We wrapped up another great year with our traditional “tactical” gift exchange! Highly desired items this year included the spice set and the ab roller wheel!
Check out the current Sayoc instructor list! Congratulations to all those who were promoted, including:
Plus our Apprentice Instructors:
And our newest Apprentice:
My family and I went down to the Inner Harbor to watch the fireworks on the 4th. As the crowd shuffled off of Pier 6 after the show, we walked past a man lying on the ground bleeding from his neck just outside of McCormick & Schmick’s. (I was carrying my youngest child, with the other two beside me.) First responders were trying to apply pressure to the man’s wound, but it took a while before paramedics and an ambulance could work their way through the crowd. They had started chest compressions as they loaded the man into the ambulance.
26-year-old Joseph Calo had been visiting Baltimore from Alabama when he and his brother became involved in a shoving match with a group of other men, including 32-year-old Marcus Harris. The fight was broken up at first, but Calo and Marcus apparently “re-engaged” each other later on. Calo was stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle and died after being taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center.
It was a disturbing end to my family’s 4th of July celebration, less than 24 hours after I returned from Sama Sama, but it served as a reminder that violence can erupt anywhere and anytime. All the more reason for an “all blade, all the time” mentality, paired with training in mass attack and improvised weapons concepts …
Filipino Combatives Weekend Workshop
Location: Bowie Maryland
Date:
Registration: 11am-12pm
Cost:
If you are interested in learning more about Filipino Combatives and Real Time Applications of the Dynamics of Stick Fighting, Filipino Boxing, and Blade Awareness. I recommend that you join Tuhon Felix Cortes and Guro Joey Pena for this Dynamic Workshop!!
Equipment needed:
T-shirts and Sticks are available for Purchase..
For more Information, and to RSVP please contact Tuhon Felix Cortes at tuhonfc@aol.com
We are hosting Tuhon Carl Atienza on Saturday, May 7, 2011. He will be teaching Atienza Kali bolo techniques and mass attack strategies. The cost for the day is $200 per person. Email bobshin@gmail.com to reserve your spot!
Four men were stabbed, one fatally, inside the Bourbon Street nightclub in downtown Baltimore last Friday night during a combination of two events: “Ladies’ Night” and “Zombie Strippers and Beer”.
According to the Baltimore Sun, the chaotic scene was made even more gruesome, “by the copious amounts of fake blood that were brought in for the zombie event.”
According to the Investigative Voice, the fatally wounded man was found by a stairwell with multiple stab wounds to his leg and might have died from massive blood loss from a severed femoral artery.
Not an April Fool’s joke …
Michael Beach, age 44, charged a sheriff’s deputy with a sword, when the officer attempted to serve a protective order filed by Beach’s mother. The deputy suffered a rib fracture as he evaded the attack, but was otherwise uninjured.
Beach was eventually arrested after tactical officers used “a chemical agent”, beanbag rounds and, finally, a Taser to subdue him after an 8-hour standoff. Beach was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center with a reportedly self-inflicted wound to his chest.