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>Arnis de Mano
Oh hell yeah, that's some legit old school FMA. I'm assuming you're from the Philippines.
>The bolo
I fucking love bolos. Philippine swords have the most badass designs. My favorite style are the Talibong from the Visayas.
>EDC, I carry a homemade palm stick
Nice, what type of wood do you use for that? I'd like to get a proper wooden palm stick for carrying into places that use metal detectors to prevent carrying metal weapons. I normally carry knives, collapsible batons, and/or a tactical flashlight. The flashlight in particular has been insanely useful in self-defense, it's 2300 lumens and can blind motherfuckers in broad daylight, plus works as a metal palm stick. I've used it twice in self-defense, once against a nigger who was stealing from my store and a second time against a mexican drug dealer who was threatening me.
>Oh absolutely. I know many people and family members who successfully fended off muggers and even 1 stabbing attack using things like umbrellas.
Glad to hear that their training in Arnis helped keep them safe. On the note of using improvized weapons like umbrellas and folding fans and such, that's probably my favorite thing about Arnis, that it teaches you to use anything as a weapon. It's not restricted just to specific traditional weapons, but adaptable to any tool and any situation. The blade teaches the hand.
>Funnily enough, I think learned more on how to actually use karate during disarming practice.
Interesting. I've noticed a similar thing with training Catch Wrestling and how it overlaps with Arnis. Could you explain more on how the disarming practice affected your understanding of Karate?
>Wait, this is not normal is some schools? We would wear a helmet and wallop each other with padded sticks during sparring.
It may be more of an issue in certain American schools but it is definitely a common problem to only have cooperative flow drills, not do sparring or resistance drilling. Your school seems legit though.

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