The attacker delivers a high stab with his right hand. Punong Lakan Garitony Nicolas checks the attacker’s knife hand with his left hand while performing an upward cut on the elbow crook with his knife.
The attacker delivers a high stab with his right hand. Punong Lakan Garitony Nicolas checks the attacker’s knife hand with his left hand while performing an upward cut on the elbow crook with his knife.

Dan Inosanto once said that the knife is the backbone of the Filipino martial arts (FMA). The Philippines has an enduring blade culture and Filipino men in earlier times considered their attires incomplete without their knives on them. In some FMA schools, the stick is a mere training tool to teach the movements of the blade.

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