psilent child
Orange Belt
I'm looking for some good escrima stick videos. I have YouTube some videos. I'm just wondering what do you guys recommend.
Are there any good escrima stick drill videos?
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Charlemagne
Black Belt
There are quite a few depending on your system of study. Check out GoldStar video and see if there isn't something of interest: Goldstar Video - Rent the Best Martial Arts training DVDs online | MMA | Kung Fu | JKD | Pistol | Knife | Karate
The problem is that most of the videos are just that, drills. They don't teach the combative application of those drills and serve only to build one's ability to do those movements. Building attributes is important, but that implies that there is some ability to transfer those skills to something more applied. Unfortunately, that is often not the case. Until I started studying PTK with the organization I am with now, I never once saw the application of things like sinawali, even though I had done countless sinawali drills in the different FMA styles I had studied.
The problem is that most of the videos are just that, drills. They don't teach the combative application of those drills and serve only to build one's ability to do those movements. Building attributes is important, but that implies that there is some ability to transfer those skills to something more applied. Unfortunately, that is often not the case. Until I started studying PTK with the organization I am with now, I never once saw the application of things like sinawali, even though I had done countless sinawali drills in the different FMA styles I had studied.
Justin Chang
Orange Belt
look up Doug Marcaida, his videos are great.
psilent child
Orange Belt
I looked at Doug Marcaida videos. I can't see paying $90 then paying for each video.
Juany118
Senior Master
Yeah I think that's a little odd as well, unless the streaming is silly cheap.
Justin Chang
Orange Belt
You can find a lot of free ones on Youtube.
Juany118
Senior Master
The thing is though those videos tend to be high speed demonstrations, though often with good commentary. I certainly find some of them useful but I am using the commentary to augment my formal training, I wouldn't suggest using those videos as "full on" training videos.
Charlemagne
Black Belt
There are a bunch of options out there, as noted by myself and others. What virtually none of those options are going to provide is a proper understanding of what those drills are meant to impart, beyond attributes, in terms of method of attack/counter-attack, or how to use them tactically. Even in live training, there are many teachers who look great in drills but don't ever teach the application of those drills, perhaps because they don't know it, or perhaps because they are holding back. Attribute training is important, but for most attribute training in FMA there is a direct application as well.
psilent child
Orange Belt
I'm currently studying Kajukenbo. There is weapon defense training and weapon disarming, but nothing to teaching you how to properly use the weapon once you took it from your attacker. I want to learn some basic stuff until I can afford to take Kali.
Charlemagne
Black Belt
Work on basic angles 1 and 2 and applying them with varying types of footwork. Those two simple strikes will take you a long way if you can perform them properly while moving and controlling range.
Duppiebrown
White Belt
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KenpoMaster805
2nd Black Belt
Go to youtube and go to dan insosanto his good in FMa you will learn kali its eskrima
He is worth exactly what you pay for.
KangTsai
2nd Black Belt
Savage.
psilent child
Orange Belt
You don't like Wympyr videos?
No art can be learned without a partner. Wympr is his many many videos can't even manage to get a partner in there to show you what he is actually doing. He is literally just showing you how to swing a stick or stab with a knife, but he is doing it as simply patterns in the air. So you can copy a sinawalli pattern, how do you apply it? You will never know watching those videos.
Oh, and to throw out another series that actually shows application, try Battlefield Kali by Burton Richardson.
Ok, I take it back he actually did find a partner to explain a sinawalli pattern.....
And he does say that the application is different than the drill, but do you find his explanation useful? I find it far less than useful, when I teach sinawalli I teach the application of each pattern, what you are attacking and what advantage you are seeking, not just "go out and do it" but functional techniques to let you hit your opponent without getting hit (hopefully).
And he does say that the application is different than the drill, but do you find his explanation useful? I find it far less than useful, when I teach sinawalli I teach the application of each pattern, what you are attacking and what advantage you are seeking, not just "go out and do it" but functional techniques to let you hit your opponent without getting hit (hopefully).
