Kali Eskrima Double Sticks - with Footwork!

Heaven 6 is the most essential double stick fighting pattern in Filipino martial arts if you do not have this striking pattern down then by the end of today you're going to have it down however I do want to take it one step further and start giving you some basic footwork that you can start incorporating with this striking pattern so that not only can you utilize a striking pattern with your arms but you can start moving around navigating your terrain with this striking pattern at the same time hit the Thumbs Up Button make sure you subscribed here to K Center share this video with your Filipino martial arts friends and let's get moving first things first let's make sure that we have the heaven six striking pattern Down Heaven Six it's called Heaven because the tips of the sticks are going to point up on all strikes it's six because there's six strikes three on the right right side three on the left side we're going to start off in this chamber position right here right stick is above the right shoulder left stick is down at the right hip so both sticks are on the same side of the body the right side here we're going to strike out our angle one and then we're going to pull it to our left shoulder from there my bottom hand is going to strike an angle two as I pull my angle two to my left shoulder I'm going to strike out my right stick angle two and then we're going to bounce it back ending on the left chamber position same thing on the left side we're going to repeat those strikes I'm going to strike an angle one on my left hand pull it back to my right shoulder then I'm going to strike from the bottom my right hand angle two as my right hand returns back to the right shoulder that's when I strike out my left angle too but this time I bounce it back to the start position of the drill so once again we have 1 2 3 4 five and six right there so six strikes and notice that the point the tip of the sticks the point of the sticks is facing upwards to the heavens on every single strike so just start this nice and slow and then work on smoing it out before speeding it up once we have the Striking pattern with the sticks let's go ahead and just tuck the sticks right here in the carry position and let's isolate the footwork that we're going to be working today so we're going to step out right 45 step step out left 45 we going to step out 90° to the right 90° to the left reverse it 135° to the right and then 135° to the left so once again we have our reverse triangle footwork going forward we have our 90° footwork and then we also have our evasion footwork or moving back let's WRA this out a few times here just nice and easy in the beginning get used to the Angles and you want to be precise here okay don't step up the center line make sure you open this up on that 45° be precise in your steps just like we want to be precise with the strikes in the weapon we want to be precise with the footwork as well okay then we're going to go and grab our sticks put them into that chamber position we have two variations of this drill that we got to work the first variation is striking half of the heaven six per step so I'm going to work my right side as I step to the right and my left side as I step to the left going across on the 90 90 to the left reverse to the right reverse to the left and then again 45 right 45 left 90 to the right 90 to the left reverse to the right and reverse to the left okay start slowly and just get this to flow go with me right now if you're just on the couch watching this video get up and do this with me if you don't have sticks that's okay just do the Motions with your hands and then when you get home and you have a pair of sticks then just put the sticks in your hand no excuse es to not work this and just start slowly until you're coordinated up and then you can gradually work on speeding it up our second variation of this drill the fork is going to stay the same but we're going to work all six strikes with every single step so we're going to spend a little bit more time holding that structured position with our footwork and then striking through the whole heaven six drill okay we actually got to do two rounds of this to equal out the body so first round we start on the right side we step out to the right and hit all six boom step out to the left hit all six strikes to the 90 to the right hit all six 90 to the left with all six reverse to the right on all six and reverse to the left with all six right here he and let's repeat this moving through it nice and slow in the beginning once you have it down you can gradually speed it up for once we finish that drill initiating the strikes from the right chamber position the right side we have to do the drill all over again initiating from the left chamber position now we can keep it the same stepping to the right first or if you'd like you can flip it over where you are initiating stepping to the left first start nice and slow starting on a different side of the body changes the coordination let's go through it nice and slow starting on the right side 1 2 3 4 5 6 left 45 1 2 3 4 5 6 hitting the 90s 1 2 3 four five six to the left one two 3 four five six reverse to the right one two 3 4 5 6 reverse to the left 1 2 3 4 5 6 and repeat for to truly Master the heaven six work these drills every day for the next week preferably 2 weeks 2 minutes on the clock no footwork just working the Striking pattern of the heaven six then take a minute break again another 2 minutes on the clock we're doing the split three strikes on the right three strikes on the left working through all six of our triangle angles on the footwork take another minute break then another two-minute round where we're initiating all six strikes with the footwork off of the right chamber position after that take a minute break and then the last last final round we're going to initiate for 2 minutes with the footwork off of the left chamber position right there take a minute break and you've got a great 10-minute klie workout which allows you to master the skills of the heaven six striking pattern on the double sticks at the same time calibrating your strikes with your footwork for more double stick training and Mastery towards your klie skills and techniques head over to center.com join us over inside of our online school and you can continue on with your double stick training we got exclusive drills inside of our online school that you will not find here on YouTube plus all the other areas of Kali including the single stick the spotty adaga the knife the empty hands and the whole gamut that klie has to offer hopefully I'll see you inside our online school at center.com otherwise I'll see you back here at our YouTube channel next time [Music] he