Videos

Our training methodology:  Basics – Drills – Sparring

On Wednesday nights we practice stick- and knife-fighting. Here are some clips of us sparring with safety equipment.

Sparring & takedown drills from our Tues/Thurs Stand-Up Fighting classes.

This is a more complex dual-stick Escrima pattern that we practice.

For a post Thanksgiving Day calorie burner here’s a time-based workout just under 1 hour that has cues to follow so you don’t have to look at your stopwatch.  The workout starts at 4:55. (Check out the “about” section on Youtube for the menu of exercises)

For our 15 min warm-ups we drilled a floor bag workout.  Here’s a visual sample.

In this Escrima class, we began with 4 different finishing moves that are all accessible from the reference point of the clinch.

An assortment of clips from training sessions at UMA.

Three-person group.  Roles:   Striker, Thai pad holder, Grappler. Each person takes a turn being the striker: punches 30 sec, grapples 30 sec,  skip knees 30 sec, grapples 30 sec, Thai kick (twice each leg) 30 sec, grapples 30 sec. Finale: 10 push-ups. Roles rotate:  The striker becomes the pad holder, the Thai pad holder becomes […]

Stick sparring clips from our Wednesday night weapons class.