This Kali Double Stick Fighting Technique is Known to Win Fights!

today's colle training we're taking a look at the technique called cada or also known as the X strike or even some Styles would call this the goting two weapons scissoring from the open position or from the closed position let's take a look at some specific details when I'm working techniques like this I like using What I Call my colag arm it's just a good way to keep the principles and you know of the techniques just kind of fresh uh this doesn't have to be anything you know fancy or special it's just a post you figure out how to fix a post it could be in the ground be in a 5 gallon bucket filled with cement and just extend something out to represent you know the weapon and the arm and the hand and stuff but when we look at the uh the actual csada Technique we got to use a little bit of imagination here when we are training solo like this so I'm imagining that my opponent's coming in with an angle one strike over their right shoulder so to the left side of my head first thing that we're going to do is we're going to use footwork and get off the line that's the thing that's going to protect us most protect the head the most the top weapon the weapon that's on top is going to monitor their weapon because it's protecting the sector of where the weapon is going to be able to return okay then the bottom hand is going to strike right to the weapon wielding hand of the opponent yeah it's going right there so again evasion footwork getting our head getting our body offline for protection protect the sector of the possible returning strike and then taking the hand and all three components here are going to happen relatively simultaneously right there right so we want to just make sure we're working the coordination here and get all this to piece together right there now what I like about my uh colle arm here is because it has this spring right here I get a little bit of feedback and uh you know I got to make sure that that sector is actually protected right so when I when I make contact to this you going to see how it wants to come right back so that's simulating you know that return possible return strike coming back you know now what we're looking for is Ki traditionally being a bladed weapon these would be bolos swords something like that and obviously when we strike right to the hand that would most likely be the disarm right there disarm meaning you're literally disarming the opponent their arm is being detached okay that's the disarm so simultaneously right here sector is protected okay and you can just rep this out right here and just get good at one side one side at a time right there now the thing with this is once you hit that disarm maybe you are using sticks maybe you disarm them maybe you don't but the the main thing is once we hit that cada we want to make sure we can follow it up and there's a couple different ideas that you could start playing with we can go into the immediate thrusts and all the hacks and slashes from your striking combinations on your double sticks got lots of videos here on the Channel with different striking combinations on your double stick so just in YouTube search just put in colie center Double sticks or colie Center Cali and you'll have a whole library of videos now the other thing we can do is we can let this pass as our bottom hand is passing we can come back with that angle two to kind of double check that uh that sector of any returning strikes and then we can come right into our smashes hit the low line Hit The High Line and just kind of explore the different options for the follow-ups in collie once we train a technique on one side we got to make sure we're training it on the other side especially with two equal length weapons because these are symmetrical weapons here now so once again I'm going to step to the right this time getting off that line I'm going to imagine my part my my opponent is striking you know uh an angle two or maybe they're left-handed and they're striking a left-handed angle one but the first thing is I'm going to get off the line with footwork that's going to protect me the best then my upper weapon the weapon's going to be on top protects the sector and the weapon on the bottom takes the weapon wielding hand of the opponent right there okay so once again all three movements are going to happen about simultaneously okay I like repping them out going for somewhere around 50 to 100 reps per side minimum and maybe doing three to five sets of that all right so once we kind of r that out then exploring just nice and slowly in the beginning but go ahead and explore some of your different followup options once that sector is protected then maybe you can come back into your thrusts into your Cuts different striking patterns or just like we did on the other side maybe as our bottom hands following through on the strike we come back with that two to cover that sector again and then we can start working in all those different follow-up striking combinations on our double sticks once we've worked our ciss or arings on the open position we can also work them on the closed position and the technique follows the exact same principles the same formula exactly the same way so from the closed position first things first is to step off of the line with the footwork footwork is what protects you the best if you don't want to get hit don't be there and then same thing with the weapons top weapon is going to protect that sector from the possible returning strike while the bottom weapon seeks the weapon wielding hand of the opponent okay right there so step off the line protect the sector take the hand now one of the things you want to make sure that you're doing when you're protecting that sector is making sure that you're using a strong leverage point of your weapon which is going to be the middle of the weapon here you want to make sure that that is covering the sector make sure your weapon's not too low here where it's just a tip because this is what again what I like about my colli arm it's because this will go through and hit you right in the face and so you got to make sure you have that Advantage leverage point right there so that way that thing can't come back and get through that protection right there again let's work the exact same thing on the other side that closed csada step off line make sure that the sector is covered and taking that hand right there just start nice and slow here in the beginning just work that coordination down and before you start speeding it up adding in power you know all that stuff again all the principles apply here right you can kind of come come back into your follow-ups start working out your different striking combinations there right maybe if you want you can start working in your heaven six all that stuff for your follow-ups and once you've worked some isolation on all four of the ciss or goting positions right like your uh open uh cada to the left the open position to the right the closed position to the left and the closed position to the right then nice and slow just start nice and slow but then you can kind of start mixing it up simulate you're moving around with somebody right and then you can go into your techniques just kind of mix it up a little bit just make sure again if you're using an arm like this that you're really making sure that you're stopping that weapon and the return of that stick otherwise it will come back and it's going to whack you in the face so you know this type of training Implement is very good because you got to stay aware of what you're doing and your weapon position so one little bonus tip if you stuck with me to this point in the video and those who haven't they're going to miss this and it's very very important and it's very important in the functional fighting application here is that when you are doing this technique here the crada make sure that the protective weapon the weapon that's protecting the sector that you don't overextend this that you have to be protecting at the center okay so the weapon is going to stop this is why you want to measure out exactly where the center line is you got to know where your Center Line is and whichever cada whichever goting technique that you are applying make sure that weapon does not go past the center okay you can't have it on your side either because this is going to be able to get through and hit you if it goes on the other side this is going to be able to kind of sneak around that you have to make sure you're protecting the center line with that uh with that protective weapon there right there and having a little arm like this is going to help train that visualization to make sure that you're not overshooting that see how this will just if I go through boom see how that thing's going to come right back and whack me right in the face again simulating that possible returning strike so you got to have that guard up keep keep that wall up all right there 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