Awesome stick-fighting clip of a one tough MOFO!!!

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 12/13/2005 10:52pm

Originally Posted by Canuckyokushin

I swear I've been looking around for good Arnis/eskrima clips to post.To give at least a good representation of what "IT" is supposed to look like.But with no luck at all.

I have an instructional video that displays this type of footwork. I don't have access to any video editing software so that I can cut out just a clip of it, though. I will try use Windows Movie Maker on it.

**Red Elvis** · Posted On: 12/14/2005 12:20am

Originally Posted by Canuckyokushin

I swear I've been looking around for good Arnis/eskrima clips to post.To give at least a good representation of what "IT" is supposed to look like.But with no luck at all.

Old, but gets the point across...

http://dogbrothersvideo.com/footwork.wmv

:copdance:

**Red Elvis** · Posted On: 12/14/2005 12:26am

This clip kinda shows it although it's not discussed. Watch how he steps when demonstrating.

http://dogbrothersvideo.com/dbmaa03.wmv

:ninjafigh

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 12/14/2005 1:32am

Originally Posted by Ru-Klas

Old, but gets the point across...

http://dogbrothersvideo.com/footwork.wmv

:copdance:

I don't think the footworks from either of these are what the kids are supposed to be doing. Still working on clipping mine.

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 12/14/2005 1:47am

Ok, I somewhat tamed the beast that is Movie Maker and got this:
http://web.mit.edu/mao/Public/footwork.wmv
Sorry about the quality; the source video is uber-awful.

I'm no FMA person, so I don't know if what is being shown here is good,
but I have a reasonable idea that this is what the kids were trying to do.

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 12/14/2005 2:41pm

ttt for everyone to compare the footworks?

http://web.mit.edu/mao/Public/footwork.wmv
I don't want to have battle Movie Maker in vain.

**Devildog** · Posted On: 12/14/2005 2:54pm

I took one class of Arnis and that is the same stuff we were doing and these kids are doing it for a black belt evaluation? That's amazing.

***WhiteShark*** · Posted On: 12/14/2005 3:07pm

Thanks for the Footwork clip! Now I at least understand what they were implying.

**Devildog** · Posted On: 12/14/2005 3:12pm

What exactly is the purpose of the footwork?

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 12/15/2005 2:23am

Originally Posted by Devildog

What exactly is the purpose of the footwork?

As far as I know, it's to provide rotational balance so you can put more torque into your strikes. If you play a little tennis, you would know something similar to this footwork. But some FMA person might give a more/correct answer.