SEMINAR BIG PAUL
Escrima Concepts Seminar with Paul Leslie
Weert, 25.-26. April
On Saturday morning Ivo, Peter, Julian, Scott and Roel have left from Amsterdam direction Weert to attend the EC Seminar with “Big” Paul Leslie.
After we arrived Stefan Berlijn (www.escrima.nu) has welcomed us with a nice breakfast.
It was a nice sunny Morning and we were slowly heading towards the Gym the Seminar should take place.
Upon our arrival there was already a big group of students waiting and there were more to come.
Once everybody was there we had to acknowledge that Stefan’s hard work was not for nothing!
The seminar started with basic power drills on student’s side where we had to consider many more things.
Our main exercise of that day was splitting the power. It was a day with plenty of hard work.
There was no T-Shirt left dry in that room. Excepts Olga’s (Stefan’s Girlfriend) maybe?
We started of with two sticks and steadily removed one weapon until we finished with unarmed drills.
For the nice end we picked up two weapons each again to round the day and finish off.
For the rest of the day / evening it was just all relaxing and fun.
Our night out in a Greek restaurant turned out a great success.
Next morning we started the day with a basic drill for movement taking it to the higher level.
Where some people just see hitting sticks we had to recognize hidden attacks, redirect our energy of the attack and work from all angles.
This day should not be less fun than the previous one as we found out soon.
Again we started off with two sticks removing and adding the weapons again.
At the end it was all about unarmed again.
The weekend was great and we had lot’s of fun both training and socializing with the EC Family.
And so we keep on training hard, licking our wounds and waiting until the next great EC Seminar.
Ivo
27th April 2009
