Stick Fighting Sport

Filipino Martial is, easily and decisively, one of the best ways to develop practical and effective martial skills and self-defense techniques. I've been able to successfully teach the art in Elementary Schools, Sports Centers and gyms throughout our Province and City – and taught foreign students, thanks to Filipino Martial Arts.

Here's why Filipino martial arts is so powerful: because it's so practical in our everyday lives, and will continue to be in the future since the stick is not considered an illegal weapon and it is only the extension the arms.

Not a day goes by where you, or someone around you, can’t apply what you’ve learned because you can always bring a stick or secondary weapon with you and your bare hands can be just as effective. As a Filipino Martial Artist, this is a powerful concept.

Unfortunately, many people fail to see the real value of Filipino Martial Arts

For some people, training on Filipino Martial Arts takes is challenging and a bit scary. Since these people only see the scary side of the training, Filipino Martial Arts is often ignored.

Here’s the good news: this failure aspiring Arnisadors is an opportunity for you. People today will gladly invest in Filipino Martial Arts as an effective self defense system, especially Balintawak Eskrima.

I will just mention a few uniqueness of Balintawak compared to other styles, namely:

1. Simple, practical and effective. It uses only one stock and treats it as a mere extension of the arms. With or without it you can still effectively defend yourself.

2. Stemless blocks and strikes. Its strikes and blocks are delivered from where the weapon is positioned. Its movements are non-telegraphic. Hence, its strikes are fast and better focused.

3. Human-friendly movements. Its footwork, postures, and movement are natural, akin to Western boxing. It is adapt to short and shallow footwork. Thus, it creates flexibility and dexterity in the ex*****on of offensive, defensive and counter-offensive maneuvers.

4. The economy of movement to express the optimum. This is express in all aspect of its movements.

5. Specializes in close-range combat. This is the most difficult combat range to master. Here, all human weapons are employed – anything goes.

6. One of a kind teaching the system. The agak process of coaching is highly personalized – a mentoring approach. No structured form or choreographed moves as you proceed into the advanced levels.

Our Start Here Page will help your get started with Eskrima Training.

As long as you get started (which I'll show you how to do step by step), you can create the momentum you need in your training and learn many things.

Here are some of the many things I'll cover for you in Stick Fighting Sport that trains on how to master the Basic Level of Balintawak Eskrima:

As to our training program, we have eight levels of proficiency, which are grouped into basic, intermediate and advance. Level 8 qualifies you to become an instructor.

Basic Level

In the basic level, we start instilling the martial value system, the practice of basic techniques with emphasis or proper technical ex*****on on from, footwork, speed, and power - to feel and enjoy the process. Here is where we start to nurture the good habits and attitude in our students.

Intermediate Level

At the intermediate level, the student is trained on more complicated techniques. To better facilitate the learning process, we introduce agak – guiding and controlling at this level.

A student would learn to defend better if he is taught how to agak at an early state, at the start of the intermediate level. Otherwise, the student has to endure the grueling attacks of his instructor. When a student knows how to agak he becomes a better defender.

Group techniques and the applications – counter to counter and re-counter, disarming techniques are part of the curriculum at the intermediate level, among others. Most of the techniques are performed in corridas drill fashion.

Advanced Level

The advance level is where re-counter to re-counter techniques are applied in combative freestyle sparring fashion Corridas interactions are upgraded into controlled sparring starting with close-in sparring, constantly in contact with your sparring partner and gradually the distance widen to the medium and long range.

Locking, throwing, takedowns, kicking and other techniques are taught and practice at this level. Defense against bladed, pointed and other weapons of attack are also taught here. The advance students are required to develop 24 original techniques that would pass the scrutiny of the evaluation panel.

Our students undergo proficiency evaluation at the end of each of the eight levels. The evaluation covers two aspects, namely: Knowledge, and Skill.

Eskrima 101 provides a comprehensive guide on the basics of Eskrima.

All of these lessons essentially give you practical, immediately-usable skills at an affordable price.

SPORTS ARNIS TRAINING

If you're interested in Sports Anris, we also have a program for Sports Arnis.

The training workshop will cover the following Eskrima courses:

#1. Doble or Darwa- Baston Maneuvers. In this course, practitioners shall learn different forms of Doble-Baston strikings and defensive movements as applied to sports and self-defense.

#2. Solo-Baston Maneuvers. This course includes the different forms of striking using a single. Practicing the different kinds of classical strikes, striking figures, and learning their application to self-defense techniques.

#3. Learning how to make creative Anyo in Solo-Baston, Doble-Baston, Espada y Daga for sport competition.

#4. Preparing athletes for competition both in Labanan and Anyo in Arnis sport events.

#5. Learning the rules in Arnis competition as approved by WEKAF (World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation)

TRAINING CAMPS AND SEMINARS

To those who want personal, hands-on training, you can join our training camps and seminars. At the ends of each training camps and seminars, you'll be given an Eskrima Certification.

You'll be able to show off this certification to your peers, use it to increase authority should you decide to teach the art to other people someday, and identify yourself as someone who's learned from one of the world's experts on Eskrima.

BONUS INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR THE EARLY BIRDS

Bonus instructional videos on:

· More Eskrima combat techniques and;

· Sports Arnis techniques

These techniques aren’t covered in the standard curriculum which makes them special and will be provided to early birds.

These bonus materials benefit the people who take action first. The reason why is because the sooner you go through this program, the more you'll have preferred treatment on the page.

Stay Strong, Louis Lim

Instructor, APO-Balintawak Eskrima

2nd Dan Black Belt, Double Hands Eskrima,