Tag: filipino martial arts

ON KNIFE STRESS DRAWS (and other weapons)…

Getting the weapon off of-from-out of your carry sites with your everyday clothing wear is important training. In this generic, free-from-formal art subject, in my four major hand, stick, knife, gun Survival Centric combatives courses doctrine, we really worry about…the quick draw. There are separate training module topics. Within each topic are different citizen, police and the military concerns-methods. The variations are simple. Know-follow the laws and rules of engagement. Crime is crime. War is war. Screw that up and be jailed, and-or sued, and-or dead.

THE TRUE HISTORY OF ARNIS DE MANO

There seems to be some confusion going around about Presas Arnis Family history, systems and in […]

SABER GRIP VERSUS REVERSE GRIP

“WHERE THE POINTY END STICKS OUT.“There is some, to, too-much time spent in the military, martial […]

BEFORE, DURING and AFTER

I am obsessed with the “Who, What, Where, When, How and Why” questions, the “Ws and […]

Simpler – Faster – Capable

While 2025 starts my 30th year anniversary of traveling and teaching, I have been toiling away […]

IN DEFENSE OF FMA STICK FOLLOW-UPS

If you are a FMA “stick versus-stick-fighter,” I think, about…ohhh…80%…85% (?) of the stick material typical […]

WHAT I WON’T DO, DON’T DO

Every competent person, every competent organization has or should have a refined “mission statement.” It’s where […]

FMA STICK versus STICK DISARMING

In the big picture of fast and furious, speedy, adrenalized stick fight, where does the single […]

RESPECTING THE HEAD SHOT IN STICK SPARRING

  Respect the Head Shot? Do you? Really? One of the conundrums in FMA stick sparring […]

Hock the Filipino Gringo of FMA

Okay folks. Bare with me. I have a few martial ranks through the years, (like a […]