Epic Staff Fighting Techniques - Kali Eskrima Arnis

hey what's happening paul ingram here kali center and in today's training we're going to be looking at some staff moves and combining them into a drill so we can start creating that flow and enhancing our flow being able to seamlessly attach our different striking techniques if you're new to the channel hit that subscribe button if you enjoy training the staff smash that thumbs up button so let's go ahead and grab our stabs and let's train so before we get into the actual movements and the drill i want to first talk about the length of staff that we use in kali i get asked this very often is probably my most common staff question is what length staff do i use and when it comes to kali remember kali is a very adaptable martial art so we don't want to just kind of lock ourselves into a specific like taste of weaponry we want to be able to train our skills that can transfer to all these different lengths and thicknesses obviously not too thick that you can't hold on to you know but all these different varieties and variations within these weapon categories so the staff it doesn't matter if you're training with a four foot staff like a short staff or five foot staff or even one that is taller than you train with various different lengths so that you can learn how to handle all these different variations of the staff so let's go ahead and get to the drill there's 10 movements in this drill ten different techniques so from here we're gonna be starting off i'll break it down we're gonna let's do everything that is facing this direction first and then we can go ahead and talk about everything that's facing in the other direction so when we're working here in the first direction we're primarily focusing focusing on our horizontals and our vertical strikes in this part of the drill so from here we're starting off in our horizontal chamber we're going to strike that forehand horizontal that's number one number two we're gonna strike our backhand horizontal then we're gonna strike our vertical on the forehand side we're gonna come in with another backhand horizontal but this is a rake with the punyo side and then we're going to flip this and smash them again right there with that backhand vertical and then we're going to thrust let's take a look at those first movements right here so we have one two three four five six movements all firing at the four uh forward position of the drill all right let me do that facing you and facing a few different directions from right here we have one two three four five six once again one two three four five six now let's go ahead and do it together a few reps right here one two three four five six do it again one two three four five six one more time together nice and slow one two three four five six and you can step forward with that number six with that thrust work those first six movements get those down really smooth just take your time it doesn't have to be fast but we do want to work on fluidity we want to work on flow we want to get these movements down very smooth before we move into the next part of the drill and then piece them together anytime you're starting off a new drill don't worry about speed don't worry about power just focus on the coordination the coordination is the most important thing so just take your time go slow and make it smooth work on that first and then you can slowly start picking up the speed and then slowly start to enhance more power into your strikes all right part two of this drill let's go and take it off of that first thrust right here part two we're gonna go ahead and turn around we're gonna face the other way and we'll work a little bit of some counters in here so we're gonna turn and thrust and the reason we're thrusting there is to keep that opponent who is rushing we got to keep them at bay but at the same time if they continue rushing this allows us to measure and give us a better depth perception of range so that's why we're thrusting it out here hopefully it'll kind of slow them down keep them at bay and or more importantly now it gives us a good depth perception a good read on the range all right from here we're going to step forward smash them all the way down so once again from here turn around and thrust we're going to step forward and we're going to smash that down this does a couple of things number one this could be our follow-up attack but on the counter side of it we could be attacking our opponent's weapon to smash it down and get it offline from striking us one two one you can also step back with it if you need to so once we hit this thrust we follow through with that smash down we're gonna step off to the side and come up with a high umbrella protecting the head then we're going to kind of step back again you can there's different footwork variations you can do here but we'll kind of keep it in the line step back and smash their knee let's look at part two again rust behind smack it down umbrella strike the knee thrust behind smack it down umbrella smack the knee one two three four so four movements on part two let's go and just isolate this one at a few different angles let's go and do it twice together nice and slow turning around thrust step through smash step to the left get off the line with that umbrella and smash that knee alright let's do it again nice and slow together starting off on that thrust boom thrust behind step through smash it down get off the line to the left protect your head protect your hand and take out the knee all right let's go ahead and put part one part two together into one seamless drill all right let's go through the steps together nice and slow remember there's a total of 10 movements so if you only count to nine that means you missed something if you end up counting up to 11 that means you added something all right so let's go ahead and do it together step by step from here we have one two three four five six seven eight nine ten let's do that again same direction one two three four five six seven eight nine ten all right one more time one two three four five six seven eight nine ten all right once again to start off nice and slow don't focus on speed and power in the beginning first just learn the movements get the pattern down and then work on increasing your coordination you want to make sure your body is learning these motions and then learning how to transition from motion to motion so once you know the movements once you know the drill then the focus is to make it smooth so a lot of times when we do the count you'll notice how it's one two three four five six it's very choppy and kali see that's okay in the very beginning as you're learning the movements and you're learning the drill but then you want to focus on making it smooth so it's one two three four five six seven eight nine and ten and then you can turn it around and go again or you can do it in facing different directions so you can see how i'm taking the speed out i'm taking the power out there's no intensity and i'm just focusing on keeping the movement smoothly connected together right there and then from there when you have it smooth you want to gradually increase the speed by maintaining that fluidity that's how you keep your movements fluid this is going to help in the long run as we get into partner drills and free flows and sparrings it's going to help you see the flow and identify it but it's also going to help you to maintain this free ability to keep navigating between all of your different tactics and techniques alright guys this video is jam-packed we got the drill but there's a lot of very valuable training tips that are going to help you out that you can take those training tips that i just gave you in this in this lesson and you can apply that to all the other training that we've done here on the youtube channel and all the other training that we're going to be doing together in the future make sure to check out our sponsored area right here on 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