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Some examples of impact weapons are bats, pipes, sticks, canes, wooden boards or just about anything you can pick up and hit somebody with. The destruction that can be created with these objects when used as a weapon can be devastating. There are many types of confrontations that can occur on the street and unfortunately they can include some sort of blunt object like a pipe, stick or the baseball bat.

If you do any research on Philippine Combat Arts, Escrima, Arnis or Kali you will see that it is dominated by groups training with rattan sticks. Why do we do this? The answer is simple, safety! When the early tribes throughout the Philippines started training they needed something they could use to learn the art of the blade safely, without sacrificing intense reality based training. Fortunately they had a virtually unlimited supply of rattan and other woods such as bahi and kamagong growing in their backyards. The sticks were used as a safe substitute for live sharp blades, which freed them, as they do us, to make mistakes and train harder without the worry of wounds or worse.

The benefit of using these analogs for training is we develop skills for fighting both "live" blades and impact weapons. We learn to disarm, counter, evade, control and general awareness and strategy for both impact and bladed weapons.

The rattan also allows us to spar and create scenarios that closely replicate a live blade fight which tests our skills and builds awareness, reaction times and experience of the fight.

Sparring usually begins with a padded stick and follows our proven program for building you up to hard stick full contact sparring over time.