karate zen

it's great. it's got good coordination drills. especially double stick drills. especially for kids. it brings in right hand, left hand hemispheres of the brain. if i'm right handed and my left hand has got to duplicate what i'm doing with my right hand.

my dexterity of motion becomesbetter. i have done a lot of weapon orientated kali in thebeginning and then slowly evolved into the panankuten type of stuff.

some of the panantuken stuff i pick up purely off dvds. but because i was taught all of the gunting and that early and all of the foot trapping by people like kelly. when i look at a dvd, there'snormally not very much that they are doing that i haven't already done. but it might be the way that they are presenting itor what application of the technique that's different. so sometimes i look at someone applying something a certain way. i've got dan sullivan's dvds. and he does a lot of his stuff on focus pad. i love that concept. where i was doing it with mini gloves on.

so, it sort of evolves all of the time. the way i look at the filipino arts is probably a lot different to the way a lot of people look at it because the influence that kelly worden had on me. he's concept is, you can pick up staff and dothis motion with a staff. you can do it with a stick. you can do it with an elbow. you can do it with a hand. so that that concept

has created that i have evolved differently than a lot of people doing the filipino arts.