does anybody know this?

[goatnipples2002]

I want to practice destructions and no one has told me any drills. Do you guys know of any?

[darrianation]

What are destructions?

[Tom Yum]

Destructions are popular in FMA and in classical MT. They involve striking the opponents strike as a means of simultaneous attack/defense - usually with the elbow and knee. Ask your MT coach.

[spiderchoke]

Do you guys mean Gunting? The act of guiding your opponents strike into your strike, IE an elbow to the fist. or a knee to the shin of a kicking leg. I am interested in what a destruction is too.

[yenhoi]

Hubud/lubud.

Entering drills. (Outside, Inside, Split.)

Gunting drills. (Outside, Inside, Split.)

Double and Single stick drills.

Knife drills.

Triangle footwork drills.

Destructions are all over the place.

[darrianation]

Originally posted by Tom Yum
Destructions are popular in FMA and in classical MT. They involve striking the opponents strike as a means of simultaneous attack/defense - usually with the elbow and knee. Ask your MT coach.

Thanks. Yea I guess I knew what they were it's just been a long time.

[goatnipples2002]

Do you know of any websites that are fairly detailed in the instruction of destruction aka gunting. To me there is a slight difference in destructions and gunting. To me destructions are either elbow to punching fist and knee to kicking leg. Gunting is anything else that is attack/defend at the sametime.

[yenhoi]

Gunting just means scissor-like motion.

Anyways. I dunno of any websites.

Where do you study/train?

There are posts by a guy named Khun Kao (or something..) and one of them concerns some articles about Thai boxing he wrote. There are descriptions and full-color pictures of many destructions there.

Destructions arent techniques, they are targets, and you train them through the drills I mentioned, mainly Hubud/stick work and isolation drills concerning destructions. A common FMA 'energy' drill would have you taking out your opponents offending elbow and both knees, drilled over and over and over and over.

[goatnipples2002]

I practice with a friend our my back yard. I have alot of experience with street fights.

[Tom Yum]

Do you fight in the ring as well?

Recently Tank has had a bad loosing streak both to Kimo and Mir. Mo smith went toe to toe with Tank and beat him with leg kicks. I think he should be a fighter tester; if you can beat him you are qualified.

[moromoro]

destructions???gunting????

where the hell do you guys get these terms from...........???

destructions gunting......

iam from the philippines train in the philippines and i have never herd these terms.....
what crock is this......

what is MT as well????


terry



i just wanted to put that one up. no offence to anyone

[Thai Bri]

Perhaps your name should be moronomorono

[krys]

Destructions - gunting....

I think this comes from californian martial arts.....


Never met a filipino martial artist who ever saw Panantukan in the islands.....



Mabuhay ang filipino Silat at Arnis

[moromoro]

Destructions - gunting....

I think this comes from californian martial arts.....

Never met a filipino martial artist who ever saw Panantukan in the islands.....

EXACTLY, but most people in america buy the hype, they dont seem to realise that KALI and most names used in FMA in america are recent creations THEY like to believe in legends like the blind pricess and KALI ancient art and all that mumbo jumbo...

iam from mindanao i have never heard these terms mentioned!!!!!!

[krys]

Here are some interesting thoughts on the mysterious art of Kali,
extract from:
NEW THEORIES ON THE ORIGINS OF ESKRIMA

By: Celestino C. Macachor
........
To muddle the issue further there are other amateur linguists in the FMA that theorize on certain Visayan words as the root of Kali. They say that Kali is related to many words, that means that this same word has connections with the following Visayan words:

Kalipay (Happiness), Kalibutan (Earth/World), Kalibog (Confusion), Kaliwat (Relatives/Ancestors/Heredity), Kalisud (Difficulty), Kalibanga (Diarrhea/LBM), Kalimotaw (Eye Pupil), Kaligo (Bath), Kalit (Sudden), Kalihim (Secretary) . . . okay let us disarrange the letters . . . Kilat (Thunder), Kilas (Agility) . . . and where and when did kris become kalis? What language is that? Esperanto?

For twenty-two years I have traveled the entire breadth of Mindanao as a Salesman while on the side searching in vain for the vaunted Kali man I've read so much in FMA books. Without luck, everywhere I went dodging bullets and 105-mm howitzers whistling past my ears, from Ipil, Zamboanga del Sur to boundaries of Bukidnon, Davao and Cotabato I always end up in a quagmire. I tried Ned's suggestion to search for him in a place noted for making bolos. Aside from their own version of native nipa wine called Pa-uroy, the town of Cantilan Surigao del Sur is also famous for their finely forged pinuti , but there is no one here who can handle the weapon with at least rudimentary skill. From Dumingag, I was referred to a Muslim bladesmith in Margosatubig, Zamboanga del Sur, but the poor artisan I encountered does not even know the word Kali. I was expecting to finally get the chance to meet an authentic Kali man in the person of GM Billy Baaclo of Ozamiz City. To my disappoint, he traced the lineage of his Abaniko de Sungkiti to Prancing Ybanez of Sibonga, Cebu. I did find an assortment of Barongs and authentic Krises in Lanao, but they were mostly ornamental. I tried to cajole the peddlers themselves to bring me to the Muslim swordsman, and what did I get? "Igso, banig na lang, walay Kali." (Brother, just buy my mat, no Kali). So where's the elusive Kali man?
..........


By the way I was told by Kali peoples about the art of firing coconuts in portable cannons (forgot the name they gave me, i'm serious they really claimed it) ... anybody is in it?


Mabuhay ang filipino Silat and Arnis.