Intervarsity

StarshipTrooper

Hello everybody!
I'm pleased to invite all collage martial arts clubs and students to a 3 hour workshop being held by NUI Maynooth Self Defence Club. The seminar runs from 7-10pm on Friday the fifth of November in the small sports hall located in the universities sports center and is free for students!



Here is a little info on the instructors:

Shihan Nicholas Burke was introduced to the NUI Maynooth Self-Defence Club as Sensei O'Neill's instructor and, during our first experience with him, left all present speechless with the breadth of his knowledge. His own primary discipline is Seito Matsumura Shorin Ryu, but he has had extensive contact with, and opportunity to train with, most if not all of the most prominent figures in Dublin martial arts, and so has added several other arts to his repertoire, most notably Kenpo. As the most senior instructor, Shihan Burke draws on his experience of in- and out-of dojo combat, which serves as an invaluable grounding influence to the workshop's material. Shihan Burke is a current instructor of the DCU Martial Arts Club.

Sensei Mick O'Neill is a long-time friend of Maynooth-based martial arts clubs in general and of Sensei Salveta's in particular. His martial arts career has spanned two decades and several arts. Notable achievements include a second Dan in Seito Matsumura Shorin Ryu, a first Dan in WKF Tae Kwon Do, and founding his own Ryu, Lifestyle Martial Arts, based on the sum total of his ever-growing experience. In addition to the above, Sensei O'Neill's cross-training has led him into contact with Jiu-Jitsu, several Karate styles, and most recently Wan Yi Chan Kung Fu. Sensei O'Neill is a past DCU Martial Arts Club instructor and founder of the Lifestyle Martial Arts academy in Minnesota.

Mr Darryl Murray is a regular instructor in the NUI Maynooth Self-Defence Club and the Loreto College Kenpo Karate club. He began his training in the art of Kenpo Karate at the age of 6 in 1989 at The Loreto College Kenpo Karate club, and currently holds a third Dan in American Kenpo. While enrolled at NUI Maynooth, he took advantage of the large number of martial arts clubs within the university and cross-trained with practitioners from other systems including Jiu-jitsu, Judo and several styles of Karate. Mr. Murray's studies, though firmly grounded in Kenpo, continue to lead him to explore how Kenpo methodology applies to other martial arts.

Sensei Darren Hayes is a Dublin-based second Dan in the art of Kyu nin Houkousei Jutsu - also known as Shuriken Jutsu. This is a hybrid system combing a solid striking syllabus with throws, locks, control and restraint techniques, and weapon techniques and defences. The art is based on the principle of "attacking an attack" body movement. Sensei Hayes has over twelve years experience in this art and has also cross trained in Aikido, Karate, stick, knife, and various other disciplines.

Sensei Tony Salveta is a regular instructor in the NUI Maynooth and St. Oliver's Self-Defence Clubs. His martial arts career has stretched over twenty-two years to date, the last eight of which have been spent primarily studying Jiu-Jitsu, in which he recently graded for his first Dan. No stranger to cross-training and blending, he describes his Jiu-Jitsu as "a little traditional, a little modern, spiced liberally with other influences, and cooked to be as real as possible." He is currently beginning to expand his studies to include Kenpo and Filipino and Reality-based systems.



For more information on this and upcoming events check out our website and our online discussion forum.

DITTKD

Yo, got your email about this earlier, cheers.
But the 5th November ain't a friday?

StarshipTrooper

DITTKD wrote: »

Yo, got your email about this earlier, cheers.
But the 5th November ain't a friday?

Sorry about the mix up, the actual date is Monday the 5th of November from 7-10pm.

duplicators

Anyone out there that has any real interest in their martial arts training should consider going to this seminar. I know most of the instructors that will be teaching and they are world class. Have a look at the website to see some of the stuff that is going on in NUIM. Sensie Salveta runs an incredible club out there in conjunction with Mr Murray. They operate an open door policy and love to grapple and spar with anyone who is interested, however, not many take them up on their offer.

Sensei Hayes can put together some incredible techniques which isnt surprising when you consider that the chief instructor in his club is the legendary Master Danny Rooney. Anyone that can should visit his club to see his Katana demonstrations and he is also amazing with the tanto. Uses it like a master butcher. Master Rooney likes nothing but to show the secret hidden elements of techniques that are being lost with the passing of time.

Multi discipline seminars are definitely the way forward for the future particularly if they are being thought by these guys

nin1212

yes i agree its one not to be missed.I have seen a demo in kildare i think,master danys sword demo.
It was a cross between mr bean,meets rab c nesbitt,meets "blade".
Are you all gone mad dup,you must be one of his students..i hear hes a ninja that lived in the pub sorry i mean japan

duplicators

No Im not one of his students nor was I ever and Im not sure what you mean by the Rab C. I spoke with Master Rooney after the demonstration he gave and he told me he had a 10th dan in Ninjitsu and that he has trained for over 25 years in Japan up the mountains. I also thinkhe hs a 7th kyu in Kempo. He got his blue belt from GrandMaster Parker himself.

Its a pity he wont be at the intervarsity seminar himself as he is definitely one of the best around but I guess we will make do with Mr Murray and Sensei Salveta. I had another look at the website before I posted this and they are going to be doing some reality based self defense courses. I think I'll do the course myself as Dublin is so messed up now and these guys can really get you in shape when you have to know how to defend yourself.

SBG Ireland

duplicators wrote: »

Sensie Salveta runs an incredible club out there in conjunction with Mr Murray. They operate an open door policy and love to grapple

what times/days are the grappling sessions on?

duplicators wrote: »

however, not many take them up on their offer

sounds scary :eek:

David Jones

however, not many take them up on their offer

Sound of Gauntlet hitting the floor........

BobbyOLeary

I'll be there, you sent me on an email about it a while back. I'll try and get a couple of people to come down from UCDMMA. If not I'll get a few Kenpo (It's where its at) guys to come with.

Bobby
UCDMMA

mark.leonard

duplicators wrote: »

They operate an open door policy and love to grapple and spar with anyone who is interested, however, not many take them up on their offer.

I was in Maynooth a couple weeks ago with my girlfriend and approached the club to get some spars in while I was up there, nobody took me up on my offer. In fairness to Antonio Salveta he was well up for it, but wasn't taking the Saturday class I was around for. He forwarded my interest to Darryl Murray who never replied. Not trying to start anything, but this doesn't sound like folk who are dying to spar with new people!

moxiah

Hi all,

I'm just posting here to clear up what appears to be a misunderstanding about the basic nature of our club. Our club is, first and foremost, a self-defence club so our main focus is and always will be on the more practical side of combative arts. We are all aware that the real world is an ever-changing environment so it would be foolish for us to cling to our core systems (Jiu-Jitsu for me, Kenpo for Mr. Murray), rather than maintain an awareness of the various changes and developments in the many different fighting arts that people are learning. As such, our club maintains an open-door policy with regard to students and guest instructors.

I feel, by the posts on this thread, that our open-door policy has been misinterpreted as a take-on-all-challengers attitude that does us no credit. The truth is, as I already explained to UCDMMA, we'd be only delighted to host an MMA instructor for a guest slot, but any sort of free-grappling session would be mutually unsatisfying for all concerned, as grappling isn't an area that we have focused on to any degree. Having said that, we have a good general knowledge base and are happy to share what we have with any interested in learning martial arts without politics.

Because we are based in NUI Maynooth (i.e . we're a college based club), we have limitations on our hall time slots. This unfortunately means that, sometimes, we can't get extra hall time when the opportunity for a cross-training session or a guest instructor set comes along, although we do try. Also, because we teach a number of beginners, we are to some degree tied to a class schedule ( e.g. Jiu-Jitsu on one day, Kenpo on another, etc). While many of our students train equally in both arts, some have trained more in one that the other, and some train exclusively in one or the other. This means that we can't always cancel a scheduled class, or run a different kind of class in that slot, unless we've got enough time to contact our students - for example, if people who have tended to be more nervous about the Jiu Jitsu training came to a Kenpo class to find that it was actually a grappling class, there's a good chance they may not enjoy it, and may not come back as a result. As a college club, our livelihood depends largely on keeping those college students with us all year.

All that said, we do try our best to accommodate anyone who wants to come and instruct at the club as a guest instructor (in terms of finding a mutually suitable time slot, advertising the events to our members, other students, and other clubs, etc), and we're more than happy for anyone to come along and train with us during any of the classes we run. We hope that you can understand the limitations we've detailed above, and how they can sometimes affect our ability to accommodate a change in class.

If anyone has any questions regarding our club that aren't answered in our F.A.Q. (http://www.minds.nuim.ie/~selfdefence/faq.php), please visit our forum ( http://www.minds.nuim.ie/~selfdefence/boards/ ) and give us a shout. It's checked regularly, both of the club instructors post regularly, and we'll do our best to answer any questions you might have.

For those looking for MMA in Maynooth, may I suggest the recently-founded Maynooth Shootfighters club? ( http://www.minds.nuim.ie/~selfdefence/boards/viewtopic.php?t=460 ). Some of our students number among their membership and I understand that they have a similar open-door training policy to ours.


Yours in Budo,

Antonio Salveta
NUIM Self-Defence Club Instructor

David Jones

Sound of Gauntlet being picked up off the floor....

mark.leonard

Cheers for clearing that up Antonio.

moxiah

Sorry this took so long!

Several years ago, the DCU Martial Arts Club (DCUMAC) and the NUI Maynooth Freestyle Martial Arts Club (NUIMFMAC) regularly hosted each other for cross-training sessions, reasoning that a greater diversity of training partners and regular contact with guest instructors from other clubs and arts made for a more well-rounded martial education. Sensei Mick O'Neill of DCUMAC, in particular, was a strong advocate of cross-training and the fellowship of all martial artists and I believe talking to him when I had just joined NUIMFMAC went a fair way towards making me the warrior I am today. When I became the instructor of the NUI Maynooth Self-Defence Club (NUIMSDC), I promised myself that I'd try my best to follow those ideals and foster them in my own students.

To that end, our club attends twice-yearly workshops with Sensei O'Neill in the spirit of martial fellowship and the sharing of information between arts...sorry Noel, we've been having our own mini-Budokais for years! <Cheeky Grin> Each workshop gets a little bigger, a little more substantial, and features a few new instructors. First on boards was Shihan Nick Burke of Seito Ireland, next Mr. Darryl Murray of NUIMSDC and Loreto College Kenpo Club came on baord in February, and most recently Sensei Garrett Graham of Shika-Do Karate joined our open circle on November 5th this year in the most recent workshop, hosted by NUIMSDC.

This latest workshop was well-attended by students of all clubs involved. Of particular mention was the presence of Shihan Austin Bradshaw, head of Shika-Do Karate and Sifu Lorcan Whelan, founder of Tenshodo. Representing both themselves and, in their capacity as two of the three founding members of the Irish Budokai Society.

I started proceedings off with a departure from my normal seminar set; some actual Jiu-Jitsu (ok, I admit it, married with some of Dan Inosanto's basic principles). I demonstrated a quick-fire blocking combo before going through the two points at which a circular attack (haymaker) could be challenged (namely, the zone of origin and the zone of zero-pressure), using an Outside Hock (Osotogari) and a Body Drop (Taiotoshi), respectively. I finished my set with a quick demo of a higher-speed version of the Body Drop (Cross-Ankle Throw).

Mr. Darryl Murray's set was a demonstration of the Kenpo Equation Formula (Add, Delete, Prefix, Suffix, etc.), which began showing how a block followed by three techniques (elbow, hammer fist, sword hand) could spawn six completely different techniques unified by the same principles. He then went on further to combine three separate Kenpo techniques (Delayed Sword, Five Swords, and Charging Ram) from the first three belts into a longer hybrid technique. The general thrust of his set was that Kenpoists were trained to chop and change in order to adapt to the unpredictability of real combat. Thus when one technique is rendered inappropriate halfway through it, a skilled practitioner simply changes to a more appropriate technique without breaking stride.

Sensei Garrett Graham's set conjures up two overriding words: reality and elbows. Reality because he drew not only on his martial arts training but also on his and his instructor's (Shihan Bradshaw, who also worked for many years in private security) experiences. Elbows because they were the primary counterattacks in each technique. Unusually, Sensei Graham used Shihan Bradshaw himself as an uke (or "Dummy", for you Kenpoists out there), and meted out more punishment than I've seen an Uke take since I was last in Germany, all of which Shihan Bradshaw took with a smile (or at the very least, a grimace). My lasting respect was earned by Sensei Graham when he addressed what I've heard called "the girl Problem"; that, quite simply, smaller people simply can't rely on being able to generate power the way a bigger person can. Sensei Graham made special effort to explain power generation techniques that would in some way compensate for smaller fighters' slightness of stature.

Sensei Mick O'Neill's set the was a discussion on the principles of Major/Minor Blocking through the example of using the classical Downward Block (as found in Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Kung Fu and a number of other traditional arts) at a number of heights against a variety of attacks. He used a less structured teaching set to open the eyes of all present to the benefits of training martial arts fundamentals in a way that allows a student to think freely, unhindered by the strictures of a classical martial arts paradigm,as opposed to the more formal "X techniques is for countering Y attack and nothing else."

Shihan Nick Burke's drew on his comprehensive knowledge of two different martial arts and from the almost unique perspective of having watched Ireland's self-defence culture evolve over the last 30 years. For lack of a better term, it was composed of discreet or covert self-defence techniques intended to fit into a society where the victim can all too often become the aggressor, e.g. being caught on camera defending oneself and being accused of using excessive force on an assailant. Each one of his pressure point/pain-compliance techniqes stressed not only the efficient resolution of a pre-conflict or conflict situation but also,like Sensei Graham's set, the importance of the "innocent bystander point of view".

All said, an enjoyable session and eminently repeatable. I hope the members of other clubs walked away with as much material to practice as we did.

Mox

Roper

Hey what's Tenshodo? I remember Lorcan Whelan from years ago in TKD.

moxiah

I've only ever seen two seminar sets of it but it seems to be Lorcan's Wing Tsun/Tae Kwon Do/Escrima hybrid.
I personally like it a lot so I'm looking forward to him officially opening his academy and starting adult classes.

Mox

Adam1

moxiah wrote: »

I've only ever seen two seminar sets of it but it seems to be Lorcan's Wing Tsun/Tae Kwon Do/Escrima hybrid.
I personally like it a lot so I'm looking forward to him officially opening his academy and starting adult classes.

Mox

It must be very tempting to found your own style especially when you do not have must ability as a student of other styles. How much escrima has he done? Is there anyone who can vouch for him as an escrima student?

He used to teach some variation of wing tchun,,,whatever before packing up and leaving while owing his students money. He did not even have a good level of wing tchun.

This is one of the reason why wing chun and escrima gets a bad name. learn a few forms, some fancy drills and you think you can impress people.

Well you can in NUI.

Can't do the same in BJJ.

Clive

Adam1 wrote: »

Can't do the same in BJJ.

Yes you can.

Colm_OReilly

A little aggressive for you first post Adam.

He then went on further to combine three separate Kenpo techniques (Delayed Sword, Five Swords, and Charging Ram) from the first three belts into a longer hybrid technique.

I heard tale from the 70s and Larry Tatum - some guy was raggin on Larry and getting up in his face, so he had to bust out 5 swords. But get this, he only had to use, 2 swords!

You reall do have to love that hair though

David Jones

You really do have to love that hair though

Larry Tatum = The Ron Burgundy of the Kenpo world!:D

Mr. Darryl Murray's set was a demonstration of the Kenpo Equation Formula (Add, Delete, Prefix, Suffix, etc.), which began showing how a block followed by three techniques (elbow, hammer fist, sword hand) could spawn six completely different techniques unified by the same principles. He then went on further to combine three separate Kenpo techniques (Delayed Sword, Five Swords, and Charging Ram) from the first three belts into a longer hybrid technique.

Kenpo Equation Formula??? Kenpo has obviously got a lot more complicated since I did it. :eek:

I recently combined a hip throw into a rolling kimura, finishing with a punishing G.I. joe death choke. Thinking of setting up my own style, giving all the techniques new names,and not really caring whether they actually work or not. I could perhaps put them to music too.