Flow Training with Maestro Sonny Umpad - Sikaran with Pangamut warm up

Empty hand flow training, starting with elbows, adding hands and knees, then Sikaran flow.
Training is to understand range, timing, and the strong and weak angles. Sikaran is also great training for balance and staying light on the feet, whilst retaining the ability to issue power when needed.
Students are Eric Nomburg and Ken Ingram.

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[dontcutcircles]

thanks for posting this, is this the pendulum drill? Guru Bernard Langan has showed the pendulum drill, and i practice it. so far what i learned is very basic, is this a higher level?

[Rndmflw]

@dontcutcircles - I tend to think of 'pendulum drills' as exercises using a hanging pendulum. Pendulum stepping with a partner is the basis practice that leads to random flowing, and yes this is an example of that for the Sikaran. A pendulum swings forwards and backwards - really that is all it means.

[beungood]

Wow, like the flow, any of this taught out in Mass?

[Rndmflw]

@beungood

I'm afraid that Sonny was rather reclusive and apart from a few seminars on the West Coast and in Europe, he only taught a handful of people, who are mostly here in The San Francisco Bay Area.

[stickman33]

There are some folks up in Seattle too, mostly associated with Jesse Glover.

[76kidlat]

Tuhon Sonny was one of the most fast and deadly eskrimador on his time and he was so humble that he ask his student to call him guro.. Thank you so much to he's close students who carry on and show to the fma world his legacy. Maraming, maraming salamat Po Guro Sonny. Mabubuhay Po ang young pung binigay sa aming.. Gumagalang Po.

[bastiat6865]

@dontcutcircles - The pendulum is incorporated into ALL movements. The pendulum is as fundamental as circle walking. It is not a drill he showed you. It is a practice. The higher levels come when you treat it as more than basic. Do it one thousand times with focus, alone and with a partner or several partners. learn to weave with your feet. - ken

[bastiat6865]

@dontcutcircles - That was not "the" pendulum drill. It was random flow using Pangamot (1st half) and Sikaran (most of the 2nd half). Pendulum is incoporated into all movements in our system. There is no VSCKE without pendulum. Consider it less a drill and more a practice. It is as important as circle walking.

-ken

[beungood]

@Rndmflw What a shame, The videos of him and your group speak to me. I like the movement angling and circular angling.

[Kalepa81]

Wow!!!!! Napakagaling talaga. Meron bang instructional dvds? Salamat ho!;-))