sorry, I am very behind on my blog, I have been crazy busy. So on Mon I headed out to the Inosanto Academy. Like any good student I wanted to be early for class, I took the bus and I got there real early, class was starting at 10am but I got there at 9am. But lucky for me Guro Dan was there with about five people doing a yoga class. I was invited to take part, so it was a great way to start my day. Guro taught a yoga/Jujitsu and it was great for the body. Around 10am our main instructor and other students came by. Salem Assli is a full instructor under Guro Dan and a very high ranking Savate instructor. I took two of his seminars back in the 90's and they where great. we covered a lot of stuff for all most three hours and it was great training. After I left and got on the bus for my long trip to train with three people I always wanted to train with.. next post...thanks,

training tour day 2 & 3

ok so time to catch up..Sun everything was closed, I was to be taking a Savate seminar but it got called off, that kind of sucked but it let me get to Santa Monica faster and got to spend the day going around town, the boardwalk is insane...miles and miles of vendors, people, bikes, rollerblades, people..people..people..there is a amusment park right on the board walk and crazy amoutn of stuff to do, so I wanted to go explore the city more so I rented a bicycle and headed out to Hollywood.. I went to Beverly Hills and all ove that area, as a matter of fact I rode that bike for 9 hours..yes 9 hours, thee are almost no hills around Santa Monica area so its not that hard, but ther are some around Beverly hills and that area. It was a lot of fun and I got to see so much of the area...but when I got home my legs where dead..so at 8:30 I hit the bed..I will post about Mon later today, got to go train with Eddie Bravo..lol

In L.A

Ok, first I do not have spell check on here so sorry for any bad spelling..lol

I made it to L.A, my flight to T.O was great, no problems at all, going from T.O to L.A I had a window seat but my seat would not go back at all, so 5 hours of sitting up sucked, I did have a lot of movies on the plane topick from so thats good. Now of course I had this kid in front of me (3 years old) who was always yelling and looking back at me and the other person sitting next to me, then he makes this spitting move with his mouth..next thing you know he spitting all over us.. I yelled atim and the father..everyone heard me...Got to L.A and off the plane and to my shuttle with no issues at all, it was very easy. Took a shuttle to Erik Paulsons school in Fullerton (about 40min outside L.A) as I was going to a Kickboxing seminar there. Well I got ther and people wher the but no seminar, it got called off, that sucked but I got to look around and meet some people, Erick Paulson was not ther but would be ther on Mon.

So now I was stuck on wher to go as I did not have a hotel booked for that night in L.A as I was going to stay in Fillerton.. so I got a train to L.A it was very cheep and made it to the hostle I was staying at. It is a very nice place and people respect your space. I went out for a walk (by now it was 9pm L.A time so thats was 6pm Halifax time) but I was up since 5:30am.. so I went for a walk and 5pein from me is the Santa Monice pier..a huge park with rides and gzmes..very cool. lots eople fiI shing and stuff...walked around for a bit then went into a smal pub for a beer. Went back to my room, hung out for a bit and went to sleep, Sun have the day to go due some stuf, then training..check back, will try to update ofter...thanks

Training tour part 1

So the first part of my training tour started on Fri March 30. Myself one of my Students Scott Roper and my Jeet Kune Do instructor Rob Doley headed to Toronto for a two day seminar with the "God" himself  Guro Dan Inosanto who is the world's top authority for Bruce Lee's Martial Art (also was one of his best friends).

All was going well until we got to the Halifax airport, I had borrowed a training bag of a friend of mine who teaches at my club, Vince is a Filipino Martial Arts instructor and has lots of weapons so I made sure the kit bag was empty before I went. Well you can imagine my shock when it went through the scanner at the airport and I saw this huge long machete on the screen. "sir do you know you have an illegal weapon in your bag" at this point I was going to say "that's what she said" but I passed on that and just explained my story of who I was and where I was going, all went ok but of course they took the knife.

We got to T.O after what could have only be "planes, trains, buses, automobile's" we made it to our hotel ready for the "brain melting" seminar that would take place the next day.

"Brain melting" That is the only way I can describe a Dan Inosanto seminar, picture say 35 people and most of them have a lot of experience, some have 20 or more years of training, I started in 1975 training everyday but when Guro Dan teaches you are a complete beginner who might as well sit and suck there thumb and cry when compared to what he knows. I am talking any area of Martial Arts, grappling, striking, weapons, throwing, pressure points..anything. You could show him something like "Hey Guro look at this arm bar" then he could show you 50 more and 100 counters to everyone.

The first day he covered Jun Fan Kickboxing then into trapping, of course he shows you 4 things and you got about 3 or 4 min to work on it before the next 4 to 5 techniques are given to you. Everyone who attends his seminar knows the way he teaches, the idea is you pick up what you can and then go and try to find the stuff you missed at some point in your training. You have to seek out the info, people just can't hand it to you. The second day was covering Filipino arts including training with the stick. Again so much info your brain melts and about 40min before the seminar was over I just stopped and watched the rest of it, my cup was full.

We got to have lunch with Guro Dan and had had some great conversations. Also my instructor got to be the training "dummy" for a few techniques and I was very happy to see that, he has been dedicated to Guro Dan since the 80's. We got to meet a lot of great people and after we got our flight home.

This Sat I am off to the second part of my training and going to have may stories, I am going to even train with the guy that made Steven Segal crap his pants, (for real..not joking) form choking him.

All the best and be sure to check back.

Ray