Visayan Style Corto-Kadena Eskrima: Knife flow KarambitKnives,com

Guro Jay Jasper Pugao and Guro Greg Manalo flowing with the knife training range, timing, evasion, set ups and lunges within the ‘Pendulum’

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The VSCK style of Filipino Martial Arts knife training demonstrated here by instructors Greg Manalo and Jay Jasper Pugao showcases the “2nd Flow”, of the one of the ‘three’ ranges of flow within the pendulum. In the 2nd flow, the ‘players’ are within range easily accessing the ‘2nd points’ which are the knees and elbows, whereas the ‘1st flow’ where the fighters/players are in a further range accessing only the ‘tips’ or the wrist and hands as well as the feet. There is then the ‘3rd flow’ where the range is closest, here the players can easily reach the ‘third points’ like the shoulders/head and hips/body area as bigger targets.

The fighters/players A and B are here ‘giving and receiving’, free-styling the 17 strikes, shadowing and guiding away slices, pokes, and cuts trying to evade cleanly with no contact (in a more realistic knife fight usually all it take is one cut/slice/poke to take advantage of the opponent unless their under some substance). The artist fighter/ player A then sets up fighter/ player B to look for openings for him/herself while proactively ‘opening up his defense’ to lure in player B to commit so player A can then react, evade, and then attack with a strike/slice/poke to disable player B.

We hope this video can be helpful for your flow and pendulum in practice and in theory.

Maraming Salamat po.

PS. Please respect the knife and don’t train or show any knife training or drills to people that are mentally incapable, immature, or are grounded with arrogance or ignorance. Thank you again.

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