“No judges, no referees, no trophies. One rule only: Be friends at the end of the day.”

On November 20th Guro Gruhn had the privilege to fly out to Los Angeles and fight in the Dog Brothers’ Winter Gathering of the Pack. The day started off with knife fights and soon led into single stick fights of which Guro Gruhn fought in. The day was full of fun and friends. For more information and pictures please feel free to visit www.DogBrothers.com .

On June 5th Guro Gruhn, Ken Graham and Arsen Elkin of Titan’s Kali program ventured up to NYC for a day long seminar with Marc “Crafty Dog” Denny of Dog Brothers Martial Arts. The day started off with Crafty’s up and coming knife material at Dog Russ’ place and then the seminar moved to central park where the rest of the day consisted of “Kali Tudo ™” and some light sparring. Congratulations Ken and Arsen on your promotion to Group Leader under Dog Brothers!

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Central Park – Russ Iger, Miguel Velez, Ryan Gruhn, Ken Graham, Arsen Elkin, Marc Denny, Agapito

Miguel Velez, Ken Graham, Agapito, Marc Denny, Arsen Elkin, Ryan Gruhn, Russ Iger

On April 3rd, 2005, Mr. Gruhn fought in the first national championship under the World Kali Federation in Baltimore, Maryland. He brought home first place in the advanced Full Contact Stickfighting division! Aside from Full Contact Stickfighting, the event consisted of a plethora of martial arts competitions such as Kickboxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and Weapons Forms. Guro Dan Inosanto and Grandmaster Leo Gaje were two of Mr. Gruhn’s judges, along with “Sled Dog” an original Dog Brother, as his referee. The fight lasted a round and half with Mr. Gruhn ending the fight 20 seconds into the second round with a series of knees to his opponent.

WATCH THE FIGHT!

Guro Dan Inosanto and Mr. Gruhn

Grandmaster Leo Gaje and Mr. Gruhn

Please also check out what the MD Pit Bulls had to say about the stickfighting tournament at: http://mdpitbulls.tripod.com/id10.html