Why I Don't Disarm The Stick For Self Defense | Filipino Martial Arts | Kali | PART 1

[@Absolute-Melody]

This guy is ridiculously underrated! I haven’t learned Kali and it’s been a while since I looked at my old martial arts practice routines, but this makes me want to go out there and practice exactly what Kevin was teaching in this vid!

[@joeneighbor]

I learned Kali from Ted Lucaylucay (and some of his Filipino master guests), whom was a JKD guy (student of Dan Inosanto) too so he worked some of trapping, etc., like you see here back in the day. The video is about "Disarming" (from the outside), but AFAIK that is pretty advanced. If you have the outside distance, have good JKD style footwork, and the timing down okay, but in basic Kali you learn how to defend (and attack) from each of the basic 6 or so angles (advanced more angles and more straight/poking directions are considered). But I'm no expert. A nice thing about it is you can apply Kali to swords and other weapons (other than just sticks). So if you needed to defend yourself and there's a pipe, a plant stake, or better a knife, etc., handy, Kali training could be applied to take advantage of the weapon distance and/or cutting edge(s). Can be applied to open hands as well. Assuming a orthodox stance, a #1 angle could be a chop or backfist, a #2 angle would be an overhand right, etc. Really worth learning.

[@Absolute-Melody]

@@joeneighbor it’s more of a time commitment issue, school is grueling 😩 but i would love to check Kali out

[@Morgan423Z]

Love the call out on running at the beginning of the video. 99% of the time, that's going to be the preferred option to keep yourself safe in a scenario like this. Everything else is just stopping an attacker or protecting yourself from them long enough to create or find that escape path if it doesn't initially exist.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Hitting the hand is the best disarm - like you said. I like the reinforcement principle you showed with the inside deflect. Definitely trying that next sparring session

[@KevinLeeVlog]

Sweet! Let me know how it works out! Maybe I will do another video talking about sparring. :)

[@D.M.Mortem]

@@KevinLeeVlog You totally should! I was trained to always aim for the hand when i have a stick, that's the disarm. When in sparring, we wore mma gloves on both hands so that a stick wouldn't hurt when hit. Granted, we would also use foam padded sticks as well, but we knew to appreciate stick-boxing.

[@Kenobi_Cowboy]

Can't hold anything with numb fingers that aren't there.

[@franciscobautistaii7413]

Disarming really will be finger missing!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 specially when the are all broken and beyond repair....

[@edamesify]

Very nice! And realistic. The best defense is to run away. As Bruce Lee said it: "the art of fighting without fighting."

[@anthonygerber8261]

I've been practicing FMA, JKD and BJJ since '99. Doce Pares to be specific. Well done with this video sir. The snaking disarm is where it's at when it comes to impact weapons. There is a way to do it against blades; you wrap there arm at the wrist instead of snaking around the weapon itself. You have to reach for your opposite arm pit with your snaking arm and make it so he can't pull the weapon away. The knife/machete is free to move a little but if you think like jiujitsu and take all the space away, he won't be able to get his hand back without dropping the weapon. Works well in reduced gear stick fighting (Dog Bros style). Ya might get a few minor cuts but you're controlling his weapon/weapon arm and free to go to work with your weapons. Anyway, just my 2 cents. PEACE!

[@ives3572]

As a self-defense practitioner, I always have with me my expandable batons, tactical self-defense knives, and other concealed carry weapons virtually anywhere I go when I'm outside my house as preparation for unexpected self-defense encounters. In that way, I drastically increase or maximize my chances of surviving violent self-defense encounters.

[@freevirtualhypnosis]

I agree with your preparedness because bad guys are looking for victims everywhere and the more non-intimidating you are, the greater your chances are of being approached. I'm a 4th black in kyokushin plus four years Judo plus 10 years kickboxing but I'm also skinny, non intimidating and look like a potential victim. And it doesn't help that I prefer to walk, jog or ride a bicycle instead of avoiding conflict by driving a car. So I always carry pepper spray called the fogger which has a wide spray instead of a narrow stream (a 2-inch can is legal but a 4-inch can is illegal, so stay legal), as well as a four inch piece of PVC pipe with 4 long thin nails sticking out of it like brass knuckles, only the PVC is legal (and you can quickly pull the nails out of it if you see a cop about to pull you over, (which never happens by the way because I look like an innocent person, no tattoos, no menacing look in my eye). And I also have an expandable ballistic baton but I hardly ever carry it because it is a felony if you're not a security guard with a permit to carry one. So, and only when I'm riding a bicycle, I would carry a cut off piece of garden hose, the length of my elbow to my fingertip, where I would tell the cops that I'm about to buy a new hose and I want to make sure it's the same manufacturer and size. Just remember your weapons need to look legal and a hose really hurts when used across the face or shins.

[@johnmatonne7834]

If you are that afraid to go out of your house why don't you just get a gun permit? You think you are going to take on 4 or 5 guys with your little baton? No really......

[@freevirtualhypnosis]

@@johnmatonne7834 in Los Angeles and because I'm always on foot, I've been approached by bad guys a few hundred times throughout my lifetime and never three or four at a time. Always one. The second one is standing by waiting to run away. Or pick his friend up after I have bounce him off the ground. Your vision of three or four guys at once may only materialize for you so good luck.

[@ives3572]

@@johnmatonne7834 I have all the concealed carry weapons (ranging from expandable batons, tactical whips, pepper sprays, tactical knives, and most especially handguns) with me, enough to take out multiple attackers, plus my situational awareness or presense of mind is always on point. I choose when to engage and finish, and when to engage and escape. I know exactly what I'm doing and if I die, at least I died fighting, unlike you, you keyboard warrior.

[@johnmatonne7834]

@@ives3572 Yeah, I like to avoid places and spaces that have certain types of people who are more likely to be dangerous. But, I'm sure you thought of that. The best way to win a fight is to avoid it in the first place right?

[@David_Downs]

Just stumbled upon this from a group, and like this lesson. I have studied Ilustrisimo for a while, though sadly for the last year been kinda out of it but plan to get back into it. I admit when i saw the title i thought, well.. this depends on context, if it is a sytyle or system that emphasises blade with the stick, then yeah, but may be different in a style where the stick is just a stick. But then watched it and found myself agreeing with the logic here. This is basically how we do it too, or how i was taught, dont go in for just a quick disarm, as in real time that is very hard to do, To me it makes sense, the hand is controlling the weapon, not the weapon controlling the hand. Deal with what is controlling the weapon if you can, and then the weapon should not be as much of a threat if you have done it properly.

[@nightshade7240]

I was taught every strike is a disarm. By that it means don't go for the lock ups but aim for those areas that will absolutely force them to drop the weapon (I believe some forms of Kali call it defanging the snake.) I was also taught to use distance so I can pass their strike and then, using footwork, attack the side of the body they struck from because their weapon is so far offline and them bringing the weapon back across is both the longest distance and the weakest position. I control from the outside after passing the weapon because I want to open up the weakest point of the skull (the pterion) for my counter. I am curious if you ever trained with the P'kal or Pikal knife and what your opinion is of that style of knife combatives? I don't see too many people address the subject.

[@raymundbalce4550]

Hitting the hand is called defanging the snake in FMA.

[@anthonyurso9366]

My dad told me during his training the “jkd” style was to focus more on reflexes, distance and basic striking/blocking vs this move, then this move and that move. I believe more realistic because being spontaneous. Makes sense I believe that’s what Bruce Lee tried to always do in his training when had partners. If not sparring doing drills that are not choreographed and spontaneous to test reactions

[@joennejordbaer]

You managed to go through so many basic aspects of stickfighting in this video alone. Impressive.

[@zenshinacademy4096]

I teach first evade, then deflect, then attack then disarm. Evade is first but if can't or doesn't work move to deflecting, and so on and so on. Disarms really come when they come, like everything else. But I do enjoy the visual of a good disarm. I don't teach Kali but I did train in the 80's Kali/Silat system and even though I have moved from that, I have brought along what I have learned from it along with me on my journey.

[@kenkongermany7860]

I learned stick (baton) defence from street fighting. Mostly punks vs. nazis. Stick defence is quite easy in fact. You have to use the roof block principle in Stick Sparring. It gives you the timing for the "inside lean" and the targeting of his hand with yours. You can do it quite easy without a weapon ( though we wore forearmpadding in preparation - mostly for the knives).It may hurt a little. But they never ever let go of the stick in time after your one handed catch. You can throw your right or crush their arm with kote gaeshi or a long shiho nage variation. Your block deflects to much. Roof lets him carry through. It's easy to catch the stick near or via the hand and to direct them down to the outside. No video, just words. Take it in. As i like to see your slick moves. Most of FMA is hiding the truth - and having FUN moving.

[@nickdavis5420]

It’s the brachial nerve hitting it causes the hand too open up a bit .

[@philliplanos]

A super dope piece of content with tons of value for self defense

[@epone3488]

@kevin what band of soft stick are you using? I really like the way they perform. My soft sicks dont do the same job and must be made from different materials. Please let me know the band.

[@KevinLeeVlog]

Action flex from Century Martial Arts!

[@SigmundFreud187]

Can you please show us what Damage A Suckerpunch Uppercut does to the Enemies???

[@TS-1267]

,,, .. GOOD SENSE..MUST PRACTICE... ,,,

[@antondelacruz9362]

Could you do a version of this demo with long machetes? Ive gone down the rabbit hole of machete attacks and street fights and would be interested to see your take on it.

[@ekko3million468]

Last night a man who looked demon possessed charged me and my friend. As the advice at the beginning of this video states, if you can run, just run. Although I was armed I rather run than spill blood if I don’t have to.

[@phantomcash3752]

I wonder where they get those pad sticks there practicing with love buy few pairs

[@MrMochi-nl1zb]

First degree black belt in TKD here. Love the philosophy. Who cares about disarming when you should really be focused on controlling the weapon and hitting the dude at every opening.

[@diosdadoapias]

in a real fight between sticks, iron tubes, angle bars, bolo knives, the strikes could be fast and very strong that what should do is to block or parry and counter strike, not disarming the other guy.

[@manolitodiaz1667]

this is called defanging the snake in FMA. Drills and drills is the key to mastering the disarm.

[@gladius2489]

Don’t disarm the stick, de-stick the arm.

[@Fahim_Lalani]

I once knew a man who disarmed a gun man with your principle. He evaded immediately by goin very fast behind the man and takin ‘em down by doing an offensive move to the back of the gunman’s neck (using his palm aggressively to bring him down with a take down and those two moves were done kinda simultaneously at a restaurant )who had the intent to shoot. So the gun was in my friend’s hand eventually of course after that takedown and he did this by protecting his head of course automatically by swinging behind or to side to take em down fast but yea you’re sooo right disarming is probably a waste of time

[@Echelon673]

Here in Philippines we don't use that thing you are using..we always use hard stick to harden our hands or blades to be familiar or use to it. So that in real scenario fear is not an issue,. And we're not showing outside what we learn to humbly cover our nature and learnings

[@buzzmeanytime]

Are there any good classes on Southern California?

[@KevinLeeVlog]

Check out Inosanto Academy. Or you could check their website for local affiliate schools.

[@CottonBoxer]

It’s one way and ok but as you know what you are doing is better suited for blade work cause you rarely get attacked with a stick 👂💯🖤

[@silverousleonidas5790]

My teacher always teaches this to hit the arm, hand and knuckles when using a baton in self defense.

[@davidyoung745]

I’m surprised you only took the most complicated routes besides largo Mano. Why not just roof and move up the female triangle to the outside away from the other hand?

[@CasKel_YT]

The only time you'll go for a real disarm is if the weapon is close and not moving. That's most likely when the opponent uses the weapon to defend.

[@IAM-fd9lk]

Whats your system sir.?

[@yb7vk]

Right..right... right...right..right...right..

[@elvielorraine8480]

Try a controll sparring any of FMA grandmaster in the Philippines your style wont work for sure

[@Damo1981]

I think it's much better to ALWAYS train with the assumption that you are being attacked with a live blade such as a knife or machete. You may not have time to assess whether its a stick or blade that is coming towards you and every second counts.

[@annoyed707]

Even if you have the time you may not be able to see it clearly.

[@Damo1981]

@@annoyed707 same could be said about sucker punches

[@abdullahibnrinibnpoat8915]

Nice

[@mrluke1967]

Agreed !!

[@TheKinomutai]

👍👍👍👍

[@howdy4596]

I have been hit on the knuckles plenty of times. And every time it hurt.

[@michaelspyrou1784]

Right.

[@BluntInnit]

INTERESTING, NOTICED YOU ALSO NEVER WENT FOR THE THUMB PAD GRAB WHICH IS WHERE MOST DISARMS START, IS THERE A SPECIFIC REASON FOR THIS. THE REASON I ASK IS AS I HAVE QUESTIONED HOW LIKELY IT IS TO PULL OFF IN A REAL SITUATION AGAINST A RESISTANT OPPONENT.

[@KevinLeeVlog]

I only teach disarm for training purposes. I don’t look to disarm weapons in real life situation unless 1) I have no choice, or 2) I happened to have control of his weapon. Then maybe disarm could happen. And yes, you do want to control the thumb pad area. In the video, I used my punyo to hook his thumb for the disarm.

[@BluntInnit]

@@KevinLeeVlog THANK YOU, I CAME ACROSS ONE OF YOUR WING CHUN VIDEOS AND AM VERY IMPRESSED WITH YOUR OPEN APPROACH TO TEACHING AND HUMILITY. I REALLY LIKE THAT YOU EXPLAIN WHY YOU DO CERTAIN THINGS.

[@ajramos21gmail]

RIGHT!

[@GawlJoey]

2:05 "He has a weapon, why would I fight this guy?" "BUT IF I WAS STRAPPED!" I swear to god I thought that this is what he said instead of trapped haha.

[@abdullahibnrinibnpoat8915]

Laaa e laaha ill lal law ( there's no God but the God) blessing for you

[@looptheloopish]

Right

[@gregferrone8724]

I saw him in 30 seconds disarm the arm not the stick you exist high is martial arts training and now you have a video maybe I'm late I'm not checking the date wow I can't keep up with you people

[@Dobermanedit]

👌💐🙏

[@PianoPatterns123]

Excellent tutorial. But, in this day and age, everyone is carrying a gun.

[@gladius2489]

This is all just theory. If you’ve never been in that situation you have no idea what the other guy is likely to do.

[@gladius2489]

How can you teach someone to drive a car, when you’ve never driven one yourself?

[@TheKamiBunny]

There's also a overt concentration on the stick by the opponent as they concentrate on trying to hold onto the weapon, giving you more opportunities to attack. Its probably more pronounced when grappling with someone with a gun(although this is ill-advised) or similarly a knife. Your concentration tends to be towards the force multiplier, but its better to keep an over-all view of the situation and not concentrate on just trying to remove the weapon first.

[@chriseliopoulos4185]

Interesting concepts! However you’ll experience greater effectiveness if you would stop using the word ‘right’!

[@mattnobrega6621]

If your opponent can no longer hold a weapon or use his limbs then you have already won

[@kolkkaaja4861]

put at least one clip were you spar whit stiks......

[@scottingleman8103]

If you're being attacked kill your enemy. spinal destruction is imperative.l the opponents limbs and weapons are identical tools for which to bring about that destruction.. there are only four rules in the art of swordsmanship. Rule number one never become personally involved with somebody who has more problems than yourself. Rule number two: attack. Rule number 3: whomever is willing to sacrifice the most will win unless they do something utterly stupid. Rule number four: if you hit them hard enough they cannot possibly complain.

[@ruan13o]

Except the police will then arrest you and you will go to prison. Your principles might be good in the battlefield or in some niche warrior society but in most civilised societies you are not allowed to be excessive in your defence.

[@scottingleman8103]

In that case just run.

[@dds1930]

everyone do like that and teach like that? its ao simple basic defense

[@keithsj10]

Say it with the stick and get on with it

[@gregferrone8724]

I just watch his video too much if you have a brain you want to protect yourself immediately you snap and go after the guy shoulder who's holding that whatever you want to call it

[@bren2385]

CAPTURE ELBOW AND USE STICK AS WRIST MANIPULATION 🤭🤭🤭

[@sergiogonzalez4446]

Bla bla bla bla

[@chitailun]

Your opponent 2 actions vs. you 4 actions? That means you are 100% faster. You can never lose with this assumption.

[@SirZelean]

Not really. Most of what he did there were not 2 separate actions, but 2 actions at once. Like the tap on the knuckles and then control the weapon, these are two actions sure, but one with each hand, done virtually simultaneously. In a fight tempo, that's counted as one action, and quite a few different martial arts use that idea to their advantage (such as the parry-counter, each hand doing one). When he did do 2 separate actions, the second one was done using the momentum of the first one so that they "fire" pretty quickly. One example is the dodge, hit inside the arm, hit outside the hand. Once the stick hits the inside of the arm, the movement of his body drags the stick to slide under the arm, and the momentum that creates (instead of coming to a full stop after hitting the arm) means that he barely needs to do anything except twisting his hand the other direction for the stick to come in contact with the opponent again. Flicking your wrist is such an easy and fast motion if compared to, say, a full kick, that it can easily be weaved as part of another action. Normally it's a motion that doesn't generate any significant force, but if you do that by taking advantage of an ongoing momentum, it can do some damage considering a hard weapon vs bare flesh. Most of the strikes he did show, I understood them to be simple displays of possibilities. He did point out that after controlling your opponent's weapon, they will try to use the other hand to attack you - and you should prioritize striking that hand. But he also shows that, hey, from this position you can attack pretty much anywhere and they can't do a lot to defend themselves. But do strike their hand.

[@tonyaction5284]

Not well trained!!!

[@Repetz94]

this is stupid. if you are able to dodge a hit and respond to hit with a hit of yourself you don't even need the stick because you are not "moving out of his space" but you are moving inside of it. there are a good couple of things that you said right about space control and the sacrificing an arm. everything depends on what tools and items you both are using. you cannot fight a knife as you fight a baton. btw you said you take something to create space control and this is true, but once you have that you want to put that between you and the aggressor. best thing you can do after achieving that when you have same range is to stall out and scream as hard as you can for help until someone arrives. if you want to fight the guy by yourself because you feel like a medieval knight...well depends what are you using but you should watch for something like HEMA or even olympic swordfight. you never want to put your body between your weapons unless you are sure to go for the kill because it's suicidal.

[@diosdadoapias]

in a real fight between sticks, iron tubes, angle bars, bolo knives, the strikes could be fast and very strong that what should do is to block or parry and counter strike, not disarming the other guy.