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CHAPTER 3 SINGLE AND DOUBLE SINAWALICourse Learning Objectives: At the end of this chapter, the students are expected to: Discuss the mechanics of single sinawali. Perform properly the single sinawali. INTRODUCTIONSinawali is the double-cane method of fighting of arnis, escrima and kali. The name si...

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CHAPTER3SI NGLEAND DOUBLESI NAWALI Course Learning Objectives: At the end of this chapter, the students are expected to: 1. Discuss the mechanics of single sinawali. 2. Perform properly the single sinawali. INTRODUCTION Sinawali is the double-cane method of fighting of arnis, escrima and kali. The name sinawali came from the Tagalog word “sawali,” a woven split bamboo mats used as walls of nipa huts. The crisscrossing movements of sinawali weapons fighting mimic the pattern of these mats hence the name. The term "Sinawali" refers to the activity of ‘weaving’, and is applied to the art of Philippine martial art Eskrima with reference to a set of two-person, two-weapon exercises. Sinawali exercise provides Eskrima practitioners with basic skills and motions relevant to a mode of two-weapon blocking and response method called Doblete. Sinawali training is often introduced to novices in order to develop certain fundamental skills including: body positioning and distance relative to an opponent, rotation of the body and the proper turning radius, recognition of one’s center of gravity, eye-hand coordination, target perception and recognition, increased ambidexterity, recognition and performance of rhythmic structures for upper body movement, and muscular developments important to the art, especially, the wrist and forearm regions.

DISCUSSION 1. Single Sinawali Single Sinawali Basic  Swing the cane to strike the opponent’s temple  Withdraw the cane  Swing it down to strike the opponent’s knee  Withdraw the cane and place it above your shoulder. Advance  Strike opponent’s right temple with right cane  Withdraw right hand passing the left shoulder to strike opponent’s knee  Withdraw right hand and position it above the left shoulder to strike opponent’s temple

Basically, the SINGLE SINAWALI would have 4 strikes(temples and knees) Position A

1- Basic position – both sticks would be on each shoulder. 2- Right hand strikes the left temple 3- Right hand stirkes to left knee

Image shows the single sinawali using the right hand with stick hitting the left temple and left knee of your opponent

Position B 1- Back to basic position 2- Left hand to right temple 3- Left hand to right knee

Image shows the single sinawali using the left hand with stick hitting right temple and right knee of your opponent

2. Double Sinawali

Whereas, in the Single Sinawali one hand does each side (i.e.. right hand right side, left hand left side), in the Double Sinawali, start in right chamber of your body, First the right hand strikes a left temple, then the left hand strikes the left knee, then the right hand hits the right temple to complete the right (chamber) hand side of the sinawali. In other words, hit the temple. Then start now with the left chamber of your body, the left hands strikes the right temple, then right arm strikes the right knee, then the left hand strikes the left temple to complete the sequesnce form the left chamber.

Double Sinawali

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Begin with the right hand up and the left hand tucked under the right shoulder Strike the opponent’s temple with the right hand As you retract the right hand to the left shoulder strike the opponent’s knee with the left hand As you strike a backhand to the opponent’s temple with the right hand, retract the left hand to the left shoulder

Image: Credit to the owner. Shows the sequence of double sinawali.

DOUBLE SINAWALI a. Right chamber position

Image shows the hitting sequence of double sinawali from right chamber.

b. Left chamber position

Image shows the hitting sequence of double sinawali form the left chamber....