The Villabrio system of Filipino martial arts was the first I was exposed to, training with Danny Inosanto in the late 70’s. One of the things I found most brilliant is that it broke the possible routes to attack into just five “angles”–2 o’clock, 10, 5, 7 and right down the middle. Anything coming at you has to come down one of those angles…more or less. Sure, you might have to look sideways at it, squint a little, rotate the clock face a tad…but ANYTHING coming at you had to “more or...
Published on March 22, 2018 08:33