The Art of Boxing Training
To understand my philosophy of boxing training, let us first examine the art of fencing. Traditionally, the role of fencing among the aristocracy was not to prepare for war or a possible duel. They practiced fencing and hired fencing masters for their children because they developed skills through fencing that they could apply to other…
Kali: Filipino Stick Fencing
Just as in my Western Boxing program, in this program the approach is that the martial art is a tool through which we learn about ourselves. In learning a specific movement, we learn to think in steps, and to do this we develop a particular form of perception. We concentrate, i.e. we focus on the…
Panantukan: Filipino Dirty Boxing
This program is based on the movements of Western boxing, but it could also be said to be a fusion of Western boxing with the principles of Kali. The program I have created consists of three steps that build on and complement each other. In order to understand the principles and to work out specific…
Kali: Play!
In this program Kali is not presented as a martial art, but rather as a skill-building game. The individual elements are used as building blocks to create a series of individual movements which develop memory, creativity, a sense of rhythm, coordination, balance and joint mobility. With the development of sports science, there have been many…
Gymnastics
Gymnastics originally comes from the Greek word “gymnos”, meaning “to train naked” – a reference to the fact that athletes at the time exercised naked. Nowadays, gymnastics is mainly a preparatory exercise that trains the body in a general and versatile way, i.e. it involves natural human movements. The exercises and exercise sequences are extremely…