Woof All:
Some of us may remember Gilbert Tenio from Guro Inosanto’s book "The Filipino Martial Arts", whom I had the honor of meeting many years ago (early 90s?) at Dentoy Revillar’s home in Stockton. Since then he has passed on.
To my way of thinking there are many valid approaches out there. However that does not mean that it is efficient or effective to accumulate as much as one can from all these systems. To function efficiently and effectively in the high adrenal circumstances of a DLO situation, the parts must fit together.
Recently a friend shared some footage with me of Tenio’s heir, Grandmaster Art Gonzalez of Tenio Decuerdas Eskrima. The footage intrigued me greatly. Not only was the orientation very practical, gritty anti-knife, but GM Art was getting to many positions similar to the ones we like for our DLO (Die Less Often) and so it occurred to me that maybe GM Art could help me grow DBMA’s DLO system.
An introduction was arranged and a couple of weeks ago as part of a training expedition (that included two days with Rory Miller, Maija Soderholm of Maestor Sonny Umpad’s Visayan Corto Cadena Eskrima, and friends) I spend two days in Lodi with GM Art.
I am very glad I did and I am pleased to announce that GM Art will be the guest instructor at the DBMA Winter Camp 2012 which will be a "Die Less Often" intensive.
We are in the process of deciding when the Camp will be held. It will be in February or March. At the moment we are leaning towards President’s Weekend in February.
The Adventure continues!
Guro Crafty/Marc
