Kama Techniques in Martial Arts

Video Transcript

"Michael Lewis here from Christian Martial Arts, on behalf of Expert Village. We're going to talk today about six traditional martial arts weapons. OK, we're going to go over two techniques with the Kamas and how they would be used against the bow staff. He throws a down strike, I throw pretty much what would be the equivalent in open hand karate as an X block. I catch the weapon in, because of the blades it etches into the weapon, it gives me a better hold of it, but then I rotate it over away from my body and then I slice in towards the neck. I can also, to cause less damage, slice in towards the arm and take it away from the bow staff and therefore he does not have control over his bow staff anymore. And then I can follow through with any number of cutting techniques. The second technique is from a thrust. I'm standing here, he thrust the weapon, I block it out of the way, I can hook it back in towards my body and cut the arm again. The same technique pretty much but from the opposite side of the weapon. To simplify it a little bit more, he throws a thrust, I block. I hook, and hook into the arm. This strike here can also not only hook into the arm, but also hook into the side of the head, side of the face, or into the other arm, anywhere that is vulnerable. And those are just two of the techniques of the Kamas used against the bow staff."