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twinkletoes
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Hi Guys,
I'm wondering how many people out there who practice Modern Arnis engage in any kind of free-grappling.
I haven't been around the Arnis block as long as some people (only about 12 years), so I don't know what too many others do. Certainly the style has a good amount of dumog and ju-jitsu techniques in it.
The reason the question comes up at this time is that some of the newer groundfighting techniques I'm seeing are a little less practical or realistic than others. I don't want to sound like I'm bashing any camp, but some of the techniques strike me as unrealistic. One of my contemporaries came back from a recent camp and showed me one that I found really unrealistic, and so I showed him how to tweak it and we got going on a good discussion of Arnis + groundwork.
Now, before I open this up, I realize a couple of things:
1) Arnis is not meant to be a groundfighting art, but it addresses it.
2) Arnis groundfighting is meant to be used after you have already hit, thrown, and disoriented your opponent.
3) Arnis groundfighting is based predominantly on Arnis standup locking.
Then again, I also realize:
4) Professor Presas was a (5th dan?) Judo practitioner.
My question is still "how many people engage in free grappling, either standing or on the ground, as part of their Arnis training?"
~TT
PS- I will introduce grappling w/ weapons as a separate topic at a later time. Right now I'm just talking about empty hand grappling.
I'm wondering how many people out there who practice Modern Arnis engage in any kind of free-grappling.
I haven't been around the Arnis block as long as some people (only about 12 years), so I don't know what too many others do. Certainly the style has a good amount of dumog and ju-jitsu techniques in it.
The reason the question comes up at this time is that some of the newer groundfighting techniques I'm seeing are a little less practical or realistic than others. I don't want to sound like I'm bashing any camp, but some of the techniques strike me as unrealistic. One of my contemporaries came back from a recent camp and showed me one that I found really unrealistic, and so I showed him how to tweak it and we got going on a good discussion of Arnis + groundwork.
Now, before I open this up, I realize a couple of things:
1) Arnis is not meant to be a groundfighting art, but it addresses it.
2) Arnis groundfighting is meant to be used after you have already hit, thrown, and disoriented your opponent.
3) Arnis groundfighting is based predominantly on Arnis standup locking.
Then again, I also realize:
4) Professor Presas was a (5th dan?) Judo practitioner.
My question is still "how many people engage in free grappling, either standing or on the ground, as part of their Arnis training?"
~TT
PS- I will introduce grappling w/ weapons as a separate topic at a later time. Right now I'm just talking about empty hand grappling.