Chicago seminars

The weekend seminars in Chicago were successful. Members of several schools attended. Three sessions covered takedowns, grafting and multiple attackers. In takedowns we worked the differences in trips, buckles and sweeps. The multiple attacker session was designed to change perspective by moving one of the attackers' point of origin. The tag line for that one was "The purpose of this research is______."  I got that line from Dr. Rowe. Grafting is always fun and we started with Wing of Silk and took off from there.
     Mr. Zoran Sevic of Saviano's White Tiger in Addison took the classes. You may recognize his name, he has a website called http://www.kenpothoughts.com/. He asked a question I had never thought to ask. It was "Where did the cover-out come from". Did Prof. Chow do it? Did Ed Parker innovate it? I never saw the Castro's do it in CA. I'd seen Danny Inosanto do it while demonstrating Kali, but he was a kenpo man before going to the Filipino systems. Zoran presented  a theory that one of the Emperado brothers integrated a form of it and we (Mr. Parker) picked it up. We're looking into it. Thanks to Zoran for that.
  Mr. David Zorich was there, too. He's my boyhood friend and now a 4th dan judo teacher in the northwest suburbs. Always good to see him. (Over 40 years now, David!)
  Come out and hang with us next time. In the spring, when the temps go back over 70. Thanks again to Kurt and Barb Barnhart for hosting. See their site at http://www.phoenixkenpo.org/. By the way, interview podcasts with them are uploaded, see the link at my site homepage, http://www.leewedlake.com/.