Escrima Circular Strikes

Video Transcript

"Okay now I'm going to show some, show the Linear Strike Straight Line, I'm going to show some Circular which they call Rotunda, Artiko or Sirkulo, those are three names for the Circular Strikes, okay. So, I want one here, Linear and I'm going to follow up with another one, that's a Circular there. I want here and I follow up like that. Okay. I'm going to come on the other side now. If I want one here, here's two. I'm going to come on my head and go on the same spot. Okay. Now, three. Okay. And four, his arms up, he puts his arms up just to show a hitting point, four and five. Okay. I could also come down on the clavicle, the collarbone. Put this right here. This was my X, this is an X Pattern, one, two. That's linear, but I could turn into Circular. I can go one, two on that side and then on his right shoulder, okay. So notice the motion of my arms. Like a circle motion. One, here I can come here, okay, okay. So I'm basically, I'm doubling up, okay, I'm doubling up with the Circular motion, I'm not doing this. I'm not doing that. There's no power in that. I'm going, one, getting full strikes. Just like that. Okay. These are the Circular Strikes of Eskrima. There's many more, there's a figure eight strikes going down, up, and there's some going down, but these are the more Circular right here, okay, Sirkulo, Arko, Rotunda."