Developing

Last week I had a marathon of Martial Arts, roughly 10 hours of training with the legendary Bob Breen at the Breen Instructor Camp over two days which was fantastic.

Being someone who doesn't like missing opportunities and always wanting to make the most of everything, I had also arranged a private training session with none other than CFS founder and Head Instructor, Guro David Onuma.

I've spoken before about how important it is to have a skilled instructor and to make the most of their teachings, on Sunday morning I walked in to the gym and started some warm ups and had a catch up with Guro David and got started with some Panantukan and trapping padwork, we then moved on to grappling and finished the session off with a light roll.

The thing about training with masters is their skill to teach you things when you are barely aware of them, Guro David had this way of letting me do things while rolling that increased my positional knowledge and overall movement, I've felt this before when sparring on the feet as well and it's a testament to his skill and knowledge and one of the many things that makes him as good as he is.

I am extremely proud that Guro David promoted me to Apprentice Instructor Level 1 in both Jun Fan/JKD and Filipino Martial Arts. This was completely unexpected and I thank him for all the time he has given me over the years and all he continues to teach me.

Oss!

B.I.G. Camp May 2013

This past weekend I was in my home town for another great weekend of training with the Breen Instructor Group. It was a fantastic weekend of technical and practical training with some of the most dedicated martial artists I know.

On Saturday Guro had us work the back sweep and pointed out the subtleties of finding it as well as more easily executing it. In true JKD spirit we covered many things from a few basic techniques and openings  and it was easy to see how the same shapes and positions offered themselves within boxing, knife and pummeling/clinch work.  

Almost like Matryoshka dolls the variations that Guro had us worked from key techniques just kept coming, but form the same source. I've always remembered what Guro has said about doing more with less and what we covered on the weekend with single stick and trapping was exactly that. 

I must admit one of the many highlights of the weekend was ending off the training on Saturday with cake Judy had brought along, which was superb!

I got to see and train with friends and share notes and had a fantastic weekend, looking forward to the next one!

A big thank you to everyone I partnered up with on the day, see you at Knife Day or the next B.I.G. weekend! Oss!