Basic Knife Thrust Techniques - Kali Arnis Eskrima

hey what's happening paul ryan here with kali center for today's training we're gonna be taking a look at some basic knife moves so you're gonna need a couple of training knives if you do not have training knives like this that's okay go ahead and grab two sticks if you don't have that you can also just grab two spoons out of the kitchen and that'll work for today as well if you're brand new to the channel hit that subscribe button if you like training knives smash that thumbs up button leave me a comment below and let's go ahead and get training in today's training we're taking a look at some of the basic technique development drills on the knife thrust so we're taking a look at some basic knife thrusting techniques so we're going to be utilizing uh both of our hands here so you know we'll kind of just take it nice and easy very beginner and just start developing some of the coordination on the single knife both hands and then we can kind of put it together in a nice little kind of double knife drill as well all right the thrusting is really important here at collie center we view the thrusting as the primary knife tactic followed by the slashing which is the secondary knife tactic and the reason for that is that obviously slashing is very very good and it's a great way to neutralize the weapon and all that stuff but when it comes down to you know the most uh damage done with the knife it really comes down to the thrust because the thrust is going all the way down into you know the organs and into the bones and and all that stuff so the thrust is uh the primary tactic that we look at here kylie center you know when it looks at when we're looking at the knife so we train thrusts first we kind of get that handling down and then we go into the slashing and and then so forth from there so let's go and take a look at it the basics on the thrust is that there's really only three basics we have the center line thrust we have a backhand thrust and we have a forehand thrust so here at kali center we label those as numbers just because it just makes it easier for us and we just call this our number one which is our center line thrust our two thrusts which is our backhand and then our three thrusts which is our forehand right there and we keep it very simple right now we don't have to worry about all these different energies or anything like that we're just going to be focusing on just looking as like jabbing thrusts because we're just looking at the basic thrusts and then understanding these three basic positions center line backhand and forehand so that's the first drill right there very very simple we just start off with that right hand thrust to the center line thrust to the backhand thrust to the forehand and then bring it back and you're gonna see how it's retracting with every single one here so i'm gonna thrust bring it back thrust retract it thrust retract it back right there so one two and three right here one two three one two three one more time right there very very simple you know nothing complicated about that very gross motor skills very natural skills natural movements for the body so once we train that in our right hand we also want to make sure we're training those movements in the left hand so we can start building that coordination as well so we got our one our two and our three right there on the left hand center line back hand and forehand so right here bop and again we're just kind of doing more of like a broken energy where we're thrusting retracting thrust retract thrust and retract okay as far as targeting right now you know we're not usually uh we don't put numbers on necessarily the targets but we do look at numbers more so on the angle so obviously the center line is going anywhere up the center line groin abdomen right abdominal aorta neck you know throat face anything like that so anywhere along the center line right there okay the backhand is you know that could be going into you know the lung it could be going up you know through the armpit it could be going into the neck it could be going into you know one of the eyes something like that obviously the other side you know if i'm striking with my right hand that might be going towards the liver the lung the armpit neck eyes anything like that and then on the forehand side right it would be the same thing just the other side of the body so that's really where the targeting goes you can kind of start you know selecting doing different target selecting and all that while you're training these motions out so what i like to do with these basic drills here is kind of rep them out make sure i got the coordination on the right hand and then make sure i have the coordination on the left hand it really doesn't take too much maybe 10 20 reps per side and then what i like to do is kind of alternate them so i'll go into the right side right here and then right away to the left side and this just kind of gets the brain to start operating a little bit different okay a little bit of right hand to the left hand so you can visualize the path of the thrusts just a little bit differently than if you're only isolating one side okay that's very very easy so make sure though even though that it's easy even though that it's simple make sure you still spend time with that even when i'm training like the very you know basic fundamentals like day one stuff i still go back and i train that stuff and i'm always looking at ways how do i make it better how do i get my coordination better how do i add this you know into more agility and increase my agility right i'm always looking at how do i improve even if it's day one lessons okay there's there's no such thing as you know over training when it comes to the technical skill and and the understanding of the knowledge and all that stuff so the next drill that we're going to go into is a little bit more of like a cinewally drills a little bit more of a weave drill where we get to kind of work both uh hands within one drill so i'll kind of show you what it looks like and then we'll go ahead and break it down so i'm gonna start off on the right hand i hit that center line that one there's the two on the left and then the three right here on the right as it comes back i hit the one on the left the two on the right and then the three right there on the left and we're going to just kind of cycle this out right here bop right here okay and this is a great way to start getting the hands to kind of chain together to work together you know that's what uh cinewolli means is to weave so we're kind of weaving our hands to get them to work together so let's go ahead and break this one down so the important thing when we're starting to look at these types of drills is we have to make sure that our techniques that the no weapon is intersecting another part of our body okay so this is going to be very very important sometimes like people will send me videos of their training and you know even though they're training with training gear which is highly recommended but when they start getting into double weapons especially double knife you know they don't realize that they're doing this type of motions and they're starting to put the edged weapon right they're putting a part of their body in the path of that main edge on the weapon and we really want to make sure we are avoiding that because that's when we start having these accidents where we end up you know cutting ourselves if we're ever to be doing this things with you know live blades and things so from here we're going to start off with this thrust on the right hand my left hand comes underneath into the two position now you're gonna see that when this thrusts my right hand is pulling back as well you can see there's nothing in the way of this okay it's very important that even if i'm thrusting like this you're gonna see how that blade turns okay i don't want to keep it here and then bring this here because now you're going to see how my hand is in that path so we got to be very uh aware and very observant of what we're doing with our weapons so as i thrust here this is going to turn and it takes it off the path of my left hand as i thrust this comes back yeah right there now as my three my forehand thrust on my right hand then i'm going to go ahead and chamber my left back down to my hip i'm getting it ready for the other side so as this comes out you're gonna see how my right hand starts to dip so see how that cutting path there there's no intersecting right there boom right there now my right hand is underneath here comes out it comes out notice that my left hand is clear right there's no interference there boom and then here comes that number three on that left hand side and then same thing here as i thrust this see i got to make sure that it's clear boom right there there's one two three and then one two three on the left hand side right there okay let's show you from another angle nice and slow so we have our one two three one two and three right there yep we got one two three one two three one two three one two three okay so takes a little bit of practice here to build that coordination to make sure that you are not running the blade edge into the you know into the path of uh another part of your own body or anything like that very very important so you have to go very very slow with this one in the beginning take your time if you got to watch this video over and over again there's a little gear icon if you hover the screen if you hover the the video right now there's a little gear icon that's going to pop up on one of the bottom corners of the screen and you can click that and then there's a selection there for speed on youtube you can choose to slow down or speed up the videos so if you need to slow this video down even more to see this at an even slower speed then go ahead click that gear and then you can make that speed adjustment all right so work this one out nice and slow boom right there and then see how fast you can start to get it and if you get it leave me a comment below and tell me how well you got it alright guys so that's what i got for you today as far as our knife training a little bit of single knife a little bit of double knife working the basic techniques of our thrusts so hopefully you guys are going to have fun with that if you're new to the channel please hit that subscribe button make sure to smash that thumbs up button comment below leave me a cool comment below and then feel free to share this video with all of your friends out there it's very important that we can spread the love of the arts you know of collie and all that so go ahead and share the video with your friends if you want to continue your training with us here at kali center there's a couple things you can do number one hit the join button right below this video and check out becoming a sponsor of the channel we have a lot of exclusive training videos here 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