Weapons Seminar (15th June)

Many thanks to all those who came along this Sunday to another of our free seminars. Good numbers despite it being a lovely sunny day, and sharing the day with Fathers Day of course! But weapons seminars are always popular with our students, and this proved to be no exception, also it was nice to see new faces at these events.
So myself and Tor San had the job of running this ‘gig’ on Sunday, so we turned up with spare bokkens, staffs, nunchuka and batons; prepared for anything you might say! Also intending to give a full choice of weapons for our students to try, catering for all tastes you might say!
But obviously word had leaked down from the black belt class, that baton was the ‘thing’ to do. So everybody was up for this weapon. Not a problem – myself and Tor San were happy to oblige!
We of course toned it well down from the type of baton work we teach on the those blackbelt nights, but still the movements and drills we covered really appealed to all in the room, from brown belt right down to beginner.
It took a little time for the coordination of double baton work to click in, but after the first hour we were away!
Trying a new weapon system for the first time is always challenging, but judging from the smiles and positive feed back after the session everybody seemed really keen for the next session on this weapon.
There was time at the end of the session for Tor San and myself to give a short demo, here we showed where this fascinating weapon system can lead, in improving the mind set and physical movement of a martial artist, especially when it comes to knife defence and advanced self-defense in general.
Looks as though we will be running another one soon!
Sensei Richard Trafford