Colombian Esgrima: 6 vs 1 Machete & Stick Duel

Da'Mon, excellent scholar of ethnic fencing from Latinamerica and African cultures

Oh man.. Love dude's necklace, just like a forged raptor claw..... I could hammer one out in about half an hour..

I seen my buddy take down his brother with a machete with a mudd Rock

uhmm, i dont know if there is a connection between Colombia and the Philippines cause, we Filipinos has a martial art called Eskrima or Kali as it was known internationally, its a type of martial art which incorporates blades and weapons. The drill also uses stick and we call it Arnis.

So I’m not gonna say Cory was a downgrade at all, far from it; every episode he’s in is funny and fun and awesome to watch. But it’s really good to see Brian back in learning weapons with Jason. It’s good to see the two goofballs doing stuff

Just kali....like kali escrima....

Jason was watching at the end and thinking, "if he misses at all, this will definitely bring up the injury counter.

+1 for Age of Empires!

las damas is more like ''the ladys''

Love Damon he is very knowledgeable is a great martial artist, and everyone I have met who has met him has said he is a wonderful person. As a HEMA fencer you start to notice reoccurring moves across mutiple diffrent styles of martial arts which tells you that it worked and was effective.

esgrima 🤺 caucana

There is no such thing as human nature. We are not pre programmed robots. You cannot predict what any person will do in every situation.

Suuuper cool and interesting.

I hate to say it but your goofy attitudes makes you two really hard to watch.

looks like morris dancing

As a student of Filipino Martial Arts, this is interesting. You can see the influence of the 16th century Spanish Acapulco-Manila Galleon trade in this.

The Philippine Arnis (also known as Eskrima or Kali) is basically the lovechild of Columbian Esgrima and Southeast Asian Silat.

We even call ourselves "eskrimadores".

I really hope you finally get in touch with Doug Marcaida. He's become one of the best ambassadors for Filipino Martial Arts.

This rules. I love Da'Mon and his videos.

Thumbs up for the AoE reference

Love your shows. please drop the background music / noise

Machete y bordón

Born in Puerto Tejada valle del cauca y choco

The stick pro bordón Is in Y form

I seen the machetes fight. Is the terror scared if you know use this weapon

I actually mentioned Da’mon as a potential for “Ultimate Self Defense Championship”. He’s awesome.

Really great to see Maestro Stith getting some shine.

So this is basically a bootleg version of Filipino Martial arts.

This guy is scam! You are stealing FMA and just changing your BS term. Your movement is a broken kali movement thats why you look fake

Escrima is from the Philippines, not Africa.

Everyone here commenting on this saying that it’s fma, y’all know google is a thing right? If you type in Colombia grima or Colombian machete fencing, not only can you see videos of people in Colombia doing this, but there’s also a Wikipedia article on it with links to actual academic work on Colombian and Latin American machete fencing. He even mentions it in the video. No what he’s doing is not based off fma it is based of Afro Colombian martial arts.

You can certainly see similarities since it’s a very similar weapon combination and the human body is only able to move so much, but similarities are not indicative of connection. Both bats and dolphins developed echolocation to survive, but they did not evolve from each other. European Longsword and Japanese katana fencing have very similar guard positions and movements, but they most definitely are NOT derivative of each other.

Also y’all clearly don’t know Spanish, esgrima is Spanish for fencing. It literally translates to machete fencing, I’m sorry but fma did not invent the word esgrima, escrima, nor eskrima.

Same goes for Cali vs kali. Cali is a literal city in Colombia, Santiago de Cali where several schools of machete fencing are located, it has nothing to do with fma kali. It was founded in 1536 . The name comes from the indigenous populations that were there before the Spanish ever showed up, the Calima.

Y’all can google this very easily.

@The Modern Rogue, what martial art is this

Mmmme parece que este pofe toca de oído. Mmmmh.

Traditional Colombian grima has a lot of continuos blade contact, I loved the drills they do but is a very different stile of grima for sure

interesting similar to to fma eskrima but mixed with a bit of the as we call kokobalé in Puerto Rico

Bordon in collector circles refers to various types of walking sticks. I've seen one with a spike at the bottom end, probably for thrusting it into the ground (for use as spit rack or perhaps a tentpole, as this example had Y shaped top) but definitely a thrust with it would be more dangerous than the top part.

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Nice stuff. Very interesting.

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There are a lot of words around meaningless pseudo-techniques that will never be applied.

SOY COLOMBIANO

Haha you ignorant people that is the ancient fighting techniques of Filipino Martial Arts that's Kali

🤔 so, tons, of lower class had swords and sticks, and knew how, to defend themselves, and cut SUGARCANE, and they all let someone with a horse and whip, that didn't resemble them, have control.. not buying the story, or cartoon drawings.. let's try again, with a different STORY.. is believing in these drawn pictures and word of mouth TALES, OPTIONAL?? DID EVERYONE just stay still, for the artist, to DRAW the slavery scene.. I have SO many QUESTIONS 🤔😉

As a swordsman with Backsword, Cutlass etc. I really like the Colombian styles of Machete fencing. Especially this drills here with the steel Machete has many familiar movements, feels more close to me than what I saw so far from the Haitian styles of Machete use.

Mucha teoría la pelea real es muy diferente

I love seeing both the African and European influences in the fighting style, especially visible during the free sparring exercise. And watching the Masters footwork, I was completely unsurprised to hear that he had studied capoeira!

ATX combat sports represent!

We have a style of fighting similar to this that develop from the slave trade...in Puerto Rico it's called bastón y daga. Not to be confused with GUASABARA (which is another machete stick fighting style of mostly Taino/Kalingo culture)

Colombia and Guatemala are very similar, The machete is very used as tool and also as weapons and it is very representative of our culture, it is a part of most male indigenous customs, you would see the guard of the machete ornamente often made out of leather, the word "Bordon" which was refer as a Stick duel is the equivalent as a walking stick on our culture, Indigenous authorities in a village or town will have one that represents a level or hierarchy most of the time given to the elderly ones, respected by the village because of they age, honor , skills with women, his ability to drink alcohol and mastery in the art of machete fighting or also knows as "machetear" in Guatemalan Spanish.

Love this. Truly pragmatic fighting style, for fighting with farm tools that anyone might have nearby.