July 17th PTK Silicon Valley hosted Florida PTK representative Dino Martinez for a awesome one day mountain training clinic. The clinic was held on a beautiful weekend among the Redwoods and rolling hills of Santa Cruz CA.

Guro Martinez is a former Strength and Conditioning coach certified by the NCSA. Dino has an articulate and to the point style of teaching that everyone enjoyed. Guro Martinez took the group through some intermediate partner footwork drils, entries to close range from 5 attacks, knife tapping - primary, secondary and tertiary taps and some Dumpag empty hands movements. We also went through some Espada y Daga. Dino explained the concept of ‘Pankipit’ or ‘Clipping’ in Illongo which is a central theme in PTK close range fighting.

On behalf of the Bay Area PTK groups I would like to thank Guro Martinez for the great Saturday of training.

Dino Martinez teaching a clinic for Bay Area PTK

Mike