In the big picture...
- 99.9999% percent of the population of the world, don't know, don't care,
never will double stick fight or drill.
- About 75% of that .0000001% who do? Just train with the patty-cake, dance drills.
You know they never suit up, head-hunt and duke it out.
- that remaining 25% of the 75% of the .0000001% actually fight with
double sticks and the drills you see in that clip are an effort to do some
1, 2, 3 step moves for actual fighting.
I have been in this teeny-tiny silver percentage! In the Philippines we
fought/sparred with double sticks a lot. Mandatory emphasis. I learned...
* you beat the double stick drill by not doing the same drill!
* the patterns learned re-create mano-mano "Sinawali boxing patterns which
match actual boxing and "kuraty" moves. Good footwork work-out.
* these types of 1, 2, 3 movements are best done through the combat clock.
I have learned through time that done this way, they are very comprehensive,
hard to forget/ easy to remember. I like this way is better than giving them
random nicknames like "drive-by" etc.
* these 1,2,3 isolated steps? Soon start looking like classic drill patterns! There
is a common sense reason for this, but most FMA practitioners never go
through the proper progression for kindergarten to college to see this. They
just get shoved in at about 6th grade and start doing Heaven-Six
* these double stick combat steps on the combat clock are here
http://www.hockscqc.com/shop/product6.html And lastly, The Dog brothers have also broken the modern progression rules I mentioned above and have tried to develop an emphasis on double stick fighting moves as opposed to double stick, patty-cake, over-drilling. Which is very commendable and should be supported. If The DBs have a DVD on those drills too, people interested in the subject should get those too. It is important to support Mark Denny, the DBs and all FMA-ers and FMA subjects.
It is lonely sometimes being in that that remaining 25% of the 75% of the overall .0000001% .
Hock