Filipino Martial Arts / Long Beach
Draw to Draw.
The Filipino art of meeting the strike inside the strike. Blade, stick, and empty hand, taught with the discipline the tradition demands.
The Filipino art of meeting the strike inside the strike. Blade, stick, and empty hand, taught with the discipline the tradition demands.
Sabayan means simultaneous. To meet the draw with the draw. To answer not after the strike but inside it.
Sabayan Kali is a discipline within the Filipino martial arts. The work begins with the weapon because the weapon teaches the truth of distance, timing, and intention faster than the empty hand can. What is built with stick and blade carries over into every other tool a person has.
This is a practice for adults who want serious training. Footwork, structure, sensitivity, and the principles that make a small movement count. There is no contract, no belt rank, no theater. Only the work, repeated until it becomes the way you move.
Triangles, evasion, and angles. The body moves first so the weapon never has to recover.
Single weapon, double weapon, long and short. Weapons train principles. Principles outlast weapons.
The same shapes without the tool. Trapping, locks, takedowns, and the boxing of the islands.
The first hour covers fundamentals. Footwork, single stick, and the core sensitivity drills.
The second hour opens into sparring and applied work for students who are ready.
Plan for around two hours on the floor. Bring water and clothes you can move in.
A practitioner of the Filipino martial arts who teaches the way the art was taught to him. Direct, traditional, and grounded in the work.
Years of training under his teachers shaped the curriculum he runs on Wednesday afternoons. The intention is not to produce performers. It is to produce people who can move, think, and stay calm under pressure.
"What is given to me, I give to you, the way it was given."
The class meets Wednesday at noon in Long Beach. Send a note so we can talk briefly and confirm your spot on the floor.
train@sabayankali.com →