Ok, so I first learned a six count siniwalli double sticks. I pretty much was taught single sticks first, all the deflections, all the angles, etc. Actually I can say that within the first two weeks I started, I saw some empty hand, double, single, pocket stick, and I can't remember...but it was at least that. Emphasis was on the single stick though. And espada y daga. Funny, the espada y daga is what influenced my single stick work. So much to the point that my instructor told me I was doing it too much. Well, I'm hard headed, and he originally said that the live hand was very very important, so being one that does things to the extreme, I figured you can't over-develop it, right. Anyway, its not a bio...so. Double sticks have come and gone, we place focus on it for a little while, then we go back to something else. I think the whole time single stick has always been the emphasis, but there is always a secondary that we studied with it at the time. The progression I like or think to be good, a little later down in the post...if we keep it alive.
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The grappling arts imply most fights end up on the ground. The striking arts imply all fights start standing up. The clinching arts imply the clinch can stop the striker from striking, and the grappler from taking it to the ground. The weapon arts imply the they can stop the unarmed man. A complete martial art implies any fight can go anywhere...be ready and able to go everywhere.
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