Thanks brother. It was great sparring with you. It was one of my favorite sparring sessions. Can't wait till we can do it again at the next event. Keep putting out great content. And I love those shoes, lol.
Position one but your strike is not number one but number nine strike. Your left arm is cover your head. Strike him with number nine in the position of number one. Their are twelve number of strike. That's is very effective
Lots of mutual destruction, Zero degree strike on after another. I was taught to always put my feet together and bridge on all attacks. Never play tick for tack. Keep growing.
This is the best arnis fight in RU-vid history. Correct me if I am wrong. Most other arnis videos are just hitting without thinking, because they have armors, they easily forgot the fact that these sticks are supposed to be swords or bladed weapons, so, what they do is just let their opponent hit them cuz they armor anyway. And that is why I believe this is the best sparring video I have ever seen, because they are thinking of what will happen if they are hit. I am not even an expert in Filipino Martial Arts(FMA) but this is just basic observation.
I know this is an older video but yeah it's one of the better FMA videos I've seen. I practice Kali/Eskrima and yeah I love the competitions, but without filming stuff and slowing it down for people, it always looks incredibly chaotic (and often is). I think padded stick is a good compromise between full armour and live stick with limited armour (shown here), because you can still train very regularly without picking up too many major injuries, but everyone should try sparring like this at least to see how it is and to really feel what it's like to be actually fear getting hit with a live rattan stick.
I believe this is how sparring and competition should be. adding some realism to it. not just flailing in speed the sticks. wish grappling would have been included and strikes using legs and knees and some boxing and thai boxing. In short I wish it had MMA elements and I wish competition was like that.
From watching that I'd say anyone wanting to improve their stick fighting could benefit from doing some fencing, in particular the saber. The footwork and speed of a good fencer is a thing of beauty. Plus you'd be sparring every time you train.
Dude, if it's possible, you and other FMA athletes should enter Combatcon 2020 for the singlestick sparring competition!! I feel like you'd do very well there despite it having a different format and ruleset... (and I'd love to see the clash of disciplines between FMA and HEMA)
hey GN .. what's your thoughts on collegiate full contact arnis here in Philippines? is part of next year's South East Asian Games and probably 2020's Olympics
What type of gloves are you using? I've got some lacrosse style gloves but my hands got smashed, so I'm looking for something with a lot more padding. Would you recommend the gloves your wearing?
I'm curious if you guys have an assessment of the various HEMA techniques, particularly the one's related to unarmed fighting and stick fighting, that are slowly starting to see a resurgence?
HEMA is an organization, you probably should refer to those techniques as MARE (martial arts of renaissance Europe,) which caught on in part thanks to the excellent book of the same name by Sydney Anglo. Although I will admit I'm biased due to my ARMA Scholarship. I personally really love Kampfringen but it doesn't get nearly enough love.
Kampfringen, that's a german discipline, right? I'm curious about them as they teach techniques with longer weapons that can reasonably be concealed out in the open as it were. Indeed, they can even be argued to simply be weapons of opportunity in the right circumstances which is good for the legal side of things afterwords, while extra reach and lack of need to draw it (since it's already in hand.) seem like they'd help with the practical end of things.
Kampfringen actually means Grapple-fighting. It's an unarmed discipline. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W0fV1oB3j4c.html That stems from knights duking it out in the fields. I'm currently working towards mastery of the longsword, got a long way to go, but my next weapon will probably be quarterstaff and dagger. Probably rapier after that in about 10 years. Quarterstaff techniques can basically be used with any old stick or pipe you find out in your travels and I guess the same can be said for half-swording ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vi757-7XD94.html
Please look into The Pekiti Tirsia Tactical Association headed by Jared Wihongi. They have done a phenomenal job at delineating art and function. History, preservation of art and functional, progressive concepts meant to address modern day threats.
I love how people misconstrue kali as a pure stick fighting art. Forgetting that the ratan or kamagong sticks are proxies for the itak, bolo, etc. Sure, ratan and kamagong can be lethal, but imagine those same strikes with an itak.
not familiar with petiki. but your opponent lacks long range techniques. also i dont think he knew stick grab was involved so you caught him by surprise at close range. nice. petiki looks interesting, i knew someone who learnt it in the US. its not famous in phillipines tho.
Roger Moore pekiti specializes in long range, medium range, and close range. The name actually means “to make close”. But often instructors focus only on medium and close range.
As one of my instructors used to say "If you ever pull this off in real life, make sure somebody records it or i won't believe you." Training is a reference point , it rarely if ever looks the same in a real exchange , BUT sometimes it's pretty close. Things get longer and wilder but those sticks are meant to be blades, imagine all the damage that would have been done
When I first started watching these kinds of matches I was highly critical of FMA because the live energy sparring didnt look like the practice I saw in training...well, I believe that to be a symptom of me not know what to look for. Slowing it down with commentary like this really helps and I hope it helps others as well.
Had a stick fight once with no gear. Got my mouth busted and my bottom front teeth r still crooked. Other fools leg got worked and I put some speed bumps across his head. Scored a knock down too. Shit was kinda fun, but if it was swords we woulda prolly both died.
We don't have any armor here in the Philippines. Last time we sparred full contact with rattan I couldn't move my hands for the next week. It's pretty brutal.
hey there just imagine what it was like when they played for keeps? Sword vs sword real combat fisrt strike wins (Usually) no squaring off, no time to think, multiplayer melee shit. Have to have heart of a lion, ballz of steel, and a passion forged in the belly of the sun to live that life. Winners looking like they r shark attack survivors. Don't think I woulda had the guts to be a fighter when men got down with swords.
@@nunyabizz1508 it's true during 2000's sparring matches is without gear. Even masters encourage us to fight without gear. But there is a lot of rules. So it's true that after the match you will feel pain and usually you will find bruises in your body.
Paintball for edged weapon skills... mistakes HURT and they should. RL hurts so much more! Thanks for sharing your skills...VG footwork and line control. Props!
This is the kind of match I was expecting in the SEA games arnis tournament, where both competitors aren't fully armored so that they will be considerate in their tactics on how to trade blows in carefully manner, in this match I've seen a lot of moves that highlights the best of arnis, like a near disarm and abanico strikes, it's much more appealing to watch and easy to observe who lands the strikes, unlike in the SEA games both competitors are fully armored which made them much secure and compromise their defense in exchange of getting more landed hits for points, in the untrained eye of any viewers it would seem they are whacking each other in a chaotic manner which ended up arnis being ridiculed at. My suggestion is they changed the rule and the gears. Kinda the same you guys had, and both competitors should wear a fair padded white armors like in the match in the SEA games and the sticks should be changed with something so light yet durable so being hit would be enough to give the idea of being in a live combat so both competitors would not to compromise defense.. and both sticks should have a paint that Indicates the landed hit. Making it more easy to distinguish the landed hits for the viewers, also since it's a paint both competitors will be more careful and would rely on tactics on how to strike their opponent, I find your sparring more appealing than the actual SEA games arnis tournament! I really hope that the arnis org would change that rule
Correct me if I'm wrong but i think the rule system used in SEA Games is what they call the Continuous Rule. Basically the one who's more dominant wins the round. There is also like the one on this vid that they call the Point System rule, who lands first and deflects the coming counter wins.
@@everythingplayfull it is because the martial art is to remember the moves itself, it doesn’t have to be a stick, you could use a knife too or any other melee weapon
@@andrzejagria1391 yea but look at what the military typically the marine they use it to kill but the one that mosly being teach in public is like a art but the military one is actually ll the real one kali is for killing not self defense
This really impressed me :) I really liked the slowmo replays so we could appreciate what just happened.. To the untrained eye the speed makes it hard to see just how much more there is happening than just two guys hitting each other with sticks. I think some of those techniques you executed instinctually are a by-product of your training. You've figured out how to move in certain directions. Even if you never trained those specific techniques... It is possible that you wouldn't have attempted them had it not been from the foundation your training has given you. That's why experienced practitioners of any art will find it easier to learn a new art.. The body can only move in certain ways and once you realize this, the movements become easier to transfer from one style of martial arts to another.
I wish kali (sports) would actually start sparring with two sticks, stick and daggers, sword and shields or eve spears. There's a lot of things in kali that are missing in current systems
Well, that does move it from the realm of an applicable martial art to fantasy fighting. But yes, I would LOVE to watch some top-tier pros do some more fantastical fighting.
I love it when filipinos (not all) say that it's for killing only lol, i mean yeah in the past it's mainly for killing but they started adapring to modern times. They'd be like "it's too dangerous and you might kill each other" bruh that's why we train we train to be precise and controlled when hitting each other without armor and gears. Then most of them would reply like: "then that kind of training would be usesless when you need to use it ro defend yourself!" Well you must fix your mindset, when you're sparring with a fellow member ofcourse you'd be controlled, when defending yourself also be controlled but to the point that it's enough to stop the threat (since outright killing him and going ro court evn for self defence might end up making you go to jail) . And then some narrow minded people would be like "if they have no stick they're useless!" Bro you do realize most martial arts systems in this fucking world utilizes improvised wapoms right? HEMA, HAMAA, kali, silat kalariparyattu etc. And kali isn't just swords, daggers spears, shields, but also empty hands.
I guess that's the point of those endless drills. To make the strikes and reactions almost instinctive since in a fight you don't really get to think about your moves too deeply, you just see something and before a thought goes into your mind, the body is already moving. Good sparring match though!
Cool to see. One of the gyms I used to train at, I got to do some stick sparring. We used gear and padded sticks one time, and sticks that resembled twist ties another(they werent very sturdy). Was fun. Got some decent strikes and took some strikes.
GN your footwork was on point, great work. I'd try some Redondo, elastico type strikes maybe next time. I've done the full contact kali fighting. I know I've seen a lot of guys mainly use angle 1 and 2 attacks. Both you were imo the first I've seen use different angels. Kudos to you man for getting in there like that though lol. It's like a real fight, I don't if I could do that and I train in Kali lol. Keep training bro much respect 🙏
It's like eneything else the more people that do it the better it will be if it became a real sport that people did and watched people would get really good at it and it would definitely be offective
So this is how Philippines Kali looks like in real fight. It does not include any fancy movement Kali practitioners shows us how it would hurt opponent in a very artistic way
at 3:54 (the super cool movement) Appears to be a modified abaniko, and with your foot work you managed to break his midline and land the shot. Good job.
Why on earth would you believe it ''doesn't count'' if you didn't intellectually plan it?!?! The entire point of drills is to teach your adaptive unconscious to read and react WITHOUT your slow-ass conscious mind getting in the way. Counter fighting is all about letting yourself respond without thinking. Offensively setting things up using tactics and strategies is where the calculating portion of your brain comes in. But defense and counters should be left to the quicker unconscious.
I prefer attacking the limbs(hands, wrists, elbows, etc) as they are closer and easier tatgets. Also very effective. Destroy the limbs and they cant attack or defend. Thus the head is left an easier target. Just my humble preference and opinion.
*Funker Tactical - Fight Training Videos,* their forearms, thighs or shin. The arm holding the weapon is primary target in my experience in Arnis. I've tried it and it is much safer and just like the other commenter said, it is closer to you. I've disarmed my opponents by striking their weapon-holding arm before, it truly is a good target other than the head. Unless you're opponent is a counter-striker that puts his stick down or up over his head then target the legs instead.
Funker Tactical - Fight Training Videos Being able to target areas other than the head allows for a lot of options that force movement of the defense of your opponent. Once you are able to force your opponents defense to move to guard other feints or strikes the head shot becomes much easier to execute one. and lets face it. in real life I'm going to target anything I can to put down my opponent.
I love arnis - however during this kind of sparing w/c you cant use kicks side swip, punch elbown,but of sticks etc. i fell in complete..im just talking reality life threatening encounter
Great session, i wish a lot more people starting self defence would see this video to realize you cannot go for the disarm or trap, things go too fast. Love the high spirit, keep it up please.
I really enjoyed watching this video. Thanks for sharing it. I noticed a lot of angles #1 and #2 (downward diagonal strikes) to the head, as well as horizontal strikes. Would have liked to have seen more low line strikes, Redondo strikes, and don't think I saw any Punyo strikes unless I missed something. I've always said that Punyo end can be very effective. Question: What brand do you think makes the best protective gear? Miraming Salamat
It’s good to get out and test your skills however he claims footwork saved him? They were always squaring off face to face. Good footwork gets to the side or even behind your opponent. It’s not an easy thing to do but it is achievable. Circular footwork patterns are what get you to that level. The only Kali system out there that does that is the Villabrille Largusa Kali System. They don’t put any of there real stuff on RU-vid and you have to be sponsored in to their system. For anyone who is interested in their system you can visit their website at www.VillabrilleLargusa.com
This message is for Funker Tactical. Why don’t you give Dan Inosanto a call and ask him about the VillabrilleLargusaKali System. Specifically Ben Largusa maybe he will change your opinion?
in this kind of stick fight i often use 'rotating wrist strike' parrying from the left and then hitting to the right or vise versa or without parrying just fainting your attack then hit the opponent. really useful!
