Stick Fight with Way MORE POWER!

[Music] hey what's up hongram here in today's training we're taking a look at how to develop more power in your kali's stick fighting so that way you are delivering the most devastating most effective strikes onto your opponents so let's go ahead grab a rattan and let's train when it comes to striking with power there's a few key components that we need to have that we are working into our mechanics so it takes some coordination to develop these mechanics that's why you're gonna have to do a lot of training let's go ahead and just knock out a few of them it's going to be some great tips pointers that's going to help you out and as you're training in about a week two weeks you're going to start seeing some great development into your power right you're going to see some good results all right so let's go ahead and kind of kick it off with the first thing is that we want to make sure that we are gripping the uh the stick correctly and that we are striking with the proper area of the stick i want you to think of your stick as an edged weapon so your knuckle line right here is going to represent where that blade edge would be and this is the part even when we're striking with a stick that we want to strike with the reason for that is that we have proper structural integrity in the wrist in the form and in the grip this is going to be really important really essential when it comes to increasing your power in your kali stick fighting the second ingredient is to make sure we're starting our strikes from a full chamber position or a fully loaded position once we develop this mechanic then we can start looking at shortening the power or shortening the arc of strike but in the beginning when you're looking to really develop and maximize your power development you gotta strike to the full potential of the strike it's just it's the only way that's really going to work and it's going to fast track your power development so you want to start off at this full chamber full loaded position and that's what we're striking from so we got that chamber of that one strike chamber of the two and strike all the way there component number three that i want to give you today is making sure that we have proper hip and shoulder rotation okay we have to rotate the torso one of the most common things i see in my beginner students when they first start training with me is that they're striking with all arm it's just arm like this okay and this may uh provide a little ding maybe a little bit of a bump and a bruise on your opponent but it's not necessarily going to be enough to really cause some damage so you can do a lot of good follow-up strikes or enough damage for you to get out of the situation if it was a self-defense situation you got to strike hard you got to strike fast and you got to suppress fire so we need this rotation in the hips and shoulder in the torso to generate more torque generate more power more speed and momentum onto the weapon which will transfer over to power so we want to make sure we got this good rotation in the hips and shoulders just like this okay so when we're striking our angle one and our angle two or angle one being that forehand or angle two being that backhand after we strike the one we wanna make sure we're looking over our right shoulder now don't over rotate either you don't want to be looking over your back that's bad position okay so we don't want to over rotate where it puts us in bad position but we do need to rotate the torso to generate that speed that momentum and that power transfer boom right there when we strike that angle two with that hip and shoulder rotation we should be looking roughly over our left shoulder here okay so one two right there one two one two so work this out work these mechanics out make sure you're focusing on these specific mechanic principles just work this get some reps in so this is just a few of the striking mechanic principles that we teach here at kali center if you want all 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wrist you're striking with the proper area of the impact weapon make sure number two that you are starting your strikes from a full chamber position bop bops that way you're getting a full arc of your strike okay the most potential of your strike and then make sure you're getting that full hip and shoulder rotation rotating on the one rotating on that angle two okay just like this so two methods of training here to develop your power number one make sure that you are training in the air okay you are isolating no impact training you are just isolating these mechanics now you're developing your form your technique very important the better your form is the better your technique is the more power you're going to be able to deliver in your scream of sticks in your in your stick fighting if you skip that part and you just go to impact training then you're not bringing form and proper technique to your impact training impact training does something different on the other side of power but the generation of power comes from proper form and proper mechanics so make sure that you're doing that work and then part two or the second method of training for power development is impact training but we're focusing on a couple different things here when we're doing our impact training okay so number one impact power is not necessarily only at the exact moment of impact where you're gonna get a lot of that power transfer into the target is by the follow-through of the strike we want the power to go through our target and this is where the follow through is very important and this is what we're developing on the impact training is the follow through of the strike right there the ability to strike through the target and transfer that power transfer that energy not just to the point of impact but all the way through the target okay so we strike our one and strike our two right there now another little key point when we're doing our impact training now you can train with bob just like this you can do impact training on a heavy bag you can do it on a tire stack if you have access to these different elements these different things that you can use for striking train on all of them because they all provide a different kind of resistance if you had to pick one tire stack's probably going to be the best it's the most solid it offers the most resistance so you need a better follow through but right now i got bob said we could also work some targeting as well now the thing is with impact training is that i want you to focus on pulling your strikes and not pushing your strikes i want you to pull the strike through pull it through not push like this we're not striking on a straight line okay we're striking on an arc in kali on the slashes of kali these strikes are on an arc they're not on a linear line so don't push your strike okay this is disengaging the weapon it's disconnecting the weapon the strike the mechanics from your body and it's separating your hand and your torso you need your body to be working as a single unit so this is where the pulling of the strike you're pulling it through that arc this is going to give you a better cleaner faster and more and more powerful follow through so pull your strikes pull the one pull the two pull it pull it pull it pull it so you're going to notice that when you're pulling you're getting a better rotation that's going with the orientation of the strike we focus on these diagonal strikes first because you can develop a lot of mechanic you develop a lot of power the very powerful strikes and they have the most striking surface okay so that's why we focus on the diagonals first okay we don't only use diagonal strikes but get a couple of rounds in of impact training on your ones and twos [Applause] let's let's shift gears here on our strikes we work a lot of the diagonal strikes so let's take a look at working some of these horizontal strikes horizontal strikes are really good for power development because they really help to generate that rotation in the hips and shoulders rotating on that horizontal plane that is so key and important to developing that torque okay so we can do that so one backhand horizontal or you can also work your forehand horizontal and then your angle two you can also just strike on the horizontals if you'd want to as well but we want to make sure we are working horizontal strikes because again it's going to help emphasize the rotation in the hips and shoulders make sure that you are still paying attention to all those other striking mechanics that we talked about make sure you got proper uh structural integrity in the wrist so that way you are striking with where you know if this was a blade it would be with the blade edge okay not the flat so that way we're striking with the proper hand and wrist position and then also make sure that you are pulling your strikes through those arcs okay it's still an arc and we're not striking on a linear line going straight forward i wanted to talk about the horizontal strikes in this because another thing that we can do another technique that we can utilize to increase our power exponentially is what we call double force or a double grip and this is where we have the hand over grip just like this so the left hand is going to go over the right wrist so we can strike this on the one and then boom come back with that horizontal just like that one bam horizontal one boom horizontal you can strike your regular one and then pop right there with that double force backhand horizontal now you can also strike this here boom on that downward diagonal as well so you can work this out one two right there and you're going to notice a massive increase in your power all right so right there you got one and boom two right there let's go ahead take it over to bob and get a little bit of impact training in yeah so all the ingredients everything is exactly the same strike the one boom right there double force right there boom right there right there very powerful shots very devastating you're not going to want to receive it your opponent's not going to want to receive it but it's the type of power you're going to want to deliver and give to your opponent in your stream of stick fighting for today's training i want to give you at least one more method of training that you can do to increase your power if you do this training this will increase your power 10x within a week you will already notice differences in your power development in your extremistic fighting alright make sure that you got a rattan kali staff the staff is a great training tool to develop even more power in your kali stick fighting because it is elongating the arc of the strike which puts more emphasis on what you need to put in in your body mechanics okay so here's a couple drills that you can do that's going to really help you out we're going to focus on the rotation of the angle one first you want to make sure that your staff is long enough that the follow through of the strike the staff is going to hit the ground so from right here i want you to choke up on it and strike strike your one just like that one two three four five six seven eight nine ten just like that all right strike that one two three four five so you're pulling with your right hand and you're pulling at the same time with your left hand to really maximize the speed and the momentum within this arc and you're getting your entire torso not just the right side of your lat your right lat but you're engaging your left flat as well so you're getting all that power that you can possibly generate from your torso through that arc so from here okay then do the same thing on the angle two right there and get some rounds of that in get like 10 one minute rounds in every single day if you can do it twice a day do it once in the morning and then do it once again in the evening ten rounds of your angle one ten rounds one minute rounds of your angle two okay and you wanna make sure again that your snap is long enough to hit the ground because you're going all the way through with the strike so all the concentration of the mechanics is driving an extension of that arc all the way boom right there and that's what you want okay you don't want your staff to be too short where it kind of misses the ground right here because you know it's kind of the same the same arc as if i was just striking with a regular stick we want that arc to be extended through the ground this is also going to help you develop better follow through on your strikes boom right there make sure you're using a rattan staff the staff needs to be able to bend don't use a hardwood staff here again i'm going to repeat you need the staff to be able to bend if you do not have a rattan kali staff just like this head over to our online store over at trigonalgear.com you can also access our online store if you go to our main site colliecenter.com and you can pick up a traditional rattan kali staff just like this and then you've got the right training tool to train this and really take your escrima stick fighting power to a whole nother level this drill right here will 10x your power development when you go back down to that single stick you're going to have so much better and so much more power in your mechanics all right i really hope that you enjoy this one i hope you uh try out some of these training tips and that they help you out let me know in the comments or if you have a little clip of you working your training over on instagram make sure to tag us over at kali center on instagram we'd love to see your training over there you can tag us in your stories tag us on your post and we'd love to watch your power developments happen over time alright let's check out your training we'd love to see your training let's close out this training segment today by using the staff to knock bob around a little bit with some power [Music] you