Another Wonder Valley success

The Memorial Day weekend camp hosted by Graham and Jaydean Lelliott at Wonder Valley, California was a success. This is the third time I've been asked to teach and each time I have a blast. Many of our European kenpo people came over for the camp with Sweden, England, Jersey and Spain represented.
The instructor staff consisted of myself, Graham, Dian Tanaka-Whitson, Marty Zaninovich, Willy Aguilar (with England's Diane Wheeler and Doctor Nigel at left), Bryan Hawkins, Ingmar Johansson and Ed Parker Jr. I was able to sit in on several of the sessions. Many of the classes were held outdoors in the perfect California weather. The subjects ran the gamut from kids classes to stick and knife, grafting, buckles, joint locks, advanced concepts and more.

I was, as always, impressed with Marty Zaninovich. His content and presentation are top-notch. Marty is now an instructor at the famed Inosanto Academy, too. Dian Tanaka pushed home a point I like, which is to insure that you know the delivery is correct on knife and club attacks, which helps both attacker and defender.
The weekend is a mix of activities with seminars, challenge games, rope courses, and social activity. The Saturday night dinner music was provided by Kenpo black belt Harry Troupe from Maui, Hawaii. This guy can play a guitar! He had some people with tears in their eyes.
A big congrats and a thank you to the Lelliotts and their team for pulling off another great event. You can see a slide show by Amy Long at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK8jWP_upkI
Two trash-talking black belts duke it out at the Friday night dinner! Caught on video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp1FmPVblaQ
For some more insanity connected with the camp, see this video of myself and Graham in sumo outfits doing Short One and Two Man Set.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZydXy2b3UY