{"id":7856,"date":"2020-04-16T09:21:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?page_id=7856"},"modified":"2020-11-28T19:24:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T03:24:32","slug":"mike-austin-assistant-instructor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?page_id=7856","title":{"rendered":"Mike Austin – Assistant Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mike Austin – Pekiti-Tirsia System of Kali<\/h3>\n
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    Pekiti Tirsia System of Kali<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    • Rank: Lakan Guro  (3rd Hagdan)<\/li>\n
    • 25+ years training and teaching<\/li>\n
    • Under Guro<\/em> Jorgenson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Mike Austin is an assistant instructor of the Pekiti-Tirsia System of Kali with 20+ years<\/strong> of training and teaching.  Mike has explored kali and a wide variety of other arts throughout SE Asia.<\/p>\n

      Mike lives in Valemont, BC and is available for training for anyone who can snowshoe to his cabin fast enough to not be eaten by wolves.<\/p>\n

       Milestones in Pekiti-Tirsia System of Kali<\/h4>\n

      2002 Lakan Guro (3rd Hagdan)<\/p>\n

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      Instructors<\/h3>\n

      1987-1992<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Moroi Sensei – Nito Ryu<\/p>\n

      1992-1995<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Guro<\/em> Louie Lindo – Ikatan kali<\/p>\n

      1994-1998<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Guro Loki Jorgenson – Pekiti Tirsia Kali, Dog Brothers full contact<\/p>\n

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      HISTORY<\/strong><\/h3>\n

      My interest in weapon based combat began after watching a Sinbad movie at the age of 10.  I devoted much of the next day to designing swords,  much the to the consternation of my math teacher who felt that a long division quiz took precedence over sword design and reinforced that concept with a rap on the knuckles with a yardstick.  I didn\u2019t realize at the time, but that rap on the knuckles would be the first of many to come.<\/p>\n

      Later, at university I met like minded Asian international students who introduced me to Karate and Kendo – where the martial knuckle rapping began.  So began a decade long fascination with Japanese martial arts that ended up in a move to Japan in the mid 80\u2019s to live in the land of  martial truth.  I was fortunate to be taken under the wing of Moroi Sensei, a Japanese culture expert and a lineage holder in Musashi’s two sword style, Nito Ryu.  Here was a Kenjutsu expert who also practiced the martial applications of the tea ceremony.  I felt I had reached the pinnacle of martial arts practice until a random meeting with two escrimadors in a gym.  I had heard of Kali but never really seen it.  Experiencing Kali changed my outlook on all things martial.  It was like a critical gap had finally been filled with concepts like planes of motion, zero pressure and triangular geometry. <\/p>\n

      Upon returning the Canada in the early 1990\u2019s I began training Kali\/Silat with Louie Lindo and along the way met a guy who invited me to \u201ctrain in the park.\u201d  The guy was Loki Jorgenson who would later form the Mano y Baston Kali Club that would evolve into Maelstrom.  Training in the park was code for Dog Brothers sparring. <\/p>\n

      Here were some guys who had a special term for knuckle rapping – defanging the snake.  Different name – same pain.   For the next decade we would train in parks, on tennis courts, in backyards and eventually move indoors to get out of the winter rain.  It was a time to learn Pekiti Tirsia Kali and test it using the Dog Brothers platform.  Along the way, I would move to the Philippines, then back to Japan and spend time in Indonesia and Thailand always looking for training partners and running various combat systems through my \u201cKali filter.\u201d   I went on to live in Mexico for two years exchanging ideas and techniques with Boxers, Tai Chi players, Bagua practitioners and a second generation Bruce Lee student.<\/p>\n

      Now, over 50 years after Sinbad and 30 years after my introduction to Kali, I still practice most days.  Whenever I see an interesting technique or train with someone new, I run everything through my Kali filter.<\/p>\n

      My elementary math teacher would be disappointed to learn that I have been letting various apps do my long division for decades, but I am still swinging sword shaped objects pretty much daily.  It turns out running around on triangles swinging sticks would give me pleasure for decades \u2013 long division not so much.  Strange, I have a 1960\u2019s Sinbad movie to thank for all this.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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