I receive numerous enthusiastic requests to demonstrate our Spanish dagger system so people can better understand what we do.
We differ from many research groups in that everything we teach is based on direct personal transmission. We do not teach interpretations reconstructed from transcripts or historical fragments. That important work of rediscovery is best left to dedicated researchers. The material we carry was never lost; it simply fell out of common use and, for a time, was concealed from public view during my years living within sections of the local Spanish community where it had taken on darker applications.
We now live in times when understanding edged-weapon methods is an unfortunate but necessary part of realistic self-protection. By understanding the skill set, we can train to counter it, and ultimately protect lives. We do not present this material to glorify violence or for financial gain.
Our KORA Pencak Silat provides the ideal training framework through which we teach and explore this hybrid system, allowing us to contextualise and pressure-test the methods safely and responsibly.
In this video, we demonstrate how we train with the KORA dagger, drawing from Spanish methods, Filipino Martial Arts (FMA), and other traditional systems, such as Pencak Silat.
This is a sanitised version presented for historical research and educational purposes. Much of what was essential to know about duelling had already been established by the 1500s.
The core concept shown here was passed to me through direct transmission in the mid-1980s. The corkscrew motion featured is a fundamental and recurring movement across multiple blade traditions.
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