Texas Kali Mastery Camp

[Crucible]

danjuandesiga,
Can you describe the malayu sibat and dumog/pangamut material you covered?

[danjuandesiga]

Sibat...

My experience with the Malayu SIbat was with a heavy 1-1 & a half inch thick, 4 foot long rattan pole held with both hands at one end, with both hands set apart on the pole one to one and a half-fist-length. It was my 1st experience in learning a 2-handed weapon and it was fun to learn also. Much footwork was applied in practicing the strikes from certain reference points from high, shoulder, side, to down.

Since I was working with a relatively heavy stick, I developed more of the appreciation of body mechanics when it came to laying down some seriously heavy blows as I have learned through learning the sibat.

The sibat portion of the camp was taught on the first and 3rd day as part of the morning exercise, and with all the shouting we did in each attack we raised up some serious energy to start our day. We were "pumped" up.
And more than ready for breakfast-hehe..

Dan

[danjuandesiga]

Dumog / Pangamut

The Empty hands portion focused much on the "commonality of movement" as stemmed from the knife tapping drills and other blade techniques.
Much of the use of footwork, most especially the side step in conjunction to open handed strikes to the neck, waist/kidney, and head area were applied. Open palmed-cupped or flat-handed, with some finger jabs were basically the hand tools of the striking portion...

In the Dumog stuff we learned examples of tying up, and locking the arms, to arm-drag like maneuvers in manipulating the body, close quarters, and standing up.

Dan