Hi Bro Trevally

I should be Ok this Wednesday morning. I would have to be back by lunch time...so can we start very early?

Suggest P# as I understand got wild pepper leaf with ML potential. Will bring all my FS including Yang Zheng Jie.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

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Added on November 15, 2010, 6:20 pmHi Bro Ura

Wah Lau A- ...have 7 ML and 2L???

Here I am trying to give you a good fight and you suddenly have yet another new FS...Kage.

Initially I had some hope as I thought Kage was new and not so strong yet as it lost to Spar 5 in round 3 of Kage V Spar 5. However, the next video showed Kage giving Trio a very good fight. To think that Dream Team was totally crushed without you even breaking into a sweat.

Anyway I will try to narrow the FS gap by more video research, more FS hunt and I plan to recruit some foreign FS fighters for my Pahang trip in December 2010...hope to give you a good match.

In the meantime, where are the other FS Bros..?

Your Exspiderking

Randy



This post has been edited by exspiderking: Nov 15 2010, 06:20 PM

Hi Bro Trevally

See you at usual Sengkang place @ 8.30am. Bro Ura, I be at your place @ 8.00am, can?

Please bring a slightly larger container to fit the XL FS that we will catch tomorrow.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

Hi Everone

Yesterday was a public holiday, Hari Raya. I enjoyed myself at P* hunt with the great company of Bro Ura, Bro Trevally and Bro Ez.

I have previously been to P* without much success.

We all met at Lazer site about 9.00am. On my part, I managed to catch 3 FS and possibly the smallest male included. None of them were big enough to pass Team Randy's probation and were duly released. The weather was very nice as it rained the night before. The leaves were wet but I somehow managed to catch more FS than previously. Next comes the FS fight, the fight that is still fresh in my mind is the Valour V F1 fight. It did not last very long as F1 chopped Valour, both rolled into a ball and both rolled into the water bottle filled with water. Both Bro Ez and myself were too stunned to react and reacted a few seconds late, by doing the obvious, of pouring the water out to retrieve both FS. Valour is alright and I am saddned to hear about F1's condition. Yes, the correct thing to do is to release the proud warrior that F1 is. I was also pleasantly surprised that Yang Zhengjie has such a strong will power in his fight with Mako.

After that, we proceeded to the Magatron side and was surprised with the ease whereby we all manage to catch the FS. We went deeper into the Megatron side and it was really nice and scenic. There were 2 Ang Mo ladies walking their dog there too. I really have to thank Bro Ura for Black Knight as it is a good sized Fs with strong fighting spirit. All in all, I think we all collectively caught a total of 12 or more male FS. During yesterday's hunt, Bro Ura also taught me how to fold the leaf as the FS mobile home. The general impression I have for P* Fs is that they appear to wait to be caught They just look at you while you cut the big leaf. However they are good fighters.

Before I know any FS bros, I was in awe simply looking at the FS videos uploaded by Bro Trevally and Bro Ura. In fact I confess that I was frightened for my then 1st king, Ben King who had like me never seen a chopster before. After knowing Bro Ura and Bro Trevally, I relised that the focus of a FS fight to Bro Ura is not totally about winning but also to have a good video for everyone to enjoy. I appreciate Bro Ura's not letting loose his then Kings like Ramen or Aso on my then inexperienced Valtor. Valtor was allowed to grow in strength and experience and as correctly predicted by Bro Ura, Valtor can be a good fighter if trained properly.

The above mid week hunt helped curbed a big part of my FS addiction.

I would be joining Bro Ura tommorrow for a morning hunt and anyone who wants to join please feel free to contact me first thing tomorrow morning.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

Hi Everybody

Bro Ura, Bro Krauser, sorry that I, at the last minute could not join you guys in the morning as I woke up with fever. Am sweating now and happy is not dengue. All of today's plan put on hold like releasing spar and buying cricket...

It is exciting to see the new look Team Krauser and I would have brought along Valour, Black knight and Graven to join in the fights.

Yesterday was yet another fun day spent hunting with Bro Ura. We first went to Par## and I caught 2 Fs there. As I grew up catching FS in the soft leaf with vines or primary school leaf, I always struggle when I see a FS in big CB leaf...don really know how to manage confidently. Very often, Bro Ura had to help me.. and also my eyesight often mistake bu or kang. After that we went to Nirv### and check out the CB leaves...then to NT#. Even though did not really catch any ML FS, every flip of the leaves gives me the kind of excitement that a FS enthusiast understand. The FS fight yesterday was fun and I am happy that I have a fairly new FS, named Yang ZhengJie who is quite strong willed and could produce a good video. He is probably a big SL caught near where Valtor, my first FS love was caught. So far I seem to have good FS luck at the Valtor spot having caught Valtor, Long arms, Yang ZhengJie and Valour.

Mrs Exspiderking has helped to make a video dedicated to Valtor, hope you guys enjoy it:-

Valtor's finest moments

Your Exspiderking

Randy

This post has been edited by exspiderking: Nov 20 2010, 03:19 PM

Hi

Don have video as video was accidently deleted.

My lineup:-

(1) Yang ZhengJie "YZJ"(big SL)
(2) Valour (small ML)
(3) Graven (small ML)
(4) Black Knight (big SL)

YZJ, Graven and Black Knight has started to be a bit dark and due to be release soon. Probably I would then bring only Valour to Pahang to compare size when I recruit my foreign fighters.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

Bro Trevally, the video was actually made from scratch by my wife. This is the 2nd time she has made any form of video, the first being Ben-King's greatest hits. . Except for the 1st clip of Valtor vs ML Chopster which was recorded using a rather old cassette type cam-corder, the other clips were courtesy of Bro Ura.

I will convey to Mrs Exspiderking that you guys enjoyed the video. Thanks.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

Hi KopPao

Understand you are the owner of the legendary Transformer.

It is nice to hear from you..never had the opportunity to meet you as I just recently joined these FS activities.

Can consider hunting for another Transformer together with us ? FS are still plentiful and waiting for us to showcase their full potential.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

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Added on November 23, 2010, 3:34 pm

Haha, No Lah..Arch enemy maybe but definately not the Villian and the 2 last clips were coincidently Valtor's last 2 fights. Both were exciting FS in their own right .

Your Exspiderking

Randy



This post has been edited by exspiderking: Nov 23 2010, 03:34 PM

In this short period since I've started FS, I have heard many many times about the uncanny ability of Mr Golden Hands. I had also religiously studied every single video of all the famous FS caught by him.

I had the good fortune of meeting him in person a few weeks ago at N##. Perhaps unknown to Mr Golden Hands, I confess and confirm that his simple deed of handing over a good sized FS to Bro Ura that day had the word "class" stamped all over him. It was mesmerising, captivating and so so unreal to actually witness the Catching Master catching the best FS and handing it over.

But why, why did he not hand the FS to me instead?? Why ? I still ask I have to remind myself that my turn may come one day and that I should never ever question the discretion of the Master, the Catching Master.

Most importantly, the FS world eagerly awaits the return of the Catching Master. And upon HIS return, I hope to be the grateful recipient of the next big thing from Mr Golden Hands.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

Hi All FS Bros

For tomorrow's big FS fight, I would be at Bro Ura's place at 0710 am and my line up:-

(1) Valour (small ML) (normal FS)
(2) Sting (small ML) (newly caught, normal FS)
(3) Graven (small ML and growing smaller) (turned Chop)
(4) Yang ZhengJie (Big SL) (chop and lost 1 leg from last fight)
(5) Black Knight (SL) (chop)

After the fight, I will be releasing Graven, YZJ and Black Knight. Graven has helped cleared my misconception that Nirv### don have good fighters and I thank him for the good fights produced. I would have wanted to keep YZJ a bit longer but pai say as he lost one leg after his last fight. Black Knight should be good for one more fight. All of them have done their best to produce some good videos.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

Hi Everyone

Once again, it was a nice fun filled FS morning for us. Us=Bro Ura, Bro krauser and me.

First the fights. I brought 5 Fs and errr...did not win a single fight. .

(1) Valour fight:- I thought it would be a good match against Bro Ura's newly caught Brolly. Valour seem to have grown a bit too. The fight was exciting but I did not expect Valour to become Brolly's breakfast. When I blew hard to separate them , it was too late and my beloved Valour was severely injured. Valour was my hope and my dream and was sad when he passed away later in the morning. RIP Valour. I am now even more convinced that N## produces the biggest and the baddest FS.

(2) Yang ZhengJie fight:- His fight against Gouki was exciting and a good fight. He became even more injured losing another leg and I will release him tomorow.

(3) Sting:- Sting is newly caught and did not manage to put up a good show agaisnt Flowerpot. Will have to use Sting as a size gauge when I recruit my foreign fighters...very very soon.

(4) Black Knight and Graven: They gave their best and will release them tomorrow. Graven has fought admirably for this month or so. He was an underweight FS with one teeth caught at Nirv### lily pad. Black Knight has grown to be a small ML and was duly released with honour at the Magatron side this morning.

After the fights, hunted with Bro Ura first at the Megatron side of P#. Did not retain any male as they were to small. Proceeded to laser side and caught 2 Ok size male. They were typical P# FS who waited for me to cut the leaf and put into my small box. One prove to be quite a good fighter being able to overcome Bro Ura's Spar9 and is now the replacement for Valour ..like replace 20 cent coin with a 10 cent coin. . His name is Dynamic.

Well, it was a very nice happy FS morning for me.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

Hi Lonewolf

I re-started FS after many decades and I am now addicted to it. Didn't have the pleasure of meeting you guys previously.

I fully understand the anticipation and expectation only to realise that "nothing rewarding really come out zzzz".

One example is just this morning. I left home at 6.30am to go to "Valtor spot" to release my fighters and some spar as well as to hunt. However after one hour of hunt, only retained one SL sized FS. Later in the morning, went on a family trip to Sentosa and caught a small FS near Palawan beach. 1 SL FS was spotted near the changing room and escaped. So basically after 2 hours of effort with ants and mosquito bites, I did not catch any.

Even though the hunt with high expectation seem 'unrewarding', somehow my efforts are rewarded in other ways and when I least expect it. Example is Valtor, I was already late for a family appointment ..thought zero catch day ...and suddenly caught Valtor. For YangZhengJie, caught about 7 FS near the Valtor spot...use to think that was a zero FS spot. For Puff Daddy, he also came suddenly..from NT#... changed my perception of NT# totally thereafter.

So after these experience of 'unrewarding' hunt , I have programmed myself not to have any expectation whatsoever and I feel super happy when I catch a good sized one. In fact I now see FS hunting as a form of voluntary exercsie ...easily 50 squats, 50 knee bend, 2 hours of brisk walking. Catching a good FS during my 'exercise' is double reward.

Hope to meet you soon.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

This post has been edited by exspiderking: Nov 28 2010, 05:31 PM

Aaargh...so that is Brolly, a character from street fighter (think so). Brolly the FS totally destroyed my beloved Valour.

Think Brolly the character has a bit of my physique ... Hee Hee

Anyway I will work harder to get another FS for a good rematch.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

Hi Everyone

Yes, I am going to Pahang this Thursday, GPS, checked, luggage, checked, boxes with holes for FS, checked, five (5) nicely folded leaves given by Bro Ura, checked, super large zip locked bag given by Bro Ura, checked, cricket, checked, ML sized sample Fs, checked. Yes, I am ready.

Well, this is actually a family meet family trip. I last went there about 15 years ago. I still remember one place where I together with my Pahang friend effortless caught 7-8 FS, fought them and release them. It was like the lily area of Nir#### type of feel.

I really hope to catch good sized FS to give the NT# FS a good fight. Hope it does not rain .....

Your Exspiderking

Randy

Hi Everyone

I travelled 358 kilometres to Triang, Pahang, caught 5 very very good sized Fs and is now safely home with my 5 foreign talents.

I was there from 02/12/10 to 05/12/10 with my family to visit my friend Ken and his family. Here is a photo of err... a sign post that says Triang.



I stayed with Ken, a very good friend of close to 20 years, ken. He is Triang's exspiderking as well as Triang's version of Golden hands.

On 02/12/10 evening was my first FS hunt. We took a small motorbike to a small plot about 300 metres from where we stayed. It was a small garden with sugar cane, pandan leaves, some unknown vegatables and lots of mosquitos. Ken used the traditional kop method and caught 3 rather small FS. Alamak, all the way here just to catch Fs of this size????. Ken assured me that there would be bigger ones and that we would hunt early tomorow morning.

03/12/10: 7.30am, ken and his 8 year old son was ready to hunt. We took the small motorbike and went to small spots around his neighbbourhood, ken, like me had not hunted for more than 30 years. The environment is totally different from SG. Over in SG, I would look for CB leaves, but there, they don even have CB leaves. They had an Fs environment perhaps like what SG was 50 years ago...small houses with small plots of land and all sorts of vegatables and fruits. The drains does not have any cement base and was at best loosely dug. These plots were often overwhelmed with very fierce battalions of mosquitos, by the thousands. As we rode in the nice morning fresh air, I was fascinated by the number of swallow birds flying about, stray dogs lazily walking, birds chirping, in particular Or Pek (magpie) birds, see Kar Chua and snakes too. We were essentially in a small town deep in Pahang where everyone knows each other or are related to each other.

Anyway, the first FS of considerable size, FS No. 1 was caught at this plot of land:-



We were there about 8.10am. I was not mentally prepared for the aggreesive mosquitos who were biting every inch of my body. This was despite havin sprayed generously the best repellant Beach Road army goods store could offer. Then ken gave a shout to me, big one, big one. Hidden at the right side of the tree ..about 2 metres were some hidden dumbcane leaves. I looked into the leaves and was shocked to see such big arms stretching out and the Fs actually staring, no..glaring at me. It was BIG. Then my months of Fs experience comes in handy, decision time ...to use a NTUC plastic bag, Bro Ura's giant ziplock bag or a flexible soft long net bag Mrs Exspiderking gave me. I chose the net and cut the leaves in the net. FS No.1 was accordingly caught.

When FS no. 1 was walking in the net, I could not believe my eyes, here was a Fs bigger than any that I have caught and it was in my net. I managed to transfer it safely to my plastic container. Ken looked at the Fs and proclaimed that it was quite big and something he was use to. This was the first of my 5 FS. It was caught at the spot as shown in the picture above.

Then we happily proceed to our next spot.....

(to be continued)

This post has been edited by exspiderking: Dec 5 2010, 10:08 PM

Hi everyone

I am glad to see so many post in such short time.

Bro Kamal: Your wish to see Kingkong FS. Well, I suppose Bro Ura posting photo and video of Raksasa has somewhat fullfilled your wish. Wouldn't it be better to see Raksasa live in action, the real thing...to feel it? Honestly, I do missed hunting together with you.

Bro Trevally: Honoured that you want to copy the Triang trip in your blog , Can.

Bro Viper : Do I have a bigger FS than Raksasa? FS No. 5 is quite big and I suppose I would leave it to Bro Ura to make an "announcement" about FS No. 5 later in the day.

Bro KopPao: Your dream to see two heavy weight fight? Your dream will be a reality very soon, pls watch out for Bro Ura's post probably in the late afternoon.

I will try to finish the continuation of the Triang's adventure in the next few days.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

Hi Everyone

Just back from Bro Ura's place together with FS No. 5.

Compared FS No. 5 with Raksasa and realised that FS No. 5 is actually 'only' a big ML sized FS. I thought FS No. 5 was about Raksasa's size .....sorry for the hightened expectations. Sorry to Bro Kop Pao...heavyweight clash may have to wait awhile.

Basically caught 5 FS from Triang and confirmed Raksasa is indeed the biggest. The others are different variations of ML sizes.

Your Exspiderking

Randy

Hi Everyone

Continuation of the Triang FS hunting trip....

There are many many small FS spots to try. Almost every spot had FS. We did catch some FS in the other spots but there were not big enough, probably SL at most. What deterred us were, once again the mosquitoes. Very fierce, aggressive and by the thousands. It was the mosquitoes that determine the length of our hunt, we expect to get something big in minutes...or else run off to escape mosquitoes.

While we were riding around, we were chased by this pair of goose.



It was not very macho for two matured man and a child to be fleeing from 2 goose who were hell bent on pecking our legs. On the other hand, we could not be seen fighting with goose, right? Anyway, we did not wait to find out whether their bites were painful or not. I also don know my insurance coverage include bite from goose

During our happy ride, there was an active exchange of FS ideas. Ken's belief is that a gostun pao must gostun 3 times and move forward to fight...that would be a good fighter. Also the under belly of the FS must be darker in colour. Ken and I both agree that FS are normally found at the outside of any wooded area and never inside. His reasoning is that FS is a 'tame' spider and not a wild one. There would also be curious stare from people whenever we hunt. Some thought we were there to steal fruit. We often explain in Hokkien, liak Huay ler (catch FS). Liak Huay Ler is readily understood by them and they would smile or offer suggestions on where to get the best FS. They speak mainly Hokkien. It helped that there is an 8 year old boy with us as they think the FS is meant for the boy, instead of us, adults.

Ken then suggested that we go back to the plot behind his house (as we happen to ride near his house). I thought to myself, why? This plot only have small FS, why waste time? Anyway, we hunted there and I followed his advice to look at the Pandan leaves. There was a row of pandan leaf between the papaya trees and the sugar cane trees. I flip over the leaves not expecting much.

There were 2 leaves that stick out prominently. I thought, ayah, this type wont have FS one and just flip it. But to my surprise, there was quite a big FS sleeping between the leaf and continued to sleep despite the leaf being separated. I gently closed the leaves back and again, decision time. This time I decided to use my NTUC plastic bag, fold both leaves in the bag and FS No. 2 was caught.

By now I have 2 FS and naturally wanted more. We again tried other spots. In total we tried about 10 spots and they look almost the same like that shown below.



FS No. 3 was caught also from pandan leaves but from another vegetable plot. This time the FS nest was at the top of the pandan patch. Again the NTUC bag with my lucky scissors saved the day and FS No. 3 was caught.

By now it was about 0930am and we went back home to admire our catch. We had a total of about 12 male FS and naturally FS No. 1, No.2 and No. 3 had their individual boxes. The others proved unsuitable and were released at the front portion of his house where there is a small vegetable plot.

(to be continued)

This post has been edited by exspiderking: Dec 7 2010, 05:28 PM

Ok thanks alot for the advice i will try it out soon..
Wah.. Archilles and Hades both look Huge with long thick arms. I felt that Archilles is bigger than Hades. Based on Archilles's top view, can see its body length most likely exceed 7mm, a very strong build FS..

This post has been edited by exspiderking: Dec 7 2010, 08:44 PM

Hi Everyone

Part 3 of Triang's FS hunt.

It was Saturday, 4th of December 2010, my last day for hunting. Was hoping that it would not rain, but...well no control over the weather and it rained and rain and rain.. the type of long life rain that you know will continue the whole day.

Would rain stop hardcore Fs hunters? The answer is obviously, No.

I put on a thick T-shirt, a track jacket and a hooded rain coat coupled with a cap. ken was also adequately dressed to hunt in the rain, though his dressing was more basic. We left home at about 7.30am, not on a motor bike but in Ken's 2.7 litre spanking white SUV. I suggested to Ken to go to Triang river to check out the possibility of big FS and we were there in less than 10 minutes. The river isn't like what we SG people are used to. Over in Triang, we needed to drive through the palm oil plantation to reach the edge of a river. It was there that I learnt that the torns on the palm tree branches are poisonous and next time I am at Megatron side of P#, I would avoid the oil palm tree as it had this dangerous looking torns ready to poke.

When we were at the edge of the river, we immediately spotted a small spot with FS potential. i was mindful that there were many holes about 4 inches in diameter all over the muddy ground. ken confrmed that they were snake holes. There was also no indication where the river starts as the edge was covered by vegatations and don know why I kept imagining a big crocodile jumping out and biting us even though ken said there was no crocodile. We were able to catch a few Fs but there were not the big ones we were after. Well, now at least I know that the river bank does not neccessarily produce large FS. ken parked the car facing land in case the tide rushes in ....but well we left safely, no flood, no snake bite, no crocodile and no big FS..only rain and more rain.

We left the river and look at people's vegetable/fruit plot. They do to a certain extend look alike and look like the picture below (which was where FS No. 2 was caught). They also had some unfamiliar vegetable for which the leaves does have FS residing inside.





We then drove about and decided that the single storey abandoned house with primary school leaves at the broken fence hold some Fs potential. Yes, there were some Fs but not really big ones. Suffice to say, the mosquitoes were plentiful too. Just as I was about to give up as it was raining quite heavily, Ken pointed to 2 primary school leaves and yes....clearly that is a male Fs sleeping there. FS No. 4 was accordingly caught.

FS No. 4 is an ML sized Fs but appeared slow and the legs not sticky. However my months of experience tells me it was due to the weather. We then headed for home about 9.30am. By then Ken's white SUV had become brown from the rain and mud.

The morning and afternoon were spent with our respective families sight seeing. When our families were at home in the evening due to rain, we set off for round 2. We headed straight for the abandoned house. I looked high and low but the elusive big FS was nowhere to be found. It did not matter that it rained the whole day, was cold and wet and was still raining.

I hunted outside the fence whereas ken went inside the house...all in vain. I decided to bend down and flip at each and every leaf, a tough task as almost all the leaves were wet. Just then, Ken called for me and I knew he had found another big one. It was the natural reaction to call for support in case the precious big one escape. However I could not find him.

I called out for him and realised that he was opposite the abandoned house. He was across a big drain at err... a rubbish dump..a small rubbish dump (not smelly) where people left old sofa and if I remember correctly a fan and some car parts. The drain, a proper cement drain was about 1 metres deep and about 1 metres to jump accross. I decided to walk across via the cement beam and was safely accross. This place had a short coconut tree, many dragon plant and other plants and it was very messy...perfect for FS. Well the call for me was not to tell me about any big FS but to tell me he was there. Anyway, we hunted and caught a couple of small male. Then Ken's eagle eye spotted two dragon plant leaf sticking together and he declared "quite big". It was however across the drain and Ken remained there while I walk across the drain and across the rubbish dump. The leaves of the dragon plant which I know as Drascina (not sure of spelling) are long leaves and this FS nest were two leaves stuck near the middle, not at the edge. It was therefore a real challenge for Ken to lean over across the drain to hold the leaves, for me to cut and shorten the leaves while standing on a coconut tree branch. We did not want this FS to escape. When the leaves were shortened, I used the net Mrs Exspiderking gave me to catch this fella and viola....FS No.5 was caught.


By then it was about 6.00pm, cold and dark and alas it was time to go home.

We caught a total of 5 FS this 2 days.

The biggest is FS No. 1, now confirmed to be a giant. FS No. 5 is the second largest, a very big ML like Valtor's size and the third biggest is FS No. 2.

It was a very fruitful hunting trip for me. In SG, I don think I can get 5 good size FS in 2 days. Most importantly, I had the company of Triang's Golden hands, Ken. During the hunt, I was in FS heaven and I look foward to going to Triang to hunt again.



Your Exspiderking

Randy

This post has been edited by exspiderking: Dec 8 2010, 08:41 PM

Hi Bro Trevally and Bro Krauser

Sorry din bring camera on the second day of hunt, so no pictures. So you guys need to use bit of imagination.

It was in the compound and not in the abandoned house. Actually there was another abandoned house which I entered the compound on the first day of hunt. Got FS but small.

Most importantly the focus should rightfully be on Raksasa...he is a giant and is worth taking leave just to have sight of him.

Your Exspiderking

Randy