Wow – I just heard that Lloyd de Jongh and Nigel February will be visiting Singapore in January 2008. Excellent!
Nigel and Lloyd are the guys behind the Piper System, a technique that puts together and formalizes the knife-fighting techniques of South African convicts and gangsters (specifically, Cape Town). I’ve blogged about them several times, which led to an email conversation with the two of them. As I’ve mentioned before, I spent time in Africa when I was younger, and find it interesting to hear more about combatives based on African culture and rhythms of movement; it’s also very interesting to see someone studying a previously undocumented subculture to create a new fighting art…
No news yet as to whether there will be any public demos (the guys will be here for business, not pleasure), but I’ll be looking forward to catching up and finally meeting in the flesh.
Hi Druid!
We will see you in a couple of days. I’ve told the hosts that I would like you to be there for our first talk at the Victoria School. We will likely be doing some training with some martial arts guys as well. Will be great to set some time aside to meet and train with you and any interested parties.
Will do our best to make that happen.
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