Thoughts on Escrima strength training.

**selfcritical** · Posted On: 10/22/2009 2:23pm

http://www.youtube.com/user/Kettlebe...14/VZrkFn3md-o
Swing instructional

**padraig** · Posted On: 10/22/2009 8:12pm

thanks. and just out of curiosity, would you know where I could find a reliable clip of the rose drill? I'm not sure if it's called that properly.

**selfcritical** · Posted On: 10/22/2009 9:29pm

Describe it to me?

**padraig** · Posted On: 10/23/2009 7:01am

hands scooping passing your partner who is facing you, side step to the back of the partner, sticky hand movement, side step again back to the hand scooping. the hand scooping was described to me as being as if you were gathering up grain then dumping it out.

**selfcritical** · Posted On: 10/23/2009 10:09am

all the footwork is sidestep, not triangular?

**padraig** · Posted On: 10/23/2009 12:40pm

its all side step and pivot. supposedly it is a very old ptk drill that orginated as a game that would teach basics of trapping and body striking and getting to the flank and back of your opponent. The rose or something rose.

**selfcritical** · Posted On: 10/24/2009 12:51am

It sounds like one of the intro footwork sparring drills.

**padraig** · Posted On: 10/24/2009 10:07am

yeah it is. I was told it was taught to kids as a game to prepare them for the basics.

**selfcritical** · Posted On: 10/25/2009 12:48pm

Yeah, they're just to teach you to "race" around each other so that you know when you're sparring that you need to be competing for position as much as who hits who.