Learning to workout with a stick is two fold. It’s really a lot of fun and it’s something very practical to learn for self-defense. The stick seems like a toy when you are playing around with it but when you need to use the business side of this toy it is a very lethal weapon. You can be practice with it by yourself, with a partner or on a piece of equipment like: a stack of old tires, a wooden pole, a body bag, or just about anything you don’t mind hitting with it.
You can even substitute foam rubber sticks in place of the rattan to reduce the damage to your equipment or partner too!
Practicing with a stick is relatively safe, because you don’t even have to hit any part of the body to become proficient at wielding it. Most of the partner training is done stick-on-stick to develop coordination or, on equipment to develop power. Once you start fiddling with rattan stick training it becomes an addiction. There are so many endless ways to play with the rattan stick and swing it that it is hard to stop experimenting. It’s one of the best ways I have found to purely enjoy the use of your functional martial arts ability. Any object you can swing relates to stick wielding like: a wiffle ball bat, a rolled newspaper, a beer bottle, a knife, a baseball bat, a leather belt, or just about anything you can hold and swing.
Stick Fighters
The Philippines are where Kali, one of the most sophisticated open hand and weaponry styles of fighting in the world originated. The Stick or club and sword or dagger styles perfected are only the tip of the iceberg though when it comes to Kali. There are just as many open hand systems that are just as impressive too. The older Filipino tribes invented many different styles of stick fighting and each style is a derivative of either Kali, Escrima or Arnis. They made open-hand and
stick fighting into real combat art. One hundred or more styles emerged from this south pacific island chain and continue to flourish there and here in the U.S. today.
This gear is specially selected for those interested in fighting stick workouts. Hand carved eskrima stick, foam eskrima, white wax wood eskrima and eskrima case.
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