Taking Matters into Your Own Hands! GM Jun Dacayana - Part 3 By Master Guy Edward Larke
people that doesn’t have enough time to spend years of training that is why have created a program intended for those who wants to learn through by individual program or lesson. 3. Are there Kata as are found in Japanese, Chinese and Korean arts? Answer:
Like it or not, violence permeates modern society. To be a fair it has always been part of the human condition. For whatever reason some always feel they are entitled to invade others’ personal space or individual freedoms. Analyzing it is really quite pointless. The best we can do is prepare ourselves to defend ourselves and our loved ones. If one thinks about it, the very earliest martial arts were just that, disciplines or skills to go to battle with.
employ a vast and intricate array of weapons, he knows at the day if can’t fight without them you will fail!
There’s no KATA per say in the unarmed combat portion! Only short form and drills to make it simple and easy to learn since this is only a short-term course good for 15 days rigid training.
4. Do you teach open hand vs weapon 1. How important is unarmed combat attacks? in Fma? In your system?
Answer: Basically, in the real world, unarmed combat is very important as this served as the real weapon in times of danger. In Dacayana Eskrima Indigenous Cebuano martial culture the so-called unarmed combat is Times have changed, but the considered being the most useful criminal element remains. However skills before any weapons because we now they are more savvy, ruthless always came empty handed wherever and unempathetic than we want to we go. believe. Modern sensibilities tell us we need to have dialogues and to 2. Is it learned before or after basic turn the other cheek. Those are truly weapon training? beautiful and noble sentiments, but they are lost on the ones you need to Answer: be fearful of. This Unarmed Combat called If you can’t, avoid the situation, and Sumbagay Pangamot can be learned you don’t have a weapon, you need depending on the interest of certain to be proficient with your hands individual who wishes to learn as we and feet. As Bruce Lee said in an offered through by curriculum or by interview, “Now if you talk about subject. Though we still have offered fighting… real fighting… then baby, the traditional procedure such as in you better use every part of your order to learn the unarmed combat body!” one has to learn first the weapon Grandmaster Jun Dacayana knows but based on my own studies and this all too well. Although his systems research now adays there are lots of
Answer: Combat Judo is more on dealing with weapon against an unexperienced attacker armed with any bladed weapon as I strongly believed that no martial artist that will use weapons against un-experienced attackers. 5. What are the most basic concepts one needs to know when they go into a real-life and death situation bare-
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