CARABAO FMA !!! Some parts of our Nickelstick Balintawak Eskrima training.

 ...meet the Carabaos...

...Palakaw, ''the playing''...

The Agak is leading the attack, and the defender has to respond.

The speed and intensity will be adjusted to students level or to the purpose of the exercise. It is neither ''real attack'', nor ''coreography''.

Offense - Defense

understanding and mixing some of the 'tools' in the curriculum 

(from begginer to advanced)

semi-hitting, disarm, body stance, full power strikes...

Semi-Hitting
...in this exercise the defender will concentrate on hitting the attackers hand that holds the weapon

Multiple Hitting
applying multiple hits as a more effective defense
- the attacker is delivering a higher level of pressure and speed,
(this is why protection gear is highly recomended)

Trapping and Countering
trapping - applying locks with use of stick
counters - each technique or movement has at least one counter that can be used to block or evade it... each counter becomes a technique or movement, that also be blocked or evaded...

CARABAO FMA is a Filipino Martial Arts (Kali Arnis Eskrima) club in the city of Grenoble, 38, France. We are currently training the Balintawak style curiculum of World Eskrima Club from Cebu City, Phillipines, as a part of their French representative Blade Eskrima.  Get in touch if you want to train with us or want to know more about our style of Filipino Martial Arts.

CONTACT US at

carabaofma@gmail.com

World Nickelstick Eskrima club was established on the 27th of April 2003 .The term "WORLD" is used because the Nickelstick Eskrima Club is represented by instructors from the Philippines, England, United States, and Europe. It is also our hope that we propagate Balintawak Eskrima to the rest of the World.  “NICKEL” is from Nick ELizar's name. “STICK” signifies the single stick style of Balintawak, while “ESKRIMA” represents the filipinized Spanish word which Filipinos have come to name their martial arts, a term that comes from the Spanish esgrima, loosely defined as "the art of fencing". We also use Balintawak style, originated from the Cebu club headed by the late Grandmaster Teofilo Velez, the late Grandmaster Atty. Jose Villasin and the late Great Grandmaster Venancio Bacon. GGM Nick Elizar learned and mastered Balintawak Eskrima from the original school. It is also from this club, in which Grandmaster Nick Elizar headed the white chapter of Teovels Balintawak Group, that the World Nickelstick Eskrima Club was born.

Blade Eskrima is the club of GM Pascal Wasson and M Fabienne Andre, coordinator and one of the representatives for World Nickelstick Eskrima Club in France.