Keysi Fighting Method: Close-Quarters Fighting Techniques for the Real World!

[@N192K001]

Man, this is GOOD! Keysi seems like a too little-known, undervalued art. I think this needs to be showcased more.

[@OldManPaxusYT]

As a very experienced fighter (many martial arts & practical, incl security/bouncer & street), *i love it!* It's *practical too!* (Just one example: Compared w grappling styles {because of the danger or your opponent's friends}, this Keysi, is safer!.. *It also rings TRUE, when you watch the success of MIKE TYSON!* (I'm referring to that lowering your core/CoB {Centre of Balance}) Mike often faught from what _looks_ like ridiculously LOW stance (even bent over), for both guard/doging AND ATTACK! Just like this 'Keysi' method. *Having been in fights (with multiple attackers sometimes too!), i can attest to the value of having this in your arsenal of tricks!* [ Edit: I am *not* a bot, Keysi practitioner, friend of ^ or fan-boy - Just an old fighter who knows what is real and what is McDojo BS! 👊 ]

[@AlanBaker]

Thank You! 🙏🏼 I saw the same value in it as well.

[@fabiovanella8000]

Very nice 👍😉Hello Sifu Alan, can you show more video of the basics

[@elliottdann202]

Been looking for a basic keysi video for ages. Awesome, trying to pair the idea with Krav Maga 🤷‍♂️😎

[@brentmagnussen3173]

Fantastic content! Keep it coming Sifu!!

[@AlanBaker]

Thank You! 🙏🏼

[@thestaristhebook368]

I admire Keysi, just wish I had a school nearby.Thanks for sharing your encyclopedic knowledge, Sifu!

[@AlanBaker]

Thank You for checking it out

[@TimRHillard]

I have been really y interest in Keysi, and Defence Labs for sometime. No training near me, and doesn’t seem to be much online that’s not expensive. Thanks for the basics!

[@AlanBaker]

🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@CrossingFist]

Nice work, Alan! I’m Brian Kaplan, student of James Cravens, and one of your FB friends. I like the channel.

[@AlanBaker]

🙏🏼

[@SoldierDrew]

This would compliment Judo very well for punch defense to safely attain clench range for Judoka, wrestler or Sambo grappler in unarmed combat defense.

[@AlanBaker]

Agreed, we use it in that very manner quite often when blending it with the other arts.

[@chrisdunnettmusic]

Thank you so much for doing this video. This is great review for the seminar of yours I took. Very glad I got to do that before I moved to Arizona and sorry we couldn't meet up when you were here a few weeks ago. Great stuff Sifu

[@AlanBaker]

Glad it was helpful!

[@brandonhaymaker9433]

Get it!! Thanks for sharing 🤙

[@roballington2319]

Western boxing all school in days of 1920 used frames very effectively and is arguably richer in these moves than south easy Asian systems. Western boxing influenced the direction from muay boran to muay thai and Arjan Cesari refers to this in his writing

[@AlanBaker]

I totally agree. I have found these moves myself in multiple martial arts and combative systems over the years and in much of the old school Boxing methods I was introduced to.

[@ThePoorBoy]

Great stuff, Sifu Alan! Good to see KFM being given some exposure again. (Does "KFM" officially exist any longer?) I'm yet to train in it directly (sadly it's nowhere to be found where I currently live), but it's always seemed innovative yet instinctive to functionalize, especially if you have been doing JKD/FMA and are used to working with your forearms and elbows a lot both defensively and offensively at the same time. I feel it connects well with some of Vunak's R.A.T. system, especially the use of FMA-style "destructions." Some really innovative stuff has come from some of the Inosanto Academy students over the years, but most of it never seems to go "mainstream" for one reason or another (my theory is that since it doesn't "look" enough like MMA or hasn't been used in MMA, a lot of people these days believe that it can't possibly be useful, but those of us with an open mind and a love for experimentation know otherwise). But maybe that's kind of a good thing -- gives you an advantage to be able to use things that aren't known to those who would try to do harm to us.

[@AlanBaker]

Yes, there is a small group of us in the United States. we have an instructor training program that meets for training camps twice a year in Atlanta. And yes, I agree it blends well with multiple other martial arts that I have trained. Overall, it boils down to the use of shielding to protect the head and you will see this concept in multiple different Martial Arts. I particularly like the way Keysi grows the concept into an eventual living expression of the technique instead of something static. The Inosanto Academy has definitely produced some incredible influences on The Martial Arts and Self Defense industry over the years and I believe still does so. (Guro is a legend,) You are correct that you have to continue to be a wisdom seeker and dig up the information in order to find it, and that capacity, is over the majority of the communities heads.

[@SupporterYi]

waiting for your Keysi video-

[@SupporterYi]

basic and simple enough!

[@AlanBaker]

🙏

[@elstevobevo]

Alan, I trust that what you teach is effective, and I appreciated your work on Warrior Poet for it’s speed and ferocity. Do you have any performance based footage of you applying your techniques? Something like a tournament, footage of an altercation you’ve resolved, or something like that. You are a practiced man of humility and education, but maybe cracking the throttle could bring even more credibility to your body of work and conviction to your KZbin audience.

[@inside_fighting]

Hey are you far from Florida? I'd love to do a video with you on my channel!

[@AlanBaker]

I’m north of Atlanta when I’m not traveling & teaching

[@jamesfloyd5407]

Very nice methods sir

[@AlexKarel-bh3yy]

Dear GM Alan, When she attack your chest with her forearm, you also can attack her forearm to neutralize the force by moving a little bit forward and at the movement of contact you relax all your body weight on that strike. This will neutralize the force with minimum injury inside the body. I always use this method to hold pad for heavy weight muaythai kick. Tension will keep the force from strike inside the body, relax with counter direction to the strike will let the force go somewhere else. You can try it with pad, then later with your body. I learned keysi method basics and applications from your clips, so this is my payback.😀

[@AlanBaker]

Thanks for the feedback! But this is just a training method. She's actually using the flat of the forearm in an attempt not to damage the feeder. Usually, she would probably use the tip of the elbow. And I would hate to take away her enjoyment of kicking my ass.

[@AlexKarel-bh3yy]

Agreed, building student's confidence is also an impoartant duty of a good teacher. By the way, in my opinion, your keysi method presentations is the best on YT. With my respect.

[@TheCreeper1124]

@@AlexKarel-bh3yywith all of your “observations” you should be teaching. Teaching everyone how to not be a troll.

[@DirectCombatives]

Alan , I love your style of continuous movement, and I incorporate your drills in my teaching with my students. Here's my question, if the attacker has a knife in his hand, covering up like that still allows the knife to come very close and probably will stab you. How does the shield apply to knife defense. Thank you

[@AlanBaker]

Honestly, if a blade were involved, the entire application would change. Personally, I would switch to a completely different set of tools. I would probably shift more toward applications out of the various Filipino, or Indonesian Martial Arts

[@fernandobarcenas3477]

Thanks Alan my wife uses a walking cane perhaps a lesson with canes.

[@AlanBaker]

Noted, I will see what I can do in the future. Thanks for watching.

[@hamadalrowaie6882]

I have been waiting for this for a very long time!! 😅 🤤 More please !! ❤ How many shapes are there ?

[@omaromar9427]

You should also check out defense lab

[@gegaoli]

if you are in essentially a high guard with the shielding how are you able to adjust to a combination head to body. Also dropping so low to protect the body seems to not be ideal for back of head. Just thoughts.

[@Pifagorass]

How one use low kicks attacking/defense in this system?

[@bobbycoltrane7552]

Watered down 52 Blocks

[@nightmare5479]

Hey this feels like Batman

[@AlanBaker]

They did use some of the system in one of the movies

[@Berengier817]

Is there a freestyle sparring video

[@Quiavini-777]

Are you an mma fighter?

[@philfree5261]

52 blocks

[@AlanBaker]

Keysi, DL, Thai, Bando, old school boxing, Silat, Kali/Escrima, BJJ, Chinese Boxing…..