thekuntawman
Purple Belt
to many arnisadors ignore the most basic important part of stick fighting, which is stroking practice. they love to collect fancy ways to counter the opponents numbers, and ways to take the stick and patterns of stick to stick drills, but at the foundation of his skill, he is a first grader.
years of practice and numbers of people you teach wont help you even, because to the trained eye you are still a beginner.
for your skill to yell out to the watchers that you are an expert, you need strong basic skill. you cannot get that by knowing a lot of technqiues. you can only get it by performing hundreds of strikes, with power, at a hard target, at a moving target, and against a target thats attacking you too, for years. there is a saying, that, your stick will do your talking. means, if you know what your doing, your stick talks for you. if you dont know what your doing, you need lots of students and a strong skill at running your mouth to get your credibilty.
so how can you do stroking practice? the most effective way, is to take your numerado, 1-6, 1-12, 1-24, 1-64, whatever it is , and do them 100 times each workout. in one month, if you dont see an improvement, email me, maybe you need a new teacher.
stroking practice develops smart hands, which means hands that do what you need them to do when you need them to do it (or moving without thinking). it makes a strong grips, it gives you power where you dont need to pull back your stick before you strike. it give you speed. and automatic counter to stripping techniques. stroking sends the power through your stick into your opponents block where he realizes you are not just a average man. you blocks hurts his hands when he strikes, and your strikes hurt his hand when he blocks.
and guess what? very few arnisador have this kind of skill today, because you can be a beginner today, a master in five years, and you have only seen your teacher 30 times. if you spent five years doing stroking practice, then maybe some of these people would be more believable as a self made "master/professor".
this is what i mean by "your stick does the talking"
years of practice and numbers of people you teach wont help you even, because to the trained eye you are still a beginner.
for your skill to yell out to the watchers that you are an expert, you need strong basic skill. you cannot get that by knowing a lot of technqiues. you can only get it by performing hundreds of strikes, with power, at a hard target, at a moving target, and against a target thats attacking you too, for years. there is a saying, that, your stick will do your talking. means, if you know what your doing, your stick talks for you. if you dont know what your doing, you need lots of students and a strong skill at running your mouth to get your credibilty.
so how can you do stroking practice? the most effective way, is to take your numerado, 1-6, 1-12, 1-24, 1-64, whatever it is , and do them 100 times each workout. in one month, if you dont see an improvement, email me, maybe you need a new teacher.
stroking practice develops smart hands, which means hands that do what you need them to do when you need them to do it (or moving without thinking). it makes a strong grips, it gives you power where you dont need to pull back your stick before you strike. it give you speed. and automatic counter to stripping techniques. stroking sends the power through your stick into your opponents block where he realizes you are not just a average man. you blocks hurts his hands when he strikes, and your strikes hurt his hand when he blocks.
and guess what? very few arnisador have this kind of skill today, because you can be a beginner today, a master in five years, and you have only seen your teacher 30 times. if you spent five years doing stroking practice, then maybe some of these people would be more believable as a self made "master/professor".
this is what i mean by "your stick does the talking"
