CDMA coaches travel to the home of JKD
Published
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
From 5th - 9th August, Scott and I embarked on our 2nd journey to the legendary instructor camp of Guro Dan Inosanto of the world famous Inosanto Academy of Martial Arts in Los Angeles. Guro Dan Inosanto is the leading pioneer in JKD, gaining his knowledge from his training partner and closest friend, Bruce Lee
Training Day 1...
After a 10 hour flight, (and having to wait two hours for our rental car!), we finally arrived in Los Angeles, exhausted from our days travel, we went straight to bed hoping to be on form for our first day of the camp.
After a 10 hour flight, (and having to wait two hours for our rental car!), we finally arrived in Los Angeles, exhausted from our days travel, we went straight to bed hoping to be on form for our first day of the camp.
The
following morning, I got all my training gear ready and walked to the
academy and I couldn't wait to get started! Walking through the front
door, It reminded me of the first time I came in October, the sense of
greatness and all of the world famous martial artists who had trained
here. I remembered how lucky I am to be training with one of the
greats.
While speaking
to the receptionist, Dory, she got us even more excited by mentioning to
us that Guro Dan is also teaching a 2 day staff seminar during the
camp. Having previously done some staff at the October instructor camp,
which I loved, I was eager to expand my knowledge so obviously i
accepted the offer!
Training day 1…
The
training day began with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu legend Jean Jacques
Machado. During this session we did the arm bar from guard but really
focusing on small details such as how much tension should be in the
legs, what your legs should doing which is easily forgotten if you are
not consistent. We also did this reverse scissor sweep which I found
very interesting and had never seen before, which lead to doing a collar
choke and arm bar from mount.
After
the jiu jitsu session, the instructor camp began. We started off by
doing the first six Jun Fan 5 counts adding in evading the lead round
kick as well as adding it in with some basic compound trapping. After
this we progressed onto doing variations on the Thai 6 counts, then
went on to do defences of the Jab - Hook following up with some basic
combinations.
We then
went onto doing a lot of double stick where we did the back hand series,
abinkio series, Redondo series and figure of 8 series. Through out all
of these drills, we changed to nights of the attacks, going from high -
low - high, low- high- low for example and we would always finish one
off each combination with the odd series.
When
the camp had finished we then did the staff seminar where we did basic
patterns with our partner and how it translates to single stick and long
sword.
Training Day 2…
Day
2 of the camp started off with the Machado BJJ Camp where we did what
to do if your partner defends the collar choke from mount where we did
this really smooth and slick arm bar. We also looked at how to get a arm
bar from back mount which I thought was really cool.
After
this it was back to the 2nd part of the staff seminar where we revised
the patterns we did on day 1 and went on to do sumbrada with different
weapons against the staff such as single stick, double stick, stick and
dagger, long sword (or dos manos in Spanish) and sword and shield.
Our
third course that day was the International Inosanto Instructors camp -
we started off with the basic 4 counts and we had the choice of using
either Jun fan or Thai method. We then linked this with evading both the
lead and rear round kick where we did some silat takedowns as well.
With
the stick work portion of the class we went over the abinkio and
Redondo series again, after this we also did some really cool things
with the cambiata!
Training Day 3…
Day
3! Once again, started out with an awesome BJJ session, we did the
kimura from Guard really focusing on the detail and how to get the back
if they straighten their arm. We also did the arm bar where we walk both
legs up the back with using our arms so we really had to focus on what
our legs were doing.
In
the instructor camp, it was a bit of a slower day as we had to do our
testing. However the day started off with revising the eleven 4 count
drills we did on day 2, again either using Jun fan or Thai method, we
also revised the 6 count drills but also did some new 6 counts using
Burmese boxing method where we had to punch, elbow, knee and kicked all
off the same side. We did a bit of conditioning were We had to straight
blast for 30 seconds and aim to get at least 120 punches and I achieved
140! So I was pretty happy with my result. We then did the same drill
with uppercuts where I managed to get 130 punches.
It
then came to the testing where we started off with the striking testing
where we had to do a 11 count drill on the heavy bag. After this was
the trapping testing where we did compound trapping where we did a long
combination of all the basic traps. We then did the stick testing where
we did sumbrada with single stick, double stick, stick and dagger, long
sword and staff.
Training Day 4…
Day
4 of the BJJ session we did the scissor sweep to either arm bar or
triangle we also did this really interesting reverse laso and swept our
partner.
In the
instructor camp, we went over the fourteen 4 counts and 6 counts. We
also did the the Thai 12 count drill, we also combined the 6 and 4 count
drills while defending any attack the pad holder threw. We then went
onto trapping into takedowns. The highlight for this day however was
doing knife sparring having having guro Dan say to Scott and I that he
was really impressed with our sparring. We then had to to knife and
sarong sparring in front of all 60 other instructors from around the
world. Having never even held a sarong I felt little nervous but Scott
and I just decided to go with it and guro Dan once again told us it
looked really good!
Training Day 5….
On
the fifth and final day During the BJJ Camp we went revised some of the
topics we did through out the week and I was fortunate enough to roll
with Jean Jacques Machado, BJJ Legend and 7th degree Red and Black Belt!
Not many people can say that!
During
the final day of camp, similar to the BJJ Camp we had gone over the
same content from the week such as all the 4 counts, 6 counts, 12 and 15
counts as Well as going over the abinkio and Redondo series and figure
of 8. On the last day we also went over more advanced techniques and
patterns with the staff and before I knew it the camp had come to a
end.
Doing these camps
have been a life changing experience for my personally. It had always
had the dream of come to L.A. and training with guro Dan. I was able to
for fulfill this dream because of the opportunity Can Do Martial Arts
has given me. I can not stress how inspiring and knowledgeable Guro Dan
is and this is a opportunity of a lifetime to go. This trip is a must
not just for JKD practitioners but for all martial artists who want to
expand their knowledge.
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