I'm trying to get real, to teach fighting techniques that actually work in a situation where you might be unprepared, and facing someone big and mean. [...]
This week in class we worked the Octopus series from Maphilindo Silat. Maphilindo is the personal Silat style of Guro Dan Inosanto, the famous teacher of Southeast Asian martial arts. [...]
Certain martial arts moves seem to be almost universal, found across a wide variety of arts. This constantly surprises me, though I suppose it shouldn't, since the human body is the human body, and there are only so many ways it can move and bend. [...]