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Videos
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This video documents the basics of our traditional tournament throwing game. IKTHOF Knife throwing games. Texas 3 Step is a game that is both challenging and good practice for targeting and consistency. Good for competition and practice. Students and members of the Alamo Preservation team sing "Bowie's Lament" written by Michael Bainton Ph.d This
is the South Austin Karate Knife team representing the International
Knife Throwers Hall of Fame. We go to the Alamo the first Saturday
of each month and perform the song Deguello, Bowies lament.
We have knife throwing competitions and raise money for the
preservation of the Alamo. I have tried to find a letter from
Bowie written on March 5th ,1836 but although almost every man
there wrote to their loved ones that evening Bowie's, if he
wrote one, has never been found After many years of research
with no results I decided to write it myself. On january 25th
of 2009 I wrote this song for Jim Bowie to his wife Ursulla
who had died of Cholera in 1834. I wrote what I hope Jim would
have written about, the men who were to die with him the following
morning. I would like to thank Cliff Awol Hill and Dandy Dan
Mink for their guidence and help with the song. I hope you enjoy
the kids singing this song and would like to invite all knife
throwers to join us at the Alamo the first Saturday of each
month. Dr. Winders the curator of the Alamo and Steve Catfish
Jackson and his wife Pat were our special guests this time,
and we did raise a very good amount from donationsfrom the tourists.
They enjoyed watching the kids compete in knife throwing and
singing their song Bowie's lament. I have many things to be
thankfull for and this is my way of giving my students knowledge
of the history of Texas and so I can give back to Texas what
Texas has given me, a wonderful life every day I have been here.
Mike
Alamo Bainton Ph.D
Executive
Director
IKTHOF These
are pictures of the men and women and children of the IKTHOF who
compete at the Alamo each year with the proceeds going to the
preservation of that great Texas shrine where hero's died for
the courage of their convictions. The music is the full version
of Bowies lament as written by Mike Alamo Bainton and performed
by Dan Mink. |