Dan Anderson
Master of Arts
Hi All,
This was posted up by Bram in two separate posts on his website. It gives an additional insight to Modern Arnis and Senior Master Roland Dantes. Read on.
Hello all and especially Bram,
I got this info over the phone a couple of days ago.
First of all, BRAVO! I've known Bram only since 1994 but his passion and sincerity has never wavered.
Second - I have played with him off an on since then but have never trained under him until last year in Spokane at a two day Gunting seminar with my wife. As an instructor for the last 35 years I can see who is full of it and filled with it. Bram is filled with it. He's able to present what can be complicated as a simplicity. Any of you instructors out there know what a pain that can be.
Third - His research is paying off. To see that his research is is at a point where it is parallelling the mother art is not surprising. I do not consider myself any kind of expert in blade craft but I am an expert in teaching and knowing if someone knows. Bram knows.
As a plug for any joint ventures he and I do (besides the Portland Apr. 24/25th and Baton Rouge July 31st), consider this. Between his blade craft and my stick art, you will receive instruction in the full history of Modern Arnis. Where else are you going to get that?
Anyway, again BRAVO!
Best,
Dan Anderson
This was posted up by Bram in two separate posts on his website. It gives an additional insight to Modern Arnis and Senior Master Roland Dantes. Read on.
It was my pleasure to meet Guru Roland Dantes @ the Filipino Martial Arts festival in Dortmund Germany and to be with him again @ the Modern Arnis seminar the following weekend in Cassel Germany.
He is truly a fine person and one of Professor's earliest students and he was Remy's personal, best friend.
He was with Remy while he taught the 1st Bolo Battlion and the Filipino Riot Police. He was with Remy while they taught the LA Swat teams stick work and empty hand translations.
Roland told me that Remy talked of me to him over the last three months of his life. Simple things that matter to me, not to the future or political bearings of Modern Arnis.
That Remy loved me and respected me, that he was proud of me of what I had done with my knives, training and my giving back to Arnis and my students, that he made Roland promise to meet me and be my friend.
I openly always told Remy I loved him. I wanted him to be proud of me.
Its great closure on my feelings with Remy and the start of me being with Roland for many years in the future.
Roland is my older brother in the arts.
I have a lot to learn from him and to share life things with him.
Come meet Guru Dantes in the Pihilippines in 06 @ the Festival for Modern Arnis.
(2nd post) Guru Roland told those @ the seminars that the Bolo is really the tool of Modern Arnis..and that Prof had taught me the way of the Bolo and the Presas family art, that I was correct, that the Bolo is the soul of Arnis.
He showed a Bolo drill that was unmistakenly an early version of Modular.
Of course I never trained with Prof nor is the Bolo a tool of Modern Arnis..ROFL...
I gave Roland a Bolo from Martin Mueller, an exact copy of the Presas family Jungle Bolo.
I will do a tape-DVD on the use of Bolo and will use unpublished raw footage of Remy Presas teaching Bolo done just before he got sick...
be safe
Bram
Hello all and especially Bram,
I got this info over the phone a couple of days ago.
First of all, BRAVO! I've known Bram only since 1994 but his passion and sincerity has never wavered.
Second - I have played with him off an on since then but have never trained under him until last year in Spokane at a two day Gunting seminar with my wife. As an instructor for the last 35 years I can see who is full of it and filled with it. Bram is filled with it. He's able to present what can be complicated as a simplicity. Any of you instructors out there know what a pain that can be.
Third - His research is paying off. To see that his research is is at a point where it is parallelling the mother art is not surprising. I do not consider myself any kind of expert in blade craft but I am an expert in teaching and knowing if someone knows. Bram knows.
As a plug for any joint ventures he and I do (besides the Portland Apr. 24/25th and Baton Rouge July 31st), consider this. Between his blade craft and my stick art, you will receive instruction in the full history of Modern Arnis. Where else are you going to get that?
Anyway, again BRAVO!
Best,
Dan Anderson