Guro Inosanto Seminar pt2

Monday, 8 February 2010

Well the seminar was great!! As usual we managed to have our minds blown by Guro and his assistant Joel. The way Inosanto can move and respond to slight differences in Joel's feed is quite honestly amazing. At one point they were both doing a stick trapping drill and it just looked so fast and complex and natural, when they finished everyone just clapped.Then after the applause Guro invited us to try it haha.

The other wonderful thing about this seminar is that it brings loads of different people into the one room for two days and you get to catch up with the friends you've made over the years (all of them great martial artists in their own right) from all over the UK and Europe.

This year saw me have two of my students come down to the seminar for the first time on the Saturday. They both thoroughly enjoyed it and were of course blown away by Guro and Joel. They both claimed they're doing two days next year. I'm glad they manage to make it. It's a repeat of when Pat encouraged me and Peter to come down to the seminar for the first time only a few years earlier (1994 haha). So the cycle continues.

It was great to see Pat there too as he had been to the hospital on the Friday and it looks like good news for him hopefully. He will keep you up to date here though.

Ewen (our senior instructor in the UFA-UK) had broken his foot and was sitting with crutches on the side lines all weekend getting frustrated that he couldn't take part. He hurt his foot when he fell off the third ball in the Total Wipeout TV show trials....