On schedule

Oh, a sweep of the service academies would certainly be CIC Trophy worthy.

Okay, have a nice one folks!

Ohayoooooooooooogozaimasu you fine people!!!!

On schedule

October 19th, 2012

By Stephen Tsai

What is certain is that one of the usual duties of a UH AD — football scheduling — will be in the control of UH coach Norm Chow.

Splendid. Is this in the AD rubric, somewhat or other?

No-no about Road Runner Turbo, Mr. Tsai. Beep-beep!!!!

Happy birthday (yappari tanjyobi) R.A.N. Have a good time!!!!

Happy Friday everyone. What a schedule, but ummm cool

GOOD MORNING HAWAII!

While the AD did do football scheduling, it some respects it makes more sense for the football coach to make the schedules.

I assume that the Air Force Academy will one of the “MWC opponents”.

A lot of option teams next year. Could end up with 4 in a row at the end. Maybe more.

You could certainly see your enthusiasm within the paintings you write. The sector hopes for even more passionate writers such as you who aren’t afraid to say how they believe. At all times follow your heart.

madeinhawaii:

October 18th, 2012 at 11:26 pm

Can those with superior skills take the easier road to make it easier for their buddies and take the edge off of their own performance so that the others won’t look so bad.

1-5, 5-1, 0-6, 1-11, etc…

Either way, who can really respect a coach that allows a player, any player regardless of superior athletic skills and natural ability to “take the easy road”???

The coaches have no say when it comes to MWC schedule. I looks to me that we may see more back to back away games. When we travel to Navy, it leaves a possible triple back to back game schedule. 7 conference games could also mean 4 away and 3 here for the MWC games, since no one wants to come here to play. I know it seems negative but with this year’s schedule, you never know man.

TGIF! In everyday life, discipline helps with focus because it removes distractions and can help make certain basic things kind of automated or structured. Automatic, right, but how did you get there? And not everyone learns about this kind of stuff or makes themselves practice it by college age. 🙂

Think about how you get ready in the morning, get in your car and drive. Because you allow yourself the right amount of time to accomplish your tasks (and maybe oversee those of kids/spouse) you are out the door, the last one out locks the door, you have your coffee and you drive to work without micromanaging the route and without running out of gas. You’ve practiced all of this and stayed focused so you don’t have to stress or “think through every step” anymore. So when you are on the road, you can enjoy the sunrise/sunset and maybe some good music in the background without a rush because you aren’t 10 minutes behind because you didn’t follow a structure before leaving or you didn’t get your stuff ready the night before.

Ive been reading all kinds of discussions about why the team is struggling, people challenging and questioning Coach Chow and Co.’s game prep, in game adjustments, play calling, personnel decisions, etc…

Seems all like fair game type questioning.

But then you have people just reaching for anything and everything with regards to hair cuts, names on jerseys, team walking out arm in arm, blah blah blah…

Occam’s razor.. Football is played in the field and preparations to win are done on the practice field and in the coaching offices and film room.

Of course, it takes $$ to have this:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=ncf&id=6913432

Kevin:

October 19th, 2012 at 8:09 am

If people don’t overachieve, that is their own fault. If people cannot distinguish the importance of discipline and the drive to perform at their highest and always wanting to be better than everyone else… then there is something wrong with the wiring in that person’s brain.

You know. The Nazis were disciplined. They still had something “wrong with the wiring in [their] brain.”

Let’s trust in Coach Chow. Trust in the coaching. 😀

Made,

I skipped reading over the part where you talk about working for a Japanese corporation because just like military life, it has NOTHING to do with you questioning the need for the kind of discipline that this football coaching staff has and the effect it has on people individually rising above others to succeed.

Plus I already mentioned how different college sports is from military life by mentioning strict discipline from other coaches at UH Manoa and how it hasn’t effect their ability to have players individually rise to the occasion.

One former student-athlete in one of the sports I am mentioning said how strict this coach was on them and had a reputation of being very demanding. Everyone had to essentially set their personal clocks 20 minutes early every time they had a team meeting, practice, game, etc… They had to look uniform on road trips, on the way to the field, to and from practices, etc…

Yet it didn’t stop this coaches teams past and present from having individuals stick out and rise to the occasion when needed and this player credits said coach for the discipline they have today in their personal life.

If you truly believe that the amount of discipline this coaching staff has instilled on the student-athletes, then I believe you cannot use your own personal experiences in a non collegiate athletic competitive field as a truly “fair” assessment.

NC for AD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Why not?????

Good morning Tsaikos!!! Hope all have a great day!!!

I hope the 2013 schedule will work out so that we won’t have such long periods of no-football at Aloha Stadium.

madeinhawaii:

October 19th, 2012 at 8:37 am

Deru kugi wa utareru (A nail that sticks out will be hammered down.). Each time I tried something new, I was told, “Japanese cannot/will not/do not do that.” My response was always, “That’s all right, cause I only look Japanese. I’m American and I can/will/do.” Thing was, whenever I succeeded, I was resented. I was the nail that stuck out.

We have a similar saying in the United States of America here, madein’; that is, “the squeaky wheel gets the most attention/most oil.” Mmmph. Church.

Let’s not forget the decidedly Japanese-American colloquialism, shikataganai (“can’t be helped”; as in “Coach Chow’s first season as UH football head coach AND first year as A head coach and, so, if you don’t see the wins that you expect to see [miteru], well, ‘can’t be helped.'”).

Relax, some o’ youse. 🙂

A Grease doesn’t know — none of us do; unless there’s an insider beyond Tsai on this board — truly know the state of disciplinarism over at the football complex (pardon the pun) over at Manoa.

But, keep this in mind, true believers — keep this in mind — and that is, you get too much traction sliding down the hill if you retain a rubber a5$. Never forget.

Papajoe… are you related to Coach Mac ?

34.Rodney:

October 19th, 2012 at 8:55 am

NC for AD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Why not?????

Please give me your reasons why I would want that to happen?

I’d like to see UH schedule a home and home with Utah. The two schools haven’t played each other since the break up of the old WAC in 98. Maybe NC’s connections with Kyle Whittingham could result in a home and home series. The Utes (2-4) are feeling the effects of tougher week to week competition in the Pac-12 compared to when they were in the MWC.

That is a really good tip particularly to those

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A must read post!

Yes, sir. 13 games next year.

Speaking of discipline, you guys ever saw those Korean Rock Soldiers?

Seing what they go through is brutal. Would rather have my gonads in vise grips rather than go through that kind of training.

#39 running a pass first offense is fun, scoring points is fun, winning games is fun…three things norm chow is not doing. at $32+ a game norm better get a clue and figure it out real quick…rick miano may be back at uh real soon.

If the players aren’t happy could it be because all of them bought into the conditioning program and the new team rules and had trust in the what the coaching staff was saying and having them do…if the rumors of what the HC said are true then I could see the reasoning for the kids losing respect and not being excited…again only if the rumors were true

ABOUT Rah…Rah…Rah…maybe about time we take a positive look at how Rocky, n Joe Louis came into the ring to do battle…for me it is just as intimadating to come out “resolved” to win..maybe we are “walk softly” now.. cuz we not have a “big stick” yet huh..We shall see in a few years..when our warriors will have that “big keawe stick” n kick butt..in the future…i wonder if B. J. Penn had keawe or guava…he he he…who sang that song “our day will come” or something like that ” IMUA

#47 the 13th game is byu, you may have seen a bye, but when looking with an open eye, its 13 games and 2 byes, not 12 games and 3 byes.

the honolulu marathon is the weekend following the byu game

I don’t mind the discipline that Coach Chow is trying to instill but at the same time it really does seem like the element of having fun and enjoying playing the game is lost with this team. I mean there really is no emotion on the field during games. They come out on the field holding arms walking together (boring), the haka is lacksadasical like they’re just doing it just to do it. There’s no Blaze Soares to just nail guys and get amped up, no Chad Owens to get nuts after a crazy return or clutch catch, no truck stick action like a Nate Ilaoa. It seems like even when Mike Edwards makes a huge return, there’s no real emotional boost to feed off of. It’s like it lasts for that particular play then dissipates and back to same ol same ol. I don’t know if it’s just me but this team just seems super boring to watch. Boring entrance, boring style of play, maybe the players might feel the same?

June Jones and his Mustangs rung up 72 against Houston. Reminds me of when Rolo threw for 8 TDs and UH put up I think 72 points against BYU. And I guess Timmy Chang who works with the QBs did a nice job too. My wife was asking who is that oriental looking guy on the sideline? Actually, I thought Houston would win the game since SMU lost last week against lowly Tulane and the Cougars had won 3 straight coming in, but too many Houston turnovers spelled doom.

There was a stat

Re:61

I paid close attention to the players on the sideline and they seemed pretty unenthusiastic about the game…at one point after a turnover instead of the QB who is the field general firing up his teammates he was all the way on the otherside away from his oline and wr’s….I really liked the leadership qualities in guys like Colt who was always getting his team fired up on the bench and got the crowd to make noise when we were on D he would be standing on the bench waiving a towel getting the crowd going…

57. Nope, never served with or trainied with “ROK” soldiers. Only experience with those soldiers was from afar. All I saw was 6 or 7 guys stretched out on two horizontally placed polls parallel to one another while another guy, I assume a drill instructor, was hitting the back of their legs with a wooden beam. Seems like a very thin line between discipline and torture when it comes to training. If you served and trained with ROK soldiers, I highly doubt you were going through what these guys were going through.

Here’s an excellent post by Warrior Fan Hawkpeter from Down Under…. (taken from SportsHawaii) http://www.sportshawaii.com/sh/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=43223

The concern over the current injury rate could be broken down into two considerations; General Physical Preparation (GPP) and Specific Physical Preparation (SPP). Additionally, some phenomena are generally common throughout football, and some are specific to UH this year.

Generally

Football players are in fact prepared very very poorly in my opinion. Yes this includes the most prestigious and well-funded schools. This is a result of a number of phenomena that occur simultaneously.

a) The athletes are pre-sorted, which leads to a lot of false positives. The genetically elite can still beat the genetically sub-elite even if they have poor general training habits. You can do stupid things with great athletes and win; this falsely vindicates the training methods.

b) The culture of football has a ‘get after it’ tradition of preparation. This tradition has always tried to emulate models which focus on strict chain of command flow. This prioritization will always overlook the task of preparing each individual player optimally. I once acted as a stunt double in action sequences of an ESPN movie on The Junction Boys. Based on a true story, this theme of ‘breaking players down’ and trying to establish chain of command, team bonding and mental toughness still occurs. Your doctor is a smart guy, but his knowledge is deep and narrow, do not ask him how to fix your tv. A football coach knows his X’s and O’s, don’t ask him how to prepare the general physical elements of a player.

c) We are still grazing on the low slopes of sporting preparation. There is still a tremendous influence of therapy education modeling and commercial fitness interest. Therapy influences lead to a tendency for treating healthy athletes as being sick or injured before they really are and commercial influences will push gimmicky placebos onto trainers and athletes in order to make money. The therapist is skilled at making a sick person average, not an average person elite, commercial interest sells wish thinking concepts to the gullible. The healthy athlete needs neither.

d) Football is a ‘fuzzy’ sport. To understand fuzzy and non-fuzzy sports compare short track speed skating to long track speed skating. In Long track, there are 2 competitors on opposite sides of the rink racing against the clock. All competitors are in a time trial challenge and pitted in a non-direct-adversarial task. There is very little craftiness or tactics on game day that can alter the result. The best physically prepared will win. Short track speed skating is a fuzzy sport. 5 competitors skate simultaneously weaving and darting between 1st to 5th on every corner. Stephen Bradbury famously won Australian’s first winter olympic gold medal when the first 4 competitors fell over on the last corner. The point is that you can win in football in other ways than having the best general physically preparation.

Specifically

The first observation to make is that due to the physical requirement of the game, ANY team that is struggling with the specific tactical technical football elements of the game will have to work harder physically in order to compete. If you have not mastered your defensive scheme for example, then you are always having to make more difficult tackles and allowing your opponent to build up speed and make contact with you having gained more favourable leverage. This will always involve more injuries to you.

This year, the new staff have taken over a large portion of the conditioning work for the team. In the past, I have been critical of how this ‘conditioning’, or what I would call energy system work, has been prescribed. If you look at the sporting task it is, at its most, (for players who play every snap of either offense or defense) around 70 plays, lasting 4-8 seconds of intensities above 80% for a period of 3 hours. The efforts are grouped in series from 3-12 plays. The energy system requirements are alactic-aerobic, this means that you are either going at full speed or you are jogging at a slow/medium speed and you have periods of recovery for another maximal effort. The locomotion styles vary from player to player but they are of power endurance not aerobic endurance.

All of this means, that players must adapt to the realities of this sporting task. Not all stress is equal or desired. A triathlete is adapted to run, swim, bike long in combination. He is ‘fit’ for that task. He is not generally fit. Fitness is not general, it is specific to realm you are testing it. The triathlete will go into complete cardio-vascular meltdown if asked to chop wood in a 10min race for as fast as he or she can. The big fat woodsman with a gut and a cigarette hanging out the mouth will hardly break a sweat and win comfortably. UH players this year more than any have been asked to adapt to physical tasks which do not match what is required on the field; long runs, endless up-downs, body weight calisthenics in multiple stations. The thing that most coaches and fans do not get or are comfortable with is that power athletes look like the laziest athletes in the world because they require significant rest periods of low activity or inactivity in order to produce high intensities again and again. Making power athletes stand all the time, never sit or be inactive or actually recuperate, is a complete misunderstanding of the sporting task; it is stupid and contemptible.

Worse than that, and here is where the real specifics come into it, the offense has not been prepared in a way that matches what it is trying to do. The OL for example have all lost weight, strength and power output trying to achieve a greater work capacity; this perceived idea of running lots of plays quickly in practice, hustling up to the line, getting more reps in. Everyone who has watched the practices will testify to this. In the game however, the offensive tactics have been to consume the clock, run less total plays by both teams, run in between the tackles and be physically dominant or at least competitive. The players are having trouble because they are beat down from this attempt to hustle, lose weight, play through injury and adapt to a high practice tempo. This is incoherent. Add to that, the new technical-tactical demands of learning a new system and it leads to a drop in competitiveness. Because it’s harder to make the play work, you will see more injuries; working harder at the same job will always expose players to more injuries.

Most of the misunderstanding comes from a desire to access a high state of mental preparedness. Masochistic training is prescribed, and it is being prescribed by a coaching fraternity of sadism. Some players actually like it, this is why I call it masochism. They think that pushing themselves until they vomit is a good thing. Garbage bins are famously positioned around the field so players can empty their stomach once they have gone over their lactic threshold even though in the sporting task this would never happen. The coaches comply, acting out what was done to them in the past and emulating what they perceive as best practice; that’s what they do at such-and-such and they won a National Championship, ergo, we shall do it too; in fact we’re going to go even harder! Its never questioned whether or why its a good thing in the first place.

The fundamental error is the belief that performance, be it mental aptitude, confidence, will to win, jumping ability, strength, energy system capacity or tackling, does not need to be stressed to complete failure in order to improve. You do not need to keep going until you fail. In fact this will cause regression because you cannot recover to a more optimal state. Studying film all night until your eyes are blood shot, running up a hill until you vomit, lifting in the weight room until crumple under the bar and running plays until you can’t block any more are all examples of over stimulus. The smart coach keeps the athlete just below the failure point for the longest possible period so that hightened states of performance are reached with patience and persistence. Claiming these eventual bounties bring wins, confidence and personal excellence……. right now, my observation is that this is being missed.

Think Houston threw six interceptions with 3 resulting in TDs and one fumble that resulted in a TD.

71. Well, it was from a distance and I didn’t think it appropriate to take out a note pad and pen and start asking questions, unless I felt inclined to join the pain fest these soldiers were enduring.

Speaking of discipline (again)….or lack thereof in the case of Wyoming coach Christensen’s post-game confrontation with AF coach Calhoun. I dunno, but Christensen should be suspended for a game, instead of the verbal reprimand the MWC came down with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaJDqBNo4cI&feature=youtu.be

Makes me appreciate Chow even more!

chow has to balance discipline with some aloha or he will lose this team.

Interesting comment yesterday afternoon during the Oregon-Arizona St. game. They were talking about Oregon scoring at least 30+ points in 22 consecutive games and they showed the some other teams that have done well. The 2006-2007 Hawaii teams scored 30+ points in 20 consecutive games. That was pretty impressive, but then again that was the best of times in UH football history. Now, our team struggles to score, or should I say we struggles to stop the opponents. We need talented defensive linemen badly in numbers first and foremost.

good day folks!

Repubic of Korea (ROK) military powers decided, after seeing the Turks in the Korean Conflict, that their soldiers/marines would be like them.

Thus, their “tough training” and the removal of body parts in Nam – some made leis of ears and noses to scare the Viet Cong – by the “Tiger Division”.

I believe the US joint field commander said very little to discourage descreating dead soldiers. If he did, the ROK paid no attention to his directive.

oh, yea, sorry, i no kan spel too good, ah. tanks.

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Was googling and read that men should be able to bench press, squat, and deadlift their own weight. Not gonna happen on this blog.

[a Grease checks in at The Hawaii International Film Festival‘s 3:00pm screening of Eight Rangers]

Capitolist/nyeeeehhhh Wassap Doc? You in this sceening?

92. hi mr.grease, howz your day going?

Oh yeah.. and how long is Chow’s memory on that?

Manoa Mist,

Howzit, I just feel like the team is just boring and show no emotion. Just like Coach, he seems to have the same scowl look on the sidelines and shows no enthusiasm or emotion. I mean where are the leaders of this team, PaiPai, Miah etc… to get everyone amped up. Seems like they are all quiet types with the same low key demeanor. I know my man Tony Grimes can get nuts but we need some killahz on the team to go for broke already!

#100 !!!!!!!!

So did Gigi buy a pet?

i like reading here mostly because it reminds me of how as a kid i enjoyed reading the funny papers. in between the jokes and friendly kidding around i learn a lot too! it can be a drag though when folks “bitching” as Tsai stated the other day–than reading here gets to be a drag…cheer up folks the glass is really half full!

Stephen Tsai:

October 18th, 2012 at 7:40 am

Gigi:

I don’t mind the grumpiness. It’s the same bitching that’s irritating. Some people need to buy a pet. Or would that be animal cruelty?

And here I thought it was almost-full when you’re buying and almost empty when someone else is buying….

Stephen Tsai:

Gigi:

I don’t mind the grumpiness. It’s the same bitching that’s irritating. Some people need to buy a pet. Or would that be animal cruelty?

I’ve learned that continuous blogging has most people thinking their own **** doesn’t stink.

Whether it’s the “koolaiders” with rose-colored glasses or the so-called ‘realists’ … everyone thinks their point of view or approach is the best.

Both sides also tell each other fo shut up too whether either wants to admit it or not.

Both sides do the same thing just in different ways.

Human nature to NOT like opposing views in some fashion one way or another.

The sooner we accept that the better it is and people can focus on other things than trying to change the view of someone they dont even know personally and will probably never run into.

I was on the koolaid side more than anything and I realized it was equally arrogant to expect people to accept my view as it was those who are so-called ‘realists’ that “call it as they see it” are.

But then you have this side group consisting of one person with a mental problem and stalker-like social skills and a pension for making personal comments about players and coaches full of lies and falsified interactions. 😆

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7 home games is passable.

8 should be the norm

norm you got that??

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Ai-eee-soos @ 122. hey good news for students to have availability to library on Saturdays!

Just me but this is how I see it.

Chow is the coach of the team this year.

Chow will be the coach next year.

Chow will probably be the coach after that.

I will always support the team and that is why I will also support the coach of the team.

I hope that the coaches will find a way to make it work.

I no mind that some criticize the coaches. I do mind when it reaches the point where it hurts rather than helps the players and coaches.

@125 Redzone, i agree!

RedZone:

October 19th, 2012 at 5:11 pm

Just me but this is how I see it.

Chow is the coach of the team this year.

Chow will be the coach next year.

Chow will probably be the coach after that.

Indeed. And he should be given a chance to perform all of the above.

There are those that don’t understand (wakaru) the same way you and I, Tsai, and others do. 🙂

130. SA, oh Longboard is very good brew, should you have the opportunity do try it–do so! I like your other choices too especially Miller. I actually have a picture somewhere of me at five years old with a bottle of Miller (or was it Primo?). No my dad just put the bottle there and took the picture, i didnt drink it…honest!

131. i’ll try Longboard beer tomorrow, hopefully the place i go to have it stocked.

#99 not exactly. sources tell me that last saturday night after the nm loss, norm was at the old saimin house… saimin chow fun same difference

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SAWARRIOR:

October 19th, 2012 at 5:45 pm

131. i’ll try Longboard beer tomorrow, hopefully the place i go to have it stocked.

SAWARRIOR . . . try checking out that “LIquor Rack” or whate er it’s called at Ward Warehouse. The shop has spirits from all over the world; very impressive. That store is toward Ewa side of the Warehouse.

That’s where a Grease gets his special soda pops. Seriously 🙂 .

Hi, gang!

Waiting for a HIFF movie. Glad this is a bye week.

GO WARRIORS!

C-Grease, are you here at HIFF movies right now? I’m waiting in Rush line for Japanese movie at 9 pm.

Oh, my God slugger — did we just do more of a remote Jedi mind connection or more Prof’ X using Cerebro?

Speaking of the HIFF, the documentary ONE TEAM, will be shown tomorrow at the Dole Cannery at 6:00pm. The Iolani Raiders Booster Club funded the entire project which explores the roots of the One Team philosophy that continues to drive the schools athletics teams today. You will hear the words of the legendary Father Bray brought to life and see interviews with the late Coach Eddie Hamada and others that continue the tradition.

Coaches are at a pay level that makes them fair game to criticism.. welcome and unwelcome. They are big boys and can handle it. If not, they should rethink their careers.

The players on the other hand are amateurs, young adults still finding their way. When it comes to them, criticize the play, not the player. (Unless of course, you go up to them when no one else is around and/or looking and tell them right to their faces.)

mo808:

October 19th, 2012 at 8:04 pm

Slugger & Chicken Grease: sounds like an HIFF cattle call… Shucks! Missed it!

‘SOK, mo808. It sure is a cattle situation in this theatre. One of the more notable films of this HIFF 32 and they use one of the smaller theatres, ai!!! Might be a studio decision, film so relatively new and all.

A Grease has — once again — his preferred seat. Priority membership has its privileges, hhahahaa, gomen 🙂 .

Slugger? You in this bunker!? Hahahah.

so why is this not the theme song????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRKYfHNMlqY

150. UCLA’s next game is @ASU Oct 27, 2012

Oh that explains why Jeff Ulbrich was on a flight to Hawaii the other night. Wonder who UCLA is going after.

156. i could be wrong, but i thought i heard this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5xrcalc9h4

ST,

Cant think of any recent softball alums that are UH trainers now. Maybe a friend of some players you saw around at the softball games?

J-Rod stay at Lamar as their pitching coach, Ricketts is busy with the UH nursing program, think Baughman is working with Punahou? Grimes went from Boston University to an assistant at North Carolina State.

Some mainland stadiums play Sweet Caroline to have fans sing along.

Iz’s version of Country Roads is beginning to be a fan favorite locally. More people are singing along to the chorus. “Country roads take me home to da place where I belong……

Garanz a lot more people will join in at the next game.

Not so much a theme song but a feel good song that fans are familiar with. Catchy chorus with a bit of nostalgia.

game time yet?

oh, heck… 1 mo week. 🙁

#166,

Yea. I thought that’s what I heard too but when I googled it nothing showed up. I figure I heard wrong.

#157 I know Jeff Ulbrich and UCLA has been in contact with Jeremiah Taleni a 6’0″ 320 DT out of Kailua H.S. He’s been a disruptive force all season for the Kailua DL despite playing both ways and almost every down due to the Surfriders small squad.

Looking more like getting the new AD named in the next two weeks will really be a wonder.

Will the new AD be the new wonder blunder?

I think norm chow should take a look at graves with running the option and the wildcat on short yards situations to give his offense a boost . Graves could have the option of quaterback sneak or running to the outside to spread the opposing defense.

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HIFF Highlights

For Saturday, October 20, 2012

By Star-Advertiser staff

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 20, 2012

Today’s highlights at the Hawaii International Film Festival:

“Porco Rosso” (Studio Ghibli Retrospective, 11 a.m.): One of the lesser-known animated features in the Hayao Miya­zaki canon, this action-adventure is about a flying ace (mysteriously transformed into a pig) who goes into battle with a rival pilot hired by a band of sky pirates.

HIFF HOW-TO

» Where: Regal Dole Cannery Stadium 18 (unless noted)

» Cost: $12, $10 military, seniors and students; available at Guest Services Counter

» Info: 447-0577 or hiff.org

» Reviews and more: HonoluluPulse.com

“Barfi!” (Spotlight on India, 2:45 p.m.): A deaf-mute man has a bittersweet relationship with two beautiful young women. This is India’s official entry for consideration in the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Language Film category.

“Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer” (Spotlight on Japan, 3 p.m., repeats 8 p.m. Sunday): From Yojiro Takita, the Oscar-winning director of “Departures,” comes an adventure story of a real-life samurai who overcomes obstacles in his visionary quest to create a new calendar.

“Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings” (Spotlight on the Philippines, 9 p.m.): An outrageous camp comedy about how a ladies’ man turns gay overnight due to the curse of an angry drag queen.

“Cloud Atlas” (special screening, 9 p.m.): The latest film from the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer is an ambitious sci-fi adventure with multiple time and story lines, starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.

Ticket counter, kiosk, . . .?

wafan,

HIFF tickets are sold at a counter inside the movie theatre lobby. No box office. This is a once a year (well, twice since there is a Spring festival) movie fest. I’m a HIFF member.

# 184 — right on, Slugger. Glad you got in. Hope you got decent seating? Were you like a dark blue polo and jeans and with a friend or something.

Castle . . . was well done, a Grease thinks. Insanely great slow-burn love story against the backdrop of alternative history (women Shögun fot starters).

The sold out Heso Mori (Japan) and S. Korean Horror Stories up on deck for a Grease and his Greasian pals today.

YOU TWILIGHT FANS: seems as if the Asian (the apparent ONLY Asian) from the Twilight films, Justin Chon, was at the screening of one White Frog on Thursday at HIFF. Gals who normally wouldn’t watch a film like White Frog (as they are Twilight fans) were there in doves and fawning, all that,, from what a Grease understands. So, he might be making the rounds these last few days watching films, I dunno.

The ONE TEAM documentary will be shown today at the HIFF today at 6:00 today at the Cannery Theatre. Here is the writeup from the HIFF website. “In 1932, Father Kenneth A. Bray landed in Hawaii with a mission to guide the fledgling Iolani School to athletic glory. Promoting the idea of ‘One Team,’ a philosophy designed to promote discipline among his players, Bray started a revolution in Hawaii sports, mentoring future coaching legends such as Eddie Hamada, Larry Ginoza, and Hugh Yoshida. One of his disciples Merv Lopes, guided then Division III Chaminade University to the biggest upset in college basketball history when they defeated defending Division 1 national champion Virginia.”

Right on, kev-1. Film festivals also show films from the U.S. That decidedly advance screening of the Oscar-attempting Cloud Atlas (currently sold out for Saturday . . . or is it Sunday?) Being one of ’em.

But, yeah, a Grease mostly goes for the foreign, mostly East Asian films (Japan, Korea, Honk King, etc.).

It’s great fun. Is exciting. Hard to believe, but, film fests are that (a Grease has been to Japanese, HK, Amsterdam, other lands film fests).

GO WARRIORS.