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It's great.
It's got good coordination drills. Especially double stick drills.
Especially for kids. It brings in right hand, left hand hemispheres of the brain.
If I'm right handed
and my left hand has got to duplicate what I'm doing with my right hand.
My dexterity of motion becomes better.
I have done a lot of
weapon orientated kali in the beginning and then slowly evolved
into the Panankuten type of stuff.
Some of the Panantuken stuff I pick up purely off DVDs.
But because I was taught all of the gunting and that early
and all of the foot trapping by people like Kelly.
When I look at a DVD, there's normally not very much that they are doing
that I haven't already done.
But it might be the way that they are presenting it or what application of the technique that's different.
So sometimes I look at someone applying something a certain way.
I've got Dan Sullivan's DVDs. And he does a lot of his stuff on focus pad.
I love that concept. Where I was doing it with mini gloves on.
So,
it sort of evolves all of the time.
The way I look at the Filipino Arts is probably a lot different to the way a lot of
people look at it because
the influence that Kelly Worden had on me.
He's concept is, you can pick up staff and do this motion with a staff. You can do it with a
stick. You can do it with an elbow. You can do it with a hand.
So that
that concept
has created that I have evolved differently than a lot of people doing
the Filipino Arts.