Dan Anderson said:...Actually there is a pretty decent gap between the WMAA curriculum (from what I have seen of it) and MA-80. The first thing I can bring up is the different sections of WMAA curriculum such as the "Kali" section and so forth...
First of all I am not offering this as criticism. Tempers tend to flare in discussions of this matter, but truly my interest is purely academic and not meant to spark a debate about the term "kali" and its validity as a general term. That argument has been done in and outside of this forum ad nauseum. I am not a proponent of the term "kali" but neither am I a detractor. I am simply curious as to why "kali" would be used within the curriculum of modern arnis at all.
I looked at the website (www.wmarnis.com) and it appears that the "kali" sections refer to matters involving the manipulation of the stick. Is that the differentiation? Internally to WMAA instruction, are the students led to believe that "kali" refers to stick manipulation specifically? Is the WMAA the only group to use "kali" in such a manner in their curriculum? Was "kali" a term commonly used by Remy Presas to refer to "stickwork"?