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Overview of the Filipino Martial Arts
The Filipino Martial Arts - FMA (also known as Kali, Eskrima or Arnis amongst other names) are a complete and sophisticated system – which is based on the use of weaponry, including swords, sticks, knives & flexible weapon and also contains effective empty hand training. This includes such skills as kicking, kneeing, punching, elbows, trapping, and grappling.
Students are taught single stick drills, double stick drills, and knife defense. Drills and techniques taught in a fluid, non-restrictive manner allow students to enhance their natural attributes and improve their sense of timing, speed, awareness, reactions, balance, agility and confidence.
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***Change To Training Nights***
Due to unforseen circumstances we have had to cancel training on Thursday nights.
We still train on
| Monday | :19.00-20.30
| Saturday | : 12.00-13.30 | |
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This focus on weaponry can lead people to think that Eskrima is a stick fighting art only. The FMA are equally based in weapon skills and empty hand skills The FMA teach the interrelationship between empty hand skills and weapons.
Therefore the FMA should be considered a complete martial arts system that develops many different types of skills for combat, not just simply a stick fighting art. The FMA cover all the fighting ranges, defending against armed and unarmed attacks with whatever is available. What are available may have traditionally been sticks, a sword or it could have been other types of weaponry or just the fighter's empty hand skills.
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