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Martial Arts Topics / Re: Euro Martial Arts
« on: May 13, 2007, 12:57:00 PM »
Hi there!
I'm from Latvia, so my English not so good, but I'll try to tell about one European MA.
In small group of enthusiasts we practice Spanish knife techniques and a kind of 'dirty' boxing.
Out site is www.navaja.lv, but all content in Russian, so you can only to see some videos... Ghm.. I think, better to put them on youtube
This 'Spanish knife' comes from Czech, where our instructor was living for few years. It's hard to say how much these techniques are really Spanish, but they differs from Filipino techniques as much as I have seen.
Main techniques are 7 stubs and 7 cuts. There is a lot of counter-techniques which comes from rapier fencing, and now looking very strange, but some of them can be adopt to modern weapon like lightweight folding knives. Also we do a lot of boxing exercises, especially for footwork.
There is two counter techniques
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FKXg3b3LT
And there me and my colleague doing base exercise called 'windmill'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmgS5y9x8Yk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZJDrq2fMnc
Also we do sparrings with rubber or wood knives, and sometimes with Spyderco steel training knives. For protection we use ice-hockey visors like this one http://www.hockeydogs.com/images%5Cproducts%5Cbauerfm10cle.jpg
I'm from Latvia, so my English not so good, but I'll try to tell about one European MA.
In small group of enthusiasts we practice Spanish knife techniques and a kind of 'dirty' boxing.
Out site is www.navaja.lv, but all content in Russian, so you can only to see some videos... Ghm.. I think, better to put them on youtube
This 'Spanish knife' comes from Czech, where our instructor was living for few years. It's hard to say how much these techniques are really Spanish, but they differs from Filipino techniques as much as I have seen.
Main techniques are 7 stubs and 7 cuts. There is a lot of counter-techniques which comes from rapier fencing, and now looking very strange, but some of them can be adopt to modern weapon like lightweight folding knives. Also we do a lot of boxing exercises, especially for footwork.
There is two counter techniques
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FKXg3b3LT
And there me and my colleague doing base exercise called 'windmill'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmgS5y9x8Yk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZJDrq2fMnc
Also we do sparrings with rubber or wood knives, and sometimes with Spyderco steel training knives. For protection we use ice-hockey visors like this one http://www.hockeydogs.com/images%5Cproducts%5Cbauerfm10cle.jpg