PRACTICAL SELF-DEFENSE WITH ESKRIMA 25253

Practical Self-Defense & Martial Arts: An Introduction to Eskrima

🔹 Gain Confidence. Improve Reflexes. Learn to Defend Yourself. 🔹

Discover the power of Eskrima, a dynamic Filipino martial art that combines stick fighting, footwork, and self-defence techniques. This 8-week interactive course will teach you practical skills to protect yourself while enhancing coordination, agility, and awareness.

Course Breakdown:

🗓 Weeks 1-2: Introduction & Basic Stick Flow

✅ Introduction to Eskrima: Principles & benefits

✅ Basic stick handling: Grips, stances & safety

✅ Stick flow drills: Single & double-stick patterns, strikes, & defenses

✅ Partner drills: Developing coordination through simple drills

🗓 Weeks 3-4: Footwork Fundamentals

✅ Essential stances, stepping techniques & movement strategies

✅ Integrating footwork with stick strikes & defences

✅ Partner exercises: Enhancing mobility in real-world applications

🗓 Weeks 5-6: Pattern Drills & Reflex Training

✅ Advanced stick patterns to sharpen reflexes & precision

✅ Reaction drills to improve real-time decision-making

✅ Partner reflex drills to simulate real-life scenarios

🗓 Week 7: Translating Stick Movements to Empty-Hand Techniques

✅ Adapt stick techniques for empty-hand defense

✅ Flow drills for smooth and effective movement

✅ Defensive techniques: Blocks, parries, and counters

🗓 Week 8: Real-Life Self-Defense Applications

✅ Scenario-based training: Applying skills in real-world situations

✅ Practicing responses to common attacks

✅ Final review, Q&A, and individual skill assessment

No experience necessary! Open to all fitness levels.

Empower yourself with practical self-defense skills—sign up today!

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This course is supported by the TEC (Tertiary Education Commission) to assist with literacy, numeracy and wellbeing needs of students. You must attend 80% of the class. At the same time we hope you will learn other useful and interesting skills and have a lot of fun learning with us.