5 KALI Empty Hands Combos for Beginners

[Music] [Music] got my warm up for the day ready for some training today we're going to be doing some basic pond and token combinations that's our empty hand fighting skills from the art of kali if you're excited for today's training please do me a quick favor number one hit that thumbs up button right now number two smash that subscribe button number three click that bell so that way your notifications are turned on so you do not miss any training video any new video that i've got here at the college center youtube channel and here's the next thing number four head over to kali apex.com and check out my super sweet deal that i have going on right now where you can get full access to everything on my online training school all at half price so head over to colleyapex.com got the link right down in the description below and uh let's go and get to today's combinations for today's training we're taking a look at some basic ponton toucan striking combinations ponte tucan this is the empty hand fighting skills of kali or the striking portion all right sometimes it's referred to as pondintuken or sun tuken or pongamut there's a lot of different names that describe this depending on what style or system that you're studying or that you're coming from but in kali there are three different sectors of empty hands there's the striking which we're going to be focusing on some basics today there's the grappling or the doom log which is like the wrestling and then there's the kicking or the sakaran and uh today we're going to be taking a look at the pontetuken or the pangamut and there's two different methods inside of our striking we have our closed fist strikes and we have our open handed striking methods both of these striking methods both contain of diagonal strikes linear strikes lateral strikes and they both also contain the close quarter heavy artilleries of the elbows the knees the headbutts and different tools and techniques just like that so let's have some fun with some basics mixing it up we're going to do a little bit of closed fist we'll do a little bit of open hand we'll do a little bit of mixing up the combinations when we're training our empty hands and kali with all the different combinations that are possible we want to make sure that we are training them in the right lead and also in the left lead it's really important that we are ambidextrous with our empty hand skills the initial training of this ammo dexterity comes from the double weapons especially like the two sticks or the two knives two equal length weapons and then we take that skill we take those attributes and then we apply them to the empty hands so let's go ahead and work with combination our first combination today very very simple we're going to take it in the right lead first train it in both leads from here we're going to start off with our linear strikes we're going to come out with that jab that rear hand straight and then we'll go ahead and shovel hook right to the body so one two and three right there okay one two and three make sure that we're paying attention to some uh technical points we want to make sure that we're striking our jab and our cross our rear hand as straight as possible we don't want these things to be flaring out we want the elbows to be straight coming straight out straight back in kind of like you're striking in this little tube right here okay and then same thing we're gonna pop this shovel hook body shot right out of the hip right there okay so we keep those nice and tight and at the same time you're going to see how the shoulder rolls up to protect the jawline okay we don't want to be striking like this where we're leaving the uh the jawline and the neck open okay we want to make sure that we are tucking that and even when we're striking to the body like that one two three that we have as much protection covering the jawline and the neck as possible this is really important because in the empty hands of kali we might be fighting another empty-handed person we might have multiple opponents there might be a weapon that gets introduced into the situation so we're always looking at protecting ourselves as best as possible just kind of keep that in mind let's go and turn over to bob and get a few reps in of this combination on dirty bob so one of the things i like to do when i'm training with bob is i like to change his position a little bit so typically when i'm training weaponry stuff with him i'll have him kind of bladed right here you know his right 45 right side is forward and all that and i also will do this with the empty hands so that way it's like simulating he's in a right lead sometimes i'll switch it over simulate that he's in a left lead okay but just for today just for the simplicities i'll kind of square them off that way it's just kind of you know i can work both sides off of that but when when you're training if you have a bob or something kind of like that you know you can orient him and kind of mimic those different leads in those different structural positions all right so from here we got one two and three right there just start nice and slow on your combinations especially if this is new to you you don't have to be trying to you know blast out as fast and as powerful as you can right out of the gate just start off nice and easy get a feel for it get the coordination down first one two and three right there one two three one two three [Applause] all right a second little tip when you guys are training this stuff especially with some impact training because you have that targeting you're training this with bob a heavy bag tires deck anything that you're striking make sure that as you're striking this okay that you're you're not dropping your eyes you got to make sure that you're looking through your brow so that way you can keep an eye on what's going on up here okay so sometimes when i'm teaching this stuff especially to uh to newbies they'll kind of start dropping their eyes quite a bit you know especially when they start coming to these low shots right here but now you can't see what might be raining over you or attempting to rain over you on top so make sure that you're looking through your brow boom right there and that way you got some good awareness going on good observation as best as possible let's take the same exact punches but mix up the combination a little bit this is going to kind of work out that coordination a little bit differently so we're going to go into our jab and then we're going to go to the body shot and then that uh rear straight hand right there so one two three or the uh count in order would be one three two right there one three two and again work that off on the other side boom bop bop right there one three two one three two right there just get the hands we'll come back at another time and work some of the different footworks in there and all that stuff and then you know i'll get a training partner out here i'll get tom or ollie or someone out here and then we can work these combinations with some different uh focusing drills and you know slips and working everything in there but we're just working on the basics getting the hands moving understanding the structure and all that stuff let's go ahead take this combo to bob all right working it out start off nice and slow on your impact training we got that jab we got the body shot and then we got that rear hand straight so one three and two right there one three two one three two one three two let's take a look at some of the open hand uh combinations that we can uh start working as well one of the most basic most powerful fastest ones we have our one slap our two hack followed up with our number one slap on the other side this comes straight out of the double stick and double knives one two and one right there one two one right there okay you could tighten them up as well obviously you can see that you can start really you know suppressing some fire here right there right so we're striking number one slap all right the hand fingers are loosely together hand is slightly cupped and it's in the position same position as if i was grabbing the stick okay exact same position nothing super special right there slap them come back with the forearm hack right there and then give them another slap let's take it to bob another empty hand striking combination let's go ahead and start working some elbow techniques just to mix it up a little bit we're gonna come across with that horizontal elbow downward diagonal and then followed with another downward diagonal right i like opening up with these horizontals because they're very versatile they can be an offensive strike they can also be used on the counter offensive strikes as well like the destruction system and things like that or smashing through the guard and all kinds of things so i like the horizontal to open with but those downward diagonals really give you the biggest bang for your buck obviously you got gravity on your side you've got a larger striking surface with the uh diagonal uh strikes there's a lot more protection there right and uh it's just they just mess your opponents up so from there we got one two three horizontal diagonal diagonal horizontal diagonal diagonal and then again make sure to work that out on both sides both leads right and left one of the most underrated things about elbow strikes is that you don't have to necessarily get this deep smash with your elbows a lot of times like if you watch some different like muay thai fights and things you might see that just a simple clip with the elbow even right across the jaw line right that can right there cause a knockout you get that shift in the jaw and it can end up being lights out so that's one of the uh kind of underrated parts about elbows is that even those little grazes can do a lot of damage they can cause knockouts especially when it hits that jaw line but they can also really open up your uh your opponent you know splitting the eyebrow and getting that blood pouring into their eyes it doesn't take a whole lot and they don't have to look like you know there's all this force going into it it's just a high leverage part of that body and that's one of the reasons why i absolutely love the elbow strikes let's take a look at how we can mix up some of these lines just like we have the slap and the hack right there of the open hands we can also train both of these movements with our closed fist which would be the hammer fists hammer fists on the forehand hammer fists on the backhand and you have that option to strike with the hammer of the fist or to strike with the forearm right there so even if you were calculating to strike them with the hammer fist but maybe they came in you still strike them with the forearm right there which is still a really good shot and there's a lot of power in there there's still a lot of energy transfer through the form right there so let's kind of have some fun with it we're gonna go one two and then pop this rear hand hit that body shot right there and then follow it up with an elbow and an elbow right there so we have one two three four five six strikes right there in this final combination so once again one two three four five six and then you can play around with your horizontal elbow and your diagonal elbows i want to make sure you got some flexibility so that way you know don't be afraid to explore and be creative in your training so one two three four five six right there one two three four five [Applause] [Music] six [Applause] you could also start playing around with a little bit of that clinch work a little bit of that head work right there strike strike pop them pop them and then grab that head and sandwich them into the elbows right there you can always add in head butts eye gouges and then you can always go into throws and all kinds of really fun additional training start off with these few simple basic ponentuken pongamut combinations rep them out and then start exploring by making your own combinations out of these movements and then any other empty hand movements that you know it's always a good idea to mix up your training with two different training methods number one training in the air so that way you are working on the the mechanical side of it and then number two make sure that you have a heavy bag a bob something that you can work your impact training on because there is conditioning to the body obviously that needs to be done with the empty hands and uh and it's really important to understand right what the impacts feel like and all that stuff so that way you're building confidence in your empty hand techniques all right thanks so much for joining me in today's training on our empty hands working out different ponding toucan or closed fist pongamut open hand mixing everything up and just training some basics with me for today i'm gonna go ahead and uh get some work done in the garden it's probably gonna start raining on me again but that's all right i always like training outside working outside whether it is sunshine rain or whatever the camera doesn't like the rain so i have to put that away but i like training and working in the rain in the sun heat cold doesn't really matter so be sure to give this video a thumbs up if you're enjoying the empty hands of kali i want to take it slow i want to take it nice and easy because i want these to be more instructional and things that you can learn off of all right so that's why you know i want to make sure i kind of take my time and you know i don't want to give you like 100 combinations in one video i want to just give you enough that you can go out and you've got some training for the day and you got some focus in your training for the day and you could go have fun and explore make sure to hit the subscribe button if you are not subscribed to the kali center channel and also check out our second channel over at our kali 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