Instructor: Datu Shishir Inocalla
Assistant: John Tyrone
When: 1-25-2004 1:30PM-4PM
Where: MkKinley Mall, Hamburg at Red Dragon School of Martial Arts
Attending were: Datu Hartman, Rich Parsons, Jared Jones, Steve Kocker, 1 of Steves students, and myself.
Also in attendence were Sensei Bob Koch, and Senseis John Karb, Colin Calkins and Brian Kuchler from the IBBA in Alden NY.
Dr. Jerome Barber and Sifu Bob Gott were also on the floor during the seminar. (There were a few others whose names I didn't catch, apologies to them if they read this)
I had the pleasure of attending a seminar featuring Datu Inocalla this past weekend. Datu Inocalla gave a wonderful presentation, covering in some depth the basics of Modern Arnis for the aproximately 17 participants. He went over the angles of attack, banday y banda, rompida, and more. Both stick and open hand applications were taught, including sinawali boxing concepts. He spent a good amount of time circulating through out the room checking to see how the participants were picking up the material, and also covered a little bit of the history of Arnis, what is happening with it in the PI, and some memories of Remy. He also took a few moments to sign autographs for some of the schools kids who were all giggles over meeting a real live Ninja Turtle.
At the end of the seminar, Datu Hartman presented Datu Inocalla with a framed Presas Portrait, thereby completing the circle, from the last to the first Modern Arnis Datu.
Closing out the event was an entertaining lion dance put on by the Red Dragon School.
He covered a great deal of ground, and sadly, my memory isn't well enough to give things the justice due. It was a fun time for beginners, and students of the art.
If you have a chance to see him, take it. It'll be fun.
I'll have a couple pics up soon (I hope) and will have a few more in an upcoming MT magazine.
:asian:
Assistant: John Tyrone
When: 1-25-2004 1:30PM-4PM
Where: MkKinley Mall, Hamburg at Red Dragon School of Martial Arts
Attending were: Datu Hartman, Rich Parsons, Jared Jones, Steve Kocker, 1 of Steves students, and myself.
Also in attendence were Sensei Bob Koch, and Senseis John Karb, Colin Calkins and Brian Kuchler from the IBBA in Alden NY.
Dr. Jerome Barber and Sifu Bob Gott were also on the floor during the seminar. (There were a few others whose names I didn't catch, apologies to them if they read this)
I had the pleasure of attending a seminar featuring Datu Inocalla this past weekend. Datu Inocalla gave a wonderful presentation, covering in some depth the basics of Modern Arnis for the aproximately 17 participants. He went over the angles of attack, banday y banda, rompida, and more. Both stick and open hand applications were taught, including sinawali boxing concepts. He spent a good amount of time circulating through out the room checking to see how the participants were picking up the material, and also covered a little bit of the history of Arnis, what is happening with it in the PI, and some memories of Remy. He also took a few moments to sign autographs for some of the schools kids who were all giggles over meeting a real live Ninja Turtle.
At the end of the seminar, Datu Hartman presented Datu Inocalla with a framed Presas Portrait, thereby completing the circle, from the last to the first Modern Arnis Datu.
Closing out the event was an entertaining lion dance put on by the Red Dragon School.
He covered a great deal of ground, and sadly, my memory isn't well enough to give things the justice due. It was a fun time for beginners, and students of the art.
If you have a chance to see him, take it. It'll be fun.
I'll have a couple pics up soon (I hope) and will have a few more in an upcoming MT magazine.
:asian:
