Saturday, 10 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)