Kali Stick Hand Switching Drills - Filipino Martial Arts

[Music] hey it's Paul Ingram with center.com today we're working on five drills for hand switching so that way we can switch our weapon from one hand to the other hand that way we could develop some good coordination and Flow between both hands with our Weaponry you never know you know maybe you're doing whatever you got to do over here and you got to quickly switch your grip to face somebody over there or you want to confuse your enemy right you never know but working these uh switches is going to enhance your coordination it's going to enhance your flow your fluidity in your skill your weapon sensitivity and you know maybe when your friends see you they're like really impressed like dang dude that's that's really cool make sure to hit the thumbs up for this video and if you're new to the College Center Channel hit that subscribe button right now and tap that Bell so that way you're notified every time there's a new video so you don't miss any training let's get on to our first switch our first switch drill is our over switch and we're starting off in the right hand I'm going to strike upward bring the stick over my shoulder that's why it's called the over switch my left hand is right here underneath my right arm ready to catch the stick I grab it I release with the right hand and then I flip it over I strike and flip it over my left shoulder my right hand is underneath ready to catch I release with the left and we just keep going back and forth here switching using the over switch or the over the arm switch and you can strike your basic angles one two three and then on the fourth one switch bring it up one two three on the fourth angle switch so that's a nice little drill that you can practice right there from the strikes basic strikes into your number one switch and then just work on some of the [Music] switches switch number two is under the arm from here we're going to strike an angle one then as the wrist bre breaks over we're going to bring the top of the stick up my left hand is already up on top ready to catch I release with the right hand strike the angle one on the left side and repeat the same thing just on the other side so it's basically just just the inverse of our first switch so this is our under the arm switch now of course you can watch the stick as you're learning the motion just go slow take your time and over time you want to just work on being able to switch based on feel and just start slow don't worry about speed in the beginning just go nice and slow and you can always gradually speed it up smoothing it out with practice switch number three is our chamber switch how this one works is we're going to flip the stick over and stick it underneath our armpit and close it then we're going to open the hand grab it with the other hand strike this out and repeat flip the stick and trap it underneath your armpit that's the chamber switch hands strike flip catch switch strike flip catch switch [Music] our fourth switch is the pass this one's very simple as I strike my number one on my right hand my left hand is already at my left hip waiting and as I follow through as my right hand gets to my left hip and my hand breaks over on the strike I'm simply going to pass the stick from my right hand to my left hand is that simple now as I strike my left my right hand is by my right hip waiting as the left hand breaks over I'm going to pass it to my right basically I'm just doing like a strip disarm on myself and and when we just go back and forth here simply passing the weapon the stick from hand to hand over here by the hip and you can still strike on the horizontal line on a diagonal line kind of play around with [Music] that and you're simply just passing from hand to hand [Music] hand switch number five this one's a lot of fun it's a little bit more technical but we also get to work a little bit of a grip change as well and for number five basically all we're going to do is let the stick slide all the way down into a reverse grip we're going to come across with a reverse slash just like that flip flip it over and now we're on an outside chamber position my left hand is going to grip the weapon just like this now we can go ahead and Tuck this and use our chamber to come back over and we can stay on one side just like [Music] that so I'm going to let the stick SL slide down into the reverse grip come across flip it left hand is then going to catch and then we can chamber it and go into our just our basic uh chambered switch and then come back through so this one's really good because you start developing a lot of weapon sensitivity here here and then you're working that switch there a little bit of a grip change and all that or what we can do is when we're in this position here we can go ahead let it slide flip it and work it on the other [Music] [Music] side all right so there you go some fun klii stick drills that you can do to enhance your colly stick handling skills start slow explore the movements have some fun with it and uh make sure you subscribe to the channel hit the Bell to turn on post notifications and we'll see you back here next [Music] time [Music] he