador, while even their mode of dress remains incredibly similar.

“After many thousands of years, the Ancient Celtic Games to be held in Ireland in 2012 will again kill the bull on the third day of the Faena which will be the final day of the festival”.

The Faena opening day will be representative of the mythology and culture of the CELTIBERIAN PENINSULA, back to the time of the most revered Celtic Warrior of these two nations, now known as Spain and Portugal. Viriato, two thousand one hundred years ago was the name all the surrounding rival Chieftains - from the most extreme point of the coast of Western Europe – and all the way to Rome, Roman Legions feared this name the most. This re-creation of the killing of the bulls will be dedicated to his memory respecting his immortality. This special ‘Viriato Faena’ will feature the fabulous equestrian skills of the Lusitanian riders and their fearless Lusitanian horses, as together as one, they prepare the bull for the ‘bull-catchers’.

These Lusitanian warriors (wearing the same costumes as seen on the Cauldron warriors) defy any concept of fear as they strut in single file directly at the bull. The lead catcher jumps onto the attacking bulls head – between both horns, then his team supports him in a wrestling bout with the bull as their adversary. As often as not, this event turns out catastrophic for the lead catcher and his support team and on these occasions - the bull reigns supreme.

On day two of the Faena six especially bred fighting bulls from ‘behind the mountains’ in Northern Portugal, bred to a much larger size than normal, will be involved in a Faena Tournament – these bulls will fight one and other. This will be followed for the rest of the day featuring the worlds ‘best bull-riders’, riding the worlds ‘biggest-bulls’ – with the biggest share of the prize money going to the most ferocious ‘rider of the bulls’.

On the third and final day only the most famous Matadors from Spain, Mexico, France and Portugal will be involved in the ‘Final Faena’, they will all attempt to be successful at killing all four bulls (one bull each). As it was long before the time of the Cauldron the fresh meat from these mid afternoon kills will be especially served as a delicacy for all of these events revered warriors at this, ‘The Victory Banquet’ on the final night. At least the ‘highlights’ of these three days events are a must for international television ratings – perhaps out of respect for antiquity of this Faena and its ‘fertility rights’ connection to Nature and the Universe - all three days will be filmed live in all of their splendour and archived.

THE UNICORN CUP - HORSE SPECTACULAR

*For reasons already explained the budget for this event is not included here. This event ‘will be’ one of the major highlights of these Games. Sponsors will dictate the potential magnitude of this Spectacular Event.

HIGHLAND GAMES - STRONG MAN

Many of the already established ASSOCIATIONS OF HIGHLAND GAMES competitions will be major attractions at the 2012 INAUGURAL ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES, especially their entertaining ‘STRONG MAN CONTESTS’.

Tugging aeroplanes and empty truck convoys, arm wrestling, man to man tug of war, boulder lifting, may-pole throwing, hop/skip & jump, pole vaulting and all of their events designed purely to test both athletic and warrior skills. They will come on masse from ‘behind the mountains’, playing their bagpipes and wearing their Kilts of individual tartans proudly demonstrating their Celtic Family Lineage.

They will be a ‘a breath of fresh air’ at the celebrations of the opening and closing of these Games. We will feature the added attraction of teaching the most ancient meanings of the mythology and anthropology of these;

CELTIC WARRIOR COMPETITIONS

TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS - Most controversial

Last but certainly not least, all track and field events compatible with the Ancient Celtic European concept of ‘war-sports’ will be highlighted events of the Games.

All of the world’s best athletes that missed the MODERN GAMES by mere fractions of time and space will get a second chance at the ANCIENT GAMES where their sport is compatible to the ancient principles of the philosophy of warrior ship.

All ‘Games of peace’ competitions were defined as ‘war-sports’ and designed for warriors to compete while more importantly developing their athleticism and technical skills for survival - it was imperative they improve their WAR SKILLS, as life in these feudal times was full of continuous conflict.

“We will have the best of the OLD contests against the best of the NEW combatants at both Games in 2012 – ‘this’ will certainly be most controversial”.

THE ‘VICTORY’ BANQUET - Fado, Fandango & Faena

And to finish off this fantastic event – as it was in ancient times – on the final evening there will be a Major Celtic Party (A ‘Victory’ Banquet) to celebrate Ireland as the Host Country, all the competing Countries, all contestants especially the ‘Victors’. Celtic wine, food, entertainment and ‘Celtic Ancient Attitude’ will be encouraged.

Limousines, hire-cars, coaches and mini buses will escort our sporting celebrities to their ‘Victory’ Banquet and on arrival they will face Red Carpet treatment, fans, lights, radio microphones and television cameras and masse interviews will greet them, personal fashion statements (like the Loge’s) will be as much a part of this ‘Victory’ arrival as their incredible and historical sporting achievements.

Once inside and settled they will be entertained early in the evening with upbeat Celtic Arconic Music being the order of the day, later on this evening (After midnight and by candle light) everyone will experience the true celebration and meaning of Fado, Fandango, Faena – perhaps the oldest warrior ritual of fertility known within the realms of pre-history.

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3. 2014 - THE KICKBOXING WORLD CUP - BRAZIL

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4. 2016 - 2nd ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES - FRANCE

MUCH MORE IS COMING… MUCH MORE

ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES CREATOR : Robert V. Jones

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Hi Guys,

Have arrived safely in Europe and have met up with Paul Jeffery from New Zealand. We are on the Mediterranean up in the far corner of North Eastern Spain in Catalonyia (near Barcelona – right next to the French border). Just a quick note to wish you and you’re families and all of you’re students the best Xmas and New Year! Thank you all for all your support over the centuries, as you all would know, I have died and gone to Celtic Heaven. Megaliths of Menhirs & Monoliths and Celtic forts are ‘everywhere’.

Today we drove down to the ‘Mediterranean Beachfront’ – if you have been to the Gold Coast – well multiply that by a hundred and you have an idea of what this Entertainment Paradise is like. Dozens of Casino’s, high rises forever and a zillion restaurants to accommodate the third most visited place on earth after France (just up the road) and the United States (second). Although now is just past mid winter so you actually could have fired a cannon down the main street and only hit a couple of hundred tourists. But in the summer (very soon) as well as a local population of 60 Million, they get 60 Million tourists come to Spain.

After lunch today, we walked across the road on to the ocean front and climbed up a mountain to one of the oldest Castle’s in Spain – could not begin to explain the feeling that gave yours truly? Just being in an environment of such a blast of history makes the hair on the back of the neck stand-up.

Had a great Xmas party with Paul’s staff and they all made the new guy feel welcome! The next couple of days were spent with Paco (our Celtimania Foundation Lawyer and Tara Miliata 4th Degree) discussing my first project which is BELMONTE – ‘Death with the Rising Sun’ an Exposition of Juan Belmonte (check him on Google) the most famous matador of the 20th Century (soon to be a Tara Miliata 10th Degree).

Paco’s role now is to organize a meeting with the family to authenticate his TM 10th Degree, then it will be off to the Mayors office (well, this is the plan).

Paul and I are currently staying in a three bedda and office and boardroom as big as my boardroom in Epping. This dwelling is above his FISIOCREM Offices and Warehousing not unlike Epping.

We are about to shop around as Paul wants to buy a 7-10 bedda on enough acreage to bring in some of his horses from New Zealand (one for me if you can believe that) and launch ‘DRAGON RIDERS‘ as a division of Tara Miliata Horseback Archers here in Spain.

Plus of course the 7-10 bedda’s, as well as being for local business, we can accommodate all you Aussie Tara Miliata & ZDK higher ranks & any BJMA stylists that may want to visit from time to time. Although you can see it is great for me here you may feel I also miss you guys – so may you all have a great 2011.

Rgds
ROBERT V. JONES

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Gladiators - Malaysia & the World Series

Pat Condon then sent me off to Malaysia for a national press conference to announce the coming national Malaysian Gladiator Tour. My process to find Gladiators and contestants for this tour was done in and around Kuala Lumpur.

My job done, I went home to Australia as John Forsyth bought in the Aussie Gladiators. After this tour they all went onto Europe for the World Gladiator Series and John was selected as the international referee.

Pat Condon has since formed ''Condon Entertainment'' and most recently he promoted a spectacular Chinese ballet in Australia - The Wild Zebra Ballet - produced by Shanghai Oriental TV Station.

Pat is currently in and out of China on a regular basis due to the fact his company is involved in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.

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"Fado is Much Older...
Than you think"

CONFERENCE - WEDNESDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2009

VENUE: National Archaeology Museum (Lisbon)

Mr Ivo Rato, Anthropologist and Lusitanian Authority presented his extensive research about
Celtic mythology connected to the warriors of the past via the oldest fertility ritual - FADO, FANDANGO and FAENA.

Emilia was chosen to be the Voice of Lusitania (A Voz Da Lusitania), discovered by promoter
Mr Robert V Jones because of her ability at channelling his poetry into Fado.

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UPDATE - 20th OCTOBER 2009

The Celtic Culture Seminar staged by Mr Ivo Rato and Robert V. Jones at Portugal’s NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY was a great experience for all involved.

We did expect several hundred, but on this same night (October the 14th), The Portugal National Team was playing in a qualifier for the World Cup next year (2010 in South Africa) and every male football fan watched this event live and on TV. This appears to be the reason our seminar attracted fifty patrons with a high percentage (65%) of elderly women – all high powered academics, with most of them making notes for the entire one and a half hours of Mr Rato’s delivery.

As is always the case, he held their undivided attention the entire seminar. No notes, no prompters as he scans thousands of years of their Celtiberian and Lusitanian Celtic Culture without ever faltering. Including the many Gaelic linguistic connections to all of Portugal’s major place-names, ancient Celtic ‘sacred sites’ and even the numerous Celtic language interpretations within ‘their’ Portuguese language – as he always does – he left them spell bound.

One of Portugal’s most famous and my favorite Matador, Mário Coelho (Mario recently wrote a top selling auto biography about his life as a Matador which he titled ‘Silver to Gold’ – sound familiar?) had lent us his actual ‘GOLD’ dress suit that he wore to kill bulls in the arenas of Spain and Mexico in his hey day. We had placed it on display in a large glass show case with my white training uniform along with a plain Black Belt and my personal Eighth Degree Black Belt with its wide Red Centre. I felt the fascination from all present as he read the iconography connection of ‘our’ martial arts to the Fiona warriors (Known today as Matadors) off both the interior and exterior panels of the Cauldron - the most famous Celtic artifact commonly referred to as being, the Holy Grail of all Celts. Of course he told that old favorite Lusitanian war story of ours…

He made reference and described the difference in experience, knowledge and abilities between the young new (Nameless) Black Belt hanging intertwined with my older 8th Degree Belt. And then he told them this story of antiquity about the young warrior (In his mid-twenty’s) coming to the Celtiberian Peninsula during the time of Viriato, with the intention of making an instant reputation for himself. Convinced he could defeat and kill the wise old Celtic Chief (In his late eighty’s). “I am here to challenge you to a fight to the death old man, do you dare to take up my offer?” was asked in a powerful youthful voice loud enough to be heard throughout the entire village.

By the time the Old Master had explained in a quiet calm tone that the young warriors question was reason enough for the fight to have begun… the young warrior laid motionless on the ground – very dead already!

Great questions from such intellectuals receiving such explicit answers that left no recourse for argument or even mild disagreement – had them all realizing, he knows his stuff! From a slightly late start (Just after 8pm) until 9.30, and from then until 11.0pm we entertained with a night of Fado with special guests and of course, Emilia! Finishing off this most enjoyable evening, after Fado came Fandango/Faena which was presented by some fabulous dancers from the leading dance Apollo Academy in Lisboa, and they almost stole the show!

Next on our agenda is our first Martial Arts Musical Presentation Special at the Benfica Museum Restaurant at the National Benfica Football Stadium in Lisbon, by the end of this month, October 31st… come on back and check us out. Hope you enjoy the rest of my personal site as you follow the journey, I must add a thank you here to Michael Kenna for the fabulous job he is constantly doing putting all of this together – along with everything else he is doing while I’m away on my World wide search and adventure for my 9th Degree. And to all of you assisting Michael in my absence – thank you to, all of you.

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FIRST OF ALL - THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘LUSITANIA’:

Being Australian living and working in Portugal I have had the experience many times where locals have said to me, “Well, you see Bob, I’m actually not Portuguese I am by birth a Lusitanian” upon asking why this is so? They generally refer to ‘their blood’, their ‘inner feelings’ or perhaps their ‘Grandfather’ told them.

After mutual agreement that the word Lusitanian is not from the typical Portuguese or Latin fold, then upon asking them “What language lineage do we think this popular word comes from? What might it mean if we break it down into its constituent parts – then put it back together again?” - This more often than not, draws a blank look, followed by an acknowledgement of interest?

This ancient Celtic/Gaelic word when broken down into two parts symbolizes first Lusa – the masculine, the Celtic Sun God, the power of the light, all knowledgeable, this Sun word bears heat being representative of fire. The animal astrology sign for Lusa/Lugh is the Lion, as Lugh is the ‘King of the Celts’ the Lion is ‘King of the Jungle’. From the zodiac art work shown here the symbolic connection can be seen with the face of the Sun, protectively encircling the face are the flames of the fire of the Sun. With the face of the King of the animal world, these protective flames of fire become the Maine of the Lion.

The second part of this word, Ania or Anya, is a very ancient Celtic Goddess who is symbolic of the feminine, the Moon Goddess. She has the Gnostic power of darkness; esoterically wise with the unseen mystique of the Otherworld, this Moon word is cold being representative of water. The animal astrology sign for the Moon is Taurus and that connection is most prevalent in this art work as the twin crest of the Moon is symbolic of the horned weapons of the faena.

When they are together as the one word they are the metaphor for the perfect alchemic marriage, the ultimate blending of the light and the darkness – Intellect, Wisdom – this is the true omnipotence of the word Lusitania…

(This second word fadista, when broken down simply signifies fad, another metaphor meaning something of such popularity that it constantly comes and goes – forever. This is why ‘the fadista‘ can never stop singing ‘the fado‘).

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Chi re be TA’ TA’ - HURRA, HURRA, HURRA:

Mr Rato and myself have asked students at most of Portugal’s Universities why they chant this Chi re be Ta Ta – HURRA, HURRA, HURRA three times at their football matches and other school activities. I personally found the Coinbra University the most intriguing as Mr Rato asked the above question to a ‘student body’ principal as to “Why?” with the usual blank look followed by that acknowledgement of interest… Mr Rato then asked if the student had any idea as to the why Coinbra cafeteria lunch room was called Chi re be Ta Ta? Had he any idea why the forefathers had decided on such a name? Then due to this student’s interest, Mr Rato sufficed the following answer!

The Celtic/Gaelic meaning... After any battle it was common for the Celts to celebrate ‘Victories’ down by the waters edge. The word ‘Victory’ in the Celtic/Gaelic language translates as ‘Hurra‘ this is why in Portugal there is a common chant of “Chi re be Ta Ta – HURRA, HURRA, HURRA”. Chi re be Ta Ta will be explained in detail during ‘discussions’ between Sarah and Miai within the script of the play where time will permit such Celtic mythological detail.

Famous examples of these celebrations are ‘River Dance’ and ‘Lord of the Dance’ and if a Celtic warriors sword had given them success in battle nine times – then the sword would be gifted to the ‘Woman of the Sacred Lake’ as a sign of contempt for any attachment to material values (This was the origins for Celtic warriors folklore of them having ‘nine lives’). This is sadly misunderstood with today’s interpretation of discarding three coins into the fountain – while at the same time expecting something in return with the act of payment for wishing for something of material gain.

“HURRA, HURRA, HURRA” These three chants of ‘Victory’ are the essence of Celtic folk-lore as in the first celebration chant HURRA! Representing FADO, long ago in the beginning we had to have the victory of life, for every new life has to unfold creating a unique story for its own.

HURRA!!, celebration number two is symbolic of life today as we experience the wonders of living moment by moment being a definite cause for celebration, with singing and dancing down by the riverside being representative of FANDANGO. Birth and life are then inevitably, followed by death.

The third and final HURRA!!! – is representative of the FAENA, the ritual of killing the bull, the cycle of fertility is complete. Birth, life and death is fado, fandango and faena, the essence of the oldest Celtic Festival of celebration known to mankind.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CELTIC/GAELIC - HARP?

In contrast to the Guitarra Portuguesa being in existence for merely a couple of hundred years - the Celtic/Gaelic harp (harp, meaning to ‘pluck’), is the oldest known stringed instrument from prehistory.

There is a very old story in Celtic Folk Lore that the idea for the harp was developed from antiquity when a Druid was training a large group of Celtic warriors in their skills of archery. Each time he commanded them to ‘draw’ and then ‘release’ he began to take notice of the rhythmic sounds made by the strings of the bows as they released the arrows into their targets. Some say, this was the birth of the harp.

The earliest (at this point in time) French archeologist evidence is 15,000 years ago; a very distinguishable harp was found in recent times, etched onto a large stone in the South of France.

Further evidence of the harp is from Assyria, Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Phoenicia varying between 8-6,000 years ago. Since these times harps have continuously been found all throughout both sides of the Mediterranean from carvings in the Middle East to sculptures in Greece . And during the time of classical antiquity, there are drawings of the harp being played by Orpheus.

Around 5,000 years ago they appeared frequently in Egypt and are depicted in drawings on the tomb of Pharaoh III. From Egypt the harp travelled to Spain and almost immediately, spreading entirely through Europe. In the pre-Christian period Celtic/Gaelic harps appeared on coins in Gaul. After this they appeared in the Old Testament being played by Jubal and King David.

The British Monarchy attempted to abolish the harp and thousands of harps where destroyed while hundreds of harpists (i.e. bards-fadistas) where unmercifully put to death. This was at the hands of Oliver Cromwell from the direct orders of Queen Elizabeth I during the mid 1600’s.

At the same time the harp became the favourite music of South America as it was introduced their, again by the Spaniards.

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WHAT IS CELTIC FADO?

Translated from Gaelic, the word Fado simply means, long ago. Irish Fadistas have always referred to it twice, as in Fado, Fado – long ago, so far back in time it was in fact… long ago. In modern Greece , their Fadistas of today refer to their identical style of music as Rambetika. Of course, when this word Rambetika is broken down it translates as long ago!

In modern Italy , this form of folklore is known as Taranella. Taran is actually Gaelic for the God of Thunder and Ella symbolises the Celtic/Roman Goddess Bella, the young maiden of extreme beauty. Again, this dualistic meaning of Taran/ella, the ancient God and Goddess is simply another way of saying – long ago… long ago.

Down through the ages of countless millennium while in its musical form in many/most European countries, Fado has suffered many hardships as a result of its attitude of ‘exposure of the truth’. Fado above all, must retain the freedom to use the medium of storytelling to entertain, inform and educate the listener on all things of the past, present and future…

CELTIC FADO - REBIRTH AWAKENING

The powers to be have ‘modern historians’ debate the 2500 to 5000-year history of the Celtic peoples – Us Celts know this was not the embryo – our Celtic ancestors already entirely inhabited Europe since time memorial. Now in the Twenty First Century, a new resurgence of - ‘Celtic Posterity’ persists in ‘every quarter’ of the globe.

Celtic Fado, in all its forms contains the expressions of the suppressed western mystery tradition still alive today. It has undergone many transformations and revivals, for millennia it has lost many battles, but never the war. Through all of this it remains intuitively genuine and echoes down the Centuries. This Gnostic reverberation will be the messenger of the modern generation – Lusitanian Celtic Fado - Rebirth Awakening!

This new millennium message comes at a time when there is a renewed vibration of the Universe of all things Natural, stirring beneath the surface, a secret urge towards the establishment of a new spirit. Today is a time when all major economic corporate entities, all major religious institutions and the ‘ New World’ government ideologies are suffering from constant media exposure of their continued atrocities against mankind; this has fallen into line with much that is spiritually retrograde in our modern civilization. The old gods can no longer be invoked with impunity; the folk-souls of the past have another mission today. Men are afraid of the real future, and seek refuge amongst the phantoms of other ages, into which they breathe the breath of their desire. And this is the other pole: the Celtic folk-soul is no longer the soul of the people, but the soul of a spiritual awakening of all mankind - Lusitanian Celtic fado‘ is the messenger!

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WHAT IS FANDANGO - THE COMING OF AQUARIUS?

Celtic warriors drinking liberally of their own exquisite wines and devouring a well cooked feast of abundance, more often than not they would notoriously fight amongst themselves, as each boasted of their days exploits and conquests with stories so grandeur as to be unbelievable. Often the Bards would have to intervene and tell it like it really was - thus avoiding serious altercations.

Throughout the ages many of our greatest archaeological finds have been exquisite caches of weapons, which had been mysteriously deposited into lakes, rivers and sacred springs. This was the Celts paying tribute of expressing their love for Fand, their Goddess of Water. Well trained warriors living their lives on the battlefields of these ancient times, knew well that water was their number one commodity for health, sustenance and for - their ultimate survival (Wars will be fought in the future – due to water supplies).

In recent times Fandango is well known by its interpretation of two men dancing around a woman, each man using more and more intricate dance manoeuvres signifying they are competing/ fighting for her affections. As the woman represents a Celtic Goddess during this performance of Fandango, she of course, has an interest in seeing who has the superior ‘warrior-fighting skills’ to warrant her attention. Historically, the Gaelic word Fandango was broken down into two parts for a more informative interpretation…

Fand, representing the feminine (Matriarchal), the Goddess of Water and Angos being the masculine (Patriarchal), representing the God of Love. This connection of water with love has always been very powerful in Celtic folk-lore. Their love of water and natures other elements of earth, air, fire and the *void is constantly interwoven through all of their mythology.

(*the Void, their attention to Godliness, the Druids spiritual teachings to all the Celtic peoples revolved around their belief that the first four elements of nature were the source of all life and that in the very beginning there was the Universal Void – with which, they believed all of us are the ‘one’ and the ‘same’. They believed and taught that our connection to the Universe was – our breathing).

During the matriarchal time of the Celts and their Druids, there was an element of fascination and admiration with the ‘miracle of birth’ and our Water Goddess and her association with Angos (love). They knew we are born into the world when our mother’s water breaks; we are born with our entire human body being made up of 70% water. We are born into a world that is made up of 70% water, yet our planet was named ‘earth’?

As the 20th Century came to a close, the European psyche finally took a turn for concern for this Celtic cultural importance of water. The phrase ‘Water in Celtic Countries’ was first formulated in July, 1996 with the inaugural Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology and Management of Water Resources. This was staged in Rennes, Britanny, France . The Second Inter-Colloquium “Water in the Celtic World: Managing Resources for the 21st Century”, was held in Aberystwyth, UK , during July 2000 organised by the University of Wales. The Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium “Celtic Water in European Framework – Pointing the Way to Equality” was held in Galway, Ireland during July 2002. The most recent, the Fourth Inter-Colloquium was staged in Universidade do Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal in July 2005, thus Portugal ‘s acknowledgment of their heritage as a Celtic country.

A ‘new millennium’ science known as Quantum physics is experimenting with re-inventing the powers of the mind and its interconnection with water, the most relative of the elements. Recently a Japanese author/scientist, Mr Masaru Emoto has written several books on the subject. He – like the Druids of a long gone era – felt that the molecular structure of water was capable of a non-physical response with only human thought being the driving source. He ran a series of tests where a portion of pure distilled water taken from the Fuji Warra Dam was left to stand overnight in its natural state, the following morning, this water was photographed (this was the same state of water that as youths, our Celtic Grandmothers told us never to drink without stirring or shaking, as overnight the water had also been asleep. Our Grandmothers knew that for maximum benefit for our health - the water needed to be energised). The next day the water was blessed by a Buddhist Priest and again photographed. The following day the water was thought of with love and affection by a mother, thinking of her children and then the water was again photographed.

The final day, a third person thought abusively into the water, this photo and all of the others showed startling differences with a total reshaping and composition of the molecular reaction to each of these different thought processes of human emotions.

Recently a startling scenario was carried out in the USA , in Washington DC. Approximately 4000 meditators from more than one hundred countries came together to prove publicly the results of their previous experimentations with meditations. With the Mayor and the Chief of Police bearing witness, after one solid week of this group all together in a large venue, sharing this power of thought, everyone ‘thinking’ collectively for peace and tranquillity… it is recorded that murders and the crime rate decreased 25%. And just as surprisingly after the seven days and the mediators returned to their own countries, the Washington DC., murder and crime rate returned to its regular statistics.

FANDANGO… Just try for a moment to comprehend the magnitude of her power, makes you wonder doesn’t it? If our thoughts can do this to water and the human psyche, imagine what Fandango could have our thoughts do for us? In today’s modern society Celtic Fandango has been famously portrayed to a world-wide audience as the exciting River Dance and the Lord of the Dance.

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WHAT IS FAENA?

Primarily the word faena is a Celtic/Gaelic derivative representing the ritual and rules of the Matador and the Bullfight being all about fertility.

As the Celts placed such importance on the number three, it is easy to see that relevance here. Long Ago in the past there was ‘birth – fado‘, now in the present time there is ‘life – fandango’ and the thought of our destiny into the future, except with the future there must come a time for ‘death – faena‘. The Old King simply must die to make way for the New King. The Celts had such an understanding of this that they were without fear of death. Prior to going into a magnificent battle with the potential outcome of death, lending a good friend money to be paid back in the afterlife, was even more acceptable as offering a loan to be paid back tomorrow. Many Roman writers and philosophers often discussed and wrote that the Celts response to the question of fear was simply:

"We fear no man; we fear nothing, except one day the sky may fall upon our heads”

LUGH, the Sun God is seen by the Celts to be born every morning of every day, by midday the Sun God is middle aged and of course by nightfall the Sun God dies and disappears beyond the horizon. After almost five billions years of this re-occurring, you can be reasonably certain the Sun God will be born again in the morning.

And as the first rays of sunlight break the darkness for the dawn, all the cock roosters in the villages on the other side of the mountains all over France and Portugal… will echo (as they have done every day since ‘long ago’ this is the reason these two countries share the rooster logo) the good news to all Celts of the re-birth – which by their common belief is their destiny.

Faena, so the story goes that thousands of years ago, possibly during the recent astrological time of Taurus, or perhaps the previous time of Taurus (i.e. one of our Sun Gods Twelve Astrological Disciples) a famous and powerful Druid had decided it was no longer fitting that this magnificent animal should be unashamedly dragged over to a tree and tied up to have its throat cut as a sacrifice to the Gods… instead he would have the warriors of the Tara Miliate (the ancient martial arts) compete to win the right for the ultimate death-match, to stand in the face of the bull and one or the other being the loser, offering themselves as a potential sacrifice to the Gods. The winner of this match was guaranteed immortality, either the man or the beast. From that time on, this competition would forever more be the highest honour of the:

‘FOUR SEASONS’ - MOST ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES.

Unlike the later Games of Greece known as the CIRCUIT staged six times every five years in the four cities of Isthmia, Pythia, Nemea and Olympia for a further thousand years dated from 776BC – 393AD. These games competitors had to prove their Greek Citizenship, where as the Four Seasons Celtic Games known as Somhain (Winter), Imbolc (Spring), Beltane (Summer) and Lughnasa (Autumn) – these were all Funeral Games of thousands of years prior and were open to anybody and everybody all over Europe interested in developing their fighting skills by - pitting them against the skills of the Celts.

(With the above mentioned Somhain, the Winter Games specifically celebrating the birth, life, death and rebirth of their Sun God – This astrology based information will be covered in depth in future projects)

In today’s society the world knows much of the Pierre Coubertin Modern Olympic Games that are just over one hundred years of our modern era (since 1896), whilst we know little of the PAGAN ROMAN CAPITALINI GAMES, and their fight ‘to the death’ at the whim of the Emperor, performed by the GLADIATOR WARRIORS of the time. We know much less of the one thousand year history of the PRE-CHRISTIAN GREEK GAMES known as the CIRCUIT, with their historic major crowd draw attraction, the PANCRATION FIGHTERS (Meaning Game of all powers). What is a most disgusting ‘social crime’ against the culture and mythology of the Celts is that the world knows nothing of the Ancient Games of the Celts…and their famous Tara-Mileate Celtic FIONA warriors that had the courage to - ‘death-stare’ into the eyes and deep into the soul of the Bull.

Now the time has arrived for the modern world of today to hear of, and learn all about the TARA-MILEATE CELTIC *FIONA WARRIOR (The Celtic/Gaelic meaning of the Fiona is the one of the light, and of knowledge). This was the warrior that out skilled every one of his opponents that dared stand in his way, in any of the fighting forms and the many diversified athletics competitions for the honour to face death with the bull. He knew even if he were no match for the ferocious beast, his bravery would have him reborn. In this death-match the warrior Fiona wore a golden torque around his neck plus he/she wore a gold threaded body suit from his neck to his elbows and down to his knees; this was to symbolize his representation of the Sun God. For evidence of this description of these male and female Fiona warriors, from more than two thousand two hundred years ago, one needs to look no further than the well preserved:

‘CELTIC CAULDRON’ which is on display in the Copenhagen Museum, Denmark.

CERNUNNOS (shown left) holding a torque and serpents head (symbolising freedom and rebirth).
He was the "Lord of the Forrest - The Protector of All Animals".

His brilliantly gilded suit for his minimum protection was, during the midday sunshine, a blinding sight and his red and yellow ‘defensive drape’ he artistically swirled around his body, looked to be the rays of the sun itself (This ''defensive drape'' was developed after centuries of the Fiona facing the Tauras with only his shield and sword).

Today, this ancient warrior of the Sun God is very well known to the modern world as the ‘Matador’ just like the real life Conde de Vimioso from our play. Some would like to see the demise of his craft and this point of contention is covered dramatically during the play with one of those epic wars between Sarah ‘the Celt’ and Miai ‘the academic’. This is due to the fact that during this era of Severa and Vimioso it was legal and extremely popular to kill the bull in all of Portugal, but of course the powers to be, wanted it stopped… to us Celts, this is impossible. How after all of these thousands of years – can we have only two without the third? - i.e. birth and life without death? – or fado and fandango without faena! When one observes the ‘CELTIC CAULDRON’ you can not help but notice the dress code of the fiai and the matador have hardly changed at all in well over two thousand years!

And as for the opinions of human activists and animal rights campaigners, who are speaking defamatorily about this millenniums old mythology, their comments are absolutely ludicrous… the alternative for the Matadors ‘spectacular opponent’ in the Bullfighting arena would be, simply to be killed as a part of the regime of ‘mass animal death’ in slaughter houses and factories world wide for the ever increasing ‘daily consumption’ of the planets human population. In fact, it is simply a matter of the economics that if the breeding and training of this magnificent animal for the faena was to cease for any reason, it would be no time at all – before the magnificent beast itself, would no longer exist, being totally extinct.

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THE VIOLENT YEARS - PART ONE

The Bob Jones story commenced with his mother becoming pregnant during the early days of World War II. From the embryo stage and for the next nine months of incubation he would ‘unknowingly sense’ the stresses of his mother, and the traumatism of the world around the both of them. Being born into, and experiencing adolescence through an entire World War, caused no limitations on the amount of love showered upon this infant that was born with not only his mothers red hair, he was also born blessed with her audacious Irish temper and accompanying infallible spirit. This sharing of solo parent sibling togetherness and matriarchal lovingness, was almost as if they both knew what was about to happen as a result of this bloody war, and what it was about to take away from both of them.

This bloody World War II was Created by the Dictator of Nazi Germany dir Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and his ‘Germanic Global Vision’ for a superior human race, via a breeding program of pure Germanic Aryans had come marginally close, to taking over complete control of planet earth. This would be at the expense of multiple millions of human lives, and mass devastation of much of Europe.

The conflict resulted in the death of the biological father of a very young Bob Jones, his father (dada), being born of a Jewish mother and taking his fathers Scottish name of Thompson. Never knowing this son of his wife, born of her Celtic red hair… Bobs father had gone overseas in what he believed to be the defence of Australian shores, and came to a rude awakening with several years inside prisoner of war camps eventually being the cause of his early death!

Hitler’s allies, the Japanese, had bombed Pearl Harbour and bought America into a war that the ''Yanks'' were not particularly interested in. The Japanese bombed their way across the Pacific, continuing down through the South Pacific, devastating Papua New Guinea and eventually Darwin, Australia.

Before the end of this ‘bloody’ war his mother would fall in love and marry the boss (Victor Sydney Jones) of the restaurant where she was waiting tables. Defending our northern shores against the Japanese air attacks would have Bob’s stepfather suffer post war trauma for the rest of his natural life. This mindless cost of human life and suffering continued until the Americans introduced the world to a new dimension of modern warfare…

The catastrophic ‘American Atom Bomb’, our 20th Century ultimate ‘terrorist attack’, aimed specifically at the civilian population of the Japanese Capitol city of Hiroshima, truly the ‘weapon of mass destruction’ for its time in our history.

This ‘necessary’ act of terror totally annihilating all elderly citizens, mothers and young children. Three entire generations eliminated from the planet earth in a miniscule moment of time, leaving an indelible spot within the subconscious mind of master Bob Jones. Plus the city’s total structural devastation which caused this demise of Japans military and one of the initial causes of the crumbling of Adolf Hitler and his Germanic Empire. This bellicose dictator’s supposed eventual suicide brought long awaited peace to the world. Albeit only temporary due to ongoing conflict in Korea and Vietnam etc;

This ‘WIN’ was followed by mass depression and psychological meltdown of our young heroes returning home to our shores ‘totally’ wounded; physically, mentally and worst of all, spiritually. Practically nothing in the way of support for the then hard to identify ‘psychological post trauma stress’ was provided during these times. And with what little there was, having no benefit as these men through both war and peace had been assimilated into a ‘fanatically religious’ patriarchal based society. Where it was unmanly to complain about anything, let alone ask anyone for help.

Bob Jones’ parents and his grand parents had lived through two world wars divided by ‘The Great Depression’. He remembers well his step father’s advice during these adolescent years, “Son, two world wars were bad enough, but I hope as you grow and travel through life, that you will never have to live through a repeat of anything comparative to this depression. In a war we can still be our own individual heroes but in times of depression, nothing strips a man more of his individual dignity and identity, and the basic rites of being a human”.

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THE VIOLENT YEARS - PART TWO

As a result of this half a century of violence including the recent World War Two, our country had a serious genetic imbalance. Due to our conceived convict heritage, British Empire war mongering Sir Winston Churchill made a point of always-placing Australian militia right there in the front lines of all war zones. ‘Why should a British soldier suffer when it was just as easy to sacrifice the son of a colonial convict’. This fact has been emphatically proven with war records showing Australians far surpassing all, becoming the highest death and injury rates of all the British Colonies.

Now, in the middle of the 20th Century, and we as a Nation identified with our problem resulting from Sir Winston Churchill’s war time decision making skills. His good mate, our Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies* in an attempt to ease this genetic imbalance, decided to open up immigration with an affordable ten-pound (twenty dollar) one-way ticket for young male Italians, followed by the male youth of Greece, and then many others. With no organised social integration programs, there was a definite ‘common man’ animosity towards these ‘unusually different ethnic males’ arriving upon our shores.

*Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, the longest serving Liberal leader in Australian history, the same leader that was exporting for profits, many thousands of tons of scrap iron to the Japanese. This was within one year prior to the declaration of commencement of ‘this, the Second World War’.

Earning him the nationwide nickname of ‘PIG IRON BOB‘, and with satirical endearment he was publicly criticised and condemned with: “Hey, Pig Iron Bob, we don’t mind you bein’ leader of our country and makin’ a quid or two on the side. But, if you keep sellin’ this fuckin’ steel to those bloody Jap’s, there’s a big chance they will turn it into bombs and come ‘ere ‘n blow the fuck out of this beautiful country, and us az well!”

This was the anti war and political sentiment of this time in our history, preached fervently by our Labour Union leaders and their good mates (supposedly our society’s tough ‘bad guys’, our Painters and Dockers). Their warnings fell on tone deaf ears. Finally with no other recourse these tough ‘bad guys’ disrupted our docklands. They did this with nationwide supported strikes of all their union and bad guy dockland mates refusing to load any more of that f…..g scrap iron onto any ships bound for f…..g Japan. History would certainly suggest these national strikes were finally performed, supposedly by a bunch of tough ‘good guys’. How different things may have been without them?

Some things never change, our recent second longest running Liberal Prime Minister, Mr John Howard unashamedly established his open trade export of uranium to Communist controlled China. Plus ‘his’ commitment of many of ‘our’ 18 - 20 year old kids, risking their wellbeing as well as their lives in Iraq and Iran for the New World Orders multiple trillion dollar ‘OIL’ supply and demand industry. One can only hope we do not have a World War III anytime in the near or too distant future. Can you dare to even imagine what might be used as weapons when this war eventuates? It’s beyond me but one thing is for sure… When World War IV eventuates, we will be back to ‘chucking rocks’ at one and other. I’m sure we all know, if history teaches us anything, this humbling fact is more than likely to eventuate. Especially with irrational Presidents of the United States of America, like our recent millennium war mongering George W. Bush (Johnny Howard’s best mate). I’m sure as you read this, you are also aware these same leaders have totally abolished the entire concept of Painters and Dockers of post war fame.

Next time around where will our tough ‘good-bad’ guys come from to help save the day? Certainly not from our current style of pompous politicians or our overpaid corporate entity recession leaders, and most certainly not our pathetic paedophile priests.

Maybe… Mick Gatto and his Carlton Crew, don’t be alarmed, stranger things have happened! (Our European, American and Australian history has already shown us the extreme passion of this Catholicized ethnic mindset, when it comes to them protecting their immediate family members, friends, home or country).

‘War Babies”, (Today’s Baby Boomers) was an expression given to all children born during and within the first ten years of the end of the war. During this decade and while experiencing national post war poverty and growing up in Melbourne’s inner suburban slums, these youthful adolescent years had Bob Jones learning the ‘social skills’ of the time. With skilful stone throwing (chucking rocks) being the weapon of the day and with hand made ‘Billy carts’ as the military mode of transport for these multiple gangs of children fuelled by religious fanaticism.This Anglo Celtic socially influenced stigma of this era was to hate Protestant pigs, Catholic dogs and definitely don’t mix with those Jew boys. Without even knowing which of these God fearing groups he belonged to, Bob learned to fight ferociously, gaining gravel rash on his knees, while still wearing short pants.

Within a few years, and now as a mature adolescent it was kosher to hate with a passion ‘anyone’ who lived in an adjoining suburb. Simply living on the other side of ‘that’ street or road was socially intolerable. Our mobility beyond the Billy carts eventually became flash fast cars. Alcohol and females became something you went to bed with… and the violence was becoming even more life threatening. (This was all many decades before major outlaw bikie gangs, movie star gangsters and Asian drug lords - all sharing a Trillion dollar industry - will come into vogue. You do not need to concern yourself with the social problems of this epidemic: we are already living with this as a part of our new millennium!).

We already had Irish gangsters that no one dared talk about and we had crooked Irish coppers (with a hierarchy of Freemasonry at the time) that no one knew anything about, but talked about constantly anyway. (A throw back result of violent blood stains on our 19th Century colonial days with blood spilt on the Eureka Stockade flag being only one of many ‘casus belli’ altercations that divided good guys and crooks from these anti social cops and their despot oligarchic political bosses).

Unlike the decade following the first World War, when ‘razor gang gangsters’ like Squizzy Taylor fought and died on the inner suburban streets over the financial control of the very lucrative heroin and cocaine trade. The number one drug of addiction of these Post War II days was ‘speed’; these pills were available from the same guys that sold them to long distance truck drivers. To be a tuned in and switched on teenager was to buy a used and emptied Bryant & Mays slide out match box (complete with that Goddess with the long flowing red hair, and that one sexy shoulder on the cover) packed with marijuana and carrying a price tag with no change out of a quid (one pound – two dollars).

These could be purchased from certain members of inner suburban and city street gangs with names like The Phantom Twins (the ‘family’ of choice of the now young teenage Bob Jones), Panthers, Ruby’s Rebels, Night prowlers. Within the areas of inner suburbs they were either North or South, East or West side gangs. Or simply by taking the name of your outer suburb, which ‘every’ suburb did, and adding the word ‘boys’ became a cause to die for. With their ever increasing numbers of membership, these individually formed extremely violent teenage street gangs became a way of belonging. An extended family, they were group protection and your very own ‘big brother’ security.

During this period in our reasonably modern history, Australia was not unique; this was a post war, world wide phenomena! And just as we thought one war had ended, there was suddenly a new global fear. Known as the ‘COLD WAR‘ a title born from the catastrophic effect of the American Atom bomb, we were now media informed on a ‘every day’ basis that Russia had devised the same technology and any day, either of these two super powers may at any time use this devastation against one and other. For the next decade we all lived with the constant intimidation that any day we were living might well be our last, simply by either the Americans and/or the Russians pressing what we had come to know as ‘THE RED BUTTON’. Plus what will unfold in the next chapter you are about to read, was also identified right around the globe as war torn immigrants travelled from country to country. They were simply, looking for anywhere that they might be accepted and allowed to belong. Almost always being confronted with racial animosity by the local inhabitants, followed by questionable and intimidating suspicion and always with the accompanying violence!

As an older teenager, Bob Jones the now fully seasoned fighter, entered into a new era of uncontrollable escalating violence. With the full approval and support of all ‘his - Big Brother - peers’, with many of these ex- war heroes questioning, ‘what the hell was all the fighting about? Is this what we fought and died for? Our way of life, our jobs, our houses and our women being swallowed up by these government sponsored marauding invaders’. Him and his young Celtic Anglo Saxon* buddies rose to the occasion with what was expected of them, with what they knew well.

By now the Australian media propaganda machine was looking for a name to tag these youthful undesirables to help boost media ratings, magazine and daily newspaper sales. America had come up with the controversial as much as it was demeaning - JD’s (Juvenile Delinquents) and the United Kingdom had gone with ‘TEDDY BOYS‘. Australian media showed a degree of creativity calling our misguided youth ‘BODGIES & WIDGIES‘ as they identified there were both male and female practitioners of this crisis of mid-century hooliganism! According to every ounce of media exposure given to the youth of this era, everything was their fault; youth were the scourge of the earth, and what, if anything could be done about them. Apparently at this time in world history there must have been an acute shortage of trained psychologists and social welfare workers, no one suggested we may all have been a product of our environment and the current ‘world stage’ was not the best example of what could be deemed, acceptable behaviour.

Government immigration policies and media acerbic critique were the major factors these previously intolerant and separate gangs now united their hatred for these ‘invading’ ethnics with tribal warfare on the streets and in the work place. Adding to this dilemma, frequent attacks became a community menace within their newly established gambling houses, ‘ethnic coffee shops and clubrooms’. These Wogs, wops and dagoes were the newfound social, political and religious enemy of the day, and much blood was spilt for several years as Bob Jones further honed his fighting skills!

*Celtic Anglo Saxon is what an ‘Australian’ was during the first one hundred and fifty years of the ‘white man’ settlement of this historically ‘black mans’ continent. During this post war period the population of this colony of the United Kingdom was 8,000,000 with all of us now feeling ‘connected’ by our United Kingdom Celtic Anglo Saxon heritage.

During these early times of this country’s violent history, our equally violent teenage Bob Jones was euphemistically schooled with that antiquated ‘White Australia Policy’. Not only was he socially expected to ‘hate’ these ‘dark skinned’ wogs, wops and dagoes by his peers, it was government policy for him to have absolutely no tolerance for ‘anyone’ whose skin was ‘not Anglo Saxon white’. And in whichever ‘One-God’ of the ‘three’ major Abraham religions these marauding invaders found ‘their GOD’, the other two were definitely WRONG, a resolution worth fighting for, to the DEATH!

This is definitely the ultimate paradox when compared to today’s attitude towards social acceptances, political correctness and religious tolerances. This is a whole different story of ethnocentrism for another time, and one day I will tell it through my eyes and my unusual and controversially unique Celtic ‘Indigenous’ research. If post World War I street gangster Mr Squizzy Taylor had lived to see the new millennium he would be extremely pleased. His heroin, cocaine trade has now improvised an unlimited range of designer drugs making it the largest non taxable cash flow business in existence throughout the world today! He would be equally impressed with the current faltering of economic world powers, the International mass imprisonment of paedophile priests and with ‘our’ world governments simply negotiating the time and place of the next war. His razor gangs have become machete wielders and now the institutions of crooked coppers, gun blasting outlaw bikie gangs and Asian drug Lords have all joined the one corporate entity together. Yes, with all these advancements in our civilization, Mr Squizzy Taylor would be extremely pleased; in fact he would be in paradise.

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THE VIOLENT YEARS - PART THREE

The Twentieth Century has now been acknowledged as the most violent ‘one hundred years’ we have ever experienced, with the catastrophic cost of more human lives than ever previously recorded. This, our peer’s education system informs us, is the natural course of civilisation, yes, of course by this we can see, we are civilised? Celtic Anglo Saxon Australia 1788-2009, a little over two hundred years and with Federation in 1901 means Bob Jones is ‘somewhere’ between one quarter to half (25-50%) of this colonies age.

 

From this, he has drawn personal experience and knowledge of the atrocities against our indigenous Aboriginals, the absolute abuse of those early convicts (Irish slaves would be more precise). Add to these the poor, the uneducated, the sick, the mentally disadvantaged and the physically handicapped, and not excluding our elderly. All of these, our fellow Australians have suffered continuously under this British Colonial Oligarchy. And, with our new millennium, agnostic political/religious agendas, not only in our beautiful country of Australia, the whole ‘world of the common man’ has much more suffering to endure. I don’t mean to cause undue alarm, but we all should be prepared… it is coming!

On the subject of history as we can perceive the written word, although much has been detailed by the best liars belonging to the Winners Club, it may well be as ‘they’ would have us believe, that our civilisation’s survival depends upon… all this violence. Perhaps there is even an effect on world economy control and world population control - culling. Whatever the reasons, the first decade of this new millennium is shaping up to be a world-wide economic disaster, global warming dilemmas, more natural disasters, more famine, much more violence with a escalation of higher death rate than we had recorded at the beginning of the last century, which turned out to be our most murderous ‘one’ hundred years ever. And today, we have learned so much from history that now this is called our modern civilisation, hmm!

Adolescence, youth, puberty, restless teenage conflict and now, at just over twenty years of age Bob Jones was married; he had experienced fatherhood and journeyed through an extremely violent, then failed marriage. Single, disappointed, extremely angry at the world and professionally working in the entertainment and security industry, he found himself living a nocturnal existence as a complete way of violence.

His whole life in tatters, it seemed to him at this point in his life that the only thing he had ever been really successful at… was violence! And even worse than that, he was economically out of control – with more than 200 staff in almost full time employment, the financial rewards just kept pouring in. Contributing to his train of thought that violence and success was one and the same, somehow in this world of Bob Jones and associates it all seemed so normal.

Spiralling out of control for the next decade, only one thing saved him from total destruction. He had become a ‘born again’, not in a religious sense, as a matter of fact, quiet the opposite! He had commenced training in the martial arts in 1965 as a ‘white’ belt and by 1970 had achieved his First Degree ‘Black Belt’ Grading.

And at this pivotal point in his life, during these five short years, he was totally transformed as a human being. What a paradox, a really violent man, living an extremely volatile lifestyle, and he starts to study a hypothetically - often publicly miss perceived - really violent martial art. And as a result the man is reborn.

Incredibly forty five years of his life will come and pass and currently, during the first decade of the third millennium, he is and will be until 2012 an ‘Eighth Degree’ Black Belt. This esoteric journey from First Degree Black Belt and soon to enter a new phase with his Ninth Degree has miraculously transformed his life from, ‘The Violent Years’ and this martial art intertwining of ‘transparency, transformation and transcendence’ has now evolved into ‘The Greatest Story Never Told’, sounds like a couple of good titles for a couple of good books! Following right along from the immediate success of his already published ‘Let the Good Times Roll’. Perhaps, maybe, one day in the not too distant future…

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THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD

THE SIXTIES

Since the early 1960''s in Australia and New Zealand (And today in Indonesia and Israel) the name Bob Jones has been synonymous with the Security and Entertainment Industries. These have gone hand in hand with his traditional Mixed Martial Arts, Kickboxing and Boxing promotions and constant expansion. All of the above feature BJMA (Bob Jones Martial Arts) training programs and spectacular National and Worldwide promotional packages.

‘THAT PHOTO TO GO HERE MICHAEL’ Crowd Controllers – The Beginning (*Early sixties Bouncers) From Left: Dave Milne, Dennis Williamson, Bob Jones (Already referred to as ‘The Chief’) and Bill Sabodtka on duty outside the infamous Catcher Discotheque, right down the bottom end of #471 Flinders Lane, Melbourne (One and a half blocks from Spencer Street).

 

BJC - THE FIRST CROSSE - RMG -THE FIRST GROUP

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*I am very proud to acknowledge that this ‘handsome’ group was the first Bob Jones Corporation – Resource Management Group ever formed, and it was at the suggestion of Dave Milne and Bill Sabodka These two crowd controllers, ‘bouncers’, were the first two men to ever receive and wear the BOB JONES CROSS (BJC). Making me ‘A genuine offer I could not refuse – due to my fighting and marketing skills’, it was ‘their’ idea that the ‘three’ of us should be the beginning of what was about to unfold.

This came about at an extended lunchtime meeting held at Mr Ron Steffani’s LEO’S SPAGHETTI BAR in Fitzroy Street St Kilda, at 12.30pm on Friday November 22nd– 1963. Only a small amount of you reading this will be aware that this date ‘1963’ was two years before I had even commenced my Martial Arts training with Mr Jack Rozinsky in a venue at the rear of the East St Kilda Post Office on March 3rd - 1965 in the Korean style of Tai Kwon Do.

And… it was still seven years prior to the birth of ZEN DO KAI - 1970. This BJC-RMG initiation was a very small part of a global catastrophic change. By an incredible coincidence this meeting took place at the exact time (allowing for International time zones) as the most powerful man of the free world - The President Of The United States Of America – John F. Kennedy was assassinated at 12.30pm on Friday November 22nd – 1963.

After many, many American Presidents and now, with the advent of the new millennium we have entered the fifth decade that the Bob Jones Corporation has taught many tens of thousands of Australians to protect themselves (and now expanding internationally). And now more than ever, these multiple thousands of students continue to become Black Belts in the BJMA various forms of the fighting arts, for more information please visit; www.bobjonesmartialarts.com.au

 

BJC - RMG SECURITY MANPOWER EXPANSION

Bob Jones has taught the elite of these Black Belts, always with undying encyclical enthusiasm, how to ''protect others''. And many of them would continue to be employed within his security empire, and varying other developing business interests.

Since the sixties he has expanded his ''Crowd Control'' interests. Now in the new millennium, many different associated companies involving in numerous BJC-RMG provide the security for most of Australasia''s entertainment venues including Casinos, Nightclubs and major outdoors functions. And as you can imagine, the BJC-RMG concept has continued to infiltrate many diversified areas of the business arena, the exciting thing about this in today’s business market, now it has become a Global Vision.

 

THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD

THE SEVENTIES

FIRST DEGREE MARTIAL ARTS GRADING - 1965-1970:

“A true Black Belt following the path of the warrior unwittingly changes their way of life… for they can never be the same person again”. After five years (since March 3rd – 1965) as a prospect working my way through the ranks. I finally shook off the coloured belt system and was awarded my Black Belt by Mr Tino Ceberano and Mr Sal Ebonez on December 13th – 1969. This five year period is recorded as ‘credit years’ and can be drawn upon with future Degree gradings (see Bob Jones Eighth Degree grading times during 1997-2003).

Six months after my Black Belt Grading I had completed my provisional period of time and it was now time for me to establish my full First Degree Black Belt Grading. This had been planned to coincide with the opening of the first ever BOB JONES MARTIAL ARTS SCHOOL. This was also the birth date of what would soon become known around the world as ZEN DO KAI FREESTYLE MARTIAL ARTS (Another Associate Division of the BJC) at 48 Elizabeth St, Melbourne. Both my FIRST DEGREE GRADING and the long anticipated inaugural professional instructional class taken by myself was at 6pm on Monday the 1st of June, 1970.

This was also the birth date of a concept that within a few years would be known as the BJC-WSC (Bob Jones Corporation – World Steering Commission). This Commission will be responsible for sanctioning all Black Belt grading requirements beyond Fifth Degree, including all of the founder’s advanced grading requirements.

 

SECOND DEGREE MARTIAL ARTS GRADING - 1972:

“The Martial Arts Marathon”, over the years this grading has had several modifications, due to its enduring/injurious nature. Although its *infamous reputation has always preserved the title of The Martial Arts Marathon. After training fanatically for two years as a black belt on a mission, In the middle of 1972 I would invite 30 black belts from almost as many styles including Judo and Jujitsu and one black belt visiting from France. My martial arts marathon concept was to fight each of these 30 First Degrees for three minutes each, with only the one five minute break after round 25, to earn my Second Degree. Several of them for varying reasons (personal and political) did not want me to make it, which particularly in the later rounds, made things interesting and drew much blood, luckily, not mine! Almost immediately, this grading developed a life of its own, the concept became thirty rounds according to rank and the grading eventually (within a few years due to the higher ranks simply, always getting stronger) became so extremely violent it was causing very serious injuries… very serious! Today, in the new millennium this grading has survived many modifications, now it is even more enduring, without the injuries.

*The infamous reputation of our martial arts marathon became forever entrenched in our BJMA mythology with the release of award winning New Zealand film ‘Once were Warriors’ featuring Temuera Morrison, also of Star Wars fame. This film explores the social dilemma of these native islanders with an in-depth look at domestic violence within the suburbia life style of the Maori. Several BJMA - NZ black belts were working on the film doing stunts, special effects and the like, during a coffee break -THINK TANK – these black belts described our 2nd Degree grading (as it was then) to production staff. The rest is history, if you have seen the film; you have seen a very violent version of this concept as a Maori Warrior is taken off to a warehouse to perform this BJMA ritual wanting the acceptance of his peers!

If you would like to observe our BJMA philosophy which surrounded this grading during the seventies, where the connection is so close you would think we wrote the script. This is a classic film that expresses the Bob Jones – Richard Norton phenomena of this era is ‘Fight Club’ with Brad Pitt and by coincidence of name, English actor Edward Norton. It is probably worth a mention here that these films, the seventies philosophy and this version of the 2nd Degree Marathon are in no way in line with our current 21st Century teaching principles and practises.

ROLLING STONES TOUR - 1973 - THE BEGINNING

Late 1972 and a lunch meeting at the ‘old’ Southern Cross Hotel’ with the ‘Paul Dainty Corporation’ regarding a world tour coming to Australia early in 1973. Featuring an international act, it was another of those great turning points in the life and career of Bob Jones. Paul Dainty finished off this lunch stating: “Bob, It is imperative you do a good job with this tour. If you are successful with this there will be a lot more work in the future for you and your organisation”. We wound up doing more than twenty years with Paul, and that was a lot of fun people, but that first ever tour still stands out in the memory bank, Why? Because it was THE ROLLING STONES TOUR OF ‘73 -THE BEGINNING.

THIRD DEGREE MARTIAL ARTS GRADING - 1975:

“Mirror reflection of students through self”, suddenly it was 1975 and the required three years had evolved since my marathon experience, and having been an instructor during this time, and now with my Third Degree, it was time for me to experience being a teacher and begin sharing my latest experiences and knowledge that comes with this intriguing Third Degree level of Black Belt… “Teaching and sharing knowledge is the ‘true’ VALUE OF VALOR of ‘our’ way known as the martial ‘arts’ journey”. Many fans of our organisation, many students of varying Degree rankings and especially many newly graded Third Degree ‘Teachers’ often ask me at seminars and training trips, “Can you please give me any extra information to broaden my scope of evaluating ‘Value of Valor’ to improve my teaching skills?” My answers always vary dependant on who it was that poised the question ie; what, if any is their dominant colour - red (fire), yellow (air) or blue (water) – this of course will dictate the most beneficial result of my reply for them at this juncture of ‘their’ journey, generally I take the time to give fairly explicate descriptions of these two words as individual interpretations. ‘VALUES’ guide all plans, decisions and actions… Life’s goals and your MA higher Degrees are for the future. Values and your Third Degree are now. Goals are set. Values are lived. Goals change. Values are rocks you can count on. Goals get your students going. Values sustain all of your efforts applied together as the ‘group’. What extreme value can you place on all of ‘your’ coloured belts and your personal First and Second Degree Black Belt students? What measure of value can you place on your ‘direct up-line’ of Fourth and Fifth Degrees and above within your BJMA Family? Are there possible limits to the value of BJMA Systems that have been developed for your personal adventure? ‘VALOR’ is the one word that clarify’s the ‘true’ meaning of ‘our’ martial arts ‘way’ (ie; Internal strength and Intrepid courage, especially in the way of warfare; the dictionary also defines valor as personal bravery). As a teacher it is your obligation to your students that they come to understand that external enemies are not the concern, it is the enemy deep within our psyche that is the haunting dark side that each of us has to endure and eventually conquer to be ‘truly’ successful in our MA journey of valor. How strong is your personal Value of Valor? – Are there your guaranties in place that do not allow the concept of failure for you or any ‘one’ of your students giving to you at this time – undying loyalty? BOB JONES – Loyal students and personal friends - 1975 During an otherwise not unusual training session one night not long after my Third Degree grading at #48 – 50 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Headquarters, I was struck with a vision that impacted on me like an Atomic Bomb… I had just finished the night’s classes, having trained 250 students. By now there were four training areas on four separate floors of the two premises now at 48-50 Elizabeth Street Melbourne; the point to my rare observation was… that there was not one Skip (Aussie) in attendance. Every student who trained that night was of multiple European extractions with almost all of them born in Australia, all sons and daughters of ‘that’ previous generation. The ‘Atom bomb’ of the occasion! There was not a wog, wop or dago amongst them; they were all my loyal students and my personal friends. ‘BODYGUARDS’ BOB JONES - RICHARD NORTON 1975, the year of the “BODYGUARDS”, the BJC television series concept that did not get off the drawing board stage, “Great idea Bob, but who really knows who Richard Norton and Bob Jones are?” said the Executives in positions of power (In their defence, this WAS before Richard Norton had made his sixty movies, and I was still to hit BJC 1000 advertised classes per week in four different countries). Just imagine for a moment what might have happened if this series had clicked. As it never eventuated you may have no interest. If you do, click here on the BODYGUARDS. All through the seventies and well into the eighties (The Miracle in 1970 only one year after Woodstock in the USA to Sunbury in 1972 and culminating with Narara, near Gosford NSW in 1986) the BJC secured all of Australia''s major rock concerts that ran over several days and drew crowds in excess of 50,000. At each concert, hundreds of his associates (black belts) were employed to secure all aspects of public wellbeing. CLUBSHOP INTERNATIONAL – BJMA Supplies By the middle of this decade we had already expanded into three major cities in three states (Melbourne - Victoria, Brisbane - Queensland and recently Adelaide, South Australia. Then it was time for each state to compete against each other with their suburban sprawl expansion). Plus, we were planning to go EVERYWHERE! It was during 1975 and this growth explosion that the BJC found it was time to establish their pre - planned concept of CLUBSHOP INTERNATIONAL, a permanent base for over the counter Customer Sales and Service, including Warehousing and Distribution to every BJC (Bob Jones Club). Stock was sent to every Black Belt Instructor no matter where they taught. CLUBSHOP INTERNATIONAL supplied on demand, with stock on hand the instructors ‘CLUB’ became a ‘SHOP’. This provided direct customer service to every new student as soon as they joined. This concept was a major factor and driving force behind the success of our organisation. CLUBSHOP INTERNATIONAL Pty Ltd a Division of the BJC - BOB JONES CORPORATION Pty Ltd, HEAD OFFICE at: 670-672 High Street, Thornbury – 3071. For any information contact Manager, Mr Michael Kenna, or BJC and Bob Jones Personal Assistant, Jaqueline between 9.30 – 5.30 Monday to Friday and Saturdays 10.00 – 2.00. TAG WAR GAMES – Tactical Adventure Games (TAG) During this era of the sinister seventies, relaxing at SHOGUN (The then BJC Headquarters), one night watching a TV doco with a half a dozen live-in training bodyguards, I remember leaping out of my chair, alarming everyone, “That’s it – that’s us”. We had been watching an ‘adventure game’ with the title of ‘KILL THE PRESIDENT’. It involved a bunch of happy Americans running around in the wilderness shooting anything and/or anyone moving or even breathing. ‘Shooting’ with red vegetable-dye pellets fired from gas-pressurised rifles, contact and a burst pellet left the victim with a body mass of red dye, scoring penalty points. Within the year, the BJC had gone Nation wide across New Zealand and Australia with TAG (Tactical Adventure Games) where Bob Jones Martial Arts Clubs (BJMA) formed ‘Ten member teams’ competing with points against all other BJC teams on a “BJC-TAG” National Ladder. TAG was played with rules similar to the offensive and defensive strategies of Soccer. Except for the concept of ‘scoring’, instead of kicking a ball – we shot one another. “Well… you have to allow for the fact, it was the sinister seventies”. WORLD KICKBOXING ASSOCIATION - 1976 Following on from TAG and just as the seventies were unfolding the BJC launched the WKA (World Kickboxing Association 1976) upon the Australian public; actually the WKA had an impact on the entire martial arts world. An almost unknown fact about the WKA is that Mr Howard Hanson, the original American promoter of legitimate ‘contact’ martial arts, had labelled the sport ‘Full Contact Karate’. Then Mr Hanson approached the BJC to assist in the world marketing of this new phenomenon… Bob Jones was excited about the concept, but definitely not excited about the name chosen. Bob felt the name needed to be promoted as what it was hoped it would become, the ‘World Kickboxing Association’, not simply, American ‘Full Contact Karate’. After much discussion and debate Mr Hanson conceded that Australia could commence promotions under the banner of World Kickboxing Association, WKA, and that this name would be the property of the BJC within the South Pacific and Australasian Regions. FOURTH DEGREE MARTIAL ARTS GRADING - 1979: “Ones ability to be in control and remain within the ‘seven esoterical degrees” (ie; Fourth – Tenth Degree). In Celtic mythology my most recent four years as a teacher was translucent, this allowed for my passage of light, but not a clear view of the big picture. As teachers we all place far too much time and effort with those we are ‘teaching’, this has us expect too much of our protégé’s, our inexperience has us view them only through ourselves forgetting for a while it is ‘them’ that are also on their ‘own’ journey (One consolation: ‘everyone loves an all caring teacher’). From being translucent and to now truly transcend, it was my turn to enter the Fourth Degree realm, the most important grading to this particular juncture of our martial arts journey. The lower masters level, to ‘see’ from this weapons grading the light at that infinite tip of the sword and begin to comprehend the purpose and symbology of this metaphor. And comprehend this, the first of the seven esoterical degrees from Fourth to Tenth Degree. Having travelled to every state around Australia and both Islands of New Zealand, developing many teachers beneath me, it was now my time to spend more time developing ‘me’ on ‘my’ journey. It was time for me to become Master of My Own Destiny… for those following me beyond this point (1979), I shall become their guide, no longer teaching. Value of Virtue……. THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD THE EIGHTIES Throughout the seventies and into the early eighties Bob Jones had personally toured as a Bodyguard to all major Rock and Roll celebrities including The Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, Paul Rodgers and Bad Company, Europe''s ABBA, David Bowie, Boy George, Linda Ronstadt to name a just few. The list he did NOT tour with is a much shorter list! (See the year 2001 for the release and potential purchasing of his second book that features his journey with all of these celebrities as they all rock together with Bob Jones down memory lane, it’s titled simply; “Let The Good Times Roll’ You should get yourself a copy today. Eddie Maguire and Bert Newton both gave rave reviews). MUHAMMAD ALI – EDMONTON CANADA - 1983 Throughout my adventures and travels around the planet, whenever I would discuss what I had been doing in recent times, I often felt some people had trouble getting a handle on this Bob Jones character, “Is he for real, how would he find enough hours in any one day to do all this stuff?” was one of many similar questions total strangers would ask anyone present as if I was not even in the room. Here is one of my favourites that no one ever swallowed, “Bob, have you ever met Muhammad Ali?” was often asked with anticipation, “Yes I met Muhammad Ali in 1983, when I was in Edmonton, Canada doing the security for a spectacular ‘Edmonton Shopping Plaza Launch’ and Fashion Show that lasted for seven days. After the Fashion Show and as a final climax to the weeks promotions, on the last night at the Edmonton Stadium, with a capacity live audience of 28,000 fight fans, I also had the honour of refereeing Muhammad Ali in one of his final bouts”. Ali’s wife promoted the Fashion Show, and employed yours truly to do security. Now, while you are reading this, if you do not know or have never met Bob Jones, right now you are more than likely thinking to yourself, ‘Yeah, maybe, but it sounds like a great bunch of crock!’. This is why I have not told this and several other unbelievable stories to anyone for years. HANDS OFF – Women’s Self Defence HANDS OFF! Here is my first published book, simply click on this cover to purchase your own ‘limited edition’ copy signed by Bob Jones with your personal inscription. Arriving back in Australia from the Muhammad Ali Spectacular and after much prior hard work, it was also 1983 that I had this book published by Sydney Publishers BAY BOOKS, titled HANDS OFF, a unique system of self defence against assault for the women of today. Bay Books was a Polish Jewish outfit, so I took my Melbourne Jewish Solicitor, a colourful character Mr Isaac Brott (One time he was stabbed ‘18’ times and lived to tell this true story in jest). In Sydney Isaac introduced me to Mr Beila Chida – a Sir Peter Abels of the then, Ansett Airlines connection (There’s a few names that will feature in my future books). I mention these names for a bit of fun, they are great friends of mine and are members of the Australian and International Underbelly OTHERWORLD of the eighties. Back to the book, they did get me a great deal! The cover features a picture of Fleetwood Macs beautiful Stevie Nicks and yours truly training at her house in Los Angeles. Affirmations in the opening chapter are from all the ‘Magnificent ladies of Rock and Roll fame’ whom Bob Jones had the pleasure of protecting as their minder and personal fitness advisor. HANDS OFF is ideal as a gift for a man to purchase for his grandmother, mother, wife, daughter, sister, girl friend and we give great discounts for that many copies. It has proven invaluable as a marketing tool for our instructors taking programmed self-defence courses for women, our personal trainers teaching fitness and weight loss, our black belts teaching female classes at ‘all girl’ schools, supplying a ‘Free Copy’ to all of their students. Including this ‘hidden cost’ they have built in to the cost of their course. FIFTH DEGREE MARTIAL ARTS GRADING - 1984: “Ones ability to be in control and remain within the seven esoterical degrees”. 1984, and I have just experienced five years in the Lower Masters level. Now, with this transition to Fifth Degree I will use every opportunity during this next six years to develop my Upper Master skills. Kneeling on my right knee, the simple action representing this 4th to 5th Ranking is simply by removing the belt then reuniting myself with my belt, the symbology of transcendence is to reverse the red from the bottom to the top. Value of Virtuosos…… Knowing how important this is, to consolidate the creation of my personal destiny so as to spend the following six years developing and gaining the power to move up and into the second phase of these esoterical degrees… the giving of myself to the three levels of Wizardry. SIXTY MINUTES In the middle of this decade, Bob Jones would become the first and still the only Martial Artist in the world to be profiled by ''60 Minutes''. AROUND THE WORLD IN 28 DAYS – ROD STROUD Just after this in 1986, Bob Jones (with long time associate Rod Stroud – the then manager of the BJC-Western Australia) was sponsored ''AROUND THE WORLD IN 28 DAYS'' including first class airflights, five star accommodation and expense account etc; by the Ray O''Connor Consultancy. Mr O’Connor was the former Liberal Premier of Western Australia on behalf of the Alan Bond Corporation (“Hello, it seems I can’t write a paragraph here without National and International Underbellies of the OTHERWORLD turning up – sorry about that!”). This was done to establish a triple headline of World Title Fights featuring Stan ‘The Man’ Longinedes and an International Kickboxing Teams Event, Australia versus America (which Australia won). This BJC major event was a headline entertainment spectacular to be a feature of the build up towards the infamous Alan Bond and his unforgettable ''Americas Cup'' yacht race challenge (which Australia also won). THAILAND – Inaugural Training Trip 1988 Following this time in 1988, acting on the earlier advice of Holland’s Tekkin Donmez, we also ventured off on our first tour of Thailand, training at Thai-boxing in a boxing camp at Sityodtong not far from Pattaya (With all training supervised by Bob Jones Thai Boxing Master, Kru Sennin Yodtong). This was the first of ‘twenty one annual training tours’ Bob Jones and his friends and students and many professional fighters will have indulged in by January 2009. THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD THE NINETIES FIGHTING FIT – Clubshop International FIGHTING FIT Pty Ltd, a Division of the BJC was created at the beginning of 1990. An ideal opportunity for the Chief to exploit his creative talents, by designing entire seasonal ranges of martial arts leisure wear. Then followed every line of stock imaginable with our entire CLUBSHOP INTERNATIONAL range being branded with our new Fighting Fit commercial logo for everything now available for BJC students. SIXTH DEGREE MARTIAL ARTS GRADING - 1990: “Ones ability of putting ones ideas into practise”, within the nature of Celtic mythology, this grading is the entry into the realm of Wizardry. Now in the very beginning of 1990, Bob Jones’ obligation to the Arts is to spend the next seven years fully developing all of his creations, both within his martial arts journey and equally as important, within his life’s journey. The key to all success from this point and onwards is developing the power of Wizardry to fully develop ones ability of putting ones ideas into practise. CROWD CONTROL LEGISLATION (BOUNCERS) In the mid-nineties, Bob Jones expanded his nationwide Security Training Company with specialised training courses (working in conjunction with Inspector Stephen Frost of the Victorian Police Force and with the acknowledgement and liaison of the Australian Government in creating a format for Crowd Control Legislation), which would develop future security personnel and bodyguards to carry on the work he no longer has the time or desire to continue himself. BRONSONS NIGHT CLUB – JOONDALUP Western Australia During 1994, Rod Stroud (The then ‘Chief’ Instructor and manager of the BJC-WA) formed a Resource Management Group involving several of our higher ranked WA Black Belt Instructors. This business relationship included Bob Jones becoming involved in his ''first night club'' which Mr Rod Stroud had titled ‘BRONSONS’ in Joondalup, Western Australia. CAFÉ UNO – GLADIATOR CLUB BAR - CARLTON This was followed early in 1995 by a local partnership with one of his Victorian Black Belts, Gianni Caldarera, having Bob Jones involved in his ''first restaurant''. Gianni was happy with Bob’s idea of ‘CAFÉ UNO’ as the name of the establishment; after all in Italian this means number ‘ONE’. Now we were the proud owners of an Italian (Roman influence) restaurant, complete with Coliseum Pillars and exquisite Roman décor. Upstairs had a large function room and an amazing bar famously named GLADIATOR CLUB BAR (With the permission of Mr Pat Condon, Producer of that first television series), and of course we had huge blow up posters of all the Series Super Stars. The television Gladiators, contestants from the show and BJC Black Belts hung out regularly at our Gladiator Bar. SENJO INVESTMENTS Towards the end of 1995, Bob Jones and a BJC-RMG Conglomerate acquired a 266 Lot Subdivision on a 75-acre property in West Rosebud, aligning the boundary of the very established Rosebud Retirement Village, Victoria. SENJO INVESTMENTS Pty Ltd a Division of the BJC was formed to be the vehicle to manage this new concept. This would become a stepping-stone into this ‘BJC- RMG new adventure’. From this he would become more extensively involved in property development and various real estate investments. And a whole new passion for Bob Jones and one more outlet for his creative instincts were discovered during this incredible stage of his life. SEVENTH DEGREE MARTIAL ARTS GRADING - 1997: “Ones ability to organise and consolidate material gain”, from Celtic mythology, this is the middle stage of Wizardry. As my seventh year as a Sixth Degree Black Belt (1990 – 1997) became accountable, the BJC-WSC was highly impressed with the direction of the BJMA (Bob Jones Martial Arts) organisation and the involvement and development of the many business interests involving so many BJC-RMG Associates, thus, giving me a unanimous vote of total confidence for my Martial Arts Seventh Degree. Having been extremely successful at putting my ideas into practise, I have put myself under incredible pressure to excel in the future as acquiring the true meaning of this unusual Seventh Degree. Where we need to comprehend the economics of the material world and truly develop ‘ones ability to organise and consolidate material gain’. GOOD MORNING AUSTRALIA – BERT NEWTON Towards the end of this decade of the nineties (early 1998), a television Producer and very good friend of the Chief, Mr Robin Jolley inquired as to whether he would be interested in having a weekly segment on Bert Newton’s GOOD MORNING AUSTRALIA working with Ms Michelle Downs, a recent winner of the Miss Australia Beauty Pageant. This lasted for a year and the weekly television appearance attracted a huge increase of new members for all of our Bob Jones Clubs (BJC) all over Australia. THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD THE NEW MILLENNIUM… THE FIRST DECADE PERDIEM PUBLISHING – ‘The Greatest Story Never Told’ Early in the new millennium (2001) Perdiem Publishing Pty Ltd, a division of the BJC self published the book titled ‘Let The Good Times Roll’. It was launched coincidently on the same day as the most violent terrorist action ever enacted within the United States, what has universally become known as 911. This part of the Bob Jones Story covers my adventures travelling around the world for thirteen years. Acclaimed by the critics including celebrities Eddie Maguire and Bert Newton as a damned good read, click here on the front or rear cover for more information and you can purchase a copy for yourself or as a present for a friend. They’ll love the thought from you as much as the book from me, and I will personally sign a message from you! EIGHTH DEGREE MARTIAL ARTS GRADING - 2003: “One’s ability to break their world down and place it back into its correct constituents”, from Celtic mythology this is the final stage of Wizardry. Perhaps the reader noticed the time frame from my seventh (1997 – 2003) to eighth Degree was six years, rather than the traditional eight years. This was accomplished by using two of my five ‘credit’ years of prior black belt training (this leaves me with three unused years of credit). This was in part due to a pressure being applied by many of my BJMA higher ranked Associates training so hard, and shrinking the ‘physical’ gap between them and me. Plus adding to this dilemma several outside influences had entered my economic sphere, having my desire to organise and consolidate losing focus. I thought it better to use some of my training credit and move onto developing my ability to break ‘my’ world down and place it back into its correct constituents. With this decision serving its purpose my estimated time for Ninth Degree grading with all of my requirements coming back on track, is now 2112, allowing me to pass out of the Wizards level and into the third and final stages of the seven esoterical degrees. PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA – Early 2003 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – Late 2003 During 2003 I spent the first half of the year checking out The Peoples Republic Of China. This was at the height of the SARS epidemic. It was interesting to observe the early progression of preparing for the upcoming Olympic Games. My highlight while in the PROC was time spent training with many Masters of Kung Fu, Wushu and Taichi. After leaving China mid year I headed for the USA to catch up on some old mates in the rock n roll industry whom I had spent so many years with in an earlier part of my journey. For the second half of 2003 I bounced back and forth from east coast to west coast, spending time in New York (55th Ave and 6th St) with a real good mate, Noel Rush (ZEN DO KAI – Sixth Degree Black Belt) a many year veteran bodyguard to Billy Joel. Over on the West Coast in Malibu, California I spent some prime time with a Fleetwood Mac minder for more years than I care to remember, Wayne ‘The Wedge’ Cody (ZEN DO KAI – Black Belt who did most of his training on the road with mentor and fellow minder, Dennis Dunstan). Back home after an American Xmas and New Year, I would arrive back in Australia during January 2004. SAFECAM - Where you see this camera, you will be safe - 2004 A more recent venture has been developing a concept to again take the security industry by storm… an innovative electronic surveillance device causing, “everyone to be responsible for his or her actions and reactions”. I called this exciting new concept SAFECAM, “Where you see this camera, you will be safe”. This particular BJC-RMG is headed up by the miniature television cameras creator, Mr Gianni Caldarera (Gianni was also the creator of Café Uno). For all International enquiries please contact my BJC SAFECAM PTY LTD Public Relations Manager, Mr Michael Kenna, + 61. 3. 9484. 4002 or write to him at SAFECAM : 670-672 High Street, Thornbury 3071 Victoria, Australia. Or you can email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or on mobile: 0418. 586. 559 PORTUGAL ADVENTURE – SOCCER – EMILIA/FADO – 2007-8 During the last two years (2007- 8) I have spent initially three months followed by eight months with two exciting adventures in Portugal. Working with Mr Ivo Rato, one of my Black Belts from the mid-seventies, together we are attempting to enter the European Entertainment Industry. Mr Rato is an avid Portuguese - Lusitanian historian, an amateur archaeologist, revered anthropologist and an extremely talented poetic/songwriter. His experience in all these areas has him writing powerful lyrics, about all aspects of European Celtic mythology including the most ancient festival trilogy of Fado, Fandango and Faena. He has recently incorporated this esoteric knowledge into an intriguing musical album featuring the top football clubs and players, including the National Portuguese Team and Renaldo who is currently the sports hottest player. He is also negotiating the concept with local clubs, including Benfica (Guinness book of records states this club to have more members than any other club) and Porto Football Club (Currently reputed to be the most financially successful club in the world of Soccer). Plus Sporting Club, the third biggest football club in the country have had an incredible song written about their cultural connection of their logo, their Lion and the face of the Sun-God, Lugh! Emilia is the name of a beautiful, young and exciting Fadista (singer of Fado) we would like the entire Portuguese *speaking world to look at, listen to and embrace… this album was specifically written for her and is titled ‘EMILIA – The Voice Of Lusitania’. (*Approximately 250,000,000 people speak Portuguese, it is the sixth most spoken language including 200,000,000 in Brazil alone, and Emilia has Brazilian heritage). BULL CHALLENGERS BARE, BJC - RMG Currently nationwide, due diligence is being carried out to form the latest very exciting BJC-RMG (June 2008) This is a direction Mr Rod Stroud had ‘suggested’ to me last time I was in Perth and he has ‘never’ steered me personally, or the BJC wrong in over thirty years. Rod Stroud is an ‘Old school, with new thought’ Black Belt and former West Australian BJC Manager. He has developed incredible ability to organise and consolidate material gain. The Chief Advisor for this BJC-RMG is Mr Gary Stewart. He is another ‘Old school, with new thought’, Black Belt. Gary has developed an incredible ability to put his ideas into practice. Michael Kenna will manage this new concept on behalf of the BJC and myself. Recently one of my highest ranks (actually it was Mr Steve Nedelkos, Current Advanced Forms Technical Advisor and former ZDK State Manager of Victoria) advised me to slow down a bit and only release new projects after they have been proven, that is, up and running and successful. I am responding to his advice on this one, and will discuss this new BJC-RMG venture hopefully in the not to distant future on this site: www.bobjones.com.au as it comes to fruition; you might want to keep an investigative eye on this one! ISRAEL – RUSSIA – THAILAND Right at this moment in time our Founder is preparing his latest adventure… A trip to Israel, more on that as it comes to fruition. Apologies to all BJC members going on the Matt Ball Grappling Tour to Kiev, expecting the Chief to be there! Billy Manne will be on the tour representing the Corporation. Michael Kenna and Matt Ball found it difficult to send the Chief to Israel and Kiev at the same time. As it is of extreme priority that he does this trip to Israel, we hope everyone understands (NB. He will be training in Thailand January 2009 as this is his 21st annual Thai-Trip, and we may get the key to the City, Ha!). THE NEW MILLENNIUM – THE SECOND DECADE NINTH DEGREE MARTIAL ARTS GRADING - 2012: The lower level, or the probationary period of aggrandizement, becoming comfortable with this level is the development of our understanding of “Ones ability to penetrate and unite all things of matter and spirit”. In the year 2012 the Chief will have been Eighth Degree for the required nine years since 2003. This will make him eligible to apply for sanctioning agreement with the BJC-WSC to make this transition to Ninth Degree (Red base belt with black trim). The first part of the third and final stage of the esoteric Degrees, Ninth Degree is titled Professor. At this level it is all about the third and final emersion into the Trilogy. Red, Yellow and now, finally Blue. THE NEW MILLENNIUM – THE THIRD DECADE TENTH DEGREE MARTIAL ARTS GRADING - 2022: “Ones ability to penetrate and unite all things of matter and spirit”. In the year 2022 the Chief will have been Ninth Degree for the required ten years since 2012. This will make him eligible to apply for sanctioning agreement with the BJC-WSC to make this transition to Tenth Degree (Solid Red Belt – representative of the metaphor of the true energy of the Sun of God – The Universe of Creation). During the time frames of these final two 9th and 10th Degree Grading levels (nineteen years between 2003 - 2022) he has the option, if needed to use any part of his three credit years from pre black belt prospective training. This second part of the third and final stage of the esoteric Degrees, being Tenth Degree within the martial arts journey is titled ‘Chief Grand Professor’ – our founder, also with this highest Degree achievable within his personal journey of life will be deemed The ‘Chief Pendragon’, the highest honour bestowed in Celtic Warrior Culture. At this point it is left to your imagination what will happen beyond the mountains, oceans and the Universal horizon for our founder and our BJC – RMG organisations. On completion of these two Final allegorical Degrees, the Journey of duality has finally moulded into the ‘Ultimate Asceticism’ and now the real journey begins. Our Founder will have transcended totally into the Spiritual Realm and the True Trilogy will have began “With the aid of ‘every’ student at what ever level you are at, any limitations we may have thought we had, definitely will now not exist… train hard, fight easy, stay strong and above all, enjoy you’re BJMA Journey”.

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30TH OCTOBER 2009 at THE MUSEUM RESTURANTE

FOR MORE DETAILS GOTO OUR EVENTS SECTION

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Robert V Jones and Ivo Rato will be hosting press conferences to discuss upcoming events at Stadium Benfica. Press Conferences will be held at 4pm and 6pm.		CELTIMANIA PROJECT PRESENTS THE FADO OF BENFICA 30TH OCTOBER 2009 at THE MUSEUM RESTURANTE
FOR MORE DETAILS GOTO OUR EVENTS SECTION

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PERDIEM PUBLISHING, 1983

Bob Jones promoting ''Hands Off'' his first book at Press Conference held at Inflation Nightclub, King Street, Melbourne

Established in 1983 specifically for the purpose of marketing my first published book ''Hands Off''. A unique new system of self defence against assault for the women of today, inspired primarily by Christine McVie (lead singer of Fleetwood Mac) and the other ladies I had protected and trained on their world tours. They all agreed that I had a message for women that would be best served by being recorded in book form.

With my current book, the first release of an autobiographical trilogy, ''Let The Good Times Roll'' covers my years of touring with Rock and Rolls elite of the era.

As Elaine teaches you, and as you go through the mnemonic movements (memory fixers), her and you and your mirror image all move together in the same direction, making it extremely easy to learn and perfect each technique, simply check (your teacher) Elaine''s posture, then correct yourself with your mirror image.

Read the book (in approximately 2hrs) then practice every day for seven days for approximately fifteen minutes each session…Read the book again on now, the eighth day. Then practice daily for approximately thirty minutes each session - the movements themselves are the warm up.

On the fifteenth day of the program please read the book again (as its this third read that establishes the mnemonic principles), then seven more days of practice for approximately forty five minutes daily is the complete: ''TWENTY ONE DAY TRAINING PROGRAM.''

Having also experienced our wind down MEDITATION TECHNIQUES giving you insight into our Chapter of ACTION, REACTION AND RESULT.

Plus your recently obtained sub-conscious skill acquisition has been subliminally introduced to the physiological and biomechanical aspects of our: BJC -MNEMONIC MOVEMENTS.

From a cardiovascular point of view you will have acquired a degree of fitness, far above your capabilities of only twenty one days ago. From now on I am positive you will want to continue working out with: HANDS OFF PRINCIPLES.

Not only are they the ultimate self defence, if you wear something loose and comfy - play your favourite music nice and loud - these same techniques double as a great aerobic work out in the comfort of your own home…you would have noticed already how much you have toned up in just ''twenty one days'' from now on if you have any to lose, trust me, you will. If you are already firm these work outs will make you…''fighting fit and rock hard''.

You will need to set your work out times to exactly an hour - no more no less, a minimum of two to three times per week, this depends entirely on the individual with time restraints etc.

Now all you need is your boyfriend, brother or father to give you a hand by being ''playfully aggressive'' while they are assimilating the aggressive techniques demonstrated in the Chapter of action, reaction and result. The word playfully is a definitive issue here. As is ''control'' due to your now possible reactions, you will need to definitely use a degree of self control when defending yourself against a loved one.

THREE WISE MEN - all bought the book as presents even the one on the left

In time, with constant serious practice, they and you will build up the level of aggression and make your training sessions more and more believable, thus practical.

Now you will have a newfound degree of awareness, confidence and self esteem that will give you a definite opportunity to avoid being raped. Instead of being paralysed with FEAR…(which by now would only be a False Estimate of the Actual Reality).

- HEY GUYS -

Boyfriends, brothers and fathers - you should really seriously think about clicking on the book purchasing section below, this is an ideal surprise present for the woman in your life...girlfriends, sisters, daughters, wives or mothers…all women should have the opportunity to experience this unique system of self defence as it was written for the…''woman of today''.

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“Do you want to be a MILLIONAIRE! For the cost of a phone call?”

Robert V. Jones used his creative skills to develop a concept that would be easy to understand – A user friendly system that will have ‘EVERY’ Fan of European football (world-wide) making record breaking amounts of phone calls in their attempt of actually becoming… MULTIPLE MILLIONAIRES.

This is due to the fact that the amount of prize money multiplies dramatically on an every day basis due to an undisclosed proportion of revenue from the value of the phone calls being added into the prize money. With the marketing machine constantly informing and constantly reminding the fans of the true value of this contest… They will constantly ring ‘one more’ time just for that extra chance!

The consumers make their multiple phone calls and after stating their name and address for identification, they then nominate who they think is Player of the Decade plus their second and third choices. Their ‘three numbers’ are chosen with any denomination between one and ten and/or between ten and one (simply selecting numbers representing the annual MVP – Most Valuable Players during this last decade 2001 - 2010).

These three numbers simply nominate ‘their’ personal ‘MVP - TOP THREE’ during this last decade and it is every consumer’s phone call percentages that will eventually dictate who the winner will be. There has never been a fairer competition presented to the general public, these are the two simple reasons why they will ring again and again, over and over.

Firstly prize-money constantly expanding to multiple millions of euro and secondly, a transparent and a fair based outcome competition… They win simply because they rang and nominated ‘their’ favourite three! ‘Most Valuable Players’

*IMPORTANT NOTICE:

• This project ‘must’ take place, and be finalised, during the final weeks of this year (2010) shortly following the FIFA selection of the MVP - Most Valuable Player.

• This project will definitely suit either the biggest or the second biggest International Tele - Communications Company capable of taking more calls than any other promotion ever!

• This project will definitely suit any of the top three Corporate Marketing Magnates to acquire sole interest in ownership of the Naming Rites of; PLAYER OF THE DECADE.

For information on how the total prize money will be shared with multiple winners and ‘exactly’ how this concept works contact Michael Kenna at your earliest convenience: @ PLAYER OF THE DECADE This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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CELTIMANIA PROJECT #6

 

We want to find a business partner interested in assisting us to promote and produce a programme with the potential to be the biggest live entertainment television event throughout Europe.

Contact us This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Mr Robert V Jones welcomes you to contact us in relation to one of his business projects including:

• Celtimania Projects 2010 - 2016 (Event planning & management)
• The Circuit (Television and PPV Concepts)
• SEVERA! (Live stage shows and plays)
• Fado - Fandango - Faena (Performance Arts)
• Celtic Arconic Music (Performance Arts)
• The Next Julio Iglesius (Television Program)
• Futebol Player of the Decade (Competition)

Simply select one of the links on the left and provide us with you contact information.

We look forward to the prospects of doing business together.

Peter Shannon

MANAGER - CELTIMANIA PROJECTS

 

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The Eliminator

In the pre production days, Pat rang me and asked if I could play the role of ''The Eliminator'', meaning could I eliminate the hundreds of applicants down to an amount of ''potentials'' to select firstly, the soon to become super stars - Gladiators.

Then secondly, how long did I think it would take to ''eliminate'' many thousands of applicants in each in each state of Australia - to select each series contestants. Apparently in America and European cities it took months to perform these selections.

"One day" was my answer - Afterall, I had spent most of my life going around Australia constantly testing many thousands of my martial arts students for for their coloured and black belt gradings, and all that took one day.

When Pat Condon told his counter parts in America and Europe what ''his Eliminator'' was capable of they flew in from everywhere to see first hand how what took them a month, I could do in a day!

John Forsyth (www.intercepttraining.com/People.aspx), my associate in Sydney accepted the role to help do the eliminations.

John also became Head Trainer of the Gladiators and organised other associates of ours to be incharge of training the contestants to an elite level of fitness.

I then devised a series of exercises to test the fitness of these thousands of contestants in each state of Australia. It was a ''gruesome'' nine (9) minute program that eliminated 97 out of 100 contestants within the nine minutes...like I said ''Gruesome''. We still use this program today to test our kickboxers within the Bob Jones martial arts clubs.

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"Fado is Much Older...
Than you think"

CONFERENCE - WEDNESDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2009

VENUE: National Archaeology Museum (Lisbon)

Mr Ivo Rato, Anthropologist and Lusitanian Authority presented his extensive research about
Celtic mythology connected to the warriors of the past via the oldest fertility ritual - FADO, FANDANGO and FAENA.

Emilia was chosen to be the Voice of Lusitania (A Voz Da Lusitania), discovered by promoter
Mr Robert V Jones because of her ability at channelling his poetry into Fado.

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UPDATE - 20th OCTOBER 2009

The Celtic Culture Seminar staged by Mr Ivo Rato and Robert V. Jones at Portugal’s NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY was a great experience for all involved.

We did expect several hundred, but on this same night (October the 14th), The Portugal National Team was playing in a qualifier for the World Cup next year (2010 in South Africa) and every male football fan watched this event live and on TV. This appears to be the reason our seminar attracted fifty patrons with a high percentage (65%) of elderly women – all high powered academics, with most of them making notes for the entire one and a half hours of Mr Rato’s delivery.

As is always the case, he held their undivided attention the entire seminar. No notes, no prompters as he scans thousands of years of their Celtiberian and Lusitanian Celtic Culture without ever faltering. Including the many Gaelic linguistic connections to all of Portugal’s major place-names, ancient Celtic ‘sacred sites’ and even the numerous Celtic language interpretations within ‘their’ Portuguese language – as he always does – he left them spell bound.

One of Portugal’s most famous and my favorite Matador, Mário Coelho (Mario recently wrote a top selling auto biography about his life as a Matador which he titled ‘Silver to Gold’ – sound familiar?) had lent us his actual ‘GOLD’ dress suit that he wore to kill bulls in the arenas of Spain and Mexico in his hey day. We had placed it on display in a large glass show case with my white training uniform along with a plain Black Belt and my personal Eighth Degree Black Belt with its wide Red Centre. I felt the fascination from all present as he read the iconography connection of ‘our’ martial arts to the Fiona warriors (Known today as Matadors) off both the interior and exterior panels of the Cauldron - the most famous Celtic artifact commonly referred to as being, the Holy Grail of all Celts. Of course he told that old favorite Lusitanian war story of ours…

He made reference and described the difference in experience, knowledge and abilities between the young new (Nameless) Black Belt hanging intertwined with my older 8th Degree Belt. And then he told them this story of antiquity about the young warrior (In his mid-twenty’s) coming to the Celtiberian Peninsula during the time of Viriato, with the intention of making an instant reputation for himself. Convinced he could defeat and kill the wise old Celtic Chief (In his late eighty’s). “I am here to challenge you to a fight to the death old man, do you dare to take up my offer?” was asked in a powerful youthful voice loud enough to be heard throughout the entire village.

By the time the Old Master had explained in a quiet calm tone that the young warriors question was reason enough for the fight to have begun… the young warrior laid motionless on the ground – very dead already!

Great questions from such intellectuals receiving such explicit answers that left no recourse for argument or even mild disagreement – had them all realizing, he knows his stuff! From a slightly late start (Just after 8pm) until 9.30, and from then until 11.0pm we entertained with a night of Fado with special guests and of course, Emilia! Finishing off this most enjoyable evening, after Fado came Fandango/Faena which was presented by some fabulous dancers from the leading dance Apollo Academy in Lisboa, and they almost stole the show!

Next on our agenda is our first Martial Arts Musical Presentation Special at the Benfica Museum Restaurant at the National Benfica Football Stadium in Lisbon, by the end of this month, October 31st… come on back and check us out. Hope you enjoy the rest of my personal site as you follow the journey, I must add a thank you here to Michael Kenna for the fabulous job he is constantly doing putting all of this together – along with everything else he is doing while I’m away on my World wide search and adventure for my 9th Degree. And to all of you assisting Michael in my absence – thank you to, all of you.

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C.E.L.T.S.

Combining Europes Lost Tribal Societies

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LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL

Many famous personalities have had their biographies published exposing the interaction between them and their minder/bodyguards. This is the first time so many celebrities have been intertwined by the connecting thread of all of them having one thing in common… The same protector.

The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Paul McCarthy and Wings, ABBA, Joe Cocker, David Bowie, Paul Rodgers and Bad Company, Linda Ronstadt, Spandu Ballet, Boy George, MuhammadAli and Shelley Berman to name just a few of the characters intertwined in this adventurous, outrageous story of Bob Jones and Let The Good Times Roll.

Primarily mindful of the demographic of the American baby boomer market Let The Good Times Roll is a worthwhile experience for any young person interested in the music industry to find out what their parents got up to!

Like ''Hands Off'', ''Let the Good Times Roll'' makes that special present…If you fall into that young person category, then buy a copy with enough lead time for you to read and experience all about what your parents got up to during the seventies - then pass it on to that special parent.

It will take them back to a long by-gone era and remind them of their favourite music and the…''good times''

If you are a baby-boomer, then you owe it to yourself. Buy yourself the ultimate present, coz you know if you were there during the seventies…''you don''t remember a bloody thing about them''.

BUY YOUR COPY! PERSONALLY SIGNED TO YOU BY BOB JONES WWW.CLUBSHOP.COM.AU

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CELTIMANIA PROJECT #5

The Art of Strategy

‘Free Nationwide public speaking seminar’

ZEN DO KAI – 40 Years Strong! Simply proves how time flies when you are having fun. Actually for BJMA (Bob Jones Martial arts) it has been 45 Years as I started training in 1965. So much has been achieved and so much is planned for the future I have to reflect for a moment how this all just seems to miraculously fall into place. Then it shines clear this is not a one man show, thousands of Black Belts have come and gone and everyone of them has left their mark, they all contributed something – not least acquiring Black Belt – thank you, every one of you!

For everyone of you currently training in any of the Bob Jones Martial Arts systems, I need your support more than ever. Every little thing that you do is like a single piece of a giant jig-saw puzzle, it fills in an important piece of the big picture - this BIG picture being our current plans for penetrating Europe and beyond!

What I am currently planning for the immediate future is a direct communication with all Coloured Grades. I will do this via a WEBINAR SERIES titled ‘THE ART OF STRATEGY’ which will explore the meaning of the Black Belt Degrees, and how ‘YOU’ can use this knowledge in your everyday personal lives even if you are a brand new White Belt.

These will be specifically for all Coloured Grades (although Black Belts are more than welcome to view these), and I would really appreciate it if you could watch these with a friend or two or even three, perhaps parents or relatives ‘that do or do not currently train’. Further information will soon be available on our martial arts website, www.bobjonesmartialarts.com.au.

Looking forward to talking to all of our White Belts & Coloured Belts…

BJMA FOUNDER – BOB JONES

THE ART OF STRATEGY

MORE INFORMATION - CLICK HERE

 

 

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40 Year Strong

International Grading Day & Celebrity Gathering

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		UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CELTIMANIA PROJECTS CONTENTS ROBERT V. JONES - EUROPEAN EXPANSION PLAN 1. PLAYER OF THE DECADE DO YOU WANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? FOR THE COST OF A PHONE CALL 2. TEAM FIGHT EUROPEAN CUP - 2012 Poland/Ukraine TEAM FIGHT WORLD CUP - 2014 Brazil GAMBLING CONNECTION - ‘COMBAT-BET’/ ‘FIGHT-BET’ THE PUNTERS DREAM COME TRUE PAY-PHONE / PAY-CALLS CONNECTION NEW CONCEPTS WITH RECORD BREAKING POTENTIALS 3. ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES - 2012 IRELAND THE GAMES - OPENING CEREMONY - THE CIRCUS AS IT WAS IN ANTIQUITY - THE CIRCUS’ WILL OPEN GAMES TEN TONNE OF GLADIATORS COME HOME TO IRELAND 100 MEN @ 100 KILOS ea. EQUALS 10 TONNE ALL-STYLES MMA - INVITATION FOR COMPETITIONS NON POLITICAL INVITE FOR THE WORLD OF MMA FREE FORMS - FIGHT-DANCE (Patent Pending) NEW SPECTACULAR COMPETITION DIVISION OCTOGON CAGEFIGHTING - UFC ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHALLENGE INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE LIVE IN IRELAND - WWE WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE CELTIC FAST-BALL THE FASTEST HAND/FOOTY GAME ON EARTH RINGS OF FIRE SUMO WRESTLING - WORLD CHAMPIOSHIPS ARM WRESTLING - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS THE CAULDRON CONNECTION TOURAS & MATADORS THE UNICORN CUP HORSE RACING SPECTACULAR EVENTS EQUESTRIAN ANTIQUITY ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES COMPETITIONS HIGHLAND GAMES STRONG MAN TRACK & FIELD EVENTS MOST CONTROVERSIAL THE ‘VICTORY’ BANQUET FADO, FANDANGO, FAENA 4. 2014 - TEAM FIGHT WORLD CUP - BRAZIL 5. 2016 - ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES - FRANCE MORE ON THE CELTS COMING SOON- MUCH MORE! ROBERT V. JONES - CEO CELTIMANIA PROJECT
Â	REALITY TELEVISION SERIES LIVE EVENT PROGRAMMING 1. HELLS BELLES Nine Ferocious Females   2. Who will win?  Boxer, Kick-boxer, Wrestler   3. WAR ‘Win Another Round’   4. WW1 Now we know - Lets go to WAR Odds or Evens - Your call for Sudden Death 5. Who will be the next Julio Iglesias? *And the CONTENDERS are… 6. AFL - All-Styles Fighters League Bob Jones & Richard Norton Kicking Drugs & Poverty Out Of Australia   7. FOUR SEASONS EVENTS The Oldest Celtic Festivals Celebrating: Fado, Fandango & Faena
EUROPEAN EXPANSION PROGRAM Robert V. Jones CEO - Head of marketing all new projects concerned with our planned expansion into and across Europe, on behalf of CELTIMANIA PROJECT ASSOCIATION (CPA). Listed here is a variety of ideas that are designed to catch the attention of International Marketing Executives representing Companies whose desire it is to capture the imagination of the consumer! These projects are all high quality big budget productions - with potentially very high returns. THE WORLDS MAJOR EVENTS - BIDDING All of the worlds Major Television Networks and all of the Major Corporate Sponsors are periodically involved in ‘multi-billion dollar bidding wars’. These are for the ‘naming-rights’ for the FOOTBALL WORLD CUP & Euro Cup, advanced bidding for the MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES, GRAND PRIX and the list for many Major Events goes on. Only one of each Network and Sponsor group won this WAR for each of these events, leaving the other Networks and Sponsors either with secondary exposure at these events or out looking for ‘something else’ - what’s next? for BOOSTING their potential market share of media ratings and product awareness. This is exactly the purpose of this website - to give all of the worlds Major Television Networks and all of the Major Corporate Sponsors potential new choices.
CELTIMANIA PROJECT.com CELTIMANIA PROJECT PTY LIMITED - European Project Manager, Robert V. Jones has been recently touring Europe establishing meetings with interested parties to become involved with several multi national CELTIMANIA PROJECTS all relating to the Celtic Culture of Ancient Europe (see website: www.CeltimaniaProject.com). Â
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As a health & fitness industry entrepreneur I have been involved in every conceivable aspect of the Mixing Martial Arts (MMA) business since 1965, that’s 45 years of first hand experience (www.bobjonesmartialarts.com.au). One thing has been a constant during all of this time I have been regularly asked by my students, other MA styles, friends, acquaintances, media and occasional enemies; “Who would win?”

During the early nineties (1993), with the advent of Mr Kazuyoshi Ishii’s Japanese K1 - Tournament drawing mass television exposure of the worlds top Heavyweight Kick-boxers had every fight fan buzzing. Mr Ishii had invited the eight best fighters from the eight most accomplished kick-boxing countries to come together for a press conference in Tokyo, in order to determine the world’s strongest stand up fighter. All fighting on the one night in a ‘round robin’ system everyone loses except one man who has to win three separate bouts. He is crowned the individual undisputed Champion which seemed to have everyone asking an unusual question, “May be it is this Heavyweight Kick-boxing guy – perhaps he can’t be beat?”

Enter the new millennium and the Gracie brothers from Brazil with their unique style of wrestling mixed with jiu-jitsu (with no specific rules and no weight divisions – just come to fight was their invitation), and their verbal declaration along with physical proof “They could and did beat anybody? Ricocheting to all quarters of the globe under the banner of MMA – Mixed Martial Arts. This had our regular fan base of questionnaires and now the entire martial arts fraternity also asking, “Who would win?” Would it be one of the Gracie brothers or maybe the Kick-boxer or the wrestler?
The Gracie brothers and ‘their time’ would pass, but what they had initiated would have the entire planet earth now interested in “Who would win?” Enter a new entrepreneur, Dana White and his advancement on the Gracie’s concept he simply added weight divisions and set rounds and just a couple of rules for safety, producing multiple champions with the banner of UFC - Ultimate Fighting Challenge.

All fighting competitions being staged in an ‘Octagonal Cage’ encased in wire. It was this environment Dana White invited martial artists, boxers, kick-boxers and wrestlers and anybody else (natural street-fighters) to compete with his one set of UFC – Rules. Looking everything like a time warp of the early Gladiators of Rome 2000 years ago and the Pancration fighters of Greece for 1000 years earlier and the ‘warrior race’ of Celts (with their original version of sporting WAR-GAMES) for 5000 - 8000 years before either the Romans or Greeks – Dana White has proved the theory of history always repeating itself!

He soon acquired Sponsorship, television pay per view, better prize money, better fighters, better crowds and the rest is history. Dana White perhaps unknowingly unified the big question from “Who would win?” to now in 2010 there is only one question and that is, “How ‘would’ anyone beat a UFC grappler with his ‘striker techniques, takedowns, ground and pound and follow-through submissions?’

Now Robert V. Jones has created

A new question on the horizon!

And it is not: Who would win?

This new question is: WHO WILL WIN?

“WOULD” has always been the hypothetical equation, now “WILL” is going to be the answer the planet really wants to know – and has wanted to know since time memorial. “Who will win? Will it be the speed and precision and power techniques of the boxer? Or perhaps the less rules and multiple weapons of the kick-boxer? Maybe the take down grappling strategies of the jiu-jitsu wrestler? Would it be the minimum-rules of the ‘blood ‘n’ guts cage-fighter or as most would think – the no-rules attitude of the street fighter?”

Robert V. Jones with 45 years experience has devised a complete Marketing Package for a style of MMA – Mixed Martial Arts that supersedes everything discussed here thus far. He has developed a distinct style of combat that ‘every fight fan’ will automatically relate to and identify who are about to become our Planet Earths unquestionable best fighters of all time.

“WHO WILL WIN?” The nine best female and/or male fighters (three boxers, three kick-boxers & three cage fighters) of any country participating in thirteen episodes of a television reality series that will answer this age old question in the simplest possible manner – without any doubt!
This initial “Who will win?” Series-1 (England/American/Canadian/Australian versions) will be repeated in many languages and sweep across Europe (But then again with your support – our preference is to commence in Europe).

These inaugural Television formats will be supported in all participating countries with ‘Live’ ‘pay-per-view’ events promoted under the International banner of WAR… with the interesting acronym of:

Win Another Round

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	The ultimate accolade for an AFL player is to win the Brownlow Medal, awarded each year to the fairest and best player in the competition. The medal count is one of the highest rating programs on television and always attracts great media and public interest. Only a fortunate few are able to attend this fantastic black-tie event, where you soak up the atmosphere and sit among the AFL’s elite, including previous Brownlow medallists. PLAYER OF THE DECADE - Do you want to be a MILLIONAIRE! For the cost of a phone call? Robert V. Jones used his creative skills to develop a concept that would be easy to understand. A user friendly system that will have ‘EVERY’ Fan of Australian Rules Football making record breaking amounts of phone calls in their attempt of actually becoming A MILLIONAIRE and some. This is due to the fact that the amount of prize money multiplies dramatically on an every day basis for the entire thirty days due to an undisclosed proportion of revenue from the value of the phone calls being added into the prize money. With the marketing machine constantly informing and constantly reminding the fans of the true value of this contest. They will constantly ring ‘one more’ time just for that extra chance! The consumers make their multiple phone calls and after stating their name and address for identification, they then nominate who they think is Player of the Decade plus their second and third choices. Their ‘three numbers’ are chosen with any denomination between one and ten and/or between ten and one (simply selecting numbers representing the annual ‘Best & Fairest’ Players during this last decade 2001 - 2010). These three numbers simply nominate ‘their’ personal ‘BEST & FAIREST - TOP THREE’ during this last decade and it is every consumer’s phone call percentages that will eventually dictate who the winner will be. There has never been a fairer competition presented to the general public, these are the two simple reasons why they will ring again and again, over and over. Firstly prize-money constantly expanding to multiple millions of euro and secondly, a transparent and a fair based outcome competition. They win simply because they rang and nominated ‘their’ favourite three! ‘Fairest & Best Players’ For information on how the total prize money will be shared with multiple winners and ‘exactly’ how this concept works contact Michael Kenna at your earliest convenience: PLAYER OF THE DECADE This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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FIGHTING HISTORY

In 1927 Dr E. A. Speiser an Archaeologist discovered a stone tablet in Baghdad Iraq depicting two men getting ready for a prize fight; the tablet is believed to be 7,000 years old. Fist fighting is depicted in Sumerian relief carvings dated to 5,000 B.P. Two depictions show bare fisted contests.
Fist fighting with kicking and throwing is also described in several ancient Indian texts including the Vedas, the Ramayana, and the Mahabarata, as well as excavations done in Moheniadaro and Harappa. Early evidence of limited rules for fist fighting with a kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete (c. 3,500 B.P.).

A similarity to these Ancient Celtic Games, in fact a very precise copy was followed on in more modern times in Greece (only three thousand years ago). The celebration of fighting based Festival Games known as the ‘GOLDEN CIRCUIT’. These were held in four different cities of Greece, these being Isthmia, Pythia, Nemia and Olympia and are fully recorded for a thousand years from 776 BC; until their religious demise in 393 A.D.
The Greeks were the first known to record extensively their rules, fighting divisions and all the results of their Athletics. During these thousand years before Jesus Christ the word ‘Athlete’ symbolised ‘Abstinence’. They swore on the Olympic oath that as long as they were competitors representing their various cities they would not have sexual intercourse with members of their opposite sex.

(Many trainers still today ask their fighters to forgo any sexual activity for various periods of time leading up to a serious bout, controversially believing it to be a drain on energy recourses. Some trainers with an alternative train of thought think their protégé, by abstaining, will really want to punish their adversaries for being the reasons they have gone without).

These Greek athletes trained in a gymnasium with nasium being the Latin word for nudity, meant just that, these male athletes trained together in the gym in the nude. At these Ancient Greek Olympics ‘women’ were never allowed to enter the stadiums under penalty of instant death by stoning – all Ancient Olympians not only trained, they also ‘always’ competed in the nude. From their records we see that unlike modern fighting concepts, there were no weight classes. Fighting styles were not separated into rounds and had no time limit, ending with a knockout, or a fighter abandoning the fight or frequently at the death of one of the fighters. Although gloves were not used in practice, in competition fighters wrapped their hands in strips of hardened leather which protected the fist and caused very unpleasant injuries for the opponent.

From Boxing to the PANCRASE FIGHTERS to the Charioteers racing, every athletic event was staged in the arenas in front of 40-50,000 roaring ‘male fans’, everyone that is - except the wrestlers. They had special entertainment value for the aristocracy of the times with Aristotle himself with his top athletic student Alex, later to become known as Alexander ‘The Great’, you would have seen Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, all of the important Politicians and many other Intellectuals of the time. Seasoned young well oiled fit ‘athletic’ wrestlers entertained these wise men and their young academic students privately, away from the humdrum of the arena. They fought in front of the religious alter while dedicating their match to ZEUS, their temple God.

During this Greek Renaissance it was customary for these elderly academic leaders of the society to have this interest in these ‘athletes’ and these young boys. They believed emphatically that to be a good leader of men and have anyone take notice of you either politically or as a leader within the military – it was important for these young protégés to be extremely strong in all of the athletic competitions, especially Boxing, Wrestling and Pancrase.

“Without applying a restrictive readership rating, perhaps the reader can guess what the conquerors (these gymnasium trained athletes) ‘did’ to entertain their ‘peers’ as they eventually overpowered, locked up and pinned their ‘prey’ forcing them by pressure of extreme pain to tap out three times to signify total defeat and total submission”.

As exemplified by Raffaello Sanzio with his attitude of the times in his famous painting, The School of Athens that today hangs in The Vatican. Here Raffaello portrays Plato as the character in the centre left carrying under his left arm his major writing of the day, the REPUBLICAN. With his right index finger pointing skyward, symbolising all men being born equal in the face of God, were entitled to State education and like his finger is indicating, ‘rise to any heights’ imaginable.

Sanzio has also included Aristotle (as well as 48 other incredible academics born over a span of a thousand years in this one painting – thus the paintings name), he is holding his book of the day, POLITICS and with his right hand held out and flat facing down. He is saying “No” referring to the masses as ignorant, and that they should at all times be kept ‘down’, be kept unintelligent and easily controllable. They should be taught simply to work hard and to pay their taxes on time.

His book on Politics includes eight volumes in one book and in volume six he discusses in detail the best fitness exercise regime for his ‘chosen’ aspiring intellectuals.

In due time European academia would adapt this Oligarchic concept and call themselves Aristocrats.

Two thousand years later, four hundred years ago some very wise men from all over Europe took the Plato Republican principles to America and the idea was to create a new and different world, the rest is history for the reader to think about this, ‘Brave New World’.
My whole point for the reader here is the Ancients and throughout all of our known history, their attachment to fitness and fighting skills as a means of winning whether it be in War or Academia or both.

Homer’s LLiad (ca. 675 BC.) contains a detailed account of fighting (BOOK XXIII). According to the LLIAD, Mycenaean warriors included all forms of fighting among their Athletic competitions honouring their dead (similar to the much earlier Aryan Celtic warriors as reported in the Reg Vedas).

Another old Greek legend holds that the heroic ruler Theseus, said to have lived around the 9th century BC, invented a form of competition in which two men ‘sat face to face’ and beat each other with their fists until one of them was killed. In time the competitors began to fight standing up with wrappings (with embedded spikes) on their fists and arms below the elbows, although as stated in the previous paragraph they were completely naked besides this bandaging of the fists.

This nakedness was exactly as the Celts had done thousands of years earlier for both Funeral Games sporting events and battlefield strategies. The Celts believed if they died in the face of battle this would have their soul unencumbered as it passed to the eternal to be at rest with their SUN-GOD Father. Spartans, Vikings, Saxons like the Celts and all early warriors used no-rules or very minimum rules as a way to prepare and enhance their shield and sword fighting skills. Their overall fitness and athletic skills were honed with these regular Festival Games competitions having them all battle ready at all times.
Boxing was first accepted as an Olympic sport in 688 BC, being called Pygme or Pygmachia and also Pugilism. Participants trained on punching bags (called a Korykos). Fighters wore hard leather straps (called himantes) over their hands and wrists, to protect them from injury. The no - rules fighters were the overall crowd draw into these fifty thousand seater Greek stadiums, they were athletes known as PANCRATION FIGHTERS (PANCRASE – the Game of ‘all powers’ were the equivalent of today’s Kickboxers’).

Approximately 250 BC; the Romans invaded Greece; they liked the Games concept, and allowed the Games to continue whilst only changing the name from CIRCUIT GAMES to CAPITOLINI GAMES.

With only two other minor changes, submission by the age-old ‘Tap out’ was made illegal (‘TAPOUT’ is today’s apparel company brand name of the American WEC – World Extreme Cagefighting).

Secondly, the PANCRASE FIGHTER had a name change to GLADIATOR (They were today’s equivalent of the Octagon Cage-fighter, who by the way can legally ‘Tap out’ again) and instead of submitting in defeat, these GLADIATOR matches ended mostly in death at the whim of the events promoter, or the Emperor himself.

Very famous GLADIATORS fighting at major events would have the Emperors whim for life and death decided by his extended arm with the raising or lowering of his thumb. Continuously, bigger stadiums had to be built catering to the ever expanding crowds.

After the infamous meeting of Nicea in 325 A.D., with Emperor Constantine’s support of the birth of the Catholic Religion, it was decided Christians would no longer be crucified at the Games at the hands of the Gladiators, Lions and many other human eating wild animals.

Within seventy years it was further decided that to stop the worshipping of Pagan Champions at these events, the then Catholic Pope and Christian Emperor Theoposius banned these Ancient Olympics in 393 A.D., And in 500 A.D. boxing was banned altogether by Theodoric the Great.

However, this edict had little effect outside the Major Cities of the Eastern Empire. By this time Western Europe was no longer part of the Roman Empire. Boxing or Bare - Knuckle Prize Fighting as it had become known, which as often as not used throws, grappling with elbows, knees and kicks with no rounds or time limit remained popular all over Europe throughout the middle Ages and beyond. There were two basic reasons for such extraordinary popularity of this aggression within the community, one being the economic plight of the common man during this era, fighting was a way of survival – the other being that outside of the failing Roman Empire the populations of Western Europe and beyond were basically a very strong mix of the dispersed lineage of the ancient Celtic warriors from earlier millenniums.

Desperation following medieval times, the Dark Ages and following into the era of the INQUISITION, the common man continued to fight for at least ‘some money’ when generally there was none?

Due to the terrible conditions they had to fight under, fighting deaths were always on the increase easing slightly with the introduction of boxing rules in 1743 by English Bare - Knuckle Champion, John “Jack” Broughton. During his career he basically made kicking, grappling and the throwing down an opponent illegal, and definitely no more striking of an opponent after he had been felled to the floor. He invented ‘boxing gloves’ called ‘muffles’ mainly for protection of the hands and to avoid face cuts during sparring; although they were never designed for actual combat. It would be more than another hundred years before these rules would be expanded upon by the British boxing Association in 1883 to become known as the ‘London Prize Ring Rules’.

The 1743 John “Jack” Broughton rules came to Australia on the early Convict Gallie’s arriving here in 1788 and controlled the extremely popular Bare - Knuckle Prize fighting for the next hundred years. By the end of the nineteenth century the Baron Marquess of Queensberry had spent much time and thought to make the sport of Boxing safer as the bare - knuckle style was causing incredible injuries and death rate. They were still fighting 50+ rounds lasting 3 – 4 hours in the open in all weather conditions. The Baron (During 1863) designed the modern ring with ropes, introduced maximum 15 by three minute rounds with one minute rest between rounds, three judges to score for a winner of bouts going the distance. He introduced British Gentlemen’s boxing gloves, the eight to ten count for a knock down or a knock out, allowing the referee to have much more control over safety - all instantly halving the death rate. It would be another forty, almost fifty years (early 1900’s) before Irish Celtic bare knuckle fighters would finally be pressured into wearing ‘British Gentlemen’s boxing gloves’.
Another hundred years and we found 87% of the remaining deaths were beyond the twelfth round and through to the fifteenth. With one or both fighters damaged or simply over exhausted and/or dehydrated. Recently (30 years ago) sealing at twelve rounds dropped the death rate by this almost 90% in today’s world of boxing.

Today’s twelve rounds of three minutes being a total 36 minutes actual fighting with one minute rest between rounds means the fight lasts a total time of (36+11 minutes rest time) 47 minutes ring time.

With safety first in mind and entertainment a close second, ticket prices demand the audience enjoys what they are paying for. Bob Jones has watched boxing all of his life along with every other fighting style imaginable. Boxing often became boring to him during those fifteen and now twelve rounds as often fighters are both using several of these middle rounds for a rest. Another pet hate of Bob Jones is one fighter/boxer holding on to a better boxer to tire him which often spoils what could have been a good fight.

Separating the illegal grappling out of the boxing skills has been achieved by full frontal defensive *SHOOTS (penalties apply for attacking with a SHOOT). Three legal defensive SHOOTS during any one round will be a disqualification to the fighter that was responsible for holding. This ‘THREE SHOOT RULE’ will result by disqualification being recorded as a TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT.

*SHOOT – This concept was borrowed from modern Olympic Greco wrestling, it is a trainers command word with reference to take the opponent to the ground.

*Following here is a full description of all FIVE Professional WARS - Sanctioned Title Time Frames with all rest periods - all titles challenges have twenty one options of WARS – Rules of weight divisions to best suit their particular weight division for competition fairness and safety:

1. WARS - WORLD TITLES

All five round Title fights will be of five minute’s duration having two minutes rest periods, all inclusive whether they are Boxing, Kickboxing, Wrestling or MMA World Titles.

MMA Titles that are nine rounds of three minutes duration will have a majority of one minutes rest period, except rounds three & six where two minutes are allowed for removal of boots to prepare for Kickboxing and three minutes for exchanging boxing/grappling gloves to accommodate wresting techniques in the final three rounds.

WARS - INTERNATIONAL TITLES

All titles are five rounds of four minute’s duration with one and a half minutes rest.

WARS - NATIONAL TITLES

All titles are five rounds of three minute’s duration with one minutes rest.

WARS - MAIN EVENTS – NON TITLE BOUTS

All Bouts are five rounds of two/three minute’s duration with one minutes rest. Times frames here are affected by prize money.

WARS - STATE AND OR REGIONAL TITLES

Titles are five rounds of two minute’s duration with one minutes rest.

AMATEUR TITLES AND/OR MAIN EVENTS

Both Bouts are five rounds of one minute’s duration with one minutes rest. (Novice Amateur bouts are of three rounds of ONE minute’s duration and ONE minute’s rest period).

The above titles and rounds and rest times are for WARS – World All-Styles Rules & Sanctioning system professional divisions. Amateur fighters gaining WAR – (War All-Styles Ratings) by competing with three rounds of one minute duration - generally are not of the experience for these level promotions.

Amateurs simply need experience to improve before attempting five round main event or title status. Amateur fighters with ability for five round main event and or title status (‘generally’ 10-15 Amateur bouts would be applicable) will be used occasionally on CIRCUIT PROMOTIONAL support cards.

The Ancient Games staged in Greece 3000 years ago which ran six times every four years for 1000 years (not ONCE every four as the MODERN OLYMPICS are today) were totally professional with considerable prize money, comparable with today’s money values pro rata.
Back then a full time soldier in the militia would earn 1200 Drachmas for twelve months wages, whereas most athletes would compete for between 1000 and 1500 Drachmas per event. Fanatical GAMBLERS waged fortunes on these Ancient Games Events known then as the GOLDEN CIRCUIT Pancration fighters. Followed by the GLADIATORS of the Capitolini Games of Rome.

The highest paid athletes, the equivalent of today’s Kickboxers and Cage Fighters, were these Pankration Fighters. Actually they were the Main Event crowd draw of these Games Festivals; they fought for between 3,500 to 5,000 Drachmas for each contest. With six events every four years they could compete professionally at each of these events.

For the recent one hundred years since the Pierre Coubertin creation of:

MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES, 1896+

Have been promoted under strict amateur rules

Having made such a study of the history of the FIGHT GAME and having life’s experience by past and present information, Bob Jones has no intention of promoting his CIRCUIT CONCEPTS and going down the same path of amateurism as Pierre Coubertin and his Modern Olympics.

If not for the Romans and their new religion of the time cancelling the Ancient Olympics, these Games with Celtic roots of many, many millennia would have continued as always up until our times latest third millennia.

Since these new modern Games have evolved over the past ‘one hundred years’ (since 1896), the WORLD as we know it has changed more than any other preceding one hundred years.

More population, more natural catastrophes, more disasters, more wars, more violence resulting in more deaths – This century has also had more creations, inventions, air travel, mass media communication via television, telephone, pay-per-view, World Wide Web, world economics and of course all of the above fuels world corruption.

All of this society ‘power growth’ supporting these Modern Olympics ‘power growth’ added together, and if history teaches us anything over and over, it is that power corrupts and total power - totally corrupts.

Move over Modern Olympic Games amateurs, here come the professionals. The Ancient Olympic Games and their BJC – BOB JONES CIRCUIT PROMOTIONS, plus the *CELTIC (*Connecting Europe’s Lost Tribal International Cultures) Funeral Games from long-long ago, even before antediluvian times, this fighting system has a history of ten plus more millennium.

Today the Japanese K1 – INTERNATIONAL , the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championships) the CONTENDER Reality Television Series, Chuck Norris WCL – World Combat League, American Fight Girls have set the pace… now all of these BOB JONES PROMOTIONAL CONCEPTS will come to the forefront and claim rightfully the Number One Position for ‘mass entertainment’, this is as simple as the fact of:

HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF!

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THE ANSWER TO THAT AGE OLD QUESTION IS:

Enter the WAR - Win Another Round:

This is why here on this website I am promoting every physical aspect of the Martial Arts so aggressively.

Hells Belles is a Reality Television Series for our spectacular female fighters which exemplify women’s complete self empowerment via confidence and self esteem. This concept coupled with, “Who will win?” a Reality Television Series that demonstrates that these young male warriors can take on the world and win – they can beat the system!

When our nations of fight fans learn the names & identities of these new young champions they will be featured on Super Shows promoted as the WAR. They will fight in three round bouts of three minutes duration on the under-card, and three round bouts of five minutes duration as main event fighters. The concept here is for the general public to understand that these elite warriors are quiet adept at boxing, kickboxing and wrestling (Cage-style fighting) – as this is the order they always fight in.

If they win the first round of boxing their fans and objectors will ask, “Can they Win Another Round?” - Likewise when they win the second round of kick-boxing they will again ask, “But can they Win Another Round?” – Whenever a fighter wins by TKO or KO or by points decision at the end of the bout there is no question to answer, they have won the WAR.

Every bout, three rounds, three styles of combat, there is never any time for lack of action – a very exciting and fast paced rhythm of entertainment, which will soon become the most talked about and most popular fighting style on the Planet Earth!

Here is a unique opportunity for;

1. Television free-to-air to expose “Who will win?” And pay-per-view networks exposing who is winning the WORLD-WARS (Promotions).

2. Major Sponsors for ‘Event Concept Naming Rights’ plus for constant ringside coverage we need separate Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsors.

3. Potential Business Investment Packages in every individual country are necessary for aggressive European expansion plans.

4. A Gambling Network involvement is a priority (this is a punters dream come true) for our new breed of ‘FIGHT-PUNTERS’ & ‘FIGHT-BET’.

5. Major Tele-Communications Company will be necessary for a ‘Break all records'' of all phone-in SMS all new concepts of ‘FIGHT-JUDGE’ & ‘FIGHT-PUNTERS’ & ‘FIGHT-BET’.

*Thank you for your time absorbing the contents of these proposals; The next level of documentation for you and us to get everything moving along is as simple as registering your Name, Title (Company position) and state the Name of your Company, as verification of our recent communication with you and we will forward same ASAP

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NOW WE KNOW - LET’S GO TO WAR!

Introducing another WAR - WW1 (WORLD WAR ONE):

This is a series of Super Show promotions that caters to more advanced fighters and more knowledgeable fans.

WW1 is only the beginning, these WW shows will be consecutively numbered from 1 – 100 and beyond. Their Productions will feature three levels of fighting entertainment, each one more enduring for the constantly improving competitors.

The inaugural show will be as its name implies, it will be WORLD WAR I.

The founder of these concepts Robert V. Jones created this idea from WAR stories told to him by his father (who served Australia in WORLD WAR II which lasted from 1939 – 1945) regarding stories that his father had told him of his experiences at the BIG WAR I (1914 - 1918). Three generations of almost one hundred years ago in places like the Middle East, France and Japan where our Diggers made their Mark as exceptional warriors defending their Motherland.

They took with them to these far away places a fun form of ‘gambling game’ called either Two-Up or Swy, which simply meant they either ‘flipped’ two or three pennies on a Kip (Paddle – a flat wooden board) either way if you tossed two heads you won (Swy derives from Zwei, the German word for two – odds or evens/heads or tails – two heads for a win, tails you lose! Because the Swy game principle of ‘three coins with either two heads/two tails decision’ it was a ‘one spin’ decision also referred to as “Sudden Death”). With the Two-Up Flip you had two heads being a win, a head and tail being odds which had the Spinner possibly throwing again many times – two tails and your opponents were the winners. Most times the tails had crosses painted on them for easy identification.

The ancient Celtic origins of this concept (who only threw three coins) stated that the superstition of this game dictated it was ‘bad-luck’ for anyone to ‘cross the ring’ between spins – as a pair of tails (crosses) will invariably follow suit. The entrepreneur (who was always referred to as the ‘Boxer’ ie, the ‘keeper’ of the ring) always selected flat ground for his game. Played in what was called a ring, although this ring was a square that was seven meters (twenty one feet) per side which was the same size as the bare knuckle fighting rings of this era. With a three meter diameter (nine feet) ‘circle’ centered within this square ring being the throwing area which the coins had to land in to be a ‘legal spin’. The spinners toss from the Kip and coins being held in a position in line with the centre of the body, they had to be thrown around three meters (Nine feet) in height from the floor. The coins used during this era had to be King George V Pennies, on account of some particular quality supposedly found in their mining. To commence gambling for crowds generally of hundreds of punters the Boxer would call loudly “Come in Spinner” and a punter who was first in line from a clock-wise direction outside of the ring would enter the ring.

True to the principles of ‘cause and effect’ this game of Two-Up was always famously played more frequently during ‘tough times’. Mathematically noted to be the fairest gambling game in existence any Punter attempting to have a big win felt the ‘rise and fall’ of the coins was symbolic of the market economy of the ‘Bullish & Bearish’ moods during these pre-depression times of early last century.

From the First World War to WW1: This WAR is scheduled to take place during some time following the first decade of this third millennium. I have detailed the games of ‘Two-Up & Swy’ with much detail for our proposed Gambling Group Partnership (and you the reader) to understand this ancient tradition that will signify WW1 as being the ‘Punters dream come true’.

The connection being that prior to an upcoming event at a special place of recognition, perhaps a Major Casino and/or a much advertised Press Conference – the fighters will gather to play ‘Two-Up’.

Following the exact conditions of these Aussie Diggers ‘Two-Up’ from WORLD WAR 1 the highest ranked fighter of this WW1 will be the Spinner hoping with anticipation to win with two heads as this will give him the ‘advantage of the toss & call’.

WARS : World All-styles Rules & Sanctioning:

The Rules of WW1… dictate the fighters fight five rounds with ‘Two-Up’ also meaning they only fight any two of our three systems during these five round bouts. Winning the toss allows him/her to dictate firstly, which two systems will be fought at this event. Secondly they get to use their odds and evens advantage ie, which system will they nominate for rounds 1-3-5 leaving the alternate system for rounds 2 & 4. This is invaluable betting information for a knowledgeable gambler that understands the form of these fighters via their skills of the three arts and also their lack of… this will be a major influence of them placing their bets as well as allowing for the odds that will be on offer for exactly the same reasons. Another careful consideration of the punter being that the support card bouts are five rounds of three minutes. Professional fights and title fights are all ‘five’ rounds of ‘five’ minute’s duration with two minute rest periods, fitness now a major consideration regarding the placing of bets.

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Fighter Profile: Sarah "Missy" Howett

C/ Powerplay Promotions Website

Nick Name:	Missy
Height:	173cm
Weight:	63kg
Fight Record:	7 Fights, 6 Wins, 3 Knock Outs
Title’s Held:	WKA South Pacific Title, WKA Victorian Title
Trainer:	Joe Nader
Fighting Styles:	Professional Boxing, Muay Thai, Kickboxing
Sponsors:	Lawrence & Hanson, Black & Blue Clothing, Fairtex, Next Generation Supplements, Promoting U
 Occupation:	Actor, Producer
Hobbies:	Writing, reading, watching & making films, running, surfing, playing my drums, bikram yoga, cruising on my motorbike…..in summer.
Training Tips:	Don’t think, just act
Do you have a favourite fight song you like to come out to? As many people are aware, I am a huge Madonna fan. I have been since the age of 8. I think her music has some subliminal messages that seep into my brain because I love every song. My recent fights have seen me walk out to "Vogue" (favourite) and "Jump". My plan is to choose something that’s a little different to the standard. I choosing strong female artists, like Fergie and Pink who is also another favourite. It''s whatever gives me goose bumps when listening to it on my mp3 whilst training. You’ll often bust me singing unaware whilst smashing the bags or running around the place.
What do you enjoy doing most over the weekend? I love starting Saturday morning with a training session or a long run. If my weekends are free, I am generally spending my time with my family and friends and enjoying a glass of red wine when I’m not preparing for a fight. If it’s Summer time, you’ll find me at the beach!

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KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP - Poland/Ukraine 2012

With approximately two years to the FOOTBALL EUROPEAN CUP - Poland/Ukraine 2012, it is imperative to have financial arrangements (together with the right Tele-communications Company, Television Network & Corporate Sponsors) in place to give this inaugural project the commitment it needs to stand alone and be self sufficient. The Budget for ‘Total Prize Money’ for this prestigious KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP - 2012 is currently set at **Â ***Â ***Â euro. With as much again for Pre Event set-up, World Marketing and Administration, making the Total Budget for this project **Â ***Â *** euro.
There will be an excess of one hundred kickboxing countries involved that all have experience and very competitive standards. There will be incredible pressure on fighters to make their Eight National Kickboxing Teams that only consist of five members. Each member representing one of five different weight divisions:

1. Lightweight 60
2. Â Super Light 70
3. Middleweight 80
4. Super Middle 90
5. Heavyweight 100 + kilosrepresenting each team of the eight countries. They will all follow the Football European Cup selections and their eliminations with extreme interest as the eight Football countries to make the finals in Poland and Ukraine - dictate the eight countries Kickboxing Teams to be involved.

Currently with every football fan on planet earth focusing on the WORLD CUP - 2010 already upon us in South Africa, and with the European and international media already building football fever to fanatic levels higher than ever before. We know that after the WORLD CUP these fans will almost immediately switch focus on the upcoming EUROPEAN CUP – 2012 one could easily draw the impression that in this modern world;

Football is a religion

Similarly the fighting arts are having a resurgence of their own. Not seen since the explosive Greek Pankration fighters and Roman Gladiators were celebrating their extraordinary martial arts skills. Ancient Coliseums capable of seating 45 - 60,000 Games fans were the stadiums of regular competition during this one thousand year time-frame of our pre-Christian history, which was between two - three thousand years ago (776 BC - 393 AD).

Today, with the American and international free-to-air television networks, along with many opposing pay-per-view entities… plus the world-wide-web are all exposing high rating modern versions of these gone-by Greek and Roman eras, from the Japanese KI to the fastest growing sport on both live television and pay per view, the North American UFC – Octagon Cage ‘Almost No-Rules’ Fighting which is taking the modern world by storm.Â

Now for the first time since the Pre Christian Greek Pancration Teams (from the ancient cities of Pythia, Nemia, Isthmia and Olympia – 776BC until 250BC) and the Roman (Capitolini) Gladiatorial Teams (Provisional Regional Teams competing at all of the major stadiums from 250BC until 393 AD)… You and your Company are being offered the opportunity to become involved in these recreated European Teams Events – THE KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP – 2012. Of course your Company will have the ‘first right of refusal’ option on the following and even more spectacular KICKBOXING WORLD CUP – 2014. Which will simply be emulating record breaking statistics from these Teams Events of antiquity while at the same time - also adding to an ever growing new-age-army of “millions of martial art fight fans”

These two concepts; firstly “football is a religion” and secondly an ever growing army of “millions of martial art fight fans” would both become the inspiration for Robert V. Jones and his creation of this inaugural event; The KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP – 2012.
After intense European football eliminations, the finals competitions will commence and the disappointing continuance of the European Cup eliminations will unfold. The winners continue to move forward and become responsible for the increasing fanaticism, the losers fall by the wayside causing bitter while brief depressions.
By the time almost 6,000 players from hundreds of football teams have suffered the mixed emotions of defeat and it finally come down to the final 32 then 16 and now it has come down to the final 8; most of these remaining Eight Teams have generally been selected by the fans as their second choice teams. Now the European football fantasia rises to a new fever pitch and this is the precise time we have chosen to make our presence felt… the eight remaining football nations will be matched with corresponding;

EIGHT KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP TEAMS - 2012

Now, from all over Europe Eight Kickboxing Nations will have their own brand of fanatic fans arriving on-masse into Poland and Ukraine. Now each time two countries play football and the loser is eliminated – the same two countries will fight in a Major Stadium within 24 hours. Losing kickboxing teams will be eliminated by being knocked out of the competition. Every football fan world wide via television or if they are live with the Action in Poland and Ukraine – whether their teams have won or lost – they all now have a second chance at winning or losing as the same two country’s go to war in the square ring.
A paradox of opposing while also complementing THE FOOTBALL EUROPEAN CUP 2012 will be a second International television network, along with a major pay-per-view entity… equally important will be our Tele - Communications Company accommodating millions of phone calls of judging and voting (and gambling), plus our planned profile on the world-wide-web will give the sport of Kickboxing its largest ever event exposure. This will involve Eight Teams eliminations over Seven Major Teams Events. Each of the seven events being a Two Hour Television Spectacular (ie, four quarter finals, two semi finals and the Final Grand Championship gives us seven losing teams and ONE Grand Final European Champion Team. Footballs rival corporate sponsors will enjoy this multiple facet of exposure now afforded to their products (ie, Seven Events by two hours duration equals fourteen hours of prime time invaluable television exposure via ring-mats & corner-posts etc,).

‘Ring fights are the most intense exposure of corporate product as their vision is right there with the fight action continuously on camera – ever since the American promoter Don King had the dream to associate the boxing skills of Muhammad Ali with a Major Television Network, Major Corporate Sponsor and a Los Vegas Casino as the venue of choice’.
In today’s competitive marketplace – after football - the world’s most lucrative ‘ratings wars’ are won and lost by ‘fighting sports’ initials;

WWE, KI & KI MAX, UFC etc ‘AND COMING SOON – THE WAR 1 & WW 1’

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GAMBLING CONNECTION

Gambling organizations will crank up their 24 hour-per-day betting facilities to accommodate this all new *FIGHT-BET global phenomenon. Soft-ware computer ‘instant-fractioning’ will allow betting during and between rounds giving *FIGHT-PUNTERS the decision to advance their winning bets and/or cover any perceived current loses.
(*FIGHT- BET & *FIGHT- PUNTERS have World Patents Pending)

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PAY- PHONE / PAY- CALLS CONNECTION

A major international Tele-communications company will also be put under pressure as they take multiple millions of pay-calls from ‘our’ world-wide fan base not only will they be placing multiple gambling bets with as many phone calls – but also lodging even more phone calls with ‘their official *FIGHT- JUDGE votes as to who they think won each round of and each bout at THE KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP - 2012.

(*FIGHT- JUDGE has World Patents Pending)

THE KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP - 2012 will be the show-case for seven major events in seven major cities testing these kickboxing champions through four quarter finals, followed by two semi finals and climaxed by our seventh team losing with only one remaining unbeaten team - with three victories - claiming the title of Grand Champions of THE KICKBOXING EUROPEAN CUP 2012. With these five team members each earning, sharing and deserving the major share of the Euro **Â ***Â *** Grand Prize money.

As stated in these last two Chapters, extravagant gambling strategies introduced by FIGHT-BET & FIGHT-PUNTERS along with newly created FIGHT- JUDGE… combined they will produce these multiple millions of pay-calls being generated from as yet, non existent events.

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THE

JULIO IGLESIAS

CHALLENGE

This is a unique opportunity for a Global Sponsor, plus the ‘larger than life’ image of Julio Iglesias along with ‘each and every football fan’ to all come together for a promotion of epic proportions. ‘The Best of the Best’ versus ‘The Best of the Rest’, a concept where the two remaining finalists of these two competitions will be voted for by the entire world of football fans to establish ‘The Player’ with the most potential to establish a life beyond football within the entertainment industry.

‘The Best of the Best’ is any player - belonging to any of the thirty two teams that have made the finals in Poland & Ukraine - with the entertainment skill potential to accept this ‘Julio Iglesias Challenge’.

‘The Best of the Rest’ is any player of any team that suffered elimination during this European Cup Series and did not make it to the finals in Poland & Ukraine, but feels he has the ability to compete in this most unusual competition.

World Wide football fans (Beyond the Judges decision) will decide with the power of their voting who they feel is the one and only Grand Champion Football Star who they feel has the skills to follow the autonomous journey of Julio Iglesias.

Interested representatives from parties wishing to pursue this concept to the next level of communication should simply contact our management via Mr Michael Kenna at International Head Office.

We are proud to offer this Celtimania Project - Marketing Concept to representatives from;

1. Major Corporate Sponsorship interested in ‘Naming Rites’, this concept will allegorically imprint product identification into the mind of the worlds consumer without a comparative
2. Several Support Corporate Sponsorship entities to help thrust this market concept instantly to all quarters of the Globe
3. Tele – Communications Networks with co-ordination abilities to cope with the ‘record breaking’ most amount of phone-ins ever!
4. World Wide ‘free to air’ Television Networks capable of giving this event maximum coverage in every country that European Football Rules have competition exposure
5. International ‘pay per view’ Television Networks – this will be the first time in history that a talent search will have pay-per-view interest from consumers in every country on Earth at the same time
6. Major Music Label recording/production/distribution with the pre-planned intention specifically designed to create a top selling product before it has even been produced

NB. This Concept Creation has all naming rights & Patents Pending and in their entirety are licensed within the exclusive ownership of CELTIMANIA PROJECT PTY LIMITED.

Concept Creation by:
Robert V. Jones Ceo
Director Celtimania Project

Contact International Head Office
Attention of Mr Michael Kenna GM
C/o CELTIMANIA PRODUCTIONS
Division of the Bob Jones Corporation
Unit # 6
26 – 38 Miller Street,
Epping – Victoria 3079
AUSTRALIA
Ph: + 61. 3. 8401. 4867 (Office hours)
Ph: + 61. 419. 586. 559 (24 hours)
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: www.bobjones.com.au

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WKA - MMA

World Kickboxing Associates

PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE

MMA - ‘Media Mission Action’

Don King had a dream in the late sixties and since the early seventies it has put boxers on the world stage. I have shared that dream since the seventies. During this time together with a great team of dedicated WKA – MMA Associates, I have been busy building a WORLD-WIDE SPORT from the base up.

As the first, now the oldest and most respected sanctioning body it is now time for the WKA - MMA to have a PROMOTION EXPLOSION like never before. Now for the rest of 2010 and beyond I want every WKA – MMA Associate; promoter, manager, trainer, fighter, referee, judge – in fact I want every fight industry participant (especially all of our ticket buyers) to be involved in this;

WKA - MMA PROMOTION EXPLOSION!

Every promotion no matter how big or how small – I NEED ‘YOU’ TO INFORM THE MEDIA – I want ‘every’ fighter promoted whether they win or lose, whether they are male or female, whether they are very young or very old to have their profile out there in the market place.  All local state, city, regional & suburban newspapers (press photos), local radio station interviews, local television segments are only limited to your imaginations. They (the media) all like what they call a * ‘hook’ or even if you see it as a ‘gimmick’ that is all you need to give ‘our sport’ - some very important exposure.

*A media hook is nothing more than what we would call a good story.

Now it doesn’t even matter whether you were a ticket buyer to the last title fight or if you actually won or lost the title, “I now challenge your creative skills”. What is going to be ‘your hook – your gimmick’ especially if you are one of our ticket buyers, what hook can you possibly dream up to make a feature story about you and the WKA - MMA “It is as simple as that… a ‘hook’ that will interest the media”.

This ‘hook’ creation thing is something I have done since I invented Kickboxing (ie. way back when all of us kara-te guys first decided to put boxing gloves and boxing shorts on and started punching and kicking one and other) now in 2010 there are thousands of us in every area of Australia and New Zealand, Israel, Singapore, Indonesia with affiliations in Philippines and Brazil. Can you even imagine how much our ‘sport awareness’ will elevate if all of ‘you’ start doing this ‘hook’ creation thing!

OK! Lets say you have created an idea for ‘your hook’ you have written it up, (perhaps someone should spell check, I always have my stuff checked) and you have selected the correct photos, now at this point it is not what you know? It is who you know? Or who do you know that knows somebody that can put the wheels in motion? If there is no one that fills this bill, then you contact the media you are thinking you want your idea to happen with. Ask reception (they actually do get paid to help people with good ideas) who they think you should contact, guess what? Now you know who’s who! Now you do four simple things regarding this new ‘who’ in your life; #1, email them a copy of your idea #2, phone (enquire about email) #3, send hard copy in the post #4, and phone again in a couple of days (enquire about hard copy). This takes approximately three days and if your ‘hook’ is happening, it will appear in the media – phone again, say “thank you”;

WKA - MMA - ‘Media Mission Accomplished’

Send us a copy of what you achieve with the media in your area; if it is ‘good stuff’ we will post it on this website immediately and we will make sure you are sitting ringside at the Next WKA – Major Event in your state.

If it is ‘real good stuff’ we will have you and a friend sitting ringside with yours truly at the next Joe Nader POWERPLAY PROMOTION – SUPERSHOW.

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W.K.A

WORLD KICBOXING ASSOCIATION

AUSTRALIA - LEVEL FIVE - PROMOTIONS

JOE NADER

WKA – (World Kickboxing Association) - Australia has an exceptional Level Five Promoter now operating in Victoria, he’s busy promoting boxing, kick-boxing and Mixed Martial Arts. There are plenty of Level Two and Level Three Promoters in the suburbs and country areas doing State and National Titles and now it is good to have some new blood getting put into the Level Four & Five shows with extremely good International and World Titles being promoted.

Joe Nader is doing the hard yards; he is putting in a lot of his time and energy. He is investing large sums of money and taking all the risks trying to take Kickboxing up to that next level.

Now to separate Joe Nader the entrepreneur and Joe Nader the man from the norm, he needs television support to improve his sponsorship relationships. Joe and I are working together on this to figure what ‘our hook’ will be. Television exposure makes the fighters train and fight harder, sponsorship gets involved because of the TV exposure. Better paid, harder training fighters, television exposure and sponsors build bigger fan - base crowds and the sport grows.

When the fighters at the top get better pay, there are always more fighters coming through at the base fighter level. When fighters are better paid the public have more interest and respect, that’s why Don King paid Ali and Tyson multiple millions of dollars to fight – stopping the world, totally capturing their imagination! Mr Ishii of Japans KI concept copied Don King and paid his KI fighters a million dollars plus merchandising percentages etc, Now the UFC President Dana White  is following Don King’s and Mr Ishi’s league and their prize-money and audience participation has the UFC and its Octagon Cage the fastest growing sport in the world today!
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Support Joe Nader ‘POWERPLAY PROMOTIONS’, the WKA recommends him as a promoter who cares about the future of the sport, as well as the welfare of the fighters. It is up to you the fans to double and triple the crowds then Joe and his Powerplay Promotions can double and triple the prize-money!

Joe Nader runs a successful POWERPLAY GYMNASIUM and a strong stable of fighters to support his promotions, one of his fighters, a recent addition to WKA - MMA fame, Sarah ‘Missy’ Howett the Channel 7 EX GLADIATOR – VIPOR. She is more than capable of boxing, kickboxing (with World Rules; ‘All Eight Weapons’ including elbows being her specialty) and she looks just as comfortable with her ground-wrestling skills in an Octagon Cage-fight.

Sarah recently had yet another boxing bout comfortable points decision win. This was on the under card of the Sam Soliman World Title Boxing Fight here in Melbourne (A Joe Nader Promotion). If you would like to check ‘Missy’ out you can see her in a clip she made to promote the Bob Jones CIRCUIT concept that is titled HELLS BELLES. Please check her out on our Hells Belles section of this Bob Jones site:

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WKA – NSW (New South Wales)

WKA – ACT (Australian Capital Territory)

Director – PAUL GRIMA

Mr Paul Grima is the current WKA – (World Kickboxing Association) NSW – (New South Wales) State Director. How do we acknowledge and repay such dedication, success and above all - his loyalty both as a fighter and now as the WKA - NSW State Director?

Paul “Pitbull” Grima, the EX fighter moved on from a successful amateur career after gaining both State and National WKA Welterweight titles. Doing even better as a professional he would go on to win titles for WKA New South Wales - State, WKA Australian - National and topped off with WKA South Pacific - International Super - Welterweight.

In 1997, two years after retirement (having his last fight in 1995) Paul felt he had more to give to the sport that had given him so much. He thought for a while how he could best serve this cause… then he acquired the rights to the WKA – NSW and the rest is nothing short of a magnificent history. The only time he has ever upset me was one time when he asked me, “Chief, is there any chance I can co-sanction an event with the opposition ISKA. The State Director, Rob Murdoch is a real good bloke and also a good mate of mine. Both of us agree and feel this would be ‘good for the sport’ and eliminate a lot of politics”. I was all set for my usual rave about how the WKA never does deals and none of our promoters ever co-sanction… then I realized his request made sense and I found myself thinking, ‘If its good for the sport it must be good for all concerned’ and I responded “OK Paul, lets try it for the first time in NSW and see if you are right”.

Mr Paul Grima has run the WKA in New South Wales since 1997 and he now is also the WKA Director for the ACT Australian Capitol Territory. For more than the past thirteen years Paul ‘Pitbull’ Grima has done more for the WKA than any other individual. For the last five years in succession (with his personal WKA Promotions, his WKA State Wide Sanctioned events plus his co-sanctioning with ISKA) he has continuously been responsible for approximately 50% of our annual statistics from all over Australia and New Zealand (Both Islands)!
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On occasion at WKA Meetings at Head Office in Victoria with staff and WKA National Meetings, I have often improvised to the fact; “Guys, what if we had another seven “Pitbulls”, that would be one Paul Grima for each State and Territory in Australia. How about nine, one for each Island of New Zealand as well? Everything would be so organized we would have a top rating national television show and championship title belts everyone would respect.

Now I take this opportunity to ask you WKA Associates all over Australasia, Do we have any more undiscovered Paul Grima’s out there? You may well respond, ‘Well you know, he’s in Sydney and his population is such and such…’ OK that’s one of those excuse/negative thoughts, but can we think positive for a moment. Pro rata population statistics is all I expect and I’m hoping you are out there; someone will take up the challenge.

Another way and almost as good would be for everyone out there to be thinking ‘OK I’ll put more effort into what I currently have made myself responsible for. I hear what the Chief says about Paul Grima and I will continue to do what I already do; only I will find several ways to do it better and more efficiently!’ Can you imagine the PROMOTION EXPLOSION within the World Kickboxing Association and MMA – Mixed Martial Arts if ‘everyone’ did just that!

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WKA – AUSTRALASIAN DIRECTOR

SOUTH PACIFIC REGION

MICHAEL KENNA

Michael Kenna was born into the Martial Arts long before he was even a teenager. Since he was a ten year old he has experienced our lifelong journey which currently has him engulfed not only in the WKA, he is also fully involved in the activities of the BJC - Bob Jones Corporation and ‘all’ of its extremities.

As a fighter he had a successful career as a BJMA light contact fighter and then in semi contact kickboxing. Then he went into full contact Thai fighting with world rules (which included elbows) culminating as the South Pacific Champion. At my recommendation he retired unbeaten while holding that title. Â

For three decades I have enjoyed with immense pride watching the growth of this young man as he has continuously molded my teachings of our mind, body and spiritual fulfillment. So much so that he is now the General Manager whilst recently (mid-year 2009) accepted as a Junior Partner by the Board of the BJC.

As Director of the WKA South Pacific Region – Australasia Michael Kenna’s role is to liaison with WKA International Head Office in Germany (Since Paul Ingram’s retirement from offices in Birmingham, England), plus his role includes the over seeing of all WKA – MMA - PR (public relations) activities throughout Australia and New Zealand. Including controlling our extensive;

WARS - WORLD ALL-STYLES RULES & SANCTIONING 

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WKA - MMA - WA

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

DIRECTORS

JUSTIN BOYLAN

MURRAY McKECHNIE

Western Australia, one of our longest running entities of the WKA Competitions plus WA was the first state to move away from the original WKA Australian Rules first version written in 1976 (kicking above the waist). Next to beintroduced onto the west coast was WKA American Rules - 1983 (which allowed leg kicks – but no grappling). Within a few years WA again led the way with implementation of both WKA International & World Rules - 1987 (which exhibits ‘All Eight Weapons’ of striking, kicking with full stand up grappling allowing knees and elbows).

Plus in 2003 it was Western Australia’s best known grappler, Habby Heske who toured the BJC NATIONWIDE CIRCUIT with Bob Jones personally (which was the most extensive BJC TOUR ever staged before or since that date – being twenty three cities in twenty six days including saturated mass media in every city (what a great media hook that turned out to be) – it was extremely physically demanding and injurious for both Habby and myself, but we did manage to have a great time while spreading the ‘six good words’ – WKA - MMA).

This BJC TOUR was the Matrix of what is today promoted and sanctioned as WKA – MMA Rules (Mixing Martial Arts) which features all of the above mentioned plus take-downs and continuous ground fighting with almost ‘No-Rules’ and is currently the fastest growing combat sport world – wide.

For three decades WKA Western Australia was spearheaded by a dynamic WKA Director, Rod Stroud who led the state with a fearless ‘iron fist’ (To coin an old Kung Fu adage) and when he moved up the Chain of Command in our organization leaving a void with his previous position we felt his shoes would be hard to fill.

Two BJC Veterans, Justin Boylan and Murray McKechnie are proving to be quiet competent at doing just that. The WKA – WA Western Australia Branch is hoping for bigger and better things growing beyond what these two Directors and their dedicated support teams are already achieving. As usual WKA – MMA – WA are way ahead of the rest of the country.

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AFL – ALL-STYLES FIGHTERS LEAGUE

COMING SOON TO EUROPE…

If you would like this concept of AFL – ALL-STYLES FIGHTERS LEAGUE to come to your country and are in a position to start the negotiations to bring the necessary groups together, then simply contact CELTIMANIA PROJECT – EUROPEAN EXPANSION ASAP. It does not matter which country as young Martial Artists have a strong presence throughout most education systems around the world. They will all be very keen to become involved.

IN YOUR COUNTRY THERE IS SCOPE FOR THE FOLLOWING TO BE INVOLVED:

FIRST: Â Â SPECIFIC MINISTERS WITHIN YOU’RE GOVERNMENT

1. EDUCATION MINISTER
2. HEALTH MINISTER
3. SPORT & RECREATION
4. TOURISM
5. MAJOR EVENTS

SECOND:Â Â GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT

1. PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
2. CURRENT MARTIAL ARTISTS – CURRICULUMS (VARIOUS STYLES)
3. Â CELTIC HISTORY & MYTHOLOGY
4. CELTIC ART, MUSIC & CRAFT
5. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION – MEDIA (TV, PRESS, RADIO)

THIRD: Â Â Â EITHER LOCAL OR INTERNATIONAL MEDIA NETWORK

1. PRE PRODUCTION MARKETING
2. LIVE TO AIR PRODUCTION (COMMERCIAL TELEVISION)
3. PAY-PER-VIEW PRODUCTION (LIVE AND/OR POST EVENT)
4. Â POST PRODUCTION DVD DISTRIBUTION
5. EXCITING ACTION VIDEO GAMES RE-CONCEPT

FOURTH: Â Â Â MAJOR CORPORATE SPONSORS

1. DIAMOND;Â Â SOLE NAMING RIGHTS (OUT-RIGHT OWNERSHIP)
2. EMERALD;Â Â NAMING RIGHTS (WITH SUPPORT SPONSORS)
3. GOLD, SIVER & BRONZE - SUPPORT SPONSORS

FIFTH:Â Â Â BUSINESS SECTOR INVESTMENT INVOLVMENT

1. CORPORATE OWNERSHIP OF TEAMS
2. CONTRACTUALÂ ACQUISITION - Â MARKETING OF PLAYERS
3. EVENT PROMOTIONÂ (SALES)
4. EVENT MERCHANDISING & DISTRIBUTION
5. SHARES IN COMPANY TO ASSIST EXPANSION PLANS

SIXTH:Â Â Â PROJECT STRUCTURE - PERSONNEL

1. INSURANCE BROKERAGE
2. ACCOUNTANCY GROUP
3. LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES

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AFL - ALL-STYLES FIGHTERS LEAGUE

Presenting a Dynamic Duo…

BOB JONES & RICHARD NORTON

‘KICKING DRUGS, POVERTY & SOCIAL EXCLUSION’

OUT OF AUSTRALIA

Richard and Bob met at a martial arts training session with ‘their’ Sensei (Teacher) Tino Ceberano (Kate Ceberano would not be born for a few years yet) way back in 1965, with some very interesting characters many of whom would eventually become dedicated pioneers of the Martial Arts.

Five years of blood sweat and sneers and upon receiving their Black Belts they would spend the decade of the seventies working exclusively for the PDC - Paul Dainty Corporation touring the world together ‘protecting’ the who’s who of the celebrities involved in the rock ‘n’ roll and entertainment industry, “Those we did not work with is a much shorter list than those we did - it was just about everyone thanks to the PDC”.Â

From the eighties their personal lives separated with the Martial Arts always keeping their ‘friend-ship united’. For the next three decades and up until today both Richard Norton & Bob Jones have trained physically, mentally and spiritually with this unique metaphoric ‘way of the warrior’ - ‘way for living life’ every day without exception! Richards’s life for these thirty years has been dedicated to the ‘medium of movie making’ for him to express his unique conceptual philosophy.

Bob Jones has dedicated his life since 1965 spreading his unique ‘Martial Arts - Message of Melioration to the Masses’ to more than a quarter of a million registered students and millions more via National and International television. With BJMA clubs all throughout Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Singapore, Indonesia and associate clubs in Thailand (for elbows and knees power training), Brazil (ground fighting) and the Philippines (stick and knife defence), with the most recent associate club being Serbia (control of koas). Robert V. Jones has immediate plans to expand the AFL – All-Styles Fighters League into and across Europe!

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AFL - NATIONAL/WORLD COMPETITIONS

TEAMS EVENTS FOR UNDER EIGHTEEN YEAR OLDS

AFL – ALL-STYLES FIGHTERS LEAGUE is an exciting ‘First Time Ever’ program that we wish to share with the ‘YOUTH of the WORLD’, a concept that will be compatible with literally multiple millions of Martial Arts enthusiasts around the Globe. This is an invitation to International Government bodies, Television Networks, Major Sponsors and interested Business Investors to participate in this extremely worthwhile cause.
During the last five decades hundreds of different styles of Martial Arts have gradually infiltrated the education system (world wide) from Primary, Secondary through to College and Universities in most countries, and all they need is a ‘concept to unify’ them and acknowledge their tireless endeavours.

Regardless of minor stylistic differences this is a concept of under 21 year old administrative personnel controlling a unified system of under eighteen year old NATIONAL TEAMS fighters with World Ranking - while at the same time being guided by very dedicated and experienced BJMA – Mature Black Belts. These higher ranked ‘Guides’ (All 5th Degree and above – which is a minimum of 15 – 20 years training within the BJMA) are currently spread around the World in anticipation of this and other CELTIMANIA PROJECTS.Â

BJMA – Australasian General Manager, Mr Michael Kenna is contactable via 0419 586 559 or on this website  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  please feel free to communicate ASAP regarding your involvement with the next level of action regarding the inaugural establishment of;

AFL – ALL-STYLES FIGHTERS LEAGUE

Enclosed here are a few personalities Bob Jones & his organisation have trained through their teenage years to Black Belt & beyond that have ‘all’ had that ‘mutual metaphysical’ experience that is ingrained in the asceticism of continued Martial Arts Training.

Russell ‘Real Thing’ Morris - Jimmy “Working Man’ Barnes - Billy ‘Think I’m Crazy’ Thorpe - Grant ‘Iron Man’ Kenny – Garry ‘King Kong’ Elkerton (ex World Champion Surfer) - Tania ‘Who Dares’ Zaetta – Sam ‘King’ Soliman & Danny ‘Dance-Man’ Green – Eddie Mc Guire - Troy ‘Richmond Ruck’ Simmonds - Barry ‘Full Forward’ Hall.

Veteran Australian Cricket opening batsman Justin Langer at a recent (late - 2009) Black Belt training session in Perth, WA told Bob Jones personally, “If you are discussing you’re AFL concepts with ‘anyone’ please confirm I am behind you 100% as I, as much as anybody am aware of the extrication attributes of the Martial Way!”

During our protective touring years Richard and Bob virtually trained every major entertainer in the business. They all actually enjoyed some physical self defence discipline training and cutting back on some of those bad habits Rock ‘n’ Roll tends to bring out of most of them! (Except Benny of ABBA fame and Joe Cocker although both enjoyed simply talking about Martial Arts - Philosophy over a scotch ‘n’ rocks). Exceptional talent was developed from Mick Jagger and David Bowie – Frieda and Anna from ABBA and Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac. Many of these super stars have personally given their blessings to the concept of the AFL as they understand from their personal experience how this program develops the most positive of attitudes all young people.

Firstly to be against any proven abuse of health; i.e. junk food, sugar loaded beverages, smoking cigarettes and/or drinking excessive alcohol, and any form of narcotics abuse.

Secondly there is ‘no stronger’ train of thought of survival instincts and will-power to attempt winning at all costs (all relating to being more successful in their school curriculum, all of their sporting endeavours and coming to grips with their day to day journey of life) both as an individual as well as a desire to being a respected member of The Team.

These are two major qualities Richard and I want to share and fully develop with the Youth of the World via the;

AFL – ALL-STYLES FIGHTERS LEAGUE

 N.B. ‘Bob Jones & Richard Norton kicking drugs and poverty out of Australia’.

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‘BAIXA-FADO CELTA’

DOWNTOWN STORY

THE AWAKENING OF FADO

--- A Severa Experience ---

A ‘must have’ experience for any tourist who loves adventure and has the inquisitiveness to not only ‘see a city’… for all of you ardent international travelers that have that extra desire to ‘feel the city’… our ‘BAIXA-FADO CELTA’ DOWNTOWN STORY is the very romantic as well as catastrophic true love story of the youngest of three ‘sisters’.

Severa, a very beautiful fadista who was born and died living a brief lifetime of passion during the first half of the Nineteenth Century (1820-1846), this story is the original Pagan version of Walt Disney’s Cinderella; with only minor indifferences to the movie storyline and the real life version. Severa was born and raised into a modus vivendi environment ofprostitution and depravity.

During her short life she shared a tumultuous ‘fairy-story’ love relationship with Conde de Vimioso, the most famous matador of the day. Who with an innocent kiss would awaken the flame of fado that had always been flickering within the depths of her heart. This normally arrogant aristocrat would instantly become Severas Prince Charming and eventually - the cause of her depression, suicidal alcoholism and tragic death by age twenty six.

Us Celts attribute the life of Severa as being the awakening of fado from a long deep sleep. We also see her passion and unique ability for singing fado as the climax of many years of an ongoing Governmental and Religious hostile environment towards the ideals and principles of what the truest form of fado represents. This was not long after an extended period of time in Portugal’s past where you could still be tortured beyond belief. You could be either burnt at the stake or hung by the neck as an afternoon spectacle for members of the clergy, politicians and proletarians – simply because your parents suffered the misfortune, of being born in the wrong place!

One hundred years later and for almost eighty years (1920-1999) Amalia Rodrigues would become the voice of fado. For the most part of her life she had to sing under the scrutiny of Fascism, while Church & Government were creating what us Celts refer to as ‘hygienic fado’ – the singing of fado permitted only with establishment approved lyrics.

By the mid seventies of the twentieth century and a successful revolution against this era of Portugal’s oppressive establishment, allowed an ageing Amalia freedom for the first time to work with some now unrestricted writers. Together they developed some ‘new’ material which we Celts refer to as ‘Portuguese fado’. She became responsible for taking this style of fado to the world and giving Portugal a positive musical and cultural, global presence.

Since Amalia’s untimely passing over a decade ago many performers up until today are experiencing all the benefits of this newfound freedom, although they as yet have still not re-found the feeling and the ‘true passion’ of the fado – as being the ‘true soul’ of all Lusitanians.

Our ‘BAIXA-FADO CELTA’ DOWNTOWN STORY is your uninhibited experience of what us Celts identify with as ‘Lusitanian fado’, featuring fado Celta songs from the exclusive ‘Ivo Rato Celtic Collection’ - songs that beautifully reflect the antiquity, the unknown mysteries and true essence of the meaning of the word - fado. Ivo Rato, the man is a 21st Century Celtic visionary, historian, anthropologist and above all - he is an extraordinary poet.

His unique and controversial poetry, when converted to fado lyrics are a form of both entertainment and education as his knowledge and understanding of Lusitanian Culture is second to none. At first encounter and during the early stages, his dialogue often appears as an enigmatic expression. This soon dissolves as he continues with his antediluvian Celtic journey and with your personal knowledge and experiences – he will have you begin to make your own connections.

He is a modern day Bard and in the true sense of the word he is a CELT – he really Connects Europe’s LOST Tribes!

Our ‘BAIXA-FADO CELTA’ DOWNTOWN STORY begins with our coaches dropping you off in the Lisbon city squarewithin a couple of blocks (150 meters) from where Severa lived, loved, performed and died. We immediately introduce you to a recently laid plaque with inscriptions apologizing in both Portuguese and Hebraic languages for those centuries of atrocities against humanity.

The site of this plaque is the exact location of so much historical murder and mayhem. Today it is internationally famous as the ‘spot’ to skull down a couple of ‘shooters’ to celebrate life as it is now while also ‘acknowledging’ this bygone era of adversity. You might want to ‘shoot’ a couple yourselves, it is part of the custom of downtown!

Opposite this plaque of apology and ‘shooters bar’ is the Palace of Independence & Historian Society where the successful plot to overthrow the Spanish occupation was born. Both of these establishments, the Palace and the ‘shooters bar’ are bordered by Lisbon’s largest ‘taxi-rank’ conveyor belt system, where you never have to stand in line or even wait for a cab – day or night!

The third point of a perfect triangle in this square is the Catholic Church that even with their recent in scripted apology, still has so much to answer for in the Universal world of Time, Space & Karma. No matter the religion or philosophical viewpoint, if any, this medieval ‘holy house’ is a must experience establishment - simply to feel the paradox of so many centuries of the agnostic, religious energy…

While we are together in this Lisbon Square, we will be in a totally multi national environment, sharing the eclectic energy with many like minded tourists from all quarters of the Globe. Sadly as in many major cities of today, you must be aware of pick pockets and the potential of your disappearing purse or wallet. Avoid the beggars, especially the ones with the beautiful dogs or they will appear on mass. Also be aware of the attractive gypsy’s with their mournful smiles and the loudly wailing blind man tapping his stick – both selling tickets in the lottery - both wanting your attention for your loose change.

While police and ambulance sirens and the wailing blind man compete furiously for decibel air space, the bearded Indian man wearing a turban silently cranks up his many dancing dolls that dart in and around your ankles as you pass on by. Where that ‘band of rain making musicians’ professing to be a tribe from Dakota, play such soothing sounds so pleasing to the ear - until you come to the realization they are repeating the same three tunes over and over! All of these overshadowed by the amazing ‘winter aroma’ of the motionless smoke filled atmosphere, produced by the curbside vendors with their open grill cooking of ‘winter walnuts’. Amongst all of these scenarios happening at the same time, all within this central square of Portugal’s capital city… if you want to know anything about Lisbon at all, you don’t need a crystal ball. Simply ‘sit on any one of those stools’ and have your shoes cleaned for a couple of euro - until you can see the reflection of your face in your feet - if you ask anything of these ‘shoe-shine-guys’, they do know everything.

Then there are the guys that appear with the Sun to sell you dark glasses even though you’re wearing your brand new shades, these are the same guys that appear selling you umbrellas when those Indian musicians have succeeded with their ‘rain-dance’ creating their first few drops of rain. If you do want to part with any of your hard earned dollars or pounds converted to euro, the worthiest cause of all are the ‘storytelling’ motionless human statues. There is no harder days work than a day of doing absolutely nothing! Oh, by the way, above all, do not trust the shady character selling Rolex watches or those mind altering substances - he might be a cop.

Last but not least, don’t be alarmed to find yourself surrounded by hundreds of Black African Portuguese, this Lisbon Square is their unofficial turf and although they are generally not at all friendly, these very clean living religious Muslims are passive and are never threatening. The amazing thing about all of the above - within this controversial central square of the city of Lisbon - as a tourist you will feel and you actually will be, peculiarly safe.

Well, with all that accomplished and out of the way, now we are ready to head off to a wonderful celebration of Lusitanian Celtic fado. Less than 50 meters walk from all that excitement (and that famous ‘cab-rank conveyor-belt’ for easy hotel/home access) is the Palace of Commerce, the venue of our BAIXA-FADO CELTA. You will have such a wonderful experience at this establishment, we would really appreciate you sharing the magnetic, dynamic and mystical voice of our own fadista, the majestic Emilia as she sings breathtaking classics from the Ivo Rato Celtic Collection telling the story of Severa (Cinderella) and her BAIXA-FADO CELTA DOWNTOWN STORYwith ‘everyone’ you know – and we’ll catch you here again next time your back in town!

Next time? You could even have the desire to experience our ‘BAIXA-FADO CELTA’ UPTOWN STORY, us Celts refer to this as the DREAMTIME of fado – A ROMAN EXPERIENCE.

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CELTIMANIA PROJECT PROUDLY PRESENT

FOUR SEASONS - CELTIC FESTIVAL

FORMAT

DURATION - FIVE DAYS AND FIVE NIGHTS

(Wed/Thur/Fri/Sat & Sun-day)

SAMHAIN FESTIVAL (Winter) November 1st – January 31st

IMBOLC FESTIVAL (Spring) February 1st – April 30th

BELTANE FESTIVAL (Summer) May 1st – July 31st

LUGHNASA FESTIVAL (Autumn) August 1st – October 31st

For the sake of this document – at this point in time - not knowing the actual dates of the Celtic Festival in question for your particular Country, City, Region or Area, the Festival shall simply be referred to as the CELTIC FESTIVAL. Once your dates are set then the identifying Festival Name shall coincide within these appropriate Seasons as set out above.

At this point the preparation for the following events will be set in motion:

CELTIC FESTIVAL - PARTICIPANTS

1. HEALTH, WEALTH & STEALTH FESTIVAL

2. CELTIC ARCONIC ART & CRAFT FESTIVAL

3. CELTIC FASHION PARADE

4. CELTIC ARCONIC ART – AUCTION

5. WAR – Win Another Round - Ancient Athletics/Martial Arts

CELTIC FESTIVAL - MAJOR EVENTS

1. GALA CELTIC MUSICAL SPECTACULAR

2. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - WORLD WAR - 1

3. ANCIENT GAMES – OCTAGON CAGE FIGHTING

4. BULL FIGHTING: FAENA FESTIVAL

5. SAT’ SUN’ AM: RAVE’N PARTY

6. SUN-DAY FINALS: THE WAR – (Win Another Round)

7. SUN-DAY NIGHT MMA BALL - (Matadors & Martial Artists)

CELTIMANIA PROJECT PROUDLY PRESENT

CELTIC FESTIVAL FEATURING

HEALTH, WEALTH & STEALTH

10.00 am will be the Grand opening of the first day of the Health, Wealth and Stealth - Four Seasons - Celtic Festival featuring all aspects of Humane Wellbeing. International tourism, potential investment and entertainment will all be Major Festival influences. Venues of lecture pavilions for special guest speakers and a multitude of display areas will accommodate your country’s local commodities and specialist suppliers of all commercial products, including importing and exporting.

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WEDNESDAY - DAY ONE

10.00 am – 9.30 pm This concept of the Celtic Festival will run 10.00 am – 9.30 pm from Wednesday until Saturday.

On Sunday the final day, the hours will be 10.00 am – 6.30 pm also allowing for all involved in:

Sunday Night MMA - BALL
Matadors & Martial Artists - BALL

HEALTH:

All of the corporate entities from the ‘Host Countries’ involvement in the Health & Wellbeing Industry (i.e. Weight loss, Diet, nutrition, fitness and health fraternity), will be invited to occupy commercial space for stalls that they will use for their ‘product-promotion’ during Festival hours throughout the five days, catering daily to multiple tens of thousands of interested patrons. They will have experts on hand to respond to all forms of public enquiries. Medical experts will also be in attendance in a professional advisory capacity. Regular lecture times will cater to seminars by that country’s Leading Advisors with everything to do with health, from breast abnormalities to problems of potential prostate… from enhancing cosmetic & dental surgery;

‘To implanting the fountain of youth’

 

WEALTH:

Experts from Banking and Corporate and Government Bodies will be advising on the latest state of the art financial advantages within the current market place. All of the very latest information on survival within the current state of the Global economy and how that will continue to affect you and yours on a day to day basis. Experts will be on hand for all forms of financial advice. Regular lecture times will cater to seminars by CELTIMANIA PROJECT advisors with everything to do with our potential for wealth in all areas of your endeavours. Dialogue’s involving the;

‘First Principle in the Science of Becoming Wealthy’

“That we live in a thought world, which is part of a thought universe”. Each of us is a ‘thinking centre’ and can originate thought. “All the forms that a person fashions with his hands must first exist in his thought. He cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.”

Wallace D. Wattles – 1910.com

STEALTH:

Health, Wealth and Stealth is in essence a CELTIC FESTIVAL ‘connecting’ a trilogy of celebration and the area of Stealth is the almost unknown Celtic culture and mythological ‘hidden history’ of a long time passed. Regular lecture times will cater to explosive seminars by invited CELTIMANIA PROJECT experts discussing the intriguing esoteric acronym of the actual word CELTS:

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WEDNESDAY - DAY ONE
10.00 am – 9.30 pm.

CELTIMANIA PROJECT PROUDLY PRESENT

CELTIC ARCONIC ART & CRAFT FESTIVAL

The famously known and also unknown artists and sculptors in your area will be invited to an introductory Celtic Arconic Art & Craft Seminar, some time prior to your Festival starting date. Celtimania Project expert authorities on Celtic mythology will lecture on various subjects with natural connections to Celtic antiquity. These artists will then be left entirely to their own interpretations, with the assistance of an open line ‘Advisory Division’ if they wish to seek advice about anything to do with Celtic indigenous artistry.

Special Arconic Art effects via computer technologies are welcome. Art in all forms – Black and white charcoal drawings, water based colours and elaborate canvas oil paintings will all be accepted for our ‘Selection Committee’ to choose applicable entrants.

All Sculptures in clay, wood, steel, marble, plastic and glass or any other ‘Art’ accepted substance. In fact, any/all Celtic Sculptures can be submitted for approval and selection as entrants. Essays, Poetry and song writing are also three important divisions within our Celtic Arconic Art & Craft competitions. Artistic arrangements of ‘miniature Celtic gardens’ featuring any of the Thirteen Trees of the Druidic Thirteen calendar months (Including Celto-Gothic, Astro-theology, Sacred Geometry - complete with Warriors, Druids, Dragons, Witches and Goddesses etc).

*Every art form selected will be on display during the entirety of the Celtic & Craft Five Day Festival and promoted for potential sale on behalf of the artists.

10.00 am Wednesday will be the Grand opening of the first day of the Celtic Arconic Art & Craft Festival which will be open the entire 5 Days and Nights, opening every day at 10.0 am and closing at 9.30 pm every night – except on the final day-Sunday, the Celtic Arconic Art & Craft Festival will close at 6.30 pm immediately after the final ‘Celtic Arconic Art - Auction’. This early closing on the final afternoon is due to the 8 pm starting time for the MMA – BALL (Matadors – Martial Artists Ball) being the very last and one of the most spectacular events on this final night of this five day event Celtic Festival.

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WEDNESDAY - DAY ONE
1.00pm – 1.15 pm (The inaugural Painting – One only)

CELTIC ARCONIC ART & CRAFT FESTIVAL PRESENTS

CELTIC ARCONIC ART - AUCTION

The much promoted Celtic Arconic Art - Auction will have ‘one very special item’ that has been selected to go under the hammer to accord this auspicious occasion on day one, Wednesday at 1.00 pm. Several aspiring artists yet to be named will be commissioned to paint their interpretation of this amazing ‘Celtic Arconic Art – Décor’ which the winning entrant will be that one very special item for Auction - a must for the corporate boardroom wall where winning is the only process.

This will be an interestingly different action portrait of each countries warrior hero of Celtic mythology.

Boudicca - Britain, Belgae - Belgium, Vercingetorix - France, Viriato representing both Portugal and Spain as in this time these countries were the Celtiberian Peninsula, etc; with as many Celtic mythological warriors for almost every country in Europe.

We will celebrate each of these inaugural Celtic Festivals with arconic paintings of our ‘Celtic Warrior Hero’ either going to - during - or returning home after a successful day of ‘dealing’ with the enemy on the battlefield. Corporate identities be warned, bring blank cheques.

Every Art piece put up for Auction each day of the Celtic Festival will have a reserve price of approximately 20% under the estimated retail market value of the piece. All bidding will commence at this value – for any bidding that does not cover this 20% reserve there shall be – NO SALE – without written consent of the artist in question.

• Thursday – day two, there will be two pieces of art auctioned from 2 pm.

• Friday – day three, there will be three pieces of art auctioned from 3 pm.

• Saturday – day four, there will be four pieces of art auctioned from 4 pm.

• Sunday – the final day, there will be five pieces of art auctioned from 5 pm.

These fifteen arconic art effects have been especially chosen to be auctioned during the five days for their potential of going under the hammer to establish the market value of this new and different form of Art. This will of course enhance the value of everything on display at this particular Celtic Festival.

*A nominal door charge general admission fee will apply for all visitors to the Celtic Festival Arconic Art Show. Patrons will be advised that ‘A major percentage of these entry charges collected will be presented on Sunday night at the Matadors & Martial Artists Ball to your Country’s:

Archaeological Society for the Betterment of Future Generations

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WEDNESDAY – DAY ONE
Midday – 1.00 pm

CELTIC ARCONIC ART & CRAFT FESTIVAL PRESENTS

CELTIC FASHION PARADE

For one hour every day at midday there will be a CELTIC FASHION PARADE; these designs will either be eliminated or chosen to move forward towards the finals on day five – Midday Sunday. All major Universities of the Country involved will be invited to compete for the honour to have ‘their design’ worn during the walk down the red carpet by our female celebrities. This will be a feature of their arrival to the GRAND OPENING of the final Festival attraction, the FOUR SEASONS MATADORS & MARTIAL ARTISTS - BALL on Sun-day, the Festivals fifth and final night.

*This competition will be judged by local fashion industry experts, the TOP Fashion-Finalists will win prizes for both themselves and the University that they represent.

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WEDNESDAY – DAY ONE
1.00pm. – 3.00 pm.

CELTIMANIA PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENT

MAYORAL CIVIC
CELTIC CHARITY LUNCHEON

With many special guests, some prime entertainment and a complete Celtic Menu & Celtic Wine list this luncheon is designed to raise money for a worthy charity. At the same time it will give Celtimania Productions an opportunity to sincerely thank all direct Sponsors, all Corporate Entities and everyone involved from set-up to clean-up that are involved in the entire process of putting a Celtic Festival of this immense magnitude together.

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WEDNESDAY - DAY ONE
5.00 pm. – 8.00 pm

CELTIMANIA PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENT

WAR - Win Another Round
ANCIENT ATHLETICS GAMES

• This is the opening day of the WAR - Win Another Round of Ancient Athletics Games featuring every aspect of Martial Arts Competitions.

• Amateur Boxing, Kick-boxing and MMA Events will participate in this WAR – Win Another Round.

• All HIGHLANDER events and specific athletics division’s compatible with improving specific skill-sets of the Ancient Celtic ‘War-Sports’ Machine.

• All Highland Marching Bands Associations within the boundaries of your country will compete in a standard elimination process for overall unique sound, plus marching and presentation skills.

• Everything above is repeated on Thursday, Friday between 5 – 8 pm and on Saturday and Sun-day between 9am – 6 pm.

• The WAR (If necessary) will have time extensions on Friday and Saturday to cater for Semi Finals and towards Grand finals on Sun-day.

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WEDNESDAY - DAY ONE – MAJOR EVENT
9.00 pm – 11.30 pm

CELTIMANIA PROJECT PROUDLY PRESENT

GALA CELTIC ARCONIC
MUSICAL SPECTACULAR

Highlighting selections of Celtic Arconic Musical arrangements:

SUPPORTED BY YOUR HOST CITY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

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THURSDAY - DAY TWO – MAJOR EVENT
9.00 pm – 11.30 pm

CELTIMANIA PROJECT PROUDLY PRESENT

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
WORLD WAR  1
BOXING, KICKBOXING & MMA EVENTS
PLUS WORLD TITLE FIGHTS EXTRAVAGANZAS

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FRIDAY - DAY THREE – MAJOR EVENT
9.00 pm – 11.30 pm

CELTIMANIA PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENT

ANCIENT GAMES - CAGE FIGHTS

In Association with the International UFC organisation (Ultimate Fighting Challenge), where these almost ‘no rules’ events are staged in an Octagon Cage… Two men enter the cage - and one man leaves this event.

• At the time of writing this document, today in the United States of America, these UFC Ancient Games - Cage Fights are the fastest growing sporting phenomenon and the fastest growing pay–per–view ratings on USA television.

• This event sanctioned by the UFC Organisation will expose your Celtic Festival and your City to a World Wide Audience from the Live Event and the post event international video market.

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SATURDAY – DAY FOUR – MAJOR EVENT
2.00 pm – 5.00 pm

CELTIMANIA PROJECT PROUDLY PRESENT

CELTIC BULL FIGHTING (FAENA) FESTIVAL

MMA - FIONA CHAMPIONSHIPS

A National point scoring competition will be established to find the most superior Host City Matador to be Celtimania Project Inaugural Celtic Festival:

MMA - FIONA GRAND CHAMPION

The Matador that wins this inaugural FIONA GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP will be the special guest celebrity of Honour at the final event of the festivities, the Celtic Festival - Matadors & Martial Artists - Ball and will receive the:

Inaugural Gundestrup Celtic Cauldron Trophy

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SATURDAY – DAY FOUR
10.00 am – 6.00 pm

Day four is the semi - finals day of the:

WAR - Win Another Round
Ancient Athletics Martial Arts Games

After three days of eliminations, today will have eight hours to eliminate the semi-finalists down to all the contenders for the Grand Finalists to the Celtic Festival Championships to be staged on the final day, Sun-day (The Day of the Sun, The Celtic Sun-God of Lugh).

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SAT/SUN-DAY – DAY FOUR/FIVE – MAJOR EVENT
10.30 pm – 5.00 am

CELTIMANIA PROJECT PROUDLY PRESENT

CELTIC FESTIVAL
CELTIC RAVE’N PARTY

FEATURING

CELTIC ARCONIC FESTIVAL MUSIC

Four Seasons Celtic Festivals take pride in their various productions that cater to all different age groups and the many diversified sectors of the community during these five day events. The CELTIC RAVE’N PARTY is always our Saturday Night Highlight Event and is designed to attract a particular age group within the Education System statistics of eighteen through twenty five year olds.

This event will be marketed specifically through the Universities of the Host City as an event which is particularly designed for them, the students themselves. The CELTIC RAVE’N PARTY dress code is come as you want, although to encourage fancy dress ups there will be prizes for the best dressed CELTIC RAVE’N- RAVE’RS who come as either Gothic characters, Warriors, Druids, Witches, Fairies, Goddesses or Hags plus clowns, goblins and skeletons will be accepted. You can come complete with Celtic face make up and tribal body painting, dressed as an ancient Celtic warrior ready for the battle-field. Or you could even come simply wearing an easily detachable ‘face-mask’ that suits the occasion, this is more than acceptable.

• With only the best ‘Live Bands’ showcasing their latest Arconic material.

• We will take these academics on a musical journey and they will experience the simple truth regarding Fado, Fandango and Faena.

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SUN-DAY - DAY FIVE – MAJOR EVENT
10.30 am – 6.30 pm

Day five is the GRAND FINAL DAY of the:

WAR - Win Another Round
Ancient Athletics & Martial Arts Games

TODAY IS THE DAY
ALL CELTIC FESTIVAL GRAND CHAMPIONS
WILL BE ESTABLISHED

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SUN-DAY – DAY FIVE – FINAL MAJOR EVENT
9.00 pm – 3.00 am

CELTIMANIA PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENT

MMA - BALL
(Matadors & Martial Artists - Ball)

The MMA – BALL Matadors & Martial Artists is a RED CARPET EVENT featuring first and foremost, arriving by Limousines, the Matadors & Martial Artists of our Host Country with Special Guests, plus all Matadors high-lighting the results of yesterdays BULL-FIGHTING EVENTS, plus Champions of today’s;

WAR - Win Another Round

ATHLETICS, STRENGTH & COMBATANT EVENTS.

On this Gala Night as they arrive at the MMA - Ball, our very ‘Special Guests’ womenfolk walking the ‘Red Carpet’ will be featured and interviewed. Questions will highlight their involvement with the Celtic Festival and they will also be quizzed on their ‘Award Winning’ Celtic hair styles, Celtic style of dress and Celtic jewellery. A natural Television Extravaganza, this Corporate Event will include Celtic wines and beverages and an abundant ‘three’ course Celtic dinner.

• We will have Bards in attendance in case of any boastful behaviour.

CELTIMANIA PROJECT PROUDLY PRESENT

CELTIC FESTIVAL
MMA - BALL AUCTION

RAISING FUNDS FOR OUR HOST CITY’S
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Our CELTIC FESTIVAL MMA - BALL half hour ‘MMA - AUCTION’ between 10.30 – 11.00 pm will raise a substantial amount to top off the full week of fundraising.

• Plus a percentage from all other sponsorship proceeds from this evening…

• Plus a percentage from the admission fee from tonight’s MMA – Ball and ‘compulsory’ raffle ticket sales…

• Plus a percentage of door takings of the Celtic Arconic Art & Craft Festival from the past five day, Celtimania Project anticipates the five day…

FOUR SEASONS - CELTIC FESTIVAL

Raising a substantial amount towards our favourite Charity

Which in total shall on this night is presented to:

Our Host City’s Archaeological Society Representatives

For Celtic Archaeological ongoing research for the future benefit of all mankind, in particular – our youth…

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CONTACT US NOW?

If after having read the information contained within this document, you feel the FOUR SEASONS - CELTIC FESTIVAL at any level of our detailed description, would be a Cultural & Tourism advantage to your particular Town, City and Country anywhere in Europe – then please do not hesitate to contact us.

To promote a Full Five Day Festival of this magnitude Celtimania Project would need the participation and involvement of ministers from culture, tourism-marketing & Major Events. Sole Naming Rights National sponsor, Gold, Silver and Bronze Sponsors involving Major Corporate entities. Several respected entrepreneurs, insurance, legal representation regarding obligations and a major accountancy firm.

Having stated the obvious in these final paragraphs, the rest will evolve by contacting either Robert V. Jones CEO or Michael Kenna GM of

CELTIMANIA PROJECT Pty Limited.

They are both easily contactable by phone: + 61 419 586 559

CELTIMANIA PROJECT PTY LTD
INTERNATIONAL HEAD OFFICE
#6 – 26 MILLER STREET, EPPING 3076
VICTORIA – AUSTRALIA
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Website: www.celtimaniaproject.com
www.bobjonesmartialarts.com.au
www.bobjones.com.au

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DON KING

DON KING, while serving prison time for manslaughter in America was laying in his cell watching a young black kid by the name of Muhammad Ali standing on the centre Dias winning a Gold Medal at the Olympics, and he had his ‘Five Rules’ and ‘Five Stage’ dream.

 

ENTER INTO THE HISTORY BOOKS - THE DON KING DREAM

1. THE DREAM
The first stage was the dream itself to become the biggest Boxing Promoter ever in the Entrepreneur Business. When the worlds best sports stars from every sport were battling to see who would be the first to crack the half a million dollar mark. His simple dream was to pay DOUBLE; he was going to be the first promoter in history to pay ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

2. ALI''S LAWYERS
For stage two, the first thing he did after getting out of prison, he went directly to Ali’s lawyers with a non committal contract clause for either party. Within which stated the promise to pay the million dollars within ‘one month’ to them or the contract would become Null-in Void.

3. TELEVISION
The third stage was to tell the television. He ‘told them’ about their advertising revenue potential for such an event of such magnitude. “Wow! Fantastic, we would film that world-wide, but what will it cost?” -  “Look I’d be happy to break even; it will ‘only’ cost a million to produce”. He left that meeting with their contract in hand for a million dollars.

4. SPONSORSHIP
The fourth stage was to inform Budweiser Beer about their new beer promotion ‘This Buds for YOU!’ and his plans for ‘their’ beer in ‘his’ production for distribution in hundreds of countries. Then he explained ‘their potential revenue’ with his ‘corner posts and centre ring floor mat ad-space’, two hours of the international audience seeing and almost tasting this Buds for YOU! “Wow, fantastic, we will be seen world-wide, but what would that cost?” – “Look I’d be happy to break-even and it will ‘only’ cost a million to produce”. He left that meeting with their contract in hand for a million dollars.

 

5. THE EVENT
Now the clincher, the fifth stage was a trip to the Flamingo Casino in Las Vegas. “I’m paying this… and their filming that… and their selling whatever, was his Casino Conversation. “Why us?” “Why don’t you just do your own live gig?” – “Firstly the prestige, a wonderful Image for my production. And just as importantly the Casino will connect Boxing/Gambling to an audience of world wide punters. If you invite high roller punters from around the world consisting of ‘them and those’ from ‘here and there’, some will win and some will lose over the tables ‘this and that’ amounts”. Dear old Don, he sure had done his Due Diligence while on his six year holiday. “Wow, Fantastic but…”

By now the reader will know the drill. He left that meeting with their contract in hand for a million dollars. Within the month he had fulfilled his part of the contract, he gave a ‘check’ to Ali’s lawyers for ‘ONE’ and kept the other two for himself. And what’s more, ‘EVERYBODY’ was extremely happy and Don King had established his ‘Five Rules’ and up until today, he’s never changed them. If it’s not broken, why bother to…?”

All the while that this story was taking place on the other side of the world, during the same time frame being the late sixties in Australia, the same story (without the prison connection) was being put into place by the second of Bob Jones’ Mentors, now deceased to the detriment of the Fighting Promotion Business in this country, Mr Bill ‘Break-Even’ Mordey.

Don and Bill both taught Bob Jones the same invaluable lesson… when you are in the fight-game as a promoter; the actual fighters are like junior partners in ‘your’ company, except much sooner than later they will have to retire.

While at the peak of their performance they are invaluable as an asset for this company of yours. Always make sure you pay them ‘better’ than anyone else could, this way the next junior partner you sign up will train, work and fight even harder before he comes face to face with that inevitable retirement issue.

Mr King and Mr Mordey both signed up a lot of junior partners in their time, and the prize money was ‘always’ astronomical. Â

Historically famous for not only putting boxing on the map in this country, he was even more famous for his professional GAMBLING skills. Bill ‘Break-Even’ Mordey would BET on just about anything, as long as it had movement. Bob Jones is sure Bill would wish all of us happy punting on this completely new:

‘GAMBLING - CIRCUIT’

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WARS : World All-Sstyles Rules & Sanctioning:

The Rules of WW1… dictate the fighters fight five rounds with ‘Two-Up’ also meaning they only fight any two of our three systems during these five round bouts. Winning the toss allows him/her to dictate firstly, which two systems will be fought at this event. Secondly they get to use their odds and evens advantage ie, which system will they nominate for rounds 1-3-5 leaving the alternate system for rounds 2 & 4.

This is invaluable betting information for a knowledgeable gambler that understands the form of these fighters via their skills of the three arts and also their lack of… this will be a major influence of them placing their bets as well as allowing for the odds that will be on offer for exactly the same reasons. Another careful consideration of the punter being that the support card bouts are five rounds of three minutes.

Professional fights and title fights are all ‘five’ rounds of ‘five’ minute’s duration with two minute rest periods, fitness now a major consideration regarding the placing of bets.

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The Rules of our second promotion WW2:

Will dictate that to elevate audience statistics from our first wave of promotions being Hells Belles and/or “Who will win?” and our first Super Show; WAR1 followed by WW1 we will expand our interest to a broader fan base by introducing ‘three exciting’ new formats. A new WAR means these new stronger warriors need new weapons of mass destruction, better technology, better strategies and espionage, better communications all guaranteeing a much more exciting WAR.

BOXE.WW2:

BOXE, our brand of Western Boxing as a featured highlight at the WW2 Event (Second World War), features two major weapons (the two fists) of mass destruction. Used as a total science of self-defense where the concept is to define your defense and ability to strike without being struck. The intrigue for the fight fan as always is that both fighters are fully trained with this same strategy. Five round bouts by five minutes duration with two minute rest periods of western boxing – that’s twenty five minutes fighting time (with four by two minute rest periods, that’s ‘thirty three minutes of ring-time’). Boxers currently fight up to twelve rounds that are three minutes duration – thirty six minutes fighting time (with eleven by one minute rest periods, that’s ‘forty seven minutes of ring-time’) during which more often than not the boxers are using many of the middle rounds for resting to reserve energies for the later rounds to allow for a strong finish – “for this reason sometimes Boxing is Boring”.

*Five by five minute rounds has all of the endurance without the ‘middle’ rest rounds; the world of multiple millions of boxing fans will embrace this style of western boxing, fully addicted to BOXE from first time viewing.

K-B.WW2:

Western Kick-boxing (K-B) as a featured highlight also at this our Second World War, featuring five round bouts by five minutes with two minute rest periods. Eight weaponsof mass destruction (two fists, two elbows, two knees and two feet) used as a total science of ‘opponent-destruction’. In Kick-boxing our WWR -World Wars Rules of ‘technical points scoring’ is not as important as the level of aggression; the walk up fighter using all eight weapons will most times take the judges decision, including multiple numbers of ‘phone-ins’ from our ‘FIGHT-JUDGE’ system of ‘Punters Scoring’ scoring the fight live from the comfort of their homes.

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MMA.WW3:

Following on from our first promotion titled; WAR – Win Another Round where they fight ‘one’ round each boxing, kick-boxing and very ancient wrestling being a three round bout of either three or five minutes duration. MMA.WW3 will feature World Title Fights of ‘Nine Rounds’ (each of these rounds always being three minutes duration) with ‘three rounds’ of boxing. Then they will kick-box for three rounds, finishing the bout with three rounds of MMA. If anybody tries to rest in these ‘middle rounds’ the aggression of the kick-boxing rule will have them devoured.

Moving along into our future promotions, another featured highlight at the World War Series will be MMA – Mixed Martial Arts, very similar to Americas infamous Rules of the Octagon (Cage Fighting). Five by five minute rounds with two minutes rest period. The level of mass destruction will be elevated by using similar rules to Dana White and his UFC – Ultimate Fighting Challenge ie, simply having much less Rules. If you ‘feel’ the theme discussed here (and I’m sure you do), it stands to reason these combatants resulting from the reality television formats and these WAR Promotions – these new fighters will be of an incredible standard of ability!

Here is a unique potential for;

1. Television free-to-air to expose “Who will win?” And pay-per-view networks exposing who is winning the WORLD-WARS (Promotions).

2. Major Sponsors for ‘Event Concept Naming Rights’ plus for constant ringside coverage we need separate Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsors.

3. Potential Business Investment Packages are necessary in all individual countries for aggressive European expansion plans.

4. A Gambling Network involvement is a priority (this is a punters dream come true) for our new breed of ‘FIGHT-PUNTERS’ & ‘FIGHT-BET’.

5. Major Tele-Communications Company will be necessary for a; ‘Break all records of all phone-in SMS all new concepts of ‘FIGHT-JUDGE’ & ‘FIGHT-PUNTERS’ & ‘FIGHT-BET’.

*Thank you for your time absorbing the contents of these proposals; The next level of documentation for you and us to get everything moving along is as simple as registering your Name, Title (Company position) and state the Name of your Company, as verification of our recent communication with you and we will forward same ASAP.

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ROBOT ARMY:
CELTIC ARCONIC CONNECTION

ROBOT ARMY lead singer, Reagan Jolley has trained in BJC – KICKBOXING and Bob Jones has been a long time friend of Reagan and his parents Robin and Lee. Recently Bob Jones was visiting the family and had a chance to listen to the ROBOT ARMY album. Bob was blown away at Reagan and his bands ability to nail his Arconic concept right on the button (Purely coincidental as they had not heard of Celtic Arconic Music before I spoke to Reagan and that was after I heard the album). Minor modifications of mixing even very basic Celtic indigenous harmonies to the music would be a beginning to create that Celtic Arconic Musical Synergy, that’s if the band were even interested.

The lyrics though are what really hit the mark, Reagan is truly a modern era Bardic Arconic writer, for this reason we have included ROBOT ARMY on our site; THE CELTIMANIAN PROJECT.COM is a website incorporating The Voice of the CELTS – AUSTRALIA which is part of a world wide movement serving as just that, the VOICE OF THE CELTS WORLD WIDE!

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SHARKA:
CELTIC ARCONIC CONNECTION

I met Sharka recently through Michael Bikikski one of my old time early seventies Black Belts, who himself is a very accomplished musicologist. We have been involved in music and other business interests for several years now, you may be aware of Lexi Rose a female singer I went to America with recently to help with her promotions. Michael has followed the progress of Celtic Arconic Music and has been involved constructively in my new creation which of course is my new passion. Having worked on this with me since the beginning, he certainly understands the concept. When he said I should listen to Sharka as he felt I would be pleasantly surprised, I took him at his word.

I listened to her first album and was pleasantly surprised, as Sharka like Reagan from ROBOT ARMY also qualifies for what I class as a new millennium Arconic Bardic writer and she is improving with every new song she writes. Sharka is very attractive with a little sister come girl next door appeal. She keeps herself in shape with a lot of outdoor activities, and has extreme interest in the future of the planet; she shares the vision of achieving this by getting involved at the grass roots level of the CELTIMANIA PROJECT. She loves nothing more than creating lyrics designed to make a difference. Although Sharka is only in her early twenties she has an unusual quality of maturity within her Celtic style music. Perhaps some of this maturity comes with the cohesion of the multi talented skills of her Producer, Neale Farnell.

Musically, they have a great working relationship and he also knows exactly the direction I wish to take my music, and has offered his services in any way possible. Included here are some samples of SHARKA and her recent writings. I look forward to seeing her latest contributions of ‘Celtic Arconic Music’ here on the site, as I know you will like her, come back soon for her new previews.

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CELTIC ARCONIC CONNECTION

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THE ART OF STRATEGY THE MAKING OF THE ‘BJC’ ‘BOB JONES CADRE’ Bob Jones has spent a lifetime dedicated to developing an international team of trained personnel essential for the conduct and management of his ever expanding global organization (i.e, Cadre). For what is now entering a time frame of almost half a Century, all of these team leaders have been advised to read a specific catalogue of books and make a continuous study of two in particular Firstly, the 2,500 year old ‘proven epic’ titled ‘The Art of War’ authored by Sun Tzu, China’s most revered war scientist and social strategist. Thirteen chapters cover all aspects relative of being successful against all forms of oppression. Secondly, during the Twentieth Century Morihei Ueshiba, a Japanese author drew much acclaim with his ‘The Art of Peace’ where he is adamant that war should not even be allowed the propensity to exist. Now with the trials and tribulations of the Twenty First Century thrust upon today’s society, Bob Jones with the assistance of several elite ‘Mentor Members’ of his International Cadre (BJC), they bring together for the world stage an exclusive seminar Filling in any gaps between ‘War and Peace’ Bob Jones delivers; -THE ART OF STRATEGY- ‘Life survival skills for the 21st Century’   CREATIVITY Ability for identifying and putting ‘ideas’ into practice CONTAINMENT Ability to organize and consolidate your involvement within the Material World CONSUMMATION Ability to break ‘your’ World down and place it back into Its correct constituents CELTIC COSMOLOGY Ability to penetrate and unite all things of matter and spirit CELTIC COSMOGRAPHY Ability to penetrate and unite all things of matter and spirit 1. CREATIVITY Ability for identifying and putting your ‘ideas’ into practice BJMA - INITIAL LEVEL WIZARD (Wisdom) PHILOSOPHY: SIXTH DEGREE *CREATIVITY: Having the power to create. The quality of being able to produce original work or ideas in any field; productive; constructive. Especially in a theological sense (culminating in a synthesis or philosophy of religion). *IDEAS: The result of thinking; a definately formulated thought. A plan or project: to have an idea of going into business. A concept; a mental representation of something perceived through the senses. (see following notes extract of the senses and materialism from ‘The Art of Peace’: Morihei Ueshiba) *IDEOLOGY: The ideas or kind of thinking characteristic of an individual or group; specifically, the ideas & objectives that influence a whole group or national culture. A clear idea of social justice. (Re: Webster Comprehensive Dictionary). The only cure for materialism is the cleansing of the six senses (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind). If the senses are clogged, one’s perception is stifled. The more it is stifled, the more contaminated the senses become. This creates disorder in the world, and that is the greatest evil of all. Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body and soul will glow, and your CREATIVITY will know no boundarie. THE ART OF PEACE: Morihei Ueshiba Will your CREATIVITY have you: Unemployed? Working for someone else? Self employed? Employing others? Become an Entrepreneur? Be mindful that your creative ideas in some way compliment a purpose for the benefit of mankind. Ideas created of this nature will automatically create for you - a rewarding journey of BLISS. Follow your BLISS with aggrandizing passion. This will undoubtedly create more than sufficient financial gains devoid of any ‘self interest’ of same. Your ideas are free; their ‘financial creation’ will be directly proportionate to the magnitude of the idea. Once you have CREATED the matrix of your idea the principle behind any action is that to do anything BIG is only marginally more than to do something small - seek the infinite! *Aim for the sky be sure to make the top of the mountain. *BJC - CADRE -  The Henry Ford Conference connection! During the 1920’s at an annual board meeting where most of Mr Ford’s top executives had come together for major decision making regarding the directional planning for this major corporate conglomerate. Around the conference table were thirty two executives all personally hand picked for their various individual skills, by Mr Henry Ford. Amongst these seasoned corporate powerhouses was one young executive, who had recently finished university with an honors degree as an engineer. He had a question for Mr Ford that was a highly technical enquiry regarding their latest motor engine compression ratios. For which the owner of the Ford Car Company responded: Well sir, you are most likely the youngest and most likely one of the smartest men present here today, what an intelligent area of due diligence investigation, unfortunately I must apologize for not having a response for your question. I do however have a response for everyone else present here today, If you and I do not have the answer to your question within several minutes, at least three of these well informed gentlemen seated around this table will be looking for new employment, that I do know! Of course the moral to this story is austerely transparent, if ‘you’ don’t have the answers or the no-how for what you are currently planning to do, surround yourself with the people who do! This story inspired me very early in my career. So much so I have spent every day of my life strategically building the BJC - BOB JONES CADRE (highly trained personnel essential in the conduct and management of the BJC - BOB JONES CORPORATION). 2. CONTAINMENT Ability to organize and consolidate your involvement within the Material World BJMA - MIDDLE LEVEL WIZARD (Wisdom) PHILOSOPHY: SEVENTH DEGREE CONTAINMENT: The engagement of the enemy so that he is unable to extricate forces for use elsewhere. (re, Webster Comprehensive Dictionary) The metaphysical aspects or dimensions of containment refer to the ideal nature or order of things, and the way these (different) things may relate to each other. Specifically it delineates the ontological structure and dynamics of the natural order, and within the martial arts, this has the basis in the ‘Chi’ (an ancient Gaelic/Celtic word of indo-European extraction referring to ‘internal vital energy force’). It is this ‘Chi’ that must be connected with the ethical behavior (mental forethought) to achieve a state of CONTAINMENT. University Philosophy Assignment (Prepared by request of Professor Mr John Saunders 16-10-1995): ‘CONTAINMENT’ by Ziad Zakharia BJMA - 4th DEGREE *The subject matter of containment is your ability to organize and consolidate your involvement within the material world. Within this ‘material world’ there is an ‘accepted expression’ regarding someone that has done the wrong thing by you. Perhaps even after losing large sums of your savings, they simply state - Don’t worry buddy its only money don’t get upset, it’s nothing to do with our personal relationship - its only business. We do not know who originated this disgusting expression but it could have been any one of these three; a Mafia boss, a Politician or a Bank Manager. WARNING: Due-diligence (investigative research) is the name of the game; know everything there is to know about your latest project. Especially the human factor - know who you are dealing with, know where your financial involvement is at all times. One good thing about being who we are, we only do business projects with ‘proven-people’ we have known for many years including Masters, Wizards and Professors. With our particular skills and philosophic outlook on life - no one would ever dare say; It’s only Business THE CONTAINER VERSUS THE CONTAINED *CONTAINED (second person negative): The CONTAINMENT you have conceived, believed and achieved over your opponent must cause him absolutely ‘no intentional harm’. For the attainment of bliss to yield full rewards your financial gain must not be of any direct sufferance to the contained opponent. *CONTAINER (first person positive): To solidify CONTAINMENT you must adhere to this ‘CONNECTION’ of the two challengers. This containment connection of two challengers can also be viewed as a solitary experience. For you to acquire the ability to not only organize, but also consolidate your involvement within the Material World with ‘no internal harm’ to your self business interests you must... NEVER SPEND MORE THAN YOU EARN! COMPOUND INTEREST - ESCALATING A combination of two or more elements, ingredients, or parts invested in savings environments. Interest computed not only on the original principal but also on interest earned in succeeding periods. COMPOUND INTEREST - DESCENDING Credit card excesses, long-time Mortgages, Inappropriate Purchasing, ill-advised Loans, etc. *Never spending more than you earn will within a short period of time give you the opportunity to invest wisely. Now due-diligence is required for success into ‘any’ new venture, ‘KNOW YOUR ENEMY’ (Sun Tzu). Whether it be a long time Blue Chip holding or a new business venture, stocks and bonds, playing the markets or property, you must be informed to do your due-diligence. 3. CONSUMMATION Ability to break ‘your’ World down and place it back into its correct constituents BJMA - HIGHEST LEVEL WIZARD (Wisdom) PHILOSOPHY: EIGHTH DEGREE *CONSUMMATION: Of the highest Degree. To bring to completion or perfection; achieve. To fulfill, as a marriage by cohabitation. (re, Webster Comprehensive Dictionary) The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline (Containment), thus it is within his power to control success. THE ART OF WAR: Sun Tzu An awareness to re-evaluate circumstances at any given time - instantly changing direction whenever necessary. Avoiding any unnecessary change is to come to the realization that the metaphysical aspects and dimensions of the marriage between your CREATION of an ‘idea’ (mentality) and CONTAINMENT of ‘self’ (physicality) refers to the ideal nature or order of things (spirituality). Thus, this moral fiber thread (soul - blue) between the ‘idea’ (mind - yellow) and the ‘self’ (body - red) is the cause and effect expressing the way these numerous (different) ‘things’ are relative to each other. ADOLESCENTS - TWENTIES - RETIREMENT ADOLESCENTS For the parents of our young trainees at our grading days, family functions and national seminars I occasionally tell these groups one of my favorite stories (Although devoid of any principles of consummation, it does demonstrate the concept of the balance of Creativity and Containment - or lack of in this particular story). This is a storythat any average and normal family can relate to and which I feel expresses the simplicity of understanding our basic principles of red, yellow & blue (when ‘blended’ together as one this - is consummation). I explain that if you ever have three sibling adolescents together of similar age ranges; sit them together on the floor, seated in close proximity in the shape of a triangle facing each other. Now put a ‘new toy’ in the centre of the triangle simply study their individual actions and reactions. For the purpose of this oral exercise I suggest the ‘smart child’ will be the first psychological reaction (mind) He’s calculating the ratio of three kid’s one toy and he is quick to intellectualize, ‘Now when I grow up I will own my own toy shop this way I’ll have enough toys for all of my children’. By the copious smile on his face it is easy to see that he is pleased with himself with this constructive way of thought. The second reaction is also by way of thought, this time it is the skinny tallest kid with the bi-focal corrective vision and his teeth in traction wires. This child is of the (spirit) and he is unassumingly thinking ‘Oh my dear God, Dad only has one new toy for all of us, Oh well, I guess as usual, when the other two have become bored playing with it, I will eventually have my turn - hope it’s not all worn out by then’. His body language exhibits a degree of conjugated anxiety and frustration. Now for the third reaction (or possibly it was the first, it all happened so fast we are not sure) this time it was extremely physical (body) to the point of violence. The smallest of the three, she has fair skin with facial freckles to match her waist length - bright fiery red hair. With her passionate desire of proprietorship of this new toy as she slaps both of her bigger brothers over the sides of both of their heads she has broken this new toy into three different pieces. The only one of the three to speak was our little warrior Goddess as she said politely; ***Thank you Daddy Parents ‘always’ reward my story with; Thank you Chief as now they have a better understanding of red (body), yellow (mind), and blue (spirit) in process. I then explain this is exactly how we judge them as they test for their ‘new belt’ they react exactly as they do at home. Our role as their guides is simply to explain ‘The Art of Strategy’ is all about their ability to balance all three colors. One day (in the not to distant future) as they continue on ‘the path’ of ‘our journey’ experiencing The Art of Strategy - each at their own time and pace will eventually sense the flickering of the white light - she will have stopped hitting her two brothers over the sides of their heads, her skinny brother (with his teeth now straighter) will make faster and more positive decisions. The three of them will have grown up and started manufacturing, their own toy factory supplying enough new toys for everyone! ***N.B. The language of the CELTS (Ancient Gaelic - some say the eldest of all Indo-European languages) explains Daddy, Da Da and Chief and father have had identical meanings as one and the other, since time memorial. And even more amazingly - almost every country on earth constituting hundreds of different languages - all babies’ first spoken word is Da Da or Daddy as they reach up for their father. Da Da since the beginning of dawn has also been acknowledged as the Chief - Protector (father figure) of the Tribe. TWENTIES *Before any of us realize these ‘toy sharing’ adolescents are suddenly in their late teens early twenties and they are here with you and me at this seminar, titled ‘The Art of Strategy’. Now it is imperative for me to make my major point thus far of their journey. For the understanding of ‘organizing and consolidating their involvement within the material world is an attempt for them to attain full financial freedom’, or at least ‘comfort’. This next decade while they are experiencing their ‘twenties’ is the most important decade of their lives. Today’s materialistic selfish world of capitalistic greed is currently totally off the tracks. The ‘I’ want ‘global generation’ have run up so much debt it will remain for their Grand Kids to pay off! For a direction with solution we must imagine if these young people born of the 21st Century live to between 85 and 100+ which scientific fact now suggests there is every possibility, this coming decade (between 18-20 and 28-30 years of age during 2010 - 2020) will be between 12.5% and 10% of your entire lifetime. It is imperative you make it through this miniscule 10% of your life, this next decade debt free. Only spend what you can afford, buy for cash or at worst high deposit and very short term contractual repayments. Limit credit card use; always pay out total monthly during interest free dates, do not at any time over expend; it is in the interest of the banks for you to only make monthly minimum payments, this way your capital debt constantly continues to grow. With their built in 22 - 30% penalty interest fees, this simply becomes a whirlpool devouring your hard earned dollars (This is the principle of banking procedures with Compound Interest - Descending stifling any chances of your growth potential). Here is a simple example of the bank in the role of the ‘enemy’ they want all the youth of the world in debt accelerating this high interest income for your demise to their financial advantage. NEVER SPEND MORE THAN YOU CAN AFFORD *Diligent practice of these basic principles, by the time you reach twenty eight to thirty years of age will have you; SET UP FOR LIFE RETIREMENT This is not a word that normally has any function in my own vocabulary, I use it here in reference to a story one of my best friends and advanced martial arts practitioners shared with me many years ago. Chief (Jonesy), have you ever thought about the fact that if we live to a ripe old age, lets say 100 years, well at 10 years of age we’re at a mere 10% of it all. With 90% of our lives left and being 90 years it is never an issue and every day is a complete adventure and seems to last forever. At 50 years of age we are half way through our life journey, still with 50% more living to do. Interestingly the days are much shorter now and there never seems enough time in any one day to do what is expected of us by ourselves and our loved ones. The consolation of living our lives with the discipline of ‘The Way of Strategy’ has us following our BLISS. Now every day of our journey as we pass through the esoteric levels of Masters, Wizards and Professors Degrees, each day opens a new adventure, a whole new challenge giving us total intrigue and the excitement of living in the moment. We have learnt much by the mistakes of our past. This has given us insight for making realistic plans for the future and wisdom for the understanding of living in the now; *no past, no future, simply now Before any of us realize it we suddenly know somebody who is 90 years of age and they don’t seem all that much older than ourselves. With only 10% of their lives left to live they say the days are longer now, longer than they ever were. Every moment is savored and every moment is a total day within itself This is a person that has lived and is living life as it should be - in the moment right now; no past, no future, simply now! CREATIVITY of a pure ‘idea’ (ether, space - yellow) CONTAINMENT of ‘self’ truth (physicality, matter - red) Ultimate CONSUMMATION (Universal perfection -blue). *These three concepts bring us to the basic allegory of Celtic Culture and axiology from Martial Arts of antiquity. 4. CELTIC COSMOLOGY Ability to penetrate and unite all things of matter and spirit BJMA - INITIAL LEVEL OF PROFESSOR: NINTH DEGREE *BJMA - Professors: NINTH DEGREES have an understanding of the general science and/or Celtic warriors allegory and axiology of the Universe. 5. CELTIC COSMOGRAPHY Ability to penetrate and unite all things of matter and spirit BJMA - CHIEF GRAND PROFESSOR: TENTH DEGREE BJMA - Chief Grand Professors: TENTH DEGREES have a warriors appreciation for the action/reaction of the ‘GREAT WAR’ between the Goddess of antiquity (BCE) and our modern God of the common era. And the esoteric power contained within this knowledge’ A personal interpretation of the Scientific Matrix within Celtic Mythology, archaeology, and anthropology that describes the World (Microcosm) and the Universal (Macrocosm). Including astronomy, numerology and linguistic connections (ie. Celtic and/or Gaelic). They see human frailties and short comings within the structure of society in today’s fast moving modern world. Together these 9th & 10th Esoteric Degrees (modern Druids) are heaven bent on penetrating and uniting all things of matter and spirit - Infinite Consummation. Gaelic, one of the earliest indo-European languages translates the words Anum- Cara simply as Soul- Mate and that is exactly what BJMA - Ninth & Tenth Degrees are, they are intertwined soul- mates. They are evolved warrior souls whose role is to give us each a greater dimension of the laws of the Universe. They are at the completion stages of their fifty-five year BJMA - Journey and they have evolved through planet earth and our BJMA - Highest Degrees, and are now uniting their forces to help clarify the purpose of life in this dimension. They have a high vibration energy pattern that moves so diligently it is like a constant flow of white light. They have been sub-consciously backing the energy of Anum - Cara for a long time, a very long time. All Ninth & Tenth Degrees have a greater understanding of their inner selves plus they are now developing the skills and tools to aid them on their journey into the realms of their own Fifth Dimension (Void). When we unite forces with them it is like a marching army, except that you are not simply marching, you are actually sharing the movement (vibration) with their strength. Your strength reinforces their strength and their strength reinforces yours. Our lights become brighter together, this is encapsulated by our reason for upholding our ideals of; TRAINING FOR STRENGTH TOGETHER We will teach only strong higher grades We will not tolerate weakness If you are weak, we will teach you to have courage If you are already strong, we will teach you humility INTERNAL FORTITUDE IS OUR GOAL The whole ‘key’ here is for you to coordinate with all these great helpers. They are your ‘family’ of brothers/sisters by choice i.e. your Lower, Equal and Higher Grades, Instructors, Teachers, Masters, Wizards (People of Great Wisdom known as ‘Druids’ metaphorically meaning one of the knowledge of the Great Oak Tree). Ultimately you can call on these Professors and our Founder They are all accessible within the BJMA. The whole ‘purpose’ is for you to realize your potential to organize and consolidate your own; physical (past awareness), psychological (present attitude), and spiritual lives (future visualizations) while living only in the moment, no past, no future; Simply the current moment - the here and the now BJMA - Founder and Chief Instructor/Lecturer:  NINTH DEGREE Robert V. Jones

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MARTIAL ARTS STATISTICS:

Compilation by: Robert V. Jones

‘Today, in China almost the entire population of 1.4 Billion people (20% of world humanity at approximately 7 Billion) practice ancient fighting forms on a daily basis. These forms are lethal fighting techniques that are choreographed into a ritual dance.

During feudal times with periods of occupation, this was often done to mask or hide their true meaning. Since the beginning of time all ancient warriors from every indigenous society have performed their *Fight-Dance (*World Patents Pending).

Based on the movements of animals and performed for their health, wealth, good luck and self defence – every day, from very early in the mornings to sunset the Chinese Nation can be seen training together in all of their public parks, religious temples and on beaches, mountains, lakes and in the basements of their corporate office blocks before work – now that is serious martial arts training!

All Asian countries have historically revered this martial and mystical philosophy for its life’s longevity aspects. The ultimate paradox here must be as the Asians were unaffected by the Roman Emperor/Roman Catholic demise of the Ancient Games in 393 AD. These Asian martial artists continued their practices drawing no noticeable attention from the West.

Then there was the involvement of the Japanese in World War II, and the West experienced first hand, Kara-te that kills. Paradoxically ‘Kara’ is an ancient Gaelic/Celtic word meaning ‘friend’ while ‘te’ is Japanese for ‘hand’ – thus the linguistic explanation for the word Kara-te is symbolic for; ‘The hand of friendship’. When one trains with kara-te they are actually offering you their hand that you may be their friend. Confusing when they curtsy bow to each other with both hands by their sides, whenever I travel to Japan I enjoy confusing them by deliberately offering my hand with a grip that is both firm and friendly.

After only a few years this was followed by the Korean War and their lethal introduction of Tae Kwon Do to us, their arch enemy. Then our fiasco with Vietnam proving underground guerrilla warfare and hand to hand combat techniques can kick Big Brothers arse. The only good for us martial artists that came out of all this bloodshed, was the introduction and exposure to these Asian Arts.

Russia, India and African cultures are based on the spirituality - occultism of very ancient fighting arts that date back many, many thousands of years. Little is known of these three as we write this proposal, but currently we are in serious research and investigative mode – especially from their well connected Celtic roots.

Today, more than half a century since war time and Japan has the martial arts code throughout their education system, and although modernized the roots are based on their Samurai feudal time’s culture known as ‘BUSHIDO’ which simply means “The Way of the Warrior”. The linguistic breakdown is ‘Bushi – Warrior’ and ‘do’ being the ‘way’.

Very popular around the world and growing in popularity is a very ancient fighting style declared the national sport of Thailand (Thai-boxing) which has had many centuries of strong competition from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and more recently (Due to the international efforts since 1986 of the author of this document - Robert V. Jones), is gaining acceptance and popularity throughout the Western World, enjoying explosive television ratings.

While the Philippines with their ‘Escrima’ are acknowledged as the supreme stick and dagger practitioners - two hundred million Portuguese speaking Brazilians all understand the expression of whether you are simply boxing or involved in a match of ‘Val Tudo’ which simply means ‘anything goes’ especially having competent skills for continuance fighting on the ground.

All throughout the western world, especially in England, America, Canada, Australia & New Zealand - they all market the martial arts with regular feature movies and extreme combat sports with constant high ratings on television and dominant exposure to martial arts action video games.

The most recent film of note being the highest grossing film in the history of film making statistics, Pagan based intergalactic Celtic- celestial - warriors (being oppressed one more time even though they are superior in height and physique. Covered in blue markings complete with special magical powers connected to Mother Nature and the breath of the ultimate Universal God – sounding familiar?), they are Avatar within the forests of Planet Pandora.

All of these promote our Martial Arts as being the best form of self-esteem, independence and survival in the now unpredictable modern world, with its 21st Century form of ever increasing and uncontrollable statistics of social urban violence. ‘On the streets today’ in these environments you need ‘some knowledge’ and regular training of defence against mob mentality and worse - the knife, machete and gun cultures.

Actually, with a lifestyle having me travelling the world for most of my life I have discovered there is a martial arts system, style, club or some form of basic instruction of some connection to the ‘war sports’ of Ancient Celtic Europe in ‘every’ country, city, suburb, town and ‘every’ village on earth. For this reason the martial arts globally have more combined practitioners than any other human physical activity. They simply have to be united for a display of their mass affinity and that’s exactly what Robert V. Jones and his three websites www.bobjones.com.au and www.bobjonesmartialarts.com.au his major CELTIC connection www.CeltimaniaProject.com with the acronym aptly explaining the ‘five worded’ mission statement of his dream and life passion...

CELTS – Connecting Europe’s Lost Tribal Societies:
Robert V. Jones – Probationary 9th Degree – Tara Miliate

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WARS: World All-Styles Rules & Sanctioning

COMING SOON

Rules

Sanctioning

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ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES
20,000 - 10,000 YEAR HISTORY

After many Millenniums (during the time of the most recent ice-age between 20,000 – 10,000 years ago) of sub-freezing temperatures with unbearable living conditions spreading out from the Arctic region engulfing much of Canada, Greenland and the Russian highlands - creating ice and snow between one and a half and two kilometres in depth. During the first three thousand years much of the Arctic oceans became frozen solid as far south as Ireland, England and Northern Spain in the Atlantic. While on the Pacific side the entire coast of eastern Russia and down as far as Japan and north eastern China - these waters had become a frozen mass.

These freezing temperatures rose and fell intermittingly until between 11,000 – 10,000 years ago our world wobbled slightly on its axis and this bought on the coldest short term snap of all, known as the younger Dryas. At one point during these thousand years as the temperatures plummeted to their lowest, the Arctic Region water withdrawal and retention became a depth of two to three kilometres.

This spread across more than a third of the Northern Hemisphere causing a significant drop in ocean levels, resulting in temporally increasing coastal landmass everywhere. Beyond these dates there were no humans left living anywhere in Canada, the Isles or anywhere in Europe north of the Alps?
Suddenly and unexplainably these thousand years were followed by a most unusual rise in Earths temperatures. This massive wall of frozen water began to dissipate, leaving the plains of central and northern Europe reduced to barren and inhospitable tundra, a tumultuous result of the meltdown aftermath of this 10,000 year ice-age culminating with a thousand year ‘cold snap’. Beyond this as all humans were experiencing intermittent Global warming within less than five hundred years at approximately 9,500 B.P. (i.e. Before Present) the average temperature was as high as, and for a period even higher than it is today. During these times our oceans receiving this constant barrage of fresh water were actually in the process of globally rising 120 meters (with this fresh water having a catastrophic effect on all marine life).

These destructive rising water levels had more unfortunate outcomes with the gradual engulfment of thousands of coastal Cities, towns and villages. Dividing major continents, separating mainlands and with what appeared to be constantly submerging land masses - establishing innumerable new islands…

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From all over the Northern hemisphere literally multiple thousands of Aryan Celtic tribes for as many years had been migrating towards the equator, away from these bitterly cold conditions.In particular, from the area now known as the Soviet Union and the surrounding mountainous areas where these nomadic Celts crossed down through Southern Russia, on their westward pilgrimage over the Caucasian Mountain Ranges. These Mesolithic warriors being disciples of the elements of nature and avid Sun worshippers had them constantly in search of ways to take advantage of these spasmodic arrivals of warmer conditions.
Over the centuries many had travelled to the west through Poland and Germany. Continuing further west to the coast then down south into France and finally settling on masse around the extensive coastline of the Iberian Peninsula which they found to be rich in natural recourses (This area today has been Romanised from Celtic/Gaelic names to Latin variances with ‘Gaul’ becoming Southern France, ‘Gallecia’ - Spain and ‘Lusitania’ – Portugal, Port of the Gauls).

Much later (several millenniums) as the ice receded closer to its Arctic origins, the constantly rising water levels in the North Sea first separated Ireland (8,500 years ago) and then England five hundred years later was also divided from the European mainland (8,000 years ago), forming what is now the English Channel. Three and a half thousand years of warmer conditions (6,000 years ago) and the landscape of the Isles had changed from tundra to open lush forests.
Beginning with birch trees and then with a thicker cover of hazel, eventually over run with mature forests of elm, lime and oak. Now with the Isles completely severed from the rest of Europe these dense forests had abundance of magnificent giant Irish elk with antlers that regularly measured in excess of three meters in width. Further into these forests there were multiple herds of wild pig, red and roe deer and unlimited aurochs, the ancestor of today’s domestic cattle. A host of smaller mammals were also thriving with uncountable numbers of squirrels and pine marten.

Around this time (6,000 B.P.) there were Mediterranean seafaring Celts circling the Isles for lucrative fishing, thinking they had died and gone to their ‘Parallel Universe’ at the sight of this paradise. Bringing home this much needed freshly caught seafood and now freshly sacrificed smorgasbord of meat of the Isles, with exciting news for their families and other tribes of this ‘virtual heaven’. This was a message deemed to be direct from the Gods to everyone living in these extremely overcrowded conditions of what was now known as the Celt-Iberian Peninsular.

After much excitement and celebration these Celtiberian Neolithic Pagan tribes prepared only their largest seafaring ships. Packing on board all necessary agricultural supplies before sailing north and settling on mass on what they saw as two of Gods own ‘paradise islands’.

 

 

 

Throughout this time of pre-history there had always been sporting festival ‘War Games of friendship’ as this Mesolithic warrior race went about their endless journey travelling between towns, cities and nations. These ferocious warriors with their aggressive takeovers of territories were simply the advance party. They were actually paving the way for their families and general populace and in particular, their Neolithic farmers to follow establishing and sharing their advanced knowledge of agriculture within these newly acquired territories.

These ‘Celtic Friendship War Games’ were imperative whenever they conquered without conflict. As these immediate competitions of specific ‘war-sports’ had the strongest of the passive losers ‘win’ good positions of leadership within the framework of their victors newly formed social structure. This controlled territory was now ready to assimilate as their immediate growth in population would soon arrive from the unbearable conditions of the north. This proved so successful that wherever these Celtic advance parties travelled across the Globe – they always offered adversaries this very friendly yet very serious, ‘deadly option’:

“Would you like to - Play or Fight?”

It had been many millenniums since the CELTS formulated the Funeral Games with their connection to the cycle of the four seasons, relevant to the solstices and equinoxes. These competitions between episodes of warfare were designed to entertain the masses. While at the same time having them Fighting Fit and above all honing their warrior skills - thus keeping them primed and prepared for upcoming battles, a frequent occurrence – as many new territories opted to fight!

These Four Seasonal Funeral Games Festivals were titled IMBOLC (Spring - Vernal), BELTANE (Summer), LUGHNASA (Autumn - Fall) & SAMHAIN (Winter). This last mentioned season being the most important; SAMHAIN being the (Northern hemispheres winter) celebration of the LIFE, DEATH and REBIRTH of the SUN. Astrologically the SUN has died annually for almost five billion years, remaining DEAD for three days from December 22nd, 23rd and 24th being the three days of least daylight of the Winter Solstice. At the stroke of dawn on the 25th of December the SUN of our Galaxy, our Milky Way (with its four hundred billion planets being merely a small hand full of pebbles within the GRAND UNIVERSE) is to be one more time - reborn.

The Druids taught that this was the weakest time of the Sun and all nomadic warriors, when the Sun and its worshippers were most vulnerable. Having experienced an ice-age that had lasted for ten thousand years they had developed a healthy respect for the cold. Long cold winters were responsible for food shortages, sickness and death for many of the very young and the elderly. After these three days and as the Sun ‘comes back to life’ constantly growing and gaining strength and warmth every single day. These Celts saw Samhain was the ultimate time for celebration - as they knew very soon life’s sustenance’s and pleasures’ would again be abundant.

On this astrological date which has forever been the 25th December by moving one degree on its six months return journey back towards the Summer Solstice (In turn being the three days of the most daylight hours, representative of the mid - summer BELTANE FESTIVAL and our Sun experiences his most power on June 22nd, 23rd, and 24th).

Thus these ANCIENT CELTIC GAMES were created long, long ago in antiquity for the ultimate celebration of ‘Life, Death and Rebirth’ (i.e. ‘Fado, Fandango, Faena’) during the never ending journey of our SUN.

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