Dynamic Kali Stick Fighting Drills - Amazing Filipino Martial Arts

[Applause] welcome my collie Warriors today we're diving into three Dynamics tick fighting drills from Filipino martial arts I'm tom head colli Center coach here some of you have seen me on this channel before in other videos and some of you are training with me inside of our online school grab your collie stick welcome to single stick Mastery let's get started our first drill is the broken and fluid X striking from Filipino martial arts this this is the two of the three striking energies that Filipino martial arts has to offer a broken strike which hits the center and retracts and a fluid strike which crosses the center going across to the opposite side both here are important which is why we're combining them into our first drill let's break this down together first we're going to Blade the body profile the body first strike is a broken number one on top we retract this and we strike a fluid crossing the center we start get broken number two a backand we bring it back and we strike a fluid backand number two broken fluid broken fluid broken fluid broken and fluid let's look at a few key pointers here that we're going to get the most out of our broken and fluid X striking first is to Blade the body make sure we're profiled we don't want to be square here when we're coming out because we're not going to have any Mobility or or ability to really rotate with a lot of control so we want to Blade the body first and foremost second thing we want to do is pull the strike even when we're hitting the broken striking we want to pull the strike back we want to pull the the strike through on our fluids so we don't want to push the strike like we're kind of just trying to jab this out and get our little shots in we want to pull this and get this back to a high position so we have a lot of power and speed in our klii stick fighting striking the last one I'm going to recommend is not just just pulling the hand back but also rotating the hips and shoulders this is kind of a given when it comes to blading the body but a lot of times with broken striking it's done with just the arm there's times for short manipulations where you're going into little Jabs but let's get the full strike right now that way we can really get the most power out of our striking so when we rotate we Blade the body we pull the hand all the way back and we want to pull that and we want to make sure we're retracting the strike we're rotating the hips and shoulders you can slow this down I'll give you a side profile so you can see it let's do this together right now broken fluid broken fluid broken fluid broken fluid and then once you get the hang of it start to decrease that transition time broken fluid broken fluid still dialing in the key pointers of blading the body rotating the hips and shoulders and pulling the strike let's take a look at drill number two next up we have the whip the Whip is that full auto type of striking that is going to be assisted with a power number one the real important thing here is yes we are doing speed striking here but that doesn't mean we want to have the weapon be controlling where we're going and what we're doing we need to be in control of the weapon we need to be in control of connecting the weapon and the body together let's break the whip down it's technically four strikes but let's break it down nice and slow and then we can start to speed it up and really get the most power out of it now from the top we have the D downward diagonal number one same like we did on the fluid X we drop that that fluid one now we fold this over over and we go into the whip which is going to be 1 2 3 we bring it back up downward one one two three on the Whip and we bring it back one two three and back up you're going to notice something on the specifics of the whip the Whip the hand the wrist is breaking in the center so this is that speed striking assisted with that power one into that rapid full auto striking so let's go through some key pointers here with the whip we already know to rotate the hips and shoulders from our previous X striking we're going to bring that with us so after we strike the power one we're going to fold this over into the closed position and the whip the wrist breaks in the center so as we get the rhythm of it it's going to be one two three and back up power one one two three back up power one one two three back up so get the rhythm of the whip that way you can get that PO boom b b b boom you can get that rhythm of that very P fast and Powerful followup next thing I'm going to recommend on the Whip have a Target in mind so when you have the power one you can simulate this in your solo training in your Kali solo training where you can have that power one that might be going to the hand and then you follow up with the whip that might me going right up to the eyes and you follow up with the whip that might be going down to the Elbow I'm going to want to follow up with the whip and come back up the whip is extremely powerful for follow-ups it's a way to get somebody off of you and then coming back with power on that power one let's recap we get the whip break the wrist in the center we have the rotation and then we want to have a a Target in mind for the whip we don't want to just randomly throw the whip kind of whatever we got to have the intention in our Ki stick fighting training so we throw the power one boom I'm going right up to the eyes boom I go on the hand now I'm going to the Elbow going down to the knee and I'm going right through the center on that whip so train the whip diligently create the control with it so don't let the stick don't let the weapon decide where you're going to go keep that wrist nice and tight in the center breaking over and you'll get the whip in no [Applause] time hey before we get into drill number three I want to make sure to remind you after we're done training today to head over to center.com and check out our online school we have tons of video 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the most power out of these flicking jabbing type of strikes cuz they don't look like a whole lot until you start making impact either in sparring you drop that on somebody's hand you start using this on impact training on a tire stack or a heavy bag and you're going to see how much potential you have to generate a lot of power so from the top we must get a snap in the hips on the hip and shoulder rotation we have to get a snap in the hips so we snap the hips over twice that's the first one make sure the hips are rotating if they don't it's likely you're going to miss that second with te and just go into the third one and then you're not going to get everything that you want so you want to go into this you go one two snap the hips over second key point we want to load this and touch the humoris another reason being is it if you miss this and just bring this down to third witi just bringing the stick back into yourself don't do that the weapon goes forward to your opponent so first one snap the hips over load the strike finally on the third witi we're going to drop the elbow again speed striking these flicking type of strikes these jabbing type of strikes are important we want to get the full power out of this so on that third witi we start from the top one two we load that and three we want to drop that drop that elbow and get that retraction and get that power so from the top rotate the hips get the snap in the hips off of the first two wies from here we load this and we drop the elbow on that third witi and we recover it back one two 3 recover one two three recover two three more cover you focus on these key points and you train diligently you're going to be developing power on your wi tiques in no time there you have it klie Warriors Three single stick drills to get you moving your collie stick more dynamically practice these with dedication and you'll not only get better at the techniques but you'll also embody the spirit of Kali I'm tom head coach here at K Center thanks for training make sure to keep training keep the flame alive and embrace the Artistry of kie we'll see you in the next [Music] one