How to Prolong the Life of Your Escrima Sticks | Filipino Martial Arts | FMA 101 EP 02 

Excellent. Thanks for that input. We've heard about using hockey tape and tennis tape as well.

Yes the hockey tape is great, and much more durable than the electric tape.

Thanks for that idea. A friend of ours actually knows the different species of rattan. We'll probably do an episode on that in the future.

We hear ya, we also love the smell of the burned rattan smell from the friction of stick on stick contact.

Great. Is there a link to their website?

am tech slow sorry....stickman.com I think.

I have trained almost 40 years under Mr. Cuthbertson and Rene Latosa.

The tape also makes it better to grip and hold. Which is good especially when your hand is slippery.

Hmm. Thanks for the info. I know back in the day old school gang members would tape up the end of baseball bats and would resemble a make shift mace.

We've heard of a similar process using Tung Oil and have it naturally air dry.

@@FMAPulse Tung Oil is better if you have it !

Do you sell outside of the Philippines? Do you have a link or email for those interested?

I dont how yet to sell stick outside im gathering info.. As of now

Nope i dont have yet

@@OFAS_COMBATAN Sir, i'm currently looking for a seller here in PH. Can't do super bulks. But only around 10 or more per order for now. I'm cool with LBC. Then maybe send my payment through BPI or metrobank, or whichever you prefer.

Depends on where you're getting it from. Some don't use any finish and only fire harden after shaping it. Some would use tung oil since it's more organic as opposed to varnish because of the harsh chemicals that can get into your skin while training.

@@FMAPulse Ratan Nuchaku for instance, there is but one 'major' supplier to all vendors. What do they use? If we knew this, which no one does, we could repair our splintering sticks, and or taper them, as no one gives them to us tapered, like the typical hard wood set.

Nice recommendation. Haven't heard anyone using kinesiology tape on their sticks.

@@FMAPulse My husband does. He also uses horse tape they wrap horses' ankles with. Kinesiology tape makes the stick very hard to splinter. In China boxers y MMA fighters have killed opponents by wrapping hands in kinesiology tape, making hands like stone. That's where my husband got idea to use it for his sticks. His students do it now as well since he started it y they spar hard without gloves or protection, aiming for wrist, hand, arm as if stick were a sword/bolo. If they make them drop weapon w/hard hit it means opponent dead unable to stop a follow up kill. By aiming for the wrists y arms, while using evasive footwork, they prevent over extension y any possibility of attempted disarm. They train to cut off the wrist or arm before making a kill strike. These are all military men, used to training for real combat, not sport, and not afraid of pain or minor injury. Kinesio Tape works best to reinforce stick. My husband, AnDrew Soldier, pioneered using this.

That should be fine, I would avoid using certain types of tape where the adhesive makes the stick too sticky to hold.

FMA Pulse that is true having that goopy feeling while you sweat or leaving it in the hot sun can get very sticky as well

@@Adnap69 I've heard that hockey tape works well also.

FMA Pulse yea that true but in your opinion/perspective what’s your overall type of wrap what do you use when wrapping your sticks

@@Adnap69 Knowing that the stick is going to shred and break eventually, I usually just use electrical tape.