Super Summers Seminar!:

newer pics of the event

me and tiessa

me with instructor Mark Cardona

bo staff class

this weekend our Zen Do Kai dojo went to the Super Summers Seminar at Herkimer College! it was an absolutely amazing experience and i feel like ive grown a tremendous amount in martial arts because of it. we left friday morning at 10, and stayed in the dorms, and didnt get back till 10:30 sunday night. on saturday morning me, tiessa, and mr. premo went to the "Improving your bo staff skills class" which was taught by Katie Murphy. after that we went to the "Krav Maga Fundamentals Ground fighting Class" which was taught by Chris Dammann.  after lunch we tried the "Filipino Kali Class" taught by Raffi Derderian, and the "12 Angry Monkeys class" taught by Mark Cardona. . .me and Tiessa attended this one because all of the other Zen Do Kai members had to go to the Zen Do Kai class which was mandatory for the upper ranks. on sunday we went to the "Krav Fit" class which mainly went over escaping Chokes and multiple people at once taught by Chris Dammann. then we went to the "Anti Crash Course in Rapid Decision Making For Self Defense". after lunch we went to "Using your art in Self Defense and fighting" taught by Mark Cardona, and then "Knife tactics of the Filipino Martial Arts" taught by Chris Thompson. my favorite classes were the bo staff, knife, kali stick, and krav maga classes. i also really liked the rapid decision making class because it showed how to handle predators, and we got to beat up on guys in lots of padding. . .which i really liked that lol :p what was really interesting was seeing all the different styles of martial arts and seeing each systems views, and beliefs in how you should fight. i def am going next year, and i am going to a tournament in august. :)

in our dorm, we wanted to see if we could fit in an end table. . .John cant fit lol

i can fit in the end table. . .and they took there sweet time taking the picture too lol

Tiessa and John at breakfast

Anti- Crash course in Rapid Decision Making for Self Defense Class 

Krav Maga Fundamentals ground fighting class (my favorite, along with the kali sticks, and bo staff classes)

Tiessa beating me up in the Krav Maga Class

Me beating up Mr. Premo in the Krav Maga Class

second krav maga class

Filipino kali stick class

Filipino Kali Stick Class

Tiessa, Me, Mr. Premo, and John observing an "olympics competition" which was very interesting to watch lol