A film clip from Fighting Sticks of Arnis featuring knife expert Grandmaster Bram Frank teaching the large Filipino Knife or Bolo. Bram is also a renowned knife maker with an emphasis on the folding tactical knife, which he teaches in seminars across America. His school is the Common sense self defense street combat. We quote: “In all ages of mankind warriors carried weapons, citizens carried weapons, for with a weapon even a child can be king. In CSSD-SC we teach conceptual weapons usage. Unlike traditional empty hand arts, CSSD-SC teaches weapons usage first to allow for understanding reality of combat. Knife teaches stick, stick teaches empty hand, a one way progression for it doesn’t work in reverse”.
Fighting Sticks of Arnis… The Filipino Bolo
Written by Jon Braeley
Leading documentary filmmaker and author with thirty feature length movies on Martial Arts, Buddhism, Chinese medicine and Zen meditation. Jon has spent his life in the practice of martial arts and is a Karate 6th dan. He has been featured in Black Belt Magazine, Kendo World and many other leading publications.