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1. 12 angles of attack and thier defenses
2. Footwork when learning the 12 angles.
3. Double Stick Sinawallis and what they really do. For instance, Sinawalli double stick heaven. Can the student relate it to empty hand "brush-grab-strike.
4. Anyo's (Can you do it hard style, can you do it soft style) Can you do stick anyo 1, then show the same anyo double stick. Can you do stick Anyo 1 as a two-man form?
5. DeCuardes drill from the basic 12 angles as an intro to tapi-tapi.
6. Presas Family Lock flow. Flow, Flow, Flow in everything listed above.
After one year, the student should be able to see the relation of everything listed above as kinda all one in the same. In other words he should be able to make connections from and through all.
7. Flow drills. After one year, the student should be able to do flow drills
like the 6 and 10 count drills and then be able to step away from the flow drills and go to free flow Sumbrada. 6 and 10 count become useless once learned with the exception of breaking away into Tapi-Tapi tactical applicaion.
Chris A
8. Flow, flow, flow, flow
I think Sheldon, Frank, and Chris summed it all up nicely. Professor Presas always stressed basics to me privately, although he rarely taught absolute basics in a seminar setting. Working slowly, repetition, and more repetition were always in order. Often whe I had the chance to work privately, we would drill the same thing slowly, sitting down, often for hours.
My top 5 would be
1. Angles of attack (stick, empty hand, and knife) with footwork
2. Counters to 12 angles (Blocks, cuts, slices, evasive footwork)
3. Single sinawali and applications (stick or empty hand)
4. Basic Slap off drill (releases from block check counter )
5. Basic tapi tapi (block check counter with sweep strokes, releases and basic patterns)
In my opinionalmost everything else can be extracted from this basic material. The big however comes from a need to really practice and overpractice this material first