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Stick and Knife fighting opinions

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  • #2
    spiral
    Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭spiral


    when I trained in LA a friend of mine at the gym a Filipino also a purple belt in BJJ took part . I think he was featured on a national geographic documentary on the Dog Brothers.
    He did Escrima when he was younger in the Phillipines.
    But he said basically the Dog Brothers gathering was a good way to test himself and he enjoyed it. Basically hit the other guy as hard as you can until you get to clinch range and then take him down and hit him or choke him out.
    Most of the senior guys train BJJ and/or Muay Thai/Krabi Krabong as well or so I was told.


  • #3
    Scramble
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    That's actually a surprisingly good article, very fair.

    Most of the Dog Brothers do have backgrounds in MMA, BJJ, Thai etc. or at least those are the base for much of the unnarmed stuff because the original instructors came from Dan Inosanto's group and he was bringing in the Machados and Thai coaches back in the day. The approach they take to stick and knife material seems sensible to me because they retain the same effective training principles i.e it's 'alive' in the Matt Thornton sense of the word.

    Describing one of their gatherings as "MMA with weapons and minimal protective gear" is dumbing it down a bit (to be fair, there is still supposed to be a heavy classical FMA and Krabi Krabong influence) but it's basically accurate as far as I can see.


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