Storm I am training at Tandez Academy. It's pretty laid back and there are no meat heads. Sifu makes sure of this and pretty much weeds out the folks that shouldn't be there. His name is Adrian Tandez and the website is jkdkickboxing.com. JKD is cool and I enjoy all the trapping but I am in love with FMA. The different ranges, different weapons and how to defang a snake, climbing the vine etc etc. FMA pushed me into CWS which is Erik Paulson's version. I am new to it but learning fast. I am so new to it I might be wrong in this but it seems more like Shooto then cage mma stuff. The reason I say this is because we are learning shooto points with elbows and there is a japanese salute at the beginning and end of each class. I am only one week in.
A few months ago Atillo Balintawak came by and did a 2 day seminar. I wasn't able to go but everyone said it was intense and fun. It is amazing to see someone of that age still kick so much butt and still be able to teach it. Here is a video of Dan Inosanto and Atillo Balintawak playing around.
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When I joined up I didn't know anything about knife fighting but was encouraged to attend and compete in the Cold Steel competition down in LA. I competed with around 15 hours of training and got served but we did take first place in knife, second in staff and third in sword. I learned a lot from that and it put me in my place in terms of what I thought I could do and I had even more respect for the people that have been training for so long.
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If you are interested in training just stop on by. You can just join in the class or all the classes for that evening. As you know the first time is always free
