Kali Double Stick Challenge 6 of 10 (Filipino Martial Arts)

day six of our double sticks challenge hit the Thumbs Up Button make sure you subscribe to the Kali Center Channel hit that Bell to turn on post notifications grab your sticks and let's go if this is your first time catching the double stick challenge then I highly advise to click the link right up here it'll take you to a playlist that'll bring you all the way back to day number one work it out and catch up let's do it for drill six we're taking a look at the different chamber positions and how to transition between these different positions so it's not going to be a super complicated uh day here of training but it's going to help you out if you are entering the double stick corenza showdown at the end of this challenge for your chance to win some gear and some other cool Kali Center prizes this is going to help you out bridge that Gap from some of our previous training drills to our upcoming training drills alright but before we get to the transitions in those different positions let's get a quick warm-up in and one of the best warm-ups is just working our wrist rotations just like this and you can see that I'm rotating both sticks forward and you're going to notice that when I'm doing this look at my grip my grip is closed I'm not opening my hand like you see in like some other martial arts in Kali we keep it closed because this is going to help to develop the wrist flexibility and it's also going to help develop the grip strength and we're using the momentum of the stick to help develop that Dynamic flexibility so we're going to keep a closed grip you don't have to death grip this but we just keep it nice and closed here keep your elbows closed tight to the body and keep your hands about shoulder height and we're not doing this way down here we're doing it way up here gives our wrist a little bit more freedom in that rotation here okay and we're just going to rotate this forward here if you find that you're sliding down the sticks just go ahead and tuck them underneath your armpits right hand grabs the left stick left hand grabs the right stick and then we just get it going again which is actually really good because then you got a different stick in your hands and that's going to really help with that grip strength you know sometimes if you're used to training with one diameter thickness stick and then you switch to a thicker or especially a thinner one you start swinging around you start developing these uh you know blisters which is good because eventually those turn into calluses and you get what we call collie hands and get hard hands okay so once you have this going forward now we're going to go forward and back just like this okay so we're gonna do one rotation forward but notice how we're stopping the tip right on line with our eyes and then one rotation back all the way to a full chamber position we're going to warm up those uh back muscles and chest muscles and the shoulder muscles and even though these are warm-up exercises these are actually strikes as well especially if we were to use like two bolos and the goal is to get it to snap okay so you're gonna work that for about five minutes great warm up and uh let's get to the transitions drills on these different chamber positions when it comes to these chamber positions our basic chamber positions is that we have our chamber which is in this case on my right hand side we have the right Stick Over the right shoulder left stick by the right hip and then we can switch this to the left side chamber now as you've uh probably seen in some of our previous videos we also had a reverse chamber position right here as well so but this is kind of more the forward or standard chamber position we also then have the open position right here which now we have the Open high position sometimes we can have an open low position one high one low and then the third position is What's called the closed position this is a position that we don't really want to sit in because our hands are all kind of twisted up here and we have very short strikes kind of slower strikes so this is more of a position that we just kind of pass through in that closed position it's not something that we'd want to you know sit here like this but what we're going to do is work some basic transitions between these basic positions so what I want us to do is just start off in our chamber position right here this can be a super easy drill we're going to strike up that four and down the one right there which is just like from the very first video our standard six right we're just taking out that first and fourth strike of the standards of the standard six here okay so we're just striking up to four and down the one then at some point we'll strike up the four and then we're gonna go into what's called our broken strikes and we're just gonna strike our broken ones just like this a broken strike as we hit to the center and then we re retract that weapon to the uh original side that a strike began on so these are our broken strikes the fluid strikes is what we started with where we're striking all the way through the center from one side of the body to the next okay so we throw a four and then we go right into our broken strikes so just take a moment here and just work through those two throw the one the fluid one and then we're on our fluid strikes get a couple reps in throw the fluid four and then go into our broken strikes from the open position you can do the other side as well so I could throw a fluid one and then go right into the fluid strike starting from the left side and then I could throw a fluid four and that'll start the broken strikes on the left side again so experiment with both sides right side and left side transitions very simple okay all right let me go back into the brokens and then we have one more drill here and this is our circulars we call this the circular angle one and I want you to imagine as if you're striking your opponent's far shoulder right so my right stick is going to strike towards my opponent's right shoulder my left stick is going to strike towards my opponent's left shoulder I'm just going to circle them out just like this right and we're just going to work between these three drills I'm gonna throw my left one fluid brings us back to the fluid strikes throw my left four fluid bring this back to the broken strikes and then from there I'm just going to change the energy from broken to Circular I'll throw my left again back to the fluids and once you have that you after you're you know pretty good at working with the fluid broken circular in that order then start mixing it up I'll go from fluid to Circular then maybe back into the brokens okay back into the fluids maybe I'll come up and work the exercise couple repetitions here back into the circulars okay back into the exercise the warm up back into the fluids into the brokens all right maybe I'll work a little bit on the right side work a little bit on the left side let's back in oh plop from the chamber position so we're just kind of mixing these different Energies and just a different drills and warm-ups that we worked just in today's lesson and this is helping us kind of start getting the idea of freelance or of corenza with some less complicated movements all right foreign there you got it there you have it my friends day six drill on the double stick challenge we're training up for the double stick carenza Showdown for those that want to take part in this challenge you don't have to do The corenza Showdown at the end that's only if you want to enter a chance to win some training gear and some other cool prizes here at Kali Center otherwise just enjoy the training enjoy the drills you know learn them train them and master them I'll catch you back here on Tuesday for drill number seven [Music] thank you [Music]