By hand, foot, stick or blade... Who can stop Jun Dacayana? Part Two Maestro Guy Edward Larke
above only Eskrima, Arnis, kutsilyo punyal and saguidas still exist when it comes into training All the rest of the weapons have gone.
4. How important is the type of material in the weapons? Especially sticks. It is important to have the best one specifically in Eskrima wherein we are using the best quality of rattan or uway in order to be able survive even during training.
The duel has existed for centuries in a wide number of countries, from gladiators to gypsies to British gentlemen settling a matter of honour. Hollywood has taken the reality away from these lethal exchanges and led us to believe it can last for minutes at a time with a bizarre chance of survival for the protagonist. To make things worse some martial art schools teach defenses vs. attacks a teenager might come up with. This instills a sense of bravado which is sure to cost lives. On the other end of the spectrum there are a number of effective knifefighting systems and implements to suit one’s tastes and preferences. Sadly, however the “bad guys” are picking up on our tricks and are getting more dangerous. More than ever FAST and decisive techniques to control the knife fighter are needed. Last issue I introduced you to Grandmaster Jun Dacayana to you. It is my sincere hope that over the next few issues, that you will find his combat method to be unique and deserving its own place in the just the FMA community, but the martial arts world in general! This issue will cover the common and lesser-known weapons in his arsenal.
common in FMA? The question is very interesting. But in FMA specially here in my place Toledo City and Cebu City we are using a lot of weapons such as: * Sundang * Pinuti * Kutsilyo or Punyal * Guikay blade * Garotte or Olisi best known as Eskrima/Arnis * Gapasan or Indian Pana * Tirador * Saguidas commonly known as Pocket Stick
2. Why those particular weapons? That is actually depends the origin. Like for example in Cebu City so seldom to find someone who is using the tirador, sundang and gapasan or Indian pana but if you go to any part of the provinces Northern and Southern Province of Cebu the said weapon still exists.
3. Have any weapons disappeared from modern FMA?
5. What kinds of wood or rattan do you use? I am using both magkuno and rattan tumalin and palasan
6. What weapons do you teach? Which is taught first? I am teaching the following weapons: * Eskrima weapons * olisi kutsilyo * military combat knife fighting * saguidas pocket stick * sarong We teach based on the interest of the students. All they need to do is to find which of the lessons they want to learn. 7. What are the differences between the weapons? All weapons has its own beauty and its own effectiveness when used in actual combat, but for the benefits of having an idea about the differences.... it is safe to say that there are weapons where you can carry it with you anywhere you go while other weapons are not safe to bring it with you.
As far as I know in the Modern FMA 8. What is better vs multiple opponents 1. Historically what weapons were out of so many weapons mentioned and so on?
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