Seminar at Brian Price's studio

I was up at Brian Price's studio in Leesport, PA the weekend of May 12. I go up there once a year and Brian and Sue are great hosts. He always takes me out to the range to shoot for a few hours with one of his co-workers - He Who Shall Be Nameless. Nameless is a one-man armory and this year it was mostly .45 cal we were shooting. He's got a Performance Center 1911 model that he better keep his eye on or one of us will swipe it.
     Saturday was a full day with private lessons to start. With the kids I worked on some freestyle concepts. The adults did joint locking techniques in the first session and two man defenses in the second.
     Sam Babikian was in from Phildelphia to pick my brain as were Marc Shay and Jim Deery. These three gentlemen and now a part of my lineage, with Jim being the newest addition. Sam is working toward his 5th degree and has an interesting thesis in the works. Brian being my senior guy in the state of Pennsylvania, is doing a fine job with perpetuating the art and improving his own peformance with continued kenpo training and cross-training in Systema. He recently got his Instructor In Training certificate directly from Vladimir Vasiliev. Congrats to him for that.
   The adult seminars were pretty packed with students from Mr. Price's studio as well as the aforementioned Philadelphia contingent along with Dan Meck from Meta Martial Arts and Mike and Stephanie from Corsello's studio. Other studios were represented, too, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.