Hello everybody,
I've been continuing my research on the Filipino Martial art trying to learn everything about it that there is before my training but there's a few things that boggle me about it. My main reason behind starting kali is for the "Self defense" and some other reasons but mainly for the self defense aspect of it.
Now, from what I've learned is that Kali has a "Stick" fighting art & a "Self defense" form. The thing that confuses me is that Im trying to figure out what the differences are and why some ppl claim it as an amazing, practical form of self defense and others say its just stick fighting.. The "Self defense" form where you have the Empty hand, knife/any other object you can pick up from daily use and use it with some techniques learned from the training is the part im trying to find out about. The actual stick fighting aspect of the art is primarily used in tournaments and less so for self defense. Thats how Im seing it
Now, the training methods used in the Self defense portion consist of the flow drills and other drills used with the sticks correct? I know that the sticks are used for training hand/eye cordination.
In otherwords Im trying to find out if Kali has 2 sides to its training. 1 for tournaments(not as much self defense) and 1 FOR self defense training(real world fights). The one im looking for is more so of the real world self defense and I think I've said it in my posts prior to this one but Im trying to clarify the differences between "stick fighting" kali, and self defense kali. Reason Im posting this is because anytime I talk to someone about Kali they always say, "Oh its just stick fighting" when in reality Kali is a deadly form of self defense as well thats not just based off sticks but everyday items that you come across that can be turned into a weapon with the use of kali techniques.
I've been continuing my research on the Filipino Martial art trying to learn everything about it that there is before my training but there's a few things that boggle me about it. My main reason behind starting kali is for the "Self defense" and some other reasons but mainly for the self defense aspect of it.
Now, from what I've learned is that Kali has a "Stick" fighting art & a "Self defense" form. The thing that confuses me is that Im trying to figure out what the differences are and why some ppl claim it as an amazing, practical form of self defense and others say its just stick fighting.. The "Self defense" form where you have the Empty hand, knife/any other object you can pick up from daily use and use it with some techniques learned from the training is the part im trying to find out about. The actual stick fighting aspect of the art is primarily used in tournaments and less so for self defense. Thats how Im seing it
Now, the training methods used in the Self defense portion consist of the flow drills and other drills used with the sticks correct? I know that the sticks are used for training hand/eye cordination.
In otherwords Im trying to find out if Kali has 2 sides to its training. 1 for tournaments(not as much self defense) and 1 FOR self defense training(real world fights). The one im looking for is more so of the real world self defense and I think I've said it in my posts prior to this one but Im trying to clarify the differences between "stick fighting" kali, and self defense kali. Reason Im posting this is because anytime I talk to someone about Kali they always say, "Oh its just stick fighting" when in reality Kali is a deadly form of self defense as well thats not just based off sticks but everyday items that you come across that can be turned into a weapon with the use of kali techniques.