Hidden Sword Martial Arts along with Mid Cities Arnis will be co-hosting Datu Tim Hartman for a special Astig Balintawak and Panantukan Boot Camp this weekend.
Datu Hartman was a student of the late GM Remy and GM Ernesto Presas and he was also a private student of the late GM Ted Buot who was a Balinwatak instructor under the late GM Anciong Bacon the founder of Balintawak. GM Remy Presas also studied Balintawak early in his arnis training and Balintawak was one of the root styles that influenced GM Remy's creation of Modern Arnis. All this to say that Datu Hartman brings a unquie prespective to our training and we are happy to have him come to our school.
GM Buot taught Balintawak the old school way that Bacon taught in the Philippines which was better suited for one on one training with the goal to develop proper body mechanics, power and speed needed for both stick fighting and for empty hand fighting.
I've known Datu Hartman for 15+ years now and I have enjoyed his teaching sessions at several seminars I've attended. He is a good instructor and a teacher and we look forward to his visit.
Don't miss this opportunity to train with him.
When:
November 21, 2024
Time:
1:00pm - 6:00pm
Cost:
$79 by Nov 13th
$99 after Nov 13th
I hope to see you there.
American Karate / Tae Kwon Do and Modern Arnis instruction for children and adults at the Roanoke Recreation Center in Roanoke, Texas. Serving Roanoke, Keller, Fort Worth North, Rhome, Justin, Argyle, and Trophy Club.
Tuesday, November 17, 2024
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Saturday, June 27, 2024
Dieter's Photo Lesson at the Zoo
(All photos by Emily)
Who do you think got the best photos? Of course Dieter. He knew more about the subject, he was better
prepared with the equipment, he had more control over his equipment (referring
to adjusting his camera to different setting to get better results). Once again Dieter was eager to share his
expertise with Emily and I and he coached us on taking better pictures.
Through Dieter’s guidance today Emily and I learned more
about operating my camera as well as how to take better pictures. While it would have been fun (and probably
painful) to play with arnis all day, and there will be plenty of that for us
this weekend, taking a break from all of the martial art talk gave us a
different lessons to be learned and fun memories for all.
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Friday, June 26, 2024
Datu’s not the best, he just does it different
But he's Freak en awesome at what he does
Last night Dieter as he was sharing his methods with me
brought up that he doesn’t want me to say that he thinks he is the best or that
his way is better, instead I’m to say simply they (Dieter and the DAV) do
things differently. I concur. I get to play (or train) with a lot of different
folks in the Filipino martial arts (FMAs) of all different skills levels from
instructors to beginners and I know there are a lot of different ways to do
things. I can say confidently that
Dieter does things differently and it makes a lot of sense, it hurts as
well.
As Dieter was getting warmed up after teaching me the lesson
about not solving a problem that hadn’t been asked (read the first post about training
with Dieter last night), he then went onto to explain how they (the DAV) block
the low strike (the #9) to the knee during the Tapi drills. Now I’ve been shown to hack at the hand, I’ve
been shown to pull the capturing hand upwards to release, move off at an angle
etc. etc. but he showed me to simply pull my hand downward and let my free hand
act as a barrier to the other hand if needed.
Simple right? But hard for me to
pull off since I hadn’t trained that way.
Dieter said “grab my hand” sure enough I gripped his hand and
he pulled it right out of my grasp to block the strike. In fact this release is what I had been
teaching my beginner karate students as a release from a hand grab, I tell them
to seek the door way (area between the fingers) and pull and sure enough this
was the same concept. I couldn’t hold on
to his hand to stop the defense and yet when it was my turn, I instinctively
went for the harder release by reaching for the capturing hand with my free
hand (which as I described ended up with me getting wacked each time. It took me a while to free up my thought
process and to start to do the low line defense as he showed me, but once again
it was simple and it made sense.
We go back to watching the video and he’s saying “good”, “good”, “we do that too”, “exactly” and then “Oh
no we do that differently grab your stick.”
He noticed I was feeding a back hand punyo lazily and told me this is
why you are having trouble with the lock.
I was feeding the punyo more on a slightly horizontal plane instead of a
more diagonal plane towards the face.
Now this was an adjustment of about an inch or two in the angle (or
tilt) of my punyo feed and it made all of the difference in the world of trying
to get the lock. Then Dieter corrected me
on the lock, “You must do this first (getting the punyo over the stick and pull
in by rotating the punyo and starting to set the lock), then you must take up
the space, and then you rotate your upper body” Wham! That wrist lock was set
and my body was being jerked around trying to lessen the pain. Wow that correction made all of the
difference in the world in the setting of the lock.
More corrections followed after he watched the next lock on
the video, and the next one after that and so on. All of the corrections made the locks work
better, which meant the locks were more painful and more secure and easier to
apply and set up. Later he sees me on
the video showing a drill that involved thrusting on the forehand side (#6) and
the reverse (#7). “Oh we do that differently” and he explains
how they (the DAV) thrusts in on those lines and how as the feeder you counter
and set it up so that your opponent doesn’t get the chance to block. Simple changing the angle of the entry, again
but hard for me to pull off since I haven’t trained that way. After seeing the tip of his stick dominate
the center of my vision each time I tried to block his thrust it is pretty
unnerving to say the least. When I tried
to show him how another person was countering that thrust from a different
style. Dieter says “yes you can do that,
but how do you counter him?” I think “Duh
I don’t know”. He then tells me “Enter”
and he shows one counter, “or you can do this” as he steps off line and palis palis
(passes) it from the outside and behind the strike, “or you can do this” and he
shows another and so on and so on.
This went on for nearly two hours and he covered anything he
saw me do on the video with a different way of doing the technique which in my
view helped me make my arnis better. I
didn’t have one thought of “well I don’t think that will work” you know when
you see something and in the pit of your stomach your going “ahhhhhhhh” while
you look away embarrassed. I’m so glad that Hidden Sword Martial Arts is
sponsoring him for a full two day seminar, because I feel confident that not
only will Datu Dieter help my arnis, but I think everyone will learn something
that will help make their art better.
If we all get better then we all can help raise the bar for our training
collectively.
I’m not saying Datu Dieter is the best, but……… HE is pretty amazing at what he does.
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Boy Have I got it Wrong
Private Training with Dieter
I picked up my friend Dieter Knuttel from the airport last
night, after having a light meal on the way home we came to our house and Dieter
asked what our password was for the WiFi. Duh I don’t know, I racked my brain, I couldn’t
even remember setting up the password, so for the next 20 minutes or so I try
and figure it out to no avail all the while feeling like an idiot. Emily and Holly get home and we ask them and
Emily’s says “Oh I got this” and gets him connected. I was shocked but then Dieter said kids know
this stuff because when they bring their friends over they all want to connect
to the WiFi. Simple statement and true,
very logical and straightforward. I had
no clue that this simple straight forward, logical approach, to problem solving
would set the tone for my arnis lesson later that night.
Dieter was use to traveling so he knew to push through
wanting to sleep when crossing time zones, so when Holly needed to excuse
herself to head to bed she warned me “He looks tired don’t keep him up!” It was about 11:00pm or so.
“I won’t honey he wants to watch some videos, I’m not
keeping him up.” So I got the computer
and we watched some videos I recorded at some recent camps. I tried to set up the sound but Dieter says “I
don’t need the sound I just want to watch.”
This should have been my first clue but I thought how will you know what
we are doing? (I’ve never claimed to be
the sharpest tool in the shed, well aside from my family but….) Anyway that’s when it hit me or I should say
the stick hit me, obviously I still didn’t get the lesson cause it hit me again
and again and again for the next couple of hours. He just wanted to watch how I did things and
help me do them better, he didn’t need sound, he just needed to observe what I
did.
It started off with releasing his hand from grabbing my stick
hand. As we watched the video he said, “I
teach it differently, we call it Stopping #1 and #2.” I figured I saw this lesson at an earlier training
camp so I had the correct answer to the problem. Dieter says “Why do you release my hand?”
As I’m staring at him holding his stick above his shoulder I
reply “To defend against getting hit on the leg.” This is a standard response in the Tapi drills
and we were just drilling on this Wednesday night in class based on his lesson
from the Brevard camp in 2005. “OK
release my hand” he says. So I go for it,
WHACK he hits my hand, “Try it again” he tells me; so I got for it WHACK he
hits my head. It was a painful lesson cause he keeps telling me to go for it, so I do and I keep getting hit.
“Why do you release my hand?” Now I’m confused, if I don’t release the hand
I get hit in the leg, if I go to release the hand I get hit on the arm, if I go
to release the hand and even make it I get hit in the head. Dieter turns it around on me then. “You release the hand only because I’ve given
you a problem to solve (as in defending from an incoming strike), otherwise you
don’t have to release the hand. If the
person has their stick up here they haven’t given you a problem to solve so you
need to not provide an answer to a question that hasn’t been asked. So why do you need to release the hand? Hit me with it.” As he shows me that his face
is open.
Dieter explained that they train with a different attitude,
a different training methodology. The
feeder, the leader, or the driver in the above example is the one who is in
control and must give the student the proper problem to solve, otherwise what
happens is the student in going for the hand release is actually leading the
drill at that time, because the instructor then would automatically feed the
low strike since that is what is expected in the drill. So everyone (as feeder’s) waits for the
student to release, when actually the feeder is open for a counter, like the
head hit by waiting. So then he starts
explaining to me their hand release and it starts to make sense but I’ll cover
that in my next post.
Folks don’t make the mistake of missing the opportunity to
train with Datu Dieter, we have him for a seminar for two full days this
weekend and he showed me just the tip of the ice berg last night. We are going to have a blast.
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