The Gathering of Tribes
This past holiday weekend I spent my Saturday from 10am til about 6pm @ a workshop called "The Gathering of Tribes," here in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is a rather knowledgeable and friendly, yet informal group of mainly Southeast Asian martial artists who get together to train at this 4 day event twice a year. People like Brian "Buzz" Smith ( Kuntaw ), Bobbe Edmunds ( Silat ), Cody Fielding ( MMA / Sambo ), Mushtaq Ali ( Silat ), Chuck Pippin (San Yun Do ), and others shared some of their insights and techniques throughout the weekend. Saturday Buzz covered a very cool joint lock flow. Although I have been exposed to all but one of the 6 joint locks covered; it was the way he put them together that really impressed me. I like the way Buzz teaches. He has a lot of good insight and experience. Bobbe covered some stick work w/a couple take downs and limb compressions. I love Bobbe's expression of life. He moves very well and has a great personality. I think C