Sword work of Intergrated Eskrima

Alan is a Senior instructor under Guro Mark Wiley in Intergrated Eskrima

[@jasonprestidge8178]

Awesome to see Guro

[@alanorrwingchunacademy1302]

Thanks Jason

[@bobbobbing4381]

Nice, really clean cuts. Have you got any aspirations to get into HEMA? I know you are very much into training realistically for unarmed fighting and so when it comes to armed combat, I raise HEMA and the wealth of options there. As an aside, when I read English translations of Qi Jiguang works I came across bits where he said training for unarmed combat was pointless. Granted, the modern era is different but when I raised this with a certain individual, he went silent. You see, a lot of unarmed training stuff from Qi Jiguang in application involves the wearing of armour and when you realise that, it opens it up. This is why I think HEMA something to think about. Cheers.

[@alanorrwingchunacademy1302]

Thank you. Yes HEMA is very interesting

[@bobbobbing4381]

@@alanorrwingchunacademy1302 I really enjoy shield work but not really had the opportunity to train it. Again, many aspects of wign chun pre 1960s make sense with shield and armour wearing in mind and skirmish warfare. Of course, that's my view and one that is more honest than others having read the source material they cite. I look forwards to seeing 'Viking Alan' in the future!

[@alanorrwingchunacademy1302]

I do have Viking DNA so maybe lol

[@VTSifuSteve]

@@alanorrwingchunacademy1302 What? There were short Vikings? I'll have to tell that to my 5'3" older brother, a state champion high school wrestler way back in the '60s in Arizona who later attended university at Oxford where one of his tutors referred to him as the "Diminutive Dane". Tiny, but he can still trounce me! BTW I love your material. It has greatly influenced my take on WC.