Excellent video. I believe this helps with breaking the misconceptions of training FMA, especially for those who watch and criticize, yet they themselves are not practioners. It was refreshing to hear you explain your expression of this discipline and the ways you choose to train.
No style is the best. Everyone is striving to perfect the techniques but there is no perfect technique. I practice Filipino Martial Arts for self-defense because that is what I am inclined to, and I enjoy it more for it is my passion 😉 "The more you sweat in training, the less you'll bleed in combat." - Richard Marcinko What matters is that we enjoy what we are doing. Pugay!
The non martial arts movements teach you extreme control over the "weapon" even if your movements are not good in defensive situations. If you learn that degree of control first it will give you confidence when learning the defensive techniques. I would love to learnt his art for both purposes.
Brilliant video, So many keyboard warriors dont understand context and will pull a video to bits as in their mind their 'art' is better etc Everything is about context....
I get destroyed as a FMA teacher in Italy by all the hate. Here, Italy ita not ready for an open minded Martial Art like this. In Italy, it's just boxing and soccer. I don't and will not care and will keep pushing my art forward. (San Miguel Eskrima & Balintawak Cuentada)
I was taught the old ways and many of the philosophical and moral values i hold onto to me there timeless. As for style and methodology they are changing all the time adaptability and personal preference is a choice of freedom of expression. You are a open mind for the Art and that is a good thing it must evolve.
Well said. Never really thought that there are people just do Martial arts just for sport. When advertise or looking for schools that say self defence and mainly only teach how to punch and kick, I always think WTF. So many schools maybe show you how to get out of a bear hug once every 6 months. Isn't that what people want to learn or from being mounted etc.
I am an artist by nature and profession sonive alwYs neen attracted by the aesthetic aspects of the FMA They are simultaneously beautiful and deadly u like other martial disciplines inactially have FUN practicing the art. Something in Couldnt sau for karate.
I agree with being honest about what you do and how you present your art to others. However, when you label something as a "martial art" you place the label of it being practical or at least applicable in a combative context. If someone advertises their style of Arnis as "for performances" then what they teach shouldn't really be classified as a "martial art". Similarly, the sport aspect of a martial art can be called out as not "martial" as you have scoring systems which might encourage impractical actions or discourage realistic or safe actions. I do enjoy the sport, performance, and self defence sides of Arnis, and other similar arts, but having this connotation of practicality or martial application is, I think, where all the animosity towards the different aspects of arnis comes from. This is definitely still an ongoing debate in many martial arts circles, even those outside Arnis, so this is by no means a good conclusion, but I do think that the term "martial art" just has a lot of problems where it creates certain expectations from people, which is something that is hard to solve.
Honour to you to explain your point of view, I explain that, ,my humble opinion is that I see escrima as a self defence discipline, I train humbly on my own to train and been able to use the stick training propaedeutic for the hampty hands (bare hands) comabt in case that happens.
I detect that many the "critic" misperceive the purpose of flow and drill - whether for self defense or art. For instance; I train in Kajukenbo. It's purpose, of course, is totally self defense. However, we occasionally train Tang Soo Do/karate style kata. Our head professor mocks kata, and calls it useless...even though our sensei will still make us include it in our training. Even our sensei has a habit of admitting that we won't necessarily use these movements, but what I DID find practical about kata is that in the beginning, my legs were so sore afterward. My toes and the soles of my feet would ache. I didn't realize that my stance and balance was being strengthened. I may not squat, and reverse punch a potential attacker, but I am more able to maintain my balance. In Kaju, our only weaponry is knife and rattan. A couple of our art's founders were of Filipino decent, and carried some Arnis over into our mixed art. Sticks(rattan) are not practiced much at my particular dojo(they are all different), but I, personally, spend extra time with rattan on my own. Why? Because, like with kata, I may not perform those beautiful movements - if...for some reason...I am attacked(and I have sticks), but I noticed that twirling those sticks both strengthen and loosen my wrists. I have a habit of warming up with double sinawali just to loosen up before class. Ha! Our Grandmaster in Hawaii, Jason Groff, is a large man, and is known to warm up with rebar before many sessions.
[clapclapclap] Wonderful! Thank you for explicitly addressing this. I've done various martial arts for over 25 years and have run into so many dogmatic practitioners insisting that martial arts be for a single purpose. It took me years to unpack and escape the dogma. Martial arts are simply a tool and what you build with those tools is entirely up to you.
Good for you for growing out of it! It feels great to be liberated and start thinking for yourself. When martial arts becomes a lifestyle, you should be directing how you practice and use your art. 🙏
I adore Arnis' panuntukan, and I'm glad you included some kicks in your vlog, but it makes me wonder why arnisadors don't demonstrate a wide range of kicking techniques. Is it because it is a weapon-based martial art, or was it not seen as practical for self-defense by our forefathers? What if you are certain your opponent no longer has a weapon? Can we use and integrate some higher kicks from other Ancient Filipino martial arts to convince others that our traditional Arnis is indeed a complete martial art? Forgive me for asking, but I had never seen a Classic master (except kombatan arnis while at that time karate and kungfu were still popular ) of arnis throw kicks when I was younger. Only in this generation have I seen kicks (higher than the waist) integrated into arnis, which I believe has evolved that makes it a complete martial art but not in the traditional sense.
You have to remember that arnis as we know it today, as systems, are fairly young. If you talk to the older folks now, they basically didn't teach kicking because they kicked as a matter of fact- it made sense to kick when they had to, not necessarily because it was part of how they were taught to fight. Arnis really is in essence more street fighting than holistic system, and it's only in recent generations that they've tried to codify that stuff. But yeah, kicks as part of the codex is usually a hybrid thing, even Kombatan owes it to Karate, as the Presas lineages are very influenced by their founders' karate education and have never been shy about it.
iIF EVERY MARTIAL ARTIST EXPLAINED WHAT HE IS ABOUT TO DEMONSTRATE, AND LET PEOPLE KNOW IF ITS FOR STREET OR ENTERTAINMENT THERE WOULD BE LESS CRITICISM,,OF MARTIAL ARTIST,, BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE NO NEED,,THE PROBLEM IS MARTIAL ARTIST TEND TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO BELIVE THERE PRETTY MOVES WORK FOR REAL,SOME DO,BUT A LOT DO NOT,I APPLAUD YOU YOU ARE ONE A FE W WHO DOES THIS,,
i used to be a stick wielding practitioner but then i don't used sticks in combat. i trained taekwondo, boxing and then muay thai. i often used sticks for basic cross train then i train empty handed and mixing my 3 other styles. kinda like my own version of yaw yan
i am now a bit rusty to train sticks. i have completely forgotten about the stick forms, footworks and a few other balancing tricks. i only do the basic double weave, hard whip sounds, cross training and reverse double weave. i have not been doing arnis since i was a teenager. i went on a long hiatus. until i decide to switch styles. i started trained muay thai in 2019 and start liking martial arts again. and then i combined a few strikes, techniques, and concepts of any type of moves that i have developed for self-defense, combat and/or sport.
i often slow down and lighter because i sometimes got hurt my face or the back of the head. so i needed to be careful or i often don't used sticks and i trained empty handed to resembled hands/arms as sticks
gold words! "works" is not what you study, but how you study it. a dangerous opponent is not the one who knows a lot of blows, but the one who goes to kill you.
Good day Mr. Daniel Bernas. I am Erickson J. Cawili, a college professor from Eastern Visayas State University. Our school will be having a Virtual Culminating Activity for the Physical Education Classes, in line with this we were hoping that you can be a part of our Program for the Arnis Anyo Presentation, to give a short inspirational message for our students in their presentation. A short video will do po, we hope for your positive response in this matter. We will appreciate po, me and my class because my students are viewing your TH-cam Video as references in learning arnis in anyo manner. Thank you and God bless!
Indeed it really depends on the practioner on how he will execute what ever form he or she wants as long as he or she is doing it for the love of the art
your move is more dangerous than a normal traditional arnis . you have the speed and multiple strike. when you use that in real fight you have more advantages to strike or hit your enemy in different position.
Respect, Brother. 🙏 This is something people tend to neglect. Just because I primarily practice Arnis alongside my study of Karate, which itself is geared towards self-improvement and self defense, doesn't mean I should stubbornly insist others do that. It just happens that our humble little archipelago doesn't have Kobudo which used to be a 'sister' Martial Art to Karate but has Kali-Arnis and for that I'm grateful. All things we practice ultimately meld together naturally as long as we keep an open mind and a humble heart. No style or "way" is superior to another, at the end of the day it's different paths that lead up to the (same summit) of the same mountain. 👊🥋
I mean no offence here so please be mindful of my context . . . Ive always said that people practice Martial arts for 3 reasons; for the "art" for the "social" and health benefits and lastly . . . to protect themselves on the street I definitely fall into the last category So you practice an art that was designed for deadly combat, you dont care about the "reality" of using it for self preservation, and you only want to "look good" I guess that is your preference and your entitled to that, but it seems a waste not to attain the skill that you have, to then ignore the fact that this art was designed to keep you safe should the worst happen to you. What would you think will be your mental state after an attack where you are seriously injured, and you didnt have the mindset needed to defend your self? because all your energies were focussed on "looking good"
@@michaelreynolds6543 If someone wanted to put that much effort into harming me, they'll find a way regardless. I have training in self-defense, just to be clear. And I take what I feel to be sufficient precautions in public and at home. I just don't make a hobby out of it. And it's not the side of Arnis I enjoy sharing in my content. I have a sport I enjoy. Hopefully it helps, and hopefully I don't have to find out the answer to your question. ...let me know if that made sense to you! I think this video could have had a bit more nuance in articulating where I'm at. 🤔 Thanks! ☺️ Edit: I wouldn't say I "ignore" the practical applications of the art. I think there are lots of people already doing a good job showcasing these on social media. I rather focus on the aspect I have fun with.
@@daniel_bernas Hey Daniel thanks for the reply. I hear you and I know where your coming from . . . so here is where I am atm I am a longtime Martial artist started in 1974 lau gar- JiuJitsu- full contact semi pro and over the last 20 odd years I have studied wing chun. Recently i was on a MTB facebook page where id read of a guy getting robbed at knifepoint he ended up losing his bike, this is now a "thing" here in the UK as lads troll parks and simply taking bikes at will . . i visit a lot of bike parks and i decided i wasnt gonna end up being a victim, so i took steps to address this and ended up at kali center where i started teaching myself with Pauls excellent free content. Been training now for just about a month and Im making good progress ive even made a tyre dummy and its great. My confidence has gone through the roof (not that i even remotely had "confidence" issues at all) and this weapon is now part of my existing martial arts repetoire. I have to respectfully disagree with your statement about people finding a way to harm you - regardless- as the whole point ( to me anyway) of this weapon/skill is to deter them from doing harm. Ive studied a lot on this subject lately and decided that "defanging the snake" is my primary technique Paul is a very good teacher even in his free content its easy to follow and im really grateful that he and people like yourself put this stuff out there for people like me to digest as I dont really want to join a school and learn an "art" and spend lots of time banging sticks with other students trying to convince myself im learning something worthwhile. I guess im following Bruce Lee's advice of stripping it down to the essence and taking what is useful and discarding what is not. To me its about hitting the other guy first, fast and very hard using combinations that are drilled over and over again attacking first and overwhelming him i do not include any defence techniques whatsoever . . . to me the mindset is; "defence is the other guys problem" Ive actually just finnished making a video for my you tube channel that explains all this view that here th-cam.com/video/t8XkrX520V4/w-d-xo.html
Here's a secret young grasshopper. Your training is good, but what you lack of from training is using real training weapon stick now that you learn using toy stick it's time to use real weapon that is 26inches or shorter metal/iron pipe 5millimeter preferable thickness train and start cracking a whole coconut with husk green husk or dry brown coconut husk or start smacking a tire first then when you are ready build strength in your wrist and arm as metal pipe is heavy. I guarantee you no one will laugh at you when you whack a whole coconut with either green or dry brown coconut and watch it crack open train for the real weapon arnis weapon metal pipe. If you want nunchucks have it welded with chain. Ok no one is going to laugh at you I guarantee that now train.
Excellent video. I believe this helps with breaking the misconceptions of training FMA, especially for those who watch and criticize, yet they themselves are not practioners. It was refreshing to hear you explain your expression of this discipline and the ways you choose to train.
🙏🙏🙏❤️
No style is the best. Everyone is striving to perfect the techniques but there is no perfect technique. I practice Filipino Martial Arts for self-defense because that is what I am inclined to, and I enjoy it more for it is my passion 😉 "The more you sweat in training, the less you'll bleed in combat." - Richard Marcinko
What matters is that we enjoy what we are doing. Pugay!
What matters is that we enjoy what we are doing 👏👏👏
I didn't only get into Arnis for self defense, but mostly to be badass and find balance, thx for sharing po
Thanks for sharing too! :)
Totally agree with you. Sometimes martial arts is more than fighting, and especially in those times it is at it's peak of beauty
Yesss! It's the beauty and fun that call to me! :)
That's why art is in the name
💯
Thank you, Daniel for the new prospective you show and demonstrated to all viewers.
The non martial arts movements teach you extreme control over the "weapon" even if your movements are not good in defensive situations. If you learn that degree of control first it will give you confidence when learning the defensive techniques. I would love to learnt his art for both purposes.
Doble baston training helps neuroplasticity and develops new neuropathways.
So it's medicinal for the brain.
The flows you demonstrate are marvelous. Greetings from Nam.
thank you :)
Brilliant video, So many keyboard warriors dont understand context and will pull a video to bits as in their mind their 'art' is better etc
Everything is about context....
I get destroyed as a FMA teacher in Italy by all the hate.
Here, Italy ita not ready for an open minded Martial Art like this.
In Italy, it's just boxing and soccer. I don't and will not care and will keep pushing my art forward.
(San Miguel Eskrima & Balintawak Cuentada)
Don't they like to practice HEMA there?
@@bradolfpittler2875 Kind of. Compared to 100 people liking soccer and boxing, maybe 1 or 2 will like HEMA. bad bad ratio.
I was taught the old ways and many of the philosophical and moral values i hold onto to me there timeless. As for style and methodology they are changing all the time adaptability and personal preference is a choice of freedom of expression. You are a open mind for the Art and that is a good thing it must evolve.
Well said. Never really thought that there are people just do Martial arts just for sport. When advertise or looking for schools that say self defence and mainly only teach how to punch and kick, I always think WTF. So many schools maybe show you how to get out of a bear hug once every 6 months. Isn't that what people want to learn or from being mounted etc.
Well done and explained.
I wish more people, especially FMA people, are as sensible and thoughtful as you are when it comes to our arr
Thank you. well said. I do Aikido, and the application is the same
Aikido is a beautiful art I'd love to explore some day! ☺️
I am an artist by nature and profession sonive alwYs neen attracted by the aesthetic aspects of the FMA They are simultaneously beautiful and deadly u like other martial disciplines inactially have FUN practicing the art. Something in Couldnt sau for karate.
Good video. I started FMA as a way of getting exercise and approach it as such.
I am here after a year I am now enjoying building a community around the art. I suck at it but it is a fun thing getting people into it.
I agree with being honest about what you do and how you present your art to others. However, when you label something as a "martial art" you place the label of it being practical or at least applicable in a combative context. If someone advertises their style of Arnis as "for performances" then what they teach shouldn't really be classified as a "martial art". Similarly, the sport aspect of a martial art can be called out as not "martial" as you have scoring systems which might encourage impractical actions or discourage realistic or safe actions. I do enjoy the sport, performance, and self defence sides of Arnis, and other similar arts, but having this connotation of practicality or martial application is, I think, where all the animosity towards the different aspects of arnis comes from. This is definitely still an ongoing debate in many martial arts circles, even those outside Arnis, so this is by no means a good conclusion, but I do think that the term "martial art" just has a lot of problems where it creates certain expectations from people, which is something that is hard to solve.
Honour to you to explain your point of view, I explain that, ,my humble opinion is that I see escrima as a self defence discipline, I train humbly on my own to train and been able to use the stick training propaedeutic for the hampty hands (bare hands) comabt in case that happens.
And what if is someone attacks you?
I detect that many the "critic" misperceive the purpose of flow and drill - whether for self defense or art. For instance; I train in Kajukenbo. It's purpose, of course, is totally self defense. However, we occasionally train Tang Soo Do/karate style kata. Our head professor mocks kata, and calls it useless...even though our sensei will still make us include it in our training. Even our sensei has a habit of admitting that we won't necessarily use these movements, but what I DID find practical about kata is that in the beginning, my legs were so sore afterward. My toes and the soles of my feet would ache. I didn't realize that my stance and balance was being strengthened. I may not squat, and reverse punch a potential attacker, but I am more able to maintain my balance. In Kaju, our only weaponry is knife and rattan. A couple of our art's founders were of Filipino decent, and carried some Arnis over into our mixed art. Sticks(rattan) are not practiced much at my particular dojo(they are all different), but I, personally, spend extra time with rattan on my own. Why? Because, like with kata, I may not perform those beautiful movements - if...for some reason...I am attacked(and I have sticks), but I noticed that twirling those sticks both strengthen and loosen my wrists. I have a habit of warming up with double sinawali just to loosen up before class. Ha! Our Grandmaster in Hawaii, Jason Groff, is a large man, and is known to warm up with rebar before many sessions.
[clapclapclap]
Wonderful! Thank you for explicitly addressing this. I've done various martial arts for over 25 years and have run into so many dogmatic practitioners insisting that martial arts be for a single purpose. It took me years to unpack and escape the dogma. Martial arts are simply a tool and what you build with those tools is entirely up to you.
Good for you for growing out of it! It feels great to be liberated and start thinking for yourself. When martial arts becomes a lifestyle, you should be directing how you practice and use your art. 🙏
I adore Arnis' panuntukan, and I'm glad you included some kicks in your vlog, but it makes me wonder why arnisadors don't demonstrate a wide range of kicking techniques. Is it because it is a weapon-based martial art, or was it not seen as practical for self-defense by our forefathers? What if you are certain your opponent no longer has a weapon? Can we use and integrate some higher kicks from other Ancient Filipino martial arts to convince others that our traditional Arnis is indeed a complete martial art? Forgive me for asking, but I had never seen a Classic master (except kombatan arnis while at that time karate and kungfu were still popular ) of arnis throw kicks when I was younger. Only in this generation have I seen kicks (higher than the waist) integrated into arnis, which I believe has evolved that makes it a complete martial art but not in the traditional sense.
You have to remember that arnis as we know it today, as systems, are fairly young. If you talk to the older folks now, they basically didn't teach kicking because they kicked as a matter of fact- it made sense to kick when they had to, not necessarily because it was part of how they were taught to fight. Arnis really is in essence more street fighting than holistic system, and it's only in recent generations that they've tried to codify that stuff. But yeah, kicks as part of the codex is usually a hybrid thing, even Kombatan owes it to Karate, as the Presas lineages are very influenced by their founders' karate education and have never been shy about it.
Why?
iIF EVERY MARTIAL ARTIST EXPLAINED WHAT HE IS ABOUT TO DEMONSTRATE, AND LET PEOPLE KNOW IF ITS FOR STREET OR ENTERTAINMENT THERE WOULD BE LESS CRITICISM,,OF MARTIAL ARTIST,, BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE NO NEED,,THE PROBLEM IS MARTIAL ARTIST TEND TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO BELIVE THERE PRETTY MOVES WORK FOR REAL,SOME DO,BUT A LOT DO NOT,I APPLAUD YOU YOU ARE ONE A FE W WHO DOES THIS,,
I Agree. Great Video!
Thanks bro! 🙏
totally agree. Greetings from Mexico
Greetings! Thanks for dropping by the channel! :)
i used to be a stick wielding practitioner but then i don't used sticks in combat.
i trained taekwondo, boxing and then muay thai. i often used sticks for basic cross train
then i train empty handed and mixing my 3 other styles. kinda like my own version of yaw yan
i am now a bit rusty to train sticks. i have completely forgotten about the stick forms, footworks and a few other balancing tricks. i only do the basic double weave, hard whip sounds, cross training and reverse double weave.
i have not been doing arnis since i was a teenager. i went on a long hiatus. until i decide to switch styles. i started trained muay thai in 2019 and start liking martial arts again. and then i combined a few strikes, techniques, and concepts of any type of moves that i have developed for self-defense, combat and/or sport.
i often slow down and lighter because i sometimes got hurt my face or the back of the head. so i needed to be careful
or i often don't used sticks and i trained empty handed to resembled hands/arms as sticks
Practicality comes from practice. You never know when your instinct kicks in and you wear someone out
Goodpm po Sir gusto kopo sana matuto ng arnis how to aply po sir
try mo yung online course ni pekiti.university :)
gold words! "works" is not what you study, but how you study it. a dangerous opponent is not the one who knows a lot of blows, but the one who goes to kill you.
Good day Mr. Daniel Bernas.
I am Erickson J. Cawili, a college professor from Eastern Visayas State University.
Our school will be having a Virtual Culminating Activity for the Physical Education Classes, in line with this we were hoping that you can be a part of our Program for the Arnis Anyo Presentation, to give a short inspirational message for our students in their presentation.
A short video will do po, we hope for your positive response in this matter. We will appreciate po, me and my class because my students are viewing your TH-cam Video as references in learning arnis in anyo manner.
Thank you and God bless!
stated it clearly
Thanks!
Indeed it really depends on the practioner on how he will execute what ever form he or she wants as long as he or she is doing it for the love of the art
Yes! If intention and expression are aligned, then you're doing just fine! ☺️
Im practicing arnis on my own since there are no teachers around and yeap Im likin what I am doin.
It's fun to explore on your own! 😁
@@daniel_bernas unfortunately I have to train in secret especially in training with live bolos. And yea its fun to explore haha
hi。man。i have gym at beijing in China。i need arnis master coach do u wanna come china or ur friend who wanna come to china？
Pugay bro! 👍
Pugay! 🙏☺️
Same sentiment...
🙏☺️
your move is more dangerous than a normal traditional arnis . you have the speed and multiple strike. when you use that in real fight you have more advantages to strike or hit your enemy in different position.
Proposed Law: Arnis will be only in the Rajahnate of Cebu.
Proud to be Arnisador✋
Pugay! :)
Respect, Brother. 🙏
This is something people tend to neglect.
Just because I primarily practice Arnis alongside my study of Karate, which itself is geared towards self-improvement and self defense, doesn't mean I should stubbornly insist others do that. It just happens that our humble little archipelago doesn't have Kobudo which used to be a 'sister' Martial Art to Karate but has Kali-Arnis and for that I'm grateful.
All things we practice ultimately meld together naturally as long as we keep an open mind and a humble heart.
No style or "way" is superior to another, at the end of the day it's different paths that lead up to the (same summit) of the same mountain.
👊🥋
🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Nice 👍
☺️🙏
I mean no offence here so please be mindful of my context . . .
Ive always said that people practice Martial arts for 3 reasons;
for the "art"
for the "social" and health benefits and lastly . . .
to protect themselves on the street
I definitely fall into the last category
So you practice an art that was designed for deadly combat, you dont care about the "reality" of using it for self preservation, and you only want to "look good"
I guess that is your preference and your entitled to that, but it seems a waste not to attain the skill that you have, to then ignore the fact that this art was designed to keep you safe should the worst happen to you.
What would you think will be your mental state after an attack where you are seriously injured, and you didnt have the mindset needed to defend your self? because all your energies were focussed on "looking good"
@@michaelreynolds6543 If someone wanted to put that much effort into harming me, they'll find a way regardless. I have training in self-defense, just to be clear. And I take what I feel to be sufficient precautions in public and at home. I just don't make a hobby out of it. And it's not the side of Arnis I enjoy sharing in my content. I have a sport I enjoy. Hopefully it helps, and hopefully I don't have to find out the answer to your question.
...let me know if that made sense to you! I think this video could have had a bit more nuance in articulating where I'm at. 🤔
Thanks! ☺️
Edit: I wouldn't say I "ignore" the practical applications of the art. I think there are lots of people already doing a good job showcasing these on social media. I rather focus on the aspect I have fun with.
@@daniel_bernas Hey Daniel thanks for the reply. I hear you and I know where your coming from . . . so here is where I am atm I am a longtime Martial artist started in 1974 lau gar- JiuJitsu- full contact semi pro and over the last 20 odd years I have studied wing chun.
Recently i was on a MTB facebook page where id read of a guy getting robbed at knifepoint he ended up losing his bike, this is now a "thing" here in the UK as lads troll parks and simply taking bikes at will . . i visit a lot of bike parks and i decided i wasnt gonna end up being a victim, so i took steps to address this and ended up at kali center where i started teaching myself with Pauls excellent free content.
Been training now for just about a month and Im making good progress ive even made a tyre dummy and its great.
My confidence has gone through the roof (not that i even remotely had "confidence" issues at all) and this weapon is now part of my existing martial arts repetoire.
I have to respectfully disagree with your statement about people finding a way to harm you - regardless- as the whole point ( to me anyway) of this weapon/skill is to deter them from doing harm.
Ive studied a lot on this subject lately and decided that "defanging the snake" is my primary technique Paul is a very good teacher even in his free content its easy to follow and im really grateful that he and people like yourself put this stuff out there for people like me to digest as I dont really want to join a school and learn an "art" and spend lots of time banging sticks with other students trying to convince myself im learning something worthwhile.
I guess im following Bruce Lee's advice of stripping it down to the essence and taking what is useful and discarding what is not.
To me its about hitting the other guy first, fast and very hard using combinations that are drilled over and over again attacking first and overwhelming him i do not include any defence techniques whatsoever . . . to me the mindset is; "defence is the other guys problem"
Ive actually just finnished making a video for my you tube channel that explains all this view that here
th-cam.com/video/t8XkrX520V4/w-d-xo.html
@@michaelreynolds6543 Sounds like you found something that resonates with you! And that's awesome. 🔥
Here's a secret young grasshopper. Your training is good, but what you lack of from training is using real training weapon stick now that you learn using toy stick it's time to use real weapon that is 26inches or shorter metal/iron pipe 5millimeter preferable thickness train and start cracking a whole coconut with husk green husk or dry brown coconut husk or start smacking a tire first then when you are ready build strength in your wrist and arm as metal pipe is heavy. I guarantee you no one will laugh at you when you whack a whole coconut with either green or dry brown coconut and watch it crack open train for the real weapon arnis weapon metal pipe. If you want nunchucks have it welded with chain. Ok no one is going to laugh at you I guarantee that now train.
You may want to consider watching the video again if you'd like to better understand my training goals.
I love that you're calling a literal world champion in the martial art and a regular in the local sparring community a "young grasshopper"
What are those straps u are using?
wrist supporter :)