chris arena
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Guys:
We would like to expand our Modern Arnis DeCuerdas and Visidario skills beyond the Modern Arnis that was left to us by the Professor. We feel that if he lived longer, he would have brought his students further into these skill levels and would have one day created a system that would have come closer to the Balintawak system. Judging by some of his final videos, one could almost see it coming.
I have been told by some that Modern Arnis was advanced from Balintawak as the Professor created much of his Tapi-Tapi to counter some of his past Balintawak sparring partners back when he was a student. However, in retrospect, I do not believe that this statement is at all true. In fact, it is my opinion that to really know Tapi-Tapi as the Professor developed it that a student must have the skills of a Balintawak player first, in order to have the speed and timing to even attempt to pull off the techniqes. From what I see from most Modern Arnis groups, (including mine) is that most of us cannot play at that skill level. In short, we do not want to stagnete. We need to find a more aggressive play for our better students, but still train safely. (No, we do not want to start the so called full contact pillow fight). We want to stay with just head protection and a stick glove only. With the emphasis on control.
At present, we have about 6 students that can play very fast freeflow sumbrada give and take. Some are even playing pretty energetic double stick Subrada as well. But once the stick or hand is grabbed, it stops bieng Sumbrada and is now starting to become a fight.
In order to improve our skills in this area, we are spending a lot of time researching the Balintawak videos on the net and starting to expand our decuerdas and visidario techniques from balintawak in order to get a bit more combative. In short, we are teaching ourselves.
This U-tube video is a few months old and it shows about where most of our students skills levels were at a few months ago. We want to get better! In fact, one of our students is also competing in local MMA cage fights
Does anyone out there have or recommend some decent video on the subject that shows the basics of the Balintwak drills? We would really appreciate the help.
Chris Arena
[email protected]
We would like to expand our Modern Arnis DeCuerdas and Visidario skills beyond the Modern Arnis that was left to us by the Professor. We feel that if he lived longer, he would have brought his students further into these skill levels and would have one day created a system that would have come closer to the Balintawak system. Judging by some of his final videos, one could almost see it coming.
I have been told by some that Modern Arnis was advanced from Balintawak as the Professor created much of his Tapi-Tapi to counter some of his past Balintawak sparring partners back when he was a student. However, in retrospect, I do not believe that this statement is at all true. In fact, it is my opinion that to really know Tapi-Tapi as the Professor developed it that a student must have the skills of a Balintawak player first, in order to have the speed and timing to even attempt to pull off the techniqes. From what I see from most Modern Arnis groups, (including mine) is that most of us cannot play at that skill level. In short, we do not want to stagnete. We need to find a more aggressive play for our better students, but still train safely. (No, we do not want to start the so called full contact pillow fight). We want to stay with just head protection and a stick glove only. With the emphasis on control.
At present, we have about 6 students that can play very fast freeflow sumbrada give and take. Some are even playing pretty energetic double stick Subrada as well. But once the stick or hand is grabbed, it stops bieng Sumbrada and is now starting to become a fight.
In order to improve our skills in this area, we are spending a lot of time researching the Balintawak videos on the net and starting to expand our decuerdas and visidario techniques from balintawak in order to get a bit more combative. In short, we are teaching ourselves.
This U-tube video is a few months old and it shows about where most of our students skills levels were at a few months ago. We want to get better! In fact, one of our students is also competing in local MMA cage fights
Does anyone out there have or recommend some decent video on the subject that shows the basics of the Balintwak drills? We would really appreciate the help.
Chris Arena
[email protected]
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