DRILL 36 - Basic Footwork | Kali Escrima Arnis

[Music] hey what's happening to paul graham here kali center welcome to week six of our drill a day kali training series this week's training we're taking a look at what i believe to be the absolute most important part of your colleague training and skill development no matter what area of college that you are studying you have to make sure that you are developing your skills in your footwork so this week we're going to be focusing on some of the basic footworks of kali so let's go ahead and kick off with day one drill one of week six on our footwork before we get moving on our training today make sure to hit that subscribe button if you are not subscribed to the channel yet i don't know why you wouldn't be subscribed to the channel yet but i guess a lot of people are not subscribed to the channel yet which is kind of crazy if you are training this whole drill a day series with me smash that thumbs up button and let's go ahead and get to our first footwork drill of the week we're going to start off very simple we're going to keep it very basic and this is our basic what we call segmented footwork this is our first segmented footwork okay so from here we're going to start off with our right lead you can have a stick in your hand if you want or training knife whatever you want or just like how i'm doing it right now nothing in my hands okay you can work this as empty hands it doesn't really matter but from right here we're going to start off with a a little bit more weight on our back leg and then our lead leg is kind of loosely just kind of lightly touching the ground right here we're not 50 50 weight distribution we're more like maybe 60 40 to 80 20. so we could go 60 40 70 30 80 20 but we're not 50 50. so we're usually shifting our weight distribution again 60 40 or 60 40. 70 30 70 30. 80 20 80 20. even 90 10 90 10 or 100 nothing and 100 nothing but we really don't want to uh be stuck in this 50 50. so from here i'm going to step forward with my lead foot if we needed generate some kind of momentum so we could take a larger step then we need to pump the leg we lift the leg and then we step as this foot once it hits the ground our back foot steps up and we want to make sure that if my lead foot steps a foot my back foot steps a foot okay and then we're going to end it back in this position so from here one two we're gonna shuffle up twice forward one two right there then we're gonna go backwards twice so rear leg and then the lead leg's going to drag right there so we step four twice and then we step back twice step four twice step back twice four twice step back twice let me show you this from a couple different angles so very very simple very very effective footwork we use it all the time so here's how it's gonna work we gotta go forward and back so it's two forward two back that's one rep we got ten reps to uh rep out together and uh then make sure that you get your 10 sets in your 10 uh full rounds in so let's do round one together again we're going to do 10 reps that's two forward two back is one rep okay let's go we're gonna kind of go somewhat slow but not too slow because i think this one's pretty basic a lot of martial arts have it so let's work it out all right so we have one forward forward back back two three four five six seven eight nine and ten right there now if you want to you could also work this on the left lead it's a good idea especially you know with the empty hands or when you're working with the double sticks to equal length weapons you know sometimes you could play in that left lead as well so it is a good idea to work this one in the left lead so let's go a little bit beast mode and let's get a round in together off of the left lead this time everything's the same but from here let's go nice and slow first we have one up twice back twice two three four five six seven eight nine and ten right there all right i know this one is not a difficult one it's a very very simple one but it's a really important one this type of footwork we're going to be using it you know we use it all this kind of footwork we use all over in the art of kali i don't want to get i don't want to get too specific on different terminologies and stuff like that because a lot of you guys might be training in different schools different styles different systems and you're used to different terminologies for your footwork and all that stuff the most important thing is recognizing the movement doing the training you know it's not the terminology that's not the most important thing so just work this one if you want to call it a step and slide if you want to call the broken footwork whatever you want to call it that's totally cool but you know this is out of here at kali center our segmented footwork here at colley center we categorize our footwork into three different categories of footwork we have segmented footwork which is up a particular linear line this can be on the linear line also on the lateral lines on the infinite line and all that stuff we also have our triangular footwork okay which we're going to be looking at a lot this week and we also have our circling footwork here at college center so we recognize three different categories of footwork this is our first one and our first exercise of the first one out of our segmented footwork so a couple little details if you guys want to kind of really focus on the technique when you guys are doing this for work make sure that you're not lean forward too much you want to make sure that the spine is straight make sure you're not slouched down okay so while you're moving around and doing this you don't want your head to be leaning forward or anything like that where your head might be in range to get whacked okay so just kind of be cognitive of your posture that's really important and then also make sure that you're not settling at a 50 50 weight distribution we don't want to be caught at a 50 50. we want to make sure there's some momentum that is still being generated and controlled throughout the body just in case we need to spring in quickly or in case we need to spring out quickly so this is our first drill for week six on our drill a day kali ultimate training series here on the channel hitting up the footwork i'll see you guys tomorrow make sure to get outside make nature your kali dojo especially on the footwork because if you're working on different pitches and uneven terrain and all kinds of stuff or you know training in the rain or something like that it's going to really help to enhance your navigation ability across all the different terrains and then when you do go into the gym and train on the nice flat easy mats or that nice gym floor you'll be flying around like the flash okay all right i'll catch you back here tomorrow for day two for our next footwork drill on week six of our drill a day kali series [Music] you