Welcome to White Tiger Combat Martial Arts

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Its not that White Tiger Combat looks to bring the days of medieval warriors to our streets, but if a weapon as effective as the sword is capable of being learned, then why not learn it.  Our Katana / Wakizashi training in White Tiger Kempo Combat presents the sword as a go to weapon for life or death combat.  For the dreaded moment you run out of ammo.  They may have said "don't take a knife to a gun fight" but they didn't say anything about a sword

Do you practive with the Nunchaku and think you are skilled swinging them around and flaring them.  Do you have the battle of the guards scene from Enter the Dragon on in the background while spinning the chucks as hard as you can?  

Here is a challenge.  While spinning them as hard as you can without breaking the flow of the spin, enter into a combination fo strikes as hard and fast as you can.  

Was that easy or difficult?  Did you bang your head or hand?  Do you have a bloody lip now?  lets work on how to use the Nunchaku for real.  

The Nunchaku is a classic weapon associated with Martial Arts training.  It was put to use and made famous by Bruce Lee in all of his movies, but the incredible battle against Dan Inosanto in Game of Death show cased such amazing skill, as both warriors demonstrated how to combine the Nunchaku and the attacks with hand and foot.  Recently, the Nunchaku hit the silver screen again as Keanu Reeves put the Nunchaku in the hands of John Wick.  Reeves demonstration of the Nunchaku reminded many movie lovers of the famous weapon.  In White Tiger Kempo Combat when first training with Nunchaku, students find out how hard it is to actually strike with the Nunchaku and keep the weapons moving.  Unlike Bruce Lee and Keanu Reeves in their movies, It is incredibly difficult for a Nunchaku user to spin and hit or hit and spin.  We don't use the Nunchaku to be cheerleaders 

The Bo & Jo Staff are effective long range weapons.  Within the White Tiger Kempo Combat system the Bo & Jo staff training is designed for combat scenarios that both Law Enforcement and Military 

personnel may find themselves in. 

Is this another weapon you get spinning and flaring?  Did you stop to realize the most effective strike with the staff is a variety of jabs?  Is that the difference with combat and sport?

Put on display by Jeff Speakman in the movie "The Perfect Weapon", Kempo makes strong use of combat sticks and incorporates the stick as a key weapon in the Kempo practitioners arsenal.  The sticks in picture are more Arnis, Kali, Escrima sticks as they are a little longer than the usual Kempo sticks.  The difference between the stick fighting applications should be examined from the point of Kempo having such heavy involvement of the hands and feet.  The body is the primary use of weapon, while the systems like Arnis, Kali and Escrima place emphasis on the weapon. 

Whether Kali, Arnis, Escrima or Kempo, the sticks have a place in Combat.  Practitioners should take the time to become proficient in stick fighting. YOu don't have to be a master at twirling them around, but it take a look at our "Bob beatdown" series where we take weapons to the bob training dummy by Century martial Arts and focus weapon attacks on him.