Video Review: Battlefield Kali 1 w/ Burton Richardson

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This is a repost from the bowels of KFC.

This 90 min tape starts with an intro by Burton Richardson who shows us some confiscated street weapons ala sticks and knives of various sizes and a folding saw with a spring blade that looks like a kama (sickle).

Burton goes into the numbering system and types of hits and basically teaches two drills to show concepts. The difficulty increases as more armor is shown.

Blocks vs. traditional blocks and drills comes next followed by blocking and hitting drills. Isolated (specific target) sparring and Burton's view on disarms comes next. Knife Fighting takes 5 minutes with Burton's view on blocking and flowing with a slash.

The tape is breaks up the boredom with small interviews of Burton, Matt Thorton of Straight Blast Gym, and other JKD instructors.The general theme is 'the old drills are good but the Dogbrothers give better training'.

A good beginning stickfighting tape with some applications to knife. The other volumes concerning sticks and knives have just been released.
 
As far as i know dan inosanto has no idea that sinawali is 90% of the art of kali. Thats the equal to the jurus in silat. Since dan doesnt reanforce this his students dont. at least the ones i tested didnt.
Which art is everyone doing?
The spanish or filipino?
Paul
 
sinawali is not a very important part of the philippine martial arts. yes, most people will learn it, but they teach it while they emphasize something else for fighting. double sticks is learned as a skill, but single sticks and knifes are what most of the people do for their fighting.

now some styles will have many types of sinawali patterns, maybe even some attack and defense techniques. but you will not find many places that when there boys suit up for fighting they will use the sinawali or the espada y daga.

here in the u.s. more people do sinawali more in their curriculum, but i find the more they fight, the less they do it sinawali.

but 90 percent? no way.
 
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