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Saturday, December 5th, Brian “Buzz” Smith taught Marharlika Kuntaw (Way of the Royal Fist or Filipino Art of The fist) at the Innovative Martial Arts dojo. It was eight hours of great concept-based teaching. Buzz has a real knack for showing a technique and then describing the concept behind it and how you can expand that concept. It’s not about learning more techniques, but it’s about learning a concept that opens up more techniques just by nature of doing it.

We also learned some staff work, applying the same approach. Always attack in a way that doesn’t help power your opponents staff into your skull. Sound advice! As I’ve always discovered, the concepts are actually so simple that they tend to get overlooked. “It’s so easy!” was a common phrase at the seminar.

We all got to share an incredibly intimate moment as Buzz proposed to his long-lost, recently found (well, 2 years recent ) high-school love, Deb. What a great testament to the family of martial artists that have sprung up in Grand Rapids. Thanks for being our hub Sensei Pippin.

Guru Sean Stark was kind enough to come all the way to Grand Rapids just to put the hurt on Sterling. Check back for an inspired post-seminar post.

For more photo’s go here.

To get more info on PSP go here.

I had the distinct pleasure to interview Terry Trahan at our Spring Gathering 2009. This was a great interview with some great advice from a guy who’s got real world experience. Follow a link to the permanent page and enjoy.

Dojo Tours (Terry Trahan)

Sterling has been DM’ing a 2+ year old D&D campaign that has 12 PC’s running amok. The players talk about what happened in the latest game session.

Warning! Listening to this could turn you into a dork.

the audio

Well, not really.

I’ve been thinking more and more about the chapters problem. What I’m going to try and do is specify the start time of the sections in the description so people can fast forward to the topic they like.

I tried the chapters, but my Mac is running OS9 and the software that Apple provides requires OSX.

Hopefully, someone will figure out the chapters and make an open source app for Windows. Until then we’ll have to compromise.

I’ll start with episode 16, and maybe go back and do 15.