Dear Friends,

In honor of SMAF's 10th Anniversary, we worked hard this year to put together something extraordinary. Past SMAF years primarily featured excellent seminars from individual instructors with occasional explorations into team-taught presentations. But this year, in honor of the Bai Liu Ha Yi—100 styles flow into one—spirit that makes SMAF so successful, we asked our instructors to collaborate on ideas for demonstrating the common yet distinct forces in martial arts. This year we are therefore excited to present a schedule that primarily features team-taught semianrs!

This year's seminars showcase what is uniquely different stylistically but conceptually similar. The format will allow instructors to highlight particularly interesting elements of their styles. It will foster interaction amongst our instructors concerning solutions to similar problems. For the most part, for each topic you will receive the combined wisdom of two or more instructors.

At the same time, we also want to continue to bring you some particularly unique individual seminars, ones that highlight unique arts, weapons, and meditations that are otherwise hard to find, e.g. Wudang Sword techniques, the Tian Gan breathing exercises of Ba Gua Zhang, the Filipino weapon called the Karambit, 18 Bronzeman Iron Dummy Training, Balintawak Escrima, Daito Ryu Aikijujutsu Kodo Kai with Goldberg (Shingen) Sensei, and more!

As your review our schedule, please consider the time that instructors put forward to form these collaborations. More importantly, plot a careful course through your SMAF 10th Anniversary experience! As we always say, the bad news is that you can choose only one seminar at a time; the good news is that you can't make a bad choice.

Yours in the arts,
Steven J. Pearlman, Ph.D.
Executive Director, SMAF


"Way of the …" Seminars

At SMAF this year, we wanted to find a way to present martial arts to you from a non-stylistic perspective. To do so, we broke arts down into their common components. We then grouped instructors according to those components rather than according to style. While just about any of our instructors could present on just about any of the topics listed, we tried to match instructors with topics that would make interesting experiences for you—our participants. Should you choose an element with which you have a strong background so as to deepen your foundation? Or should you choose a less-familiar element so as to explore the unknown?


All of the seminars are open to martial artists of all ranks and previous experience. Instructors typically offer enough breadth and depth to make the seminars appealing to everyone.



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Saturday

TimeLocation
WinPlaceShowDaily DoubleQuinellaExacta
7:30Door open for check in and same day registration.
8:15Lion Dance and Bow In
8:45 to 10:15 WAY OF THE STICK:
Marcaida, Nacua, Wink
WAY OF THE HAND:
Luciano, Mansfield, Zhou
WAY OF THE GRIP:
Borter, Zuccaro, Pearlman
FLEXIBLE WEAPONRY:
Anthony, Donzella
BREAKOUT SESSION*
Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu Kodo Kai
Golberg (Shingen) Sensei
8:45am-11:30am
10:30 to 12:00 WAY OF DECEPTION:
Annesi, Bisio, Donzella
WAY OF THE LEG:
Cardona, Melander, Violante
WAY OF THE STREET:
Anthony, Arcuri, Seaman
KARAMBIT:
Marcaida
12:00 to 1:00 Lunch
1:00 to 2:00 VIBRATIONAL POWER:
Borter, Pearlman
TRANSLATING WEAPONS TO EMPTY HANDS:
Seaman, Wink
THE FILIPINO-CHINESE CONNECTION:
Bisio, Marcaida
ANATA WA WAKAREMASEN:
Goldberg
18 BRONZEMAN IRON DUMMY TRAINING*
Luciano
1:00-3:15
2:15 to 3:30 THE WAY OF BUNKAI:
Annesi, Mansfield
CONTENDING WITH BAD GUYS:
Arcuri, Melander
KEMPO SHUTOS
JUJITSU THROWS
:
Violante, Zuccaro
WUDANG SWORD:
Zhou
3:45 to 5:00 KUBATON:
Borter, Violante
MARTIAL ARTS OF THE ASIAN ISLANDS:
Donzella, Marcaida
ADVANCED HANDWORK:
Anthony, Cardona
BALINTAWAK ESCRIMA:
Nacua
5:30 to 7:00 Demonstration
8:00 to 10:00 Banquet

Sunday

TimeLocation
WinPlaceShowDaily DoubleQuinellaExacta
8:30Door open for check in and same day registration.
9:00 to 10:15 DEFENDING EDGED WEAPONS:
Seaman
ATTRIBUTE TRAINING:
Cardona
DEFENSIVE TACTICS OF THE DAYAKS:
Melander
FILIPINO TRANSLATIONS:
Marcaida, Nacua, Wink
*"SECRET" TIAN GAN:
Bisio
* CLASS WITH ANTHONY HANSHI
10:30 to 11:45 XING-YI QUAN:
Zhou
SLAP-TRAP-LOCK-AND DROP:
Borter
STICKY BODY DRILLS:
Donzella
SUBMISSION HOLDS:
Zuccaro
11:45 to 12:15 Snack
12:15 to 1:30 BA GUA LOCKS:
Bisio, Pearlman
THROWING BY SHAPE:
Annesi
CHOPSTICK WEAPONRY:
Violante
GROUNDFIGHTING:
Arcuri
1:45 to 3:00 Flowing 100 styles into 1

* All of these classes are restricted in terms of the number of participants. Sign-up sheets will be available on the day of the seminars on a first come, first served basis. Each participant may sign up for only one breakout per day, and may be an alternate for others should they not fill.

* We prefer everyone to wear their martial arts uniforms, but other workout clothes (e.g. sweats and tees) work fine too. There is a bathroom and we do set up morning/evening changing rooms.

* Please note that this schedule is subject to change.