Kali / Escrima

Kali, Escrima and Arnis are all essentially the same martial art, all originating from different areas of the Philippines. Kali was originally used as a method of fighting off the invading Spanish.It is now widely practiced both in the Philippines and abroad. Kali utilizes weapons such as sticks, knives, and swords. The typical Kali/Escrima weapon is the Escrima sticks. Techniques without weapons are also taught such as kicking, striking and grappling, locks, controls and disarms. Kali is arguably one of the best arts for learning to use or defend against knives.

Kali is a fighting method developed by the filipions over centuries of defending invaders such as the spanish portugues japanese etc. its a weopons based art that applyes empty hands not as a separtate part but blended together with weapons. its main focus is training methods not as much as on techniguq. that is why it is a percfect addition and is taght hand in hand with our JKD program. kali has been proven in combat and has been seen many current movies such as The Bourne identy Series.