Zulu Stick Fighting, Kalinda, and Kali in Austin, TX

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The Zulu Stick Fighting and Kalinda can be learned at:The Dynamic Arts Academy By Da'Mon Stith. The Kali/Silat can be learned at The Academy of Intergrated Arts by Bryan Broussard.

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[santoure]

In Trinidad where this martial art comes from it is not called stick licking, it is known as Kalinda or Bwa Batay [French Creole for stick fight'] a jump is called janbé a block is called bloké. defensive movements are called kawé [squaring] they are meant to make your opponent look stupid. A "busted head'' is called pété tèt. The arenas where these battles take place are known as gayèl [guy+elle] want to know more? just ask.

[xenopoet]

Thanks for the info. We know it's called Kalinda, just to clarify, Amy Hadley calls it by name in the video above. We would love any info that you have on the subject and thank you for taking the time to add what you've already added to our on going discussion. Seriously, thank you.

[WarriorBlackBanner]

i guess the double sticks are the zulu aspect of his stick fighting art, but the single stick looks like trinidad stick fighting for sure.

[xenopoet]

You are correct!

[justinkennethmail]

this is not zulu based. the afro carribean arts are based on west african forms from Angola and Ghana not from the Zulu land of South Africa. This form is also influenced by portugese and spanish sword fighting. But zulu and angola = two totally different ethnic groups with different languages and customs. American blacks believe that all Africans are one group, when they are actually hundreds and thousands of distinct tribes, many of whom hate each other.

[xenopoet]

We are well aware of this. Thank you for your observation and information. We american blacks do not believe that are africans are one group. The statement that you made generalizes us the same way you believe WE generalize native africans.

[amandablogger]

@santoure Trinidad is not the only country in which this art is practiced and it is called stick-licking elsewhere for example in Barbados.

[shango1963]

@justinkennethmail

...Greeks are never just Greeks when someone is talking about Greco-Roman civilization, but white/Western/European, even though they hated the Germanic peoples they considered beneath them technologically speaking. Africans are to be looked at in the same light as one looks at Whites or Asians.

[carbonlaminate]

@Liberate006A No. Most everyone has boxing and wrestling in their culture. There are only so many ways you can run, throw, punch, kick, swing a stick; so it isn't surprising that some African martial arts resemble Asian arts.

[Raposamandinga]

"You gonna get your knuckles smacked"- "That keeps you humble" good point. I think the african slaves, from Angola and Congo, in Brasil had developed a similiar style which is nowdays extinct. Good vid. P.S. I APOLOGIZE to SANTOURE, I pressed the negative button instead of the positive one in your comment, I'M SORRY.

[santoure]

The two stick Kalinda is known as Kalinda Dé Baton [French Creole for two stick Kalinda] this form of Kalinda is disappearing from the island and it is now only known to the oldest batonyè warriors. In the old days a youth willing to learn Kalinda would visit a La Court [yard] were her would be taught by a Mèt [master] all of these tradition have been fading from the culture of Afro-Trins but along with a revival of the French Creole language of Afro-Trinis came a revival in our martial art.

[santoure]

in the Kalinda martial art, a stick fighter is known as a batonyè. It is said by Trinidadian anthropologists that the Kalinda came to Trinidad through slaves arriving from Angola, in Trinidad the slaves used Kalinda as a form of self defense and also as a highly effective method of intimidation for their French, Spanish and English masters.

[santoure]

The song in the background is called pwizonyè lévé [prisoners arise!] it is about an old Trinidadian slaver who was the terror of the slave, his name was Congo Bara.

chorus

pwizonyè lévé mété limyè bay kongo Bawa li sé léwa!

[Prisioners arise and put a light [prayer] for congo bara he is the king!

[WarriorBlackBanner]

god willing, one day i would love to learn the trinidad stick fighting. my dad told me in the old day the fights use to be fully contact.