Pangamut DRILL 30 - Kali Drill A Day Series | Filipino Martial Arts

[Music] hey what's happening paul ingram here with kali center welcome back to drill a day kali training series week cinco drill dos we're going to be taking a look at more of our empty hand fighting techniques from the kali martial arts the filipino martial arts so smash that thumbs up button if you like training the empty hands leave me a cool comment below that i like to respond to and make sure you subscribe to the channel so smash that subscribe button if you're not subscribed yet hit that bell make sure your notifications are turned on so that way you are notified when we have a new drill of a day coming out so you don't miss tomorrow's or the next days or the next days or the next days let's go ahead and get on to the training for drill number two in today's drill we're taking a look at the open hand strikes yesterday we did some of the closed fist strikes so today we're gonna look at some of the open hand strikes all right here's the sequence that we're working today we're gonna go into an open hand jab then we're gonna fire a number one which is our slap a number two which is a hack using the form this is we're gonna make contact with and then the left hand is gonna fire also a number one slap all right so it's four strikes in this one so we have one two three four right there one two three four right here one two three four right there okay when we're striking this out let me give you guys a little couple of key pointers on the technique side of it when we're striking this open hand jab you could be making contact either with what we call the blade edge of the hand or you can make contact with the palm now this technique is all about speed it is not a knockout shot necessarily okay it is either you know going to attack right here to the bridge of the eyes maybe you know it starts to get the eyes watered or something like that but the main thing the main thing is that it is used to momentarily take away the person's vision so they can't see the real attack coming in this is why you see it done with the knife stuff especially you know it kind of sets up an attack you know kind of blinding them a little bit even if it's just for a second so they can't see the full picture of what it is that you're uh that you're doing because a jab bam it's so fast but you know if you hit him in the bridge it can break the nose it does have enough so it can get the ice to squirt some water and all that stuff so it is a very effective uh strike as well but that's what we can make contact with boom either the blade edge right here on the hand or with the palm either one is fine then from there boom we're gonna strike on our number one slap okay so you're gonna i wanna show you guys the hand position here the fingers are held loosely together they're not tight and they're not open they held loosely together and the hand is slightly cupped okay and the wrist is canted all right but it's not like you know you're not cranking it okay but it's not straight like this it's like this so if i was to have a stick or a bolo in my hand it's the same position as striking a number one you just open your hand okay that's all it is and you're making contact with the cup in the hand okay that's what we're doing with the slack so bop boom right there the hack pretty simple boom you're just gonna hit them just gonna slam your forearm right into their you know side of their face into their neck anything like that it's really important that we're striking these you're gonna see how i'm trying to tuck as much as i can behind the shoulder and at the same time i'm trying to protect my head as much as i can with the middle of the form right boom even when i come in with that hack you ideally want to be guarded think of this thing as a shield boom right the shield a shield is not a defensive weapon it's an offensive weapon you are smashing your way in with that shield and i want you to think that way with your hack so boom bop boom you're going all the way in behind that and then following that up with another slap powerful angle one off of the other side good thing we did the double sticks first right because the double stick training when you're working those drills that's where you're developing your power for your empty hands okay that's where you're developing your speed and your power for your empty hands so that's the drill we have open end jab one slab two hack and then one slap on the other side so bop boom boom and boom right there one two three four right there okay make sure you train that in the right lead and then you can also train that in the left lead if you want to switch it out so let uh so the right hand is going to jab this time and then the left hand angle one angle two and then that right hand comes through with that angle one so bop bop boom boom right there okay so let's go nice and slow work through round one together i want you to focus especially on the first few rounds focus on the technique go slow so that way you understand it if open hand striking is new to you right then go slow everything is difficult when it's new everything is awkward when it is new you have to build the coordination you have to build the technique okay for it to be effective all right so let's go ahead and work round one together right now okay so as far as mechanic goes there's nothing you know that you haven't done already all the mechanics of the open hand exactly the same as the weapons the open hands is exactly the same as the bolo and the sticks okay 100 the same all right so let's work this out right here so wreck number one real slow left hand i'm going to angle a little bit so you can see the left hand a little bit better all right rep number one left hand boom there's the jab comes back here's that one slap boom see how left hand's ready it's in the chamber position already coming around boom there's that hack and then bam there's that slap right there all right rep two there's the jab slap hack and slap right there rep three that's it rep four rep five six seven eight nine and ten right there so as you can see the slap and the hack is the same thing as that forehand and backhand hammer fist that we did yesterday the only difference is that we're striking with an open hand now okay typically with that open hand you can get a little bit more speed right it's the open hand we think of it more related to the blade the closed hand the closed fist we think of it more related to the impact weapon of the stick okay let's get around and together off of the left lead this time nice and slow so we're starting off right hand's going to jab it let me kind of angle it this way so you can see that so we got one let's go slow okay two three four five all right slow and smooth it out now six seven eight nine and ten as you're working finishing out your rounds to complete your 10 rounds as you're getting more familiar with the movements and you're getting more comfortable with the coordination of the movements start to you know incrementally build up that speed and build up that intensity behind it okay that's where boom you're going to start to really see the benefits of the empty hand strikes the reason why we like ntn strikes in kali they're both good both methods are good and they both have their applications with the closed fists you do have a little bit more of a tendency of possibly breaking your hand which would result in the non-ability to really operate effectively with weaponry which is kali is all about the weaponry so the open hand allows us to strike with speed and power and clearance and that allows us to preserve the hand a lot more and then we can still operate weaponry in the art of kali the empty hands is not the go-to fighting method okay the empty hands are there because uh you know you were surprised or whatever it's taking you some time to transition to some sort of weapon whether it's a deployed weapon or a field expedient weapon that's the purpose of the empty hands we are not expecting anybody to go out there and fight you know five six people with their empty hands maybe you are good enough to do that but in kali obviously we want to use the weapons for those types of uh situations right but the empty hand skill is very very important okay and then it can come down to personal preference whether you like the closed fist striking methods more or you like the open hand striking methods more i personally don't really care which one you want to pick all right just do the one that interests you the most alright but this is drill number two for week five on the empty hands so finish out your reps finish out your rounds and uh yeah i'll catch you back here tomorrow for drill number three of week five on the empty hands of kali so leave me a comment down below when you have finished your 10 rounds make sure to hit that thumbs up button for the empty hands i love training the empty hands and make sure to subscribe to the channel head over to 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