This event marked my first to travel in the US. I've just recently conducted a seminar in Malaysia when an invitation from David Jansson came up together with Gilles Blessed who have been coming here for quite some time to train with us here in the Philippines decided to fly me to Seal Beach Calif. We started the seminar with an introduction to blade training which eventually progressed to knife defense which was concluded by an hour of intense knife against knife and knife against empty hand sparring session. Everyone got the chance to cross hands with training blades which was an eye opening experience for each participant. It was also a great opportunity for me to meet up with my brothers sir Sam Halim who took the time to show me around Universal studios just to make me feel welcomed and to meet also with sir Andy who was very kind and who was responsible for producing my videos together with his business partner Mr. Martin under Cranes Production. It was also an honor to meet Sifu Gary Lam at his humble Wing Tsun training center. It was a humbling experience as well to do be asked by sifu for a short knife defense demo in front of his students. It was also an honor to meet up with sir Val Mijailovic from Masters Magazine who conducted a wonderful interview featuring our system for their upcoming Master's magazine issue. It was also great to see my fellow brothers in AK, Japs , Nero and Joseph for a wonderful training session together. Thanks also to my fellow Bosconians who went time off from there busy schedules to welcome me as well.
Bong Abenir
Abenir Kalis Filipino Blade Art
Pictures from the seminar are courtesy of Master David Jansson.
