A great class last night at www.essexfightingarts.weebly.com and a new direction thanks to Bob Breen. I have been looking into 4D Combat which Bob runs and teaches and developed along with the principles of 4D. So last night we looked at the 4D box and started to drill in this way of defence and indeed offence. Takes a while to get this due to old habits and the want to go into a standard guard using salutes etc when punches are thrown. But once we played with this for a while it felt great and so bloody effective. Cuts down the workload and already was starting to give opportunities to use the other skills we already have and much more time to do them. Very impressed, but Bob is the man when it comes to fighting arts with 50 years in martial arts, 30 of which were under Dan Inosanto and is a full instructor under Dan.
We then moved into some of the 4D knife concepts which again will take time to drill in, but blended well with the traditional Filipino knife tapping techniques we already use. If I were closer I certainly would train under Bob and WHEN I win the lottery I’ll spend a lot of time down at his club! J Until then I will keep my ear to the floor and when Bob next does a seminar, we can all rock up there. I have been thinking for years about some of the holes, which are in the fighting techniques I teach and crossing the boundaries between sport fighting and street fighting so this really helps. Will be working more with the above concepts which will take time, but personally I’m bloody loving them and hope you all enjoyed them too last night. Ouss…
We then moved into some of the 4D knife concepts which again will take time to drill in, but blended well with the traditional Filipino knife tapping techniques we already use. If I were closer I certainly would train under Bob and WHEN I win the lottery I’ll spend a lot of time down at his club! J Until then I will keep my ear to the floor and when Bob next does a seminar, we can all rock up there. I have been thinking for years about some of the holes, which are in the fighting techniques I teach and crossing the boundaries between sport fighting and street fighting so this really helps. Will be working more with the above concepts which will take time, but personally I’m bloody loving them and hope you all enjoyed them too last night. Ouss…