Seminars

Host: Ralf Schmidbauer
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Date: Saturday & Sunday, the 26th and 27th of November, 2011
Contact: Ralf Schmidbauer
Email #1: tangkapanmartialarts@googlemail.com

This seminar in China was my 4th visit to the country.  I can tell you on the day I was leaving I was very reluctant to do it because in truth I was so tired; I didn't want to get out of bed to get to the airport because the night before I had been in Pinewood Studios teaching an actor for an up and coming movie.  I was there for 4 days but as you know in the movie business there's hour after hour of guys standing around doing absolutely bugger all apart from looking at equipment and talking figures. 

I have done possibly 4 seminars in Spain, I think this could be my 5th.  My first in Malaga, or just outside it, if am right this seminar was for a student of mine, Juan Zamudio. I hope I have spelled that correctly, if not well I must apologize. This seminar was a one day seminar. Sometimes a one day seminar is more difficult than a two seminar because in somewhat 5 hrs you have to get some result not just for the attendees but for my own pleasure as a teacher and artist.

This was my second seminar that I did in Beijing, although it was my third seminar in China; my first being in Shanghai. Well, the second seminar was slightly different from the first seminar.  The second one was easier to teach because the first seminar I had put the foundation in place and the guys had to follow what I had left them to do, which they did.  I teach things in a layered system; putting one thing on top of the other we spent the first day in revision and then moving onto the next step, and then the one after that.

Didier Coppens is my student and host for these two events.  The first seminar I did there was just trying to straighten things out; get the guys on the right road and set them off so that when I returned they had a solid base from where to go.  It's always the same doing a seminar; there's tons of versions of JKD, but, sadly not many of them are following Bruce's principals.

This was my first seminar in Italy, the place was Caserta just outside Naples. Going here I was thinking what to teach or what kind of experience would these guys have. Could I get them to glove up or should I let them hit the pads to see where we're at? Well I decided I should just start teaching from the basics and just see where we go from there. The seminar was hosted by Antonio Devito, a student of Tim Tackett.