REAL Sword Fighting Techniques - Filipino Martial Arts

i got some kali uh sword fighting drills for you guys today so number one thing is that if you have a collie stick grab it if you do not have a cauli stick then head over to my store over at colleycenter.com and go order yourself a pair or two of traditional high quality high grade rattan kali sticks okay we use rattan this is the best material to use for your sticks but like i said these are sword fighting techniques i want to be sharing with you today so if you uh have something better than this like a training bolo then go ahead and grab that all right check this out okay right here we now carry our own training bolos that are hand forged at our store over at colleycenter.com look at this it's got the logo on it hand forged beautiful beautiful training swords again these are training bolos so they are dolled out they won't cut you if you run your hand like this they're blunted on the tips but these are real hand-forged steel trainers so they have the real weight and the real balance of an actual fighting sword for filipino martial arts again we carry these over at our store so you can go and grab them over at colleycenter.com got the links down below let's go and get to today's kali sword fighting techniques that i want to share with you right now now before we get started on these sword fighting techniques do me a quick favor smash the thumbs up button leave me a comment below best comment is gonna get a free pair of sticks okay i'm gonna i'm gonna pick somebody who has the best comment you're gonna get a free pair of sticks that we're gonna send them to you and uh make sure you subscribe to the channel if you've got a training bolo grab it if you don't grab your stick let's rock and roll very first thing i want you to learn when it comes to the kali sword fighting techniques again this can all work with the sticks as well but kali is a blade art and then we can transfer that skill to the impact weapon or the empty hands but these are the first movements that i want you to learn from here we're gonna strike down our angle one strike down our angle two strike up our angle three and then again we're gonna strike down the angle two or you can strike a backhand horizontal just like that okay but these are the movements i want you to learn this pattern right here down the angle one down the angle two so making a big x up the angle three and backhand horizontal right there okay work those four movements one two three four or you can come back down another angle two okay so one two three angle two one two three horizontal okay work that out take uh put the video on pause and take like 60 seconds and get a few reps in i'll wait okay next thing i want you to learn do this with me right here we're gonna go into an inside deflection just like this okay left hand is going to go on top of your right wrist then we're going to cut up this line right here and thrust all right show that again go into what's called inside deflection left hand on top of the right wrist cut up thrust do it one more time with me inside deflection cut up thrust now we're gonna go to an outside deflection we're gonna cut it in a circular fashion like this and then thrust with the palm down okay got that do it again outside deflection circular cut thrust with the palm down let's put those two movements together real quick inside deflection cut up thrust see the palm is down outside deflection cut circular down and thrust do it again one two three four five six all right again pause the video for 60 seconds get some reps in i'll wait again third part that i want you to learn is we're going to go into a parry and then thrust with the palm up just like this and then we're going to draw it back go into an outside parry and thrust with the palm down just like this okay let's do that again take a look at the footwork inside period as i step to the right and then right foot forward as i thrust okay bring it back left foot steps out as i parry to the outside and then left foot steps forward and thrust okay one more time parry and thrust parry and thrust all right pause the video learn part three take 60 seconds get some reps in all right let's put all three parts together into one kind of sequence one kind of mini short form so from here part one cutting down all those slashes part two inside deflection cut up thrust outside deflection circular cut thrust part three parry and thrust carried to the outside and thrust okay let's take a look at that from another angle follow me section one one two three two section two deflect to the inside cut up and thrust reflect to the outside cut circular and thrust parry inside for section three to the thrust carry to the outside and thrust all right no talking let's go ahead and get a couple reps [Music] [Applause] [Music] come with me to my kali arm i want to show you something real quick about these moves okay some uh application all right i got my little kali training apparatus here i call it my collie arm or my kali dummy and uh guys this is really easy to build i just built this okay i got a 4x4 post i put a little uh four corners base down to it i extended a little arm and then i just threw a rattan stick into this uh it's like a car cb uh spring for uh holding a cb antenna or a radio okay so it's very very easy to build i just screwed everything together it's not complicated at all okay i'll i'll go ahead and show you guys a quick picture right now just kind of give you guys a little up and down scanning it right now so you can take a look at it okay so let's take a look at these uh sword fighting techniques from kali kali is kind of unique because the first method that uh the sword fighting has is we want to immediately disarm our opponent whether we are on the offense or on the countering side we want to take the hand so we can strike our one we could take the hand with the two we could take the hand with the three we could take the hand with the horizontal right here basically what it's showing is that the primary movements the primary cuts that you're going to take the hand with at the long range is with diagonal strikes and horizontal strikes that's not to say you can't take it with a vertical strike obviously you can but primarily most of the time especially if you're a little bit further apart you're going to be using diagonal and horizontal strikes so that's the first section you're going to take the hand right here cut the hand cut the hand and cut the hand obviously when you cut that hand it's going to lead to you know an instant disarm that's the best disarm that's the real disarm of filipino martial arts is that we don't necessarily always come in and strip the weapon out of their hands that may happen but for the most part we want to destroy the hand or remove the hand okay we're gonna take the function of their body away of being able to function that weapon but sometimes you know if you have to go in a little bit closer we need a different type of technique that's where the deflections come in so as i'm a little bit closer to my opponent you know i don't necessarily want to go for the hand here because the follow through of their weapon might still strike me so this is where we have to go into what's called the deflections some styles or system will call this four walls it just depends you know what terminology your style or system it happens to use so our first one is our inside deflection right here now you're gonna notice something i'm going to try to use the flat edge of my blade but sometimes you know we don't really you know if you have to use the main edge and then use the edge of the blade right i mean it's this stuff happens fast in real life but if you can right you try to use that flat edge now this is why in that drill we had the left hand go on top and so that way we can stop the hand of our opponent so that way we can stop that momentum okay so we're going to stop that weapon from coming through into us at the same time we got to stop their hand from continuing on forward from there we're going to replace our hand and we're going to cut this is going to go anywhere from the hand to the elbow we're going to cut and then the first follow-up that we like to teach at kali center is the thrust thrust to the face thrust to the neck thrust to the heart thrust to the lungs okay you want to thrust and you want that deep penetrating wound in pain so once again we have that inside deflection stopping the weapon from following through stopping the hand from carrying that follow through cut the hand or elbow anywhere up there and then thrust so we have that inside deflection but we also have the outside deflection so there's a couple ways that you can do this sometimes we might have to use that main edge but if we have the ability to we can use the flat of the blade here and then circle the cut right there so this is almost like a double attack boom we're going to use it to stop the weapon and then we also have to stop the momentum of the hand so in kali we have to learn the skill of going in to the opponent we have to bridge that distance and we're the ones that want to go in we don't want necessarily our opponent to be the one that's closing the distance so if they're kind of rushing us and we have to go into that kind of more shorter closer range we want to meet that force right so we're going to come in as well cut that hand and then go right into the first follow-up which is the thrust so once again we have that outside deflection stop that momentum cut that hand wrist or elbow and then bam follow up with the thrust right to that fatal target right here so you got one two and three right there okay play that out work that out your inside outside deflections from part two so the deflections are really good for when you're dealing with a cut right you gotta slash on slash but sometimes you got thrust coming at you and we need some techniques so that way we can fight against the thrusts so from here this is where we go into our parries so if that thrust is coming in and i'm kind of leaning more towards the inside i'm going to go into a quick parry and then follow up with the thrust immediately now in kali they we have to avoid what is called the middle range the middle range is where i hit my opponent and then their follow through right they end up hitting me so we either need to stay out here at long range where we cannot get hit by the weapon or we need to close the distance and go all the way in all the way you're like a freight train going right through your opponent so we have that inside perry and then the thrust right there and the parry is really nice because it puts the weapon your sword into the thrust position that you literally just step right into it okay you don't have to poke your arm out or anything like that it's already there so parry and thrust and right there and then of course we have to match that technique with a technique for the outside position so i'm going to parry and thrust right there okay parry and thrust so imagine this is a thrust coming at me i'm gonna parry that and thrust the parry does a couple things it's an insurance plan in case your footwork was really slow so it knocks that weapon off course but we're not gonna parry too far because if for some reason our opponent was coming back at us then we can follow up with another tool with a cut or another parry or a thrust or some other type of tactic so we go into parry and then thrust so when we're doing your solo training work this out all three parts of the form cut the hand at the long range then cut to cut with the deflections on the short range then work the thrusts carry thrust parry thrust and you can drill out each individual part of this little kind of mini sequence right here but you have some great fighting skills kali sword fighting skills that you get to work on this also works on sticks as well but work this out this there's a transference of skill here that then transfers across all the other areas of kali whether you're working with the sticks the swords the knives the empty hands the staff the spear we're going to be following these basic fundamentals right here but we're not only working on these different tactics and techniques we're also starting to understand the different tactics for the different ranges the long range and the short range hey i hope that you like this video and you find it informative and useful and that you're really going to train this stuff work it out solo and you know when you got time or anything you know go ahead and make one of these these little kali kali arms or the kali dummy right here it's a great training apparatus i know a lot of you guys are always asking me paul you know i i don't have a training partner how do i train the stuff solo at home you got to have a little you know you got to build a training partner okay just like i did but it's also important that you're training the solo drills and the forms like we did in the beginning of this video that way you master the movements and then you can start looking at the technical applications and then when you got a friend you can teach it to them and then you guys can work on the fine tuning of the range the changing of timing you know with another actual you know live person on the other side but your training doesn't have to stop your training doesn't have to not exist just because you don't have a school you don't have a training partner over by you okay we have all the great training gear over at our store at colleycenter.com and if you want to dive deeper into the art of kali across all the areas of kali all 12 areas check out my online school join me over there at colleycenter.com as well i got the links down in the description below give this one a thumbs up if you appreciate it and uh make sure you subscribe to the channel if you're not already and i'll see you guys back here next time for 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