Working very hard using your videos as a guide to learn some eskrima drills. I am not one to post comments on videos, however your one on one style of teaching is professional, easy to watch (yet hard to do) and I appreciate your efforts. Excellent work. Thank you.
I really really really really need to get back into escrima and nunchuck training. Your video makes me want to pick them back up again :) I love how fluid these motions are. I beat up on my bamboo escrimas so much that the center of it is all soft so I need to get new ones. Great video, thank you for sharing. I've created a playlist to refer to these.
I like this new version, smoother as you say but I think potentially more poweful and covers a greater arc than just level striking. Thanks a million for. Uploading.
+wmpyr I've been watching a lot of Doug Marcaida vid's, and he certainly had more experience than any of us. In the last vid I saw, he was very critical, like Bruce Lee was, when it came to using traditional ways of holding double sticks, like in this video, but it could be argued that it's part of technique that you're teaching. Also like Bruce Lee, I'll tryout a technique, test it as accurately as possible, like a science experiment. If my method of testing is good, & I deem it as a viable technique, I keep it in my arsenal. I guess it's always there, but like a computer, we can compartmentalize. It'll either go in my good technique folder, or my bad one. Also, like the Bayani bros. they also raise the point, that Sinawali doesn't work in real combat. It's good to learn techniques, but it requires that you have a cooperating partner. In a real life fight, your enemy isn't going to cooperate. Marcaida doesn't even have to appear to be looking, & he's so good, that he can demonstrate enough control to show that he could hit his demonstration partners hands, or hit him in an unexpected place. The traditional exercises have their purposes, but beginners should not expect a fight that turns into a Sinawali drill.
Sinawali is a good training exercise, it teaches good handles, kind of like how a basketball player dribbles 2 basketballs at the same time between the legs.
Oh sorry, I think I might have pronounced my comment wrong; I mean rather than ensuring a hit, isn't the figure 8 combo weave used more for quick (strong) strikes?
