Knife Seminar (Today!)

I was surprised to hear from Sifu Dan several weeks ago, although I think I started the conversation on his page. He said he had a knife seminar coming up on November 21 and was to be in Lafayette. I have always been interested in knife because the knife is probably the most used weapon and knife defense can be learned and used if necessary. Naturally, the day of the seminar was raining and raining a lot for me is fairly bad because it is an hour and half trip in bad weather. Today was no exception but I was surprised to find that the rain was not too bad, at least on the trip down to Lafayette. I had directions but when I got to Lafayette, the rain was realy bad and frankly, I got lost. I finally got to the park where it was being held but was 10 minutes late. I had to call Sifu Dan on his cell to make sure I was in the correct place. When I got into the room, which was about a 20 by 50 foot room (about), exercises were already in progress. A student of Sifu Dan, Gene Guidry was leading the group. He has been with PMATC for about 8 years or so. Gene worked with me a lot of the time and was extremely helpful and I really learned a lot, especially takedowns which is my weak point. The seminar went on for about 4 hours and I think was enjoyed by all. I got to take some pictures and will have them up soon. Hope we will have more of these seminars, especially Pekiti Tersia knife ones. More knews on this seminar next time and hope to have the pictures up then too!