Hi
Well this is an old review from the end of August and start of September in the year of our Lord 2006.
After a short trip to Prescott, Liverpool, Sensei and myself had arrived for the Instructional NLP course. NLP from Sensei’s lectures is Neuro-linguistic programming basically making actions a subconscious reflex or instinctive response to a perceived attack, but to achieve this state without having to do 30 years of training. Anyway as we walked through the door there was about 20-30 people milling around. After signing we had to stick a A1 sheet of paper to the wall write our name on it and our goals for the course. M.Wynne, then told everyone to imagine a line running from one corner of the room out through the doors. Take a piece of masking tape and write your name and place it along the line, where you think you are in your skills and training.
It was then time to begin, so looking at the tools that we had brought down, M.Wynne said, “grab a training blade and run through some moves.” at that point the Bongos kicked in, and a rye smile from Ian and people began do their thing. As time moved on more instructions where thrown out like “left hand, static , eyes closed, only focus on the point” all to the beat of the drum. Then a change of pace, lining up in groups of fours and then drawing a figure 8 in the air being mindful of where your training partners are as you slalom through them, again using your left and right sides. Next we had to repeat the same drill but with live blades, at which point it became a Knife lover’s fantasy, as a whole menagerie of knives appeared. So once more through the same drill a couple more times, M.Wynne then begins to explain what he is doing and why he is getting the class to do these warm up exercises. Read More »