This is the German JKD group under Sifu Carruthers which is leaded by me. Currently there are 5 guys in the group, Manfred, Markus, Dominic, Velerio and Bülent. I teach them every Sunday, 5 to 7pm. Some of the guys you can see the guys on the pictures. I'm the one in the short in the trousers. Dominic and Markus have already met Sifu Carruthers at the Seminar he gave in Düsseldorf in August 2009. Most of the guys had already Martial Arts experience. For example, Manfred, he did 20 years Karate and after that 15 years Wing Tsun. He is also the oldest one, he is 64. Dominik also did WT, and Kickboxing. Valerio is the youngest, he is 17 and he used to box, three years long.

We train in the local gym called Wellventure, the address is Wiesenstrasse 5, 64347 Griesheim, Hessen/Germany. The location is very nice. It’s a local fitness club with huge variety of offered courses. Here is the link of it, if you want to see it:

www.wellventure.de/de/wellventure/index.php

How the group is going?

Well, since it’s a very new group, I started it July 2009, we covered the stance, basic footwork, the lead, braking it down, the hook kick and the side kick. I let the guys do a plenty of repetitions of those three techniques, using different footwork, so the guys can progress as fast as possible. But patience is the key, an also the repetitions of the techniques. I also mark the number of their reps, so I can see how many they can do, and how fast they can progress by once a week training in our group. Since some of the guys are coming from different martial arts, you can see this in their movements and it takes time for their system to “forget” the martial art they did before and adapt the new JKD mechanics. Very important for this is, that they work on this also on their own, not only in Sunday group. In the future I also plan to teach the group at additional second day.

So much about us, thank you very much for reading!

Thomas Marx

Contact: t.t.marx@t-online.de