How to Use a Sai Weapon

Video Transcript

"Alright now, how to use a Sai. We're going to go over, like some combinations of way to put each technique together. And not just in standing but, our stances, basic karate stances in martial arts. OKay. Alright now, when we do our punches with the sai, do it the same way, straight through, turn that hand all the way over. Now we're going to, the same thing with our strikes, you do it, out, and back. Alright, now what were you doing, when we do the basic flip out, we're doing a strike to either someone's chest or to another weapon that's coming at us to block it. Strike it out, bring it back, punch. Now when we do straight up this is for a block, so something is coming straight up at us, we're going to get up, block, grab, move it out of the way, punch. Or, come up, block, move it out of the way, strike. And right there we would move it out of the way, strike to the head, or the throat. Use it, the throat, the solo-plexes, parts of the ribs because it's small but very strong. This is probably the strongest weapon there is. You don't see anything really breaking it too often. Pressure points in the neck you can get to, pressure points on the ears you can get to, your temple, your eyes. So it's a perfect weapon to, it's strong but small in the areas that we use. Alright now, I'll show you a combination, another combination. We're going to get into a stance, a core stance, we're going to block high, we're going to block low, and now we're going to step, slide this low one is going to come around and strike to the neck. Alright, so block, and when we bring it from here we're going to bring it up, it's the same concept as the one going straight over. We're just moving our hand around and sideways. Now once we do that we're going to come and poke. So block, strike, poke. A little bit more, Psh, Psh, Psh. Now the Sais, the funny thing about sais is that with a martial arts gate, you want to make sure that your gate is short when you do the sais. Compared to most weapons, or you want it longer. So most times you want your, to be all the way through so it doesn't get stuck on your uniform. OKay, because that's one of the big difficulties with the weapon that comes, that you always put on your arm because it can get stuck and get hard to use. So either roll it all the way down or roll it all the way up."