Sinawali Drills #2

Some basic double stick drills from Filipino kali/escrima/silat and some empty-handed applications.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The term "Sinawali" refers to the activity of weaving, and is applied to the art of Philippine martial art Eskrima with reference to a set of two-person, two-weapon exercises.

Sinawali exercise provides Eskrima practitioners with basic skills and motions relevant to a mode of two-weapon blocking and response method called Doblete. Sinawali training is often introduced to novices in order to develop certain fundamental skills including: body positioning and distance relative to an opponent, rotation of the body and the proper turning radius, recognition of ones center of gravity, eye-hand coordination, target perception and recognition, increased ambidexterity, recognition and performance of rhythmic structures for upper body movement, and muscular developments important to the art, especially, the wrist and forearm regions.

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