Back from a busy weekend in Mobile, AL where Bill 'Superfoot' Wallace just had his annual blackbelt camp.
Bill Wallace is a martial art icon central to the development of martial arts in America. (Just google his name and browse) In addition to working his famed superfoot kicking system we all trained boxing, wrestling (Bill was the wrestling coach at Memphis State University) judo(Bill's first martial art) and some submissions from BJJ which he asked me to teach. Blackbelts in the Superfoot system come from a variety of martial art backgrounds and were all just great people. Paul Acklin from Tamp FL had even brought an indo board and I discovered he was working with Hunter Joslin on using the Indo board for martial athletes and we had a good discussion on how we were each incorporating the indo board into our classrooms.
Both Bill Wallace and Joe Lewis have been profound influences in my martial art career and both were the 'renegades' of their era. Their influence on the development of American martial arts will live on long after they are gone. Joe's camp is in Oct. and I am sure that my time spent with Bill will keep me charged up until then.
Train on
Danny Dring
Monday, June 8, 2009
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