October 5th Atienza Kali Seminar Review
The training session started with a good warm up of various muscle groups, and included exercises such as shoulder rotations, neck rotations, body/trunk twist, palms to floor, extended hamstring stretch as well as finger stretches and fast open and closing of the hands.
From our warm up, the Atienza Guros demonstrated their striking patterns known as the X pattern and Iron cross pattern. As we all got familiar with the basic patterns, we were introduced to generating power in our strikes through the application of footwork and or body twisting. This quickly rolled into the relationship between striking a target with either a stick or blade.
Now armed with the fundamental patterns and methods of power generation, it was time to integrate footwork. Starting with forward and backward patterns we quickly moved on to lateral patterns, then to the triangle patterns, which culminated in the hourglass pattern. Of course, we immediately put these patterns into practice with the striking patterns and drilled to integrate them together. All the drills were establishing the base in which to apply Atienza Kali in the Mass attack drills, but we still had to develop the Atienza Kali strategies first.
1) ATA: Attack the attack. From this principle we also developed 2 additional tactics
2) DAC: Direct Attack and Cover. From this principle we also developed several additional tactics.
Now that we had the strategies in place, and some tactics to use, next came the Mass Attack Drills!
The Mass Attack Drills worked on three different scenarios:
1) Forward rush
2) Front and back
3) The closing circle
As we implemented these drills in real time, utilizing the action flex gear we quickly learned about the Body Shielding method and how it applies while your attackers are trying to beat you down! These were great drills, challenging us physically as well as mentally. Planning your escape route while being attacked by three opponents is not an easy task. Luckily, our school has over 3000sq/ft so the various matches going on, had plenty of space.
After we had finished off, Carl, Darryl and Bong Atienza demonstrated Atienza Kali punyal (knife fighting) hitting home all the strategies and tactics we had been practicing. As we started to close the seminar, we had one final cool down to do, the sayaw/carenza to music. We all jumped in and flowed together moving in and out from one person to another, back to solo again. It was a great ending to a fine seminar.
I would recommend anyone to host or attend a seminar by the Atienza family. They are fine martial artists, as well as great people to call my friends.
For more information on Atienza kali, visit their website at www.Atienzakali.com
Gumagalang
Guro Steve L.
The training session started with a good warm up of various muscle groups, and included exercises such as shoulder rotations, neck rotations, body/trunk twist, palms to floor, extended hamstring stretch as well as finger stretches and fast open and closing of the hands.
From our warm up, the Atienza Guros demonstrated their striking patterns known as the X pattern and Iron cross pattern. As we all got familiar with the basic patterns, we were introduced to generating power in our strikes through the application of footwork and or body twisting. This quickly rolled into the relationship between striking a target with either a stick or blade.
Now armed with the fundamental patterns and methods of power generation, it was time to integrate footwork. Starting with forward and backward patterns we quickly moved on to lateral patterns, then to the triangle patterns, which culminated in the hourglass pattern. Of course, we immediately put these patterns into practice with the striking patterns and drilled to integrate them together. All the drills were establishing the base in which to apply Atienza Kali in the Mass attack drills, but we still had to develop the Atienza Kali strategies first.
1) ATA: Attack the attack. From this principle we also developed 2 additional tactics
2) DAC: Direct Attack and Cover. From this principle we also developed several additional tactics.
Now that we had the strategies in place, and some tactics to use, next came the Mass Attack Drills!
The Mass Attack Drills worked on three different scenarios:
1) Forward rush
2) Front and back
3) The closing circle
As we implemented these drills in real time, utilizing the action flex gear we quickly learned about the Body Shielding method and how it applies while your attackers are trying to beat you down! These were great drills, challenging us physically as well as mentally. Planning your escape route while being attacked by three opponents is not an easy task. Luckily, our school has over 3000sq/ft so the various matches going on, had plenty of space.
After we had finished off, Carl, Darryl and Bong Atienza demonstrated Atienza Kali punyal (knife fighting) hitting home all the strategies and tactics we had been practicing. As we started to close the seminar, we had one final cool down to do, the sayaw/carenza to music. We all jumped in and flowed together moving in and out from one person to another, back to solo again. It was a great ending to a fine seminar.
I would recommend anyone to host or attend a seminar by the Atienza family. They are fine martial artists, as well as great people to call my friends.
For more information on Atienza kali, visit their website at www.Atienzakali.com
Gumagalang
Guro Steve L.
