Seminars: Buffalo, New York or Louisville, Kentucky??

If you are in these areas and would like to check out Sayoc Kali. Full Instructor Guro Bob Shin will conducting a seminar near Buffalo, New York. Hosted by Warren Dabney. Date: April 28, 2012. Contact: Warren Dabney/Sayoc Kali of WNY.

And also...  Full Instructor Guro Victor Wong will be doing a seminar in Louisville, Kentucky. This seminar will be hosted by Guro Matt Campbell. Date: April 29, 2012. Contact: Guro Matt Campbell/Forge Fighting Sayoc Kali

Both seminars would be great to go to. Wished I had flying super powers so I could train at both seminars!

Class: April 15, 2012

Attendees:
Tavon
Lem

Notes:
3 of 9 template rh/lh
3 of 9 lh defeats rh
3 of 9 true left
Reviewed TD 1-4
5 count passing drill
Introduced silak in TD 1.

Class: April 12, 2012

Attendees:
Joe
Lem

Notes:
3 of 9 template rh/lh
3 of 9 w/tapping

Negative Responses or Positive Responses @ Maharlika Martial Arts: April 10, 2012

Today in class, we had three different groups working on what they needed to know for TD's (transitional drills). We had groups learning from TD's 2, 5, and 8. It's nice to see everyone working on something different and still have enough partners to work with.

One thing I notice happening (and I've done this too) was that the Receiver puts up his counter/parry before the Feeder attacks the target because they already know the drill. The Receiver knows that the Feeders next shot is to the neck or heart. I had to remind them to respond to the Feeders attack before acting on the drills next movement. I guess it's like dealing with bad situations in life.

Sometimes in life, we react too quickly before anything happens. Anticipating something bad is coming or going to happen because of past experiences. Or, our emotions start making us react wrongly/unreasonably, because we already feel it's coming. Stop! We have to reset ourselves and remember that things will happen when it gets there. When that moment comes, then we are ready to deal with it with correct responses (our positive/feeder mindset is ready to deal with it); not with bad responses or negative thoughts. But with positive thoughts (you can get through this bad time, you can overcome your fear of...) and thoughts of how you could learn from this bad situation.

Class: April 5, 2012

Attendees:
Joe (perspective student)
Lem

Notes:
3 of 9 template rh/lh
3 of 9 w/tapping
Blade protocol

Class at Maharlika Martial Arts: April 3,2012

I went up to visit Guro Bob's class. We went over 10 count Kayanan drill. Performed circular and bowtie versions. We later held focus mitts under the armpits to keep our elbows close to our body while we performed the drill. If anyone dropped them, we would have to do 20 push-ups. We did the drill at least  10 cycles. Luckily, no one dropped it.

We later went on to learn 5 count passing drill. We covered up to the third count of the drill with grappling applications. We couldn't finish all 5 due to time running out in class. So maybe next week we'll finish up the drill.

Projectile Training with Joe Cypressi

I traveled up to Baltimore to train projectiles up at Joe Cypressi's this past weekend. He had three areas to practice projectiles. I tried the bow and arrow first. It was about 30 ft out. I was trying my best to conjure up my "Robin Hood" skills, but I never got close to my first arrow. The next station I tried was throwing tomahawks. We practiced throwing the tomahawk from a running start and closing in to hit the target with another tomahawk (no-rotation) Also, we got to throw knives from no-rotation, half-rotation, to full-rotation. The last one I tried was the atlatl. I wasn't able to land any on the targets. I wish I got the body mechanics of the throw, because I was making the back end of the spear pull to the left more. But here's probably a better video to show on how to throw an atlatl. From Ray's Atlatls blog:

Training back at my place: April 1, 2012

Attendees:

Lem

Tavon

Notes:

3 of 9 rh/lh template; simultaneous 

3 of 9 true left

TD 1-4 

Receiver grips

Projectiles with blades