Friday 16 October 2009

Stick fighting

This involves the skills built in the stick drills from Kali, Eskrima, Silat, and Krabi Krabong.

Like Kendo, we spar in armour.

Strikes are made to:

men - helmet
Do - body, though we also include the arms in stick
kote - wrists

Sune - we also strike to shins and knee - this is not done in standard kendo sparring, but it is done with naginata

We then remove the body armour.

We then remove the gloves

We then spar with just a fencing mask to protect the teeth and eyes (and nose for those of you who haven't had a break yet)

We also spar nunchaku - with the foam chucks, though in armour we can use rattan chux.