Guro Steve L., All,
I am quite disheartened now. I called up Tuhon Torres last night and found out that he doesn't hold regular classes anymore, he mainly does private instruction and semiars.
Now I guess I'll have to start looking for another Silat/Kali teacher in the Long Island, NY area. It was already so hard to find him.
Does anyone know of anyone else they could reccomend in the Long Island, Ny area? I found this other person that has a lineage to Herman Suwanda by the name of Charles Chi. I looked at his website and it looked a little strange for a silat/kali/jkd instructor:
http://www.nymatc.com/
From the pictures though, his adult class seems to take a no-nonsense approach which is what I'm looking for. Any thoughts on this?
Also, would it be disrespectful if I emailed Tuhon Torres again to see if there are any other Silat/Kali teachers he would reccomend? I wouldn't want him to take it as a disrespectful question.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If someone wants to PM me, it'd be great too.