Basic Sinawali Footwork tutorial (Heaven and Earth 6 )

I outline the how and why of basic footwork for Sinawali drills in general and for the Heaven and Earth six drill specifically. This is my personal take on this subject, I am not an expert, but this is what I have found as I practice escrima and sinawali drills in filipino arnis martial arts.

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• sinawali
• tutorial
• footwork
• escrima
• eskrima
• arnis
• basic
• teune
• heave
• earth
• six

[taraswolkowinski]

Great tutorial, really interesting I have never seen Sinawali before. I work with Indian Clubs and Persian Meel Clubs a lot, your comments about footwork are really interesting, there are some parallels here in arm movements and footwork.

[eteune]

@taraswolkowinski thank you, I am glad you found something useful here, it is one of my favorite exercises, I will have to take a look at Persian Meel Clubs, sounds interesting

[AshThePhantom]

@eteune Thanks for the fast reply! I'll look for a nice pair then.

[eteune]

@AshThePhantom @AshThePhantom sure, I just Googled 'foam escrima sticks' and looked for the cheapest, I found these at martialartsequipmentdirect

[AshThePhantom]

Also, may I ask where you got those foam sticks from? I can't find a nice pair of affordable rattan sticks, but those sticks you have look durable and effective for simple drills and not so much actual use, exactly what I'm looking for.

[AshThePhantom]

Very detailed, very helpful tutorial. I've gotten the swinging motion of the sticks, but I always had trouble with footwork that would end up tripping me up.