Saturday, September 22nd Sandokan Seminar

Had a great seminar at Dr Buzz's Karate Studio. Seminar was opened by review of last month's forms and 12 angles of attack followed by single sinawali, single cane in the right, single cane in the left and single sinawali with double cane which flowed into rodonda strikes and double sinawali.  The drills lasted for about an hour switching from sinawalis form single to double to rodonda and so forth.  The group was right on and doing an awesome job without any hesitation. After the drills we started on number 1 strike and absorbtion block, followed by the tip control strike to the nerve cluster on the thigh and a wrist smash to fulcrum disarm with fanning strike to the head.  Everybody's footwork, hip torques and body positioning was right on the money so we decided to go into a lock to disarm from #2 strike to block-check and counter.  The seminar was assisted by Sempei Matt Van Horn whose stick techniques are immaculate for his rank.  I would like to thank everybody for an awesome job and giving 110% and a special thanks to Dr. Buzz who was presented with a Life Time membership to Sandokan International Federation.