WW2 Moro Barong

Hello Steve,

Thanks for the email, Intersting vids although I'm not familiar with that style, Stickmaster is the one for this as I know he is a personel student of GM Mendoza.
 
Thanks for your email, as well. I'll PM you a little later. The "espada y daga" drills are the least "FMA" -looking drills in the San Miguel Eskrima curriculum; I don't think that they translate well to "stickfighting" but are instead intended (a) to make your stickwork lighter and tighter in general and (b) to bridge the gap between European fencing arts (what the Cebuanos might have seen of the Spanish rapier-sword, and, as I conjecture above, what they might have seen in the military garrisons and civillian plantations as European soldiers and landed gentry practiced with whatever side arm they habiltually carried) and Cebuano sword arts.

Most of San Miguel Eskrima does not look like this at all as there is much more depth and power in the largo-range cuts and thrusts. But even here there is a desire to polish technique and make it as small and precise as possible.

Best,

Steve
 
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