My week in Martial Arts: Sept 4th to Sept 8th

This week I was almost back to normal.
We did a good session at the gym and at Steve Powell’s JKD Class and also had a lesson at Warriors Eskrima

My digital video camera is still without a power supply and therefore I haven’t got any shots of the class, so here are some shots of Stourhead and Dunham Massey where I went with Elaine this weekend. We had a great time! I like to go these kinds of places with Elaine away from the corporate and commercial hustle and bustle of the city and the hypnotism of television. Places like these which are relatively inexpensive and for Elaine and I this is where it’s at, just awesome scenery and wildlife.

Anyways my brother and I did a really half ass session in the gym but on Monday but that was due to a killer headache. Wednesday my brother and I went to the gym and this time had a good session with lots of work on the upper body and then later went to Steve Powell’s. Greg took the class and we had a really great varied class, from the focus mitt work to combat training to hubud very varied and very good.

Friday I did Warriors Eskrima with Lun. There was no one there to teach so Lun and I trained with the rest of them. It was cool to train with those guys again and I forgotten how fun it was as Ray and I drilled stick sparring techniques. We also went through the lesson we had with Krishna Godhania


We did some knife defence where I got unintentionally kicked right in the knee cap by one of my fellow Eskrimidor, who will remain unnamed here. It hurt and instead of my usual charging into the guy like a footballer who gets up from a bad foul from another player I said he hit my funny bone and carried on. I emailed him about the matter and explained to him what he did in private.

Should I publish this? Yes, it’s my blog and it’s what happened, as I said it’s unintentional and I harbour no bad feelings. So they should be no problem. I have also known the guy longer than anyone else in that squash court. In general, I think that if someone goes in a bit hard in Martial Arts you have to tell them or they will carry on doing it or worse still you will react and a brawl will happen. If people don’t have an understanding with each other in training then accidents will happen. I am talking in general here over the last 5 years I had constantly training in these various Arts.


I once trained with this guy about 4 years ago in one of my classes who was a bit over zealous and had an ego problem, I can’t honestly remember his name but once we had to do knees on each other and he made some standard breathing noises like “ossh ossh” or something like that. When it was my turn to knee, my breathing noises were slightly different and for some reason he didn’t like it and said something like “That’s not very nice” and he went in a bit harder on his next go. To this day I don’t why he did that but he only had one lesson and I never saw him again. In fact maybe I dreamt it because no one else remembers this guy! But that is a great example of miscommunication between training partners.

As always you drop as an email at kiteskrima@yahoo.co.uk about this blog or any of the lessons mentioned as I can give you further information about them. Well I probably will tell you to refer to the links to the left of the page but I can give you information about the Warriors Class on Fridays.

Anyways that’s my 2 cents or pence as it were.
Thanks for visiting and enjoy the pictures.

Kit