-Attack the Attack
-Be outside of the "power colum"
-Use our Height Advantage, usually coupled with broken posture in our Attacker
-Two hands on one limb, leads us leverage, but gives your Attacker a free hand, so remain outside the power colum
-Break Attacker posture, leads to height advantage
-Dominating the Centerline, focuses Attacker to swing wide, making it easier to parry. Also allows for strikes to travel shorter distance
-Changing lines (high/low)
-Relaxation, leads to speed.
-Maintaing Contact, disurpts Attacker movement, engages touch as a sense of movement (relaxation relates to this, allows you to move with your Attacker).
-Elbows and Knees can be used as hands
-Have a tool, in our case our FMA training uses ONLY BLADE and Empty Hand work as a translation for the stick/cane or improvised weapons.
-Train in a realistic fashion with full contact.
Many students and instructors have studied with Professor Remy Presas. He is known as "The man with the sticks" or "The man with the FLOW". The professor's chief students traveled and taught MODERN ARNIS: the art of Empty hand and the stick. Most people are unaware that Modern Arnis is the art of the blade. Modern Arnis was originally taught as an art that used the BOLO sword not the stick, but over the years Modern Arnis has become known as the stick art. If you a current student of Modern Arnis this is the part that the Professor rarely displayed: The art of the BLADE.
Here is your chance to enrich your Modern Arnis base by adding into it the soul of steel.
This is the time to experience
The Modern Arnis knife!
