I was doing this stuff with live blades. Accidentally nip my left thumb on the hand rolling. I learned the hard way and now I am using plastic spoons as simulated knives.
Kali makes a lot of sense. My take on it so far is that humans have certainly evolved around using sticks to quite an extent, and so empty hand and stick movements are much the same, and knives are basically sharp sticks, but can have curves to reach around, and to hook or trap. Our tools have evolved from the stick, and we are already familiar with them to use as weapons, which I believe is the way the vast majority, if not all hand weapons have evolved. Sticks and knife's go together in various manner, as a knife can be used to make good sticks, or even be mounted on one to make a Pike or spear, etc. Sticks are all around us. A table leg can be a stick, and indeed I've use one to run off assailants. I've been hit twice with oars, but managed to turn them against my opponents and hit them repeatedly with their own oars. Something I keep in mind, because I don't want any opponent ever taking a weapon from me and beating me with it, but oars are heavy and awkward, and since they introduced them to the fight, it was more than a convenient weapon, but I only managed two and three largely ineffective strikes with each before we closed to grapple with knifes and a hammer and then finally empty handed wrestling. All I got from that was a large welt and cracked rib from the opening oar strike, and one of my ears bit mostly off, the other guy in that one of these two fights had an irritated eye, two welts. He fought a lot though, and was 10 years younger. In the other fight we ended up in the water, and I assume the turd dropped his knife, because I was drowning him and never got stabbed, didn't even draw my own knife before it was lost. Unfortunately for me, another asshole jumped off a boat behind me and hit me over the head with sword of some type two or three times, before I could finish. I swam off, the cops pulled me out before I could hide in the mangroves, then gave me three days to sail out of town. Anyway, sticks and knives make natural sense I believe, and Kali seems to share muscle movements, such that short sticks can be trained with as knife's, or a wooden sword may be practiced. They are extensions of the arms and hands and even feet. Mostly interested in using heavy oak or hickory J handled canes as my stick though. So I practice with the cane by itself mostly, but have found I can fight a cane and Kerambit together, and have been training that way some, but the woods are muddy lately, and it suppresses my practice quite a bit. I got a Cold Steel Blowgun, which I set up targets inside my apartment. It's an aluminum stick with a bore. I can fight it as a stick while the manchineel does it's job. Actually there's no Manchineel tree's around where I'm at now. The blowgun stick, is however exceedingly powerful for small game I believe, and an okay hiking stick. I have hit 4, 2" bullseye's in row at 40' distance and height up to 6'4". I can do that with any of the darts both hunting and practice. My knife collection has exploded recently, just purchased a Cold Steel Counter Point XL. I really like it a lot. I already had a CS Luzon XL, but it's a turd which jams locked open after a hard opening or strike against a tree. The only way to close it, is to insert another knife blade into it's jammed lock. The Luzon also requires a lock safety be engaged after opening, before and hard use, or it's lock may actually fail and sever off fingers. The Counter Point XL has a 6" blade as well, but not really, it's about 3/8" shorter than the Luzon, but the Counter Point is better to grip and control and open and locks securely automatically, and clips onto my pocket better and carries easier. Got a Cold Steel Spartan as well. That's a serious slicer, not easily clipped into the pocket though, and can be very dangerous to the unpracticed or thoughtless user. The Spartan can likely sever off a hand in a fight. It's very powerful if used accurately. So I wish to start learning to fight with two knife's at once, as you practice. That way, I can EDC a cane, with a Kerambit, and carry the Counterpoint to use with the Kerambit instead of the cane, or possibly use with the Spartan if I'm also carrying it. So maybe I'll get some Kali sticks of some kind, to practice with, and I can also expand into using the bolo sword or a Cold Steel machete Cutlass. The machete cutlass, has an enclosed hand guard, which I may be able to fight it in tandem with my cane. I got a multitool tactical pen as well, that's basically a short stick that writes, breaks glass, and has a bright led light and other tools. I like the Wikipedia explanation of Kali philosophy of training to use weapons from the beginning and foremost. Especially sticks as they are likely to always be employable in some manner, almost anywhere. After all, a rolled magazine is basically a short stick. I absolutely deplore the bullshit of fighting empty handed first. If you actually have no choice and are forced to fight, why should you not use your most decisive and safest for you available weapon first? Society seems to think that I owe an assailant a fair fight. I say fuck that, I owe myself and my family my life. I single light blow to my badly abused head can screw me up seeing double for weeks, or blind in half of one eye, or worse. Better judged than carried and buried. Of course it's okay to shoot them with an assault rifle in public, because political B's, lots of B's everywhere, gotta keep it real, I'm not a douchebag carrying an assault rifle with me everywhere I go, or to demonstrations looking for a use excuse to freely intimidate and murder.
LOL! Yeah I clipped myself good doing double knife way back when. Looked like hamburger, just 4 staples, but hand was useless for couple weeks. Was doing sinawali with both in pikal and let my hands get too close together, felt a sharp pinch. And I was thinking to myself, did I do what I think I just did?.... blood pooling on floor... Yup!
Paul love your videos, I want to join when I get my fat ass of the beer and quiet smoking. Don’t have a computer can your class be joined on an iPad? Thanks
