Functional JKD Hand Trapping For Self Defense and MMA

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76 videos
5.5 hours of instruction
Over 2 hours of video breakdowns of trapping used in live sparring or fighting so you can see just what trapping looks like against a skillful, uncooperative opponent.

Based on Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do approach to sparring-based hand trapping. A “For The Street” empty hand program.

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You might be wondering, "Why should I invest in this Jeet Kune Do Hand Trapping For Self-Defense and MMA program? Why do I need functional hand trapping?” Very good question.When I bring up hand trapping to MMA fighters, I usually get responses like, “Hand Trapping? Isn’t that from the Wing Chun style in the Ip Man movies? Or what Bruce Lee used in Enter The Dragon? Or the techniques Brandon Lee (whom I trained at the Inosanto Academy) used in Rapid Fire?” Yes and no.The hand trapping that most people think of does come from self-defense arts of Wing Chun Kung Fu and Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do. But what you see on the big screen is the cinematic version which requires a well-trained, cooperative partner or stunt man to make it work.But what about trapping in a real fight, especially against a skilled aggressor in a competition or self-defense situation? Can one really apply hand trapping against an MMA fighter? Or is it all just fantasy martial arts that don’t work in the real world? (We’ve all seen the videos of kung fu Masters being easily beaten by an amateur MMA fighter in China.) Let me assure you that trapping, when trained correctly, does not just work, but can give you a big advantage against a trained striker in a self-defense or sport environment. Let me explain.When I was nine years old I endured a horrible situation where I was abducted by an adult predator. This is where my obsession with self-defense started.I first began learning hand trapping in 1980 from Sifu Dan Inosanto and Sifu Richard Bustillo, both students of the great Bruce Lee. In fact, Inosanto was the one who Bruce Lee chose to take over the teaching duties at Lee’s Los Angeles Chinatown Jeet Kune Do school when Lee began doing movies. As the years passed, I became an instructor and Inosanto’s demonstration partner in class. (He taught 18 classes a week in Los Angeles and I was at every one of them.) I also accompanied him on US and international seminars and headed up the Inosanto Academy of Martial Arts demo team.I later spent many years training and traveling with Sifu Larry Hartsell, the man known as the most formidable fighter of all of Bruce Lee’s students. Trapping was an integral portion of his self-defense training.Decades later, after continuous study of many martial arts, movie appearances and choreography, magazine covers, coaching MMA and BJJ (Brazilian jiu-jitsu) world champions, and being inducted to the exclusive Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame, I turned my attention back to Bruce Lee’s art of Jeet Kune Do. Although I used many JKD principles and techniques when I coached UFC and BJJ fighters, I hadn’t done a deep dive into Bruce Lee’s art in quite a while. Earning my black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu while training and coaching MMA at a very high-level required extreme concentration and focus. When I changed a portion of my focus back to Jeet Kune Do, I did so with new eyes earned through a great deal of fighting and sparring experience with world class athletes. This reexamination gave me an ever higher regard for the genius of Bruce Lee and his JKD. He was so far ahead of his time.While scrutinizing the trapping portion of JKD, I realized that, previously, I hadn’t fully grasped the importance of this area. I used it often when choreographing Hollywood movies, but I didn’t have much success applying trapping during sparring in my younger days, and I didn’t see anyone else applying hand trapping in fighting either. So I didn’t see it as practical in real fight conditions. That was a mistake.There is footage of Bruce Lee sparring (with Sifu Inosanto and Sifu Taky Kimura) in 1967 at Ed Parker’s International Karate Tournament in Long Beach, California. Not tournament style, but full contact with kicking and striking to all targets, plus throwing. It was Jun Fan JKD sparring. And guess what Lee used successfully in those brief sparring sessions? Yes, hand trapping. And very effectively.In 2016 I started on a mission to discover how I could apply hand trapping in vigorous sparring against skillful opponents. I applied my science background (I graduated in biology from USC) and methodically tested and retested the various types of hand trapping against a variety of uncooperative opponents in the boxing, kickboxing, and MMA environments. I assumed it was going to be a long, difficult process, but I was surprised at how quickly positive results appeared. The truth is, if you have developed enough striking skill to defend yourself and anticipate punches and kicks coming, adding the fight-specific hand trapping maneuvers is fairly simple. It takes some drilling of the individual elements to ingrain the techniques, then sparring time to get the timing. If you follow the training outlines provided with this course, I’m sure that you will gain this hand trapping advantage in a relatively short period of time. Just like my students have.During this experimentation process, longtime instructor Sifu Richard Bustillo, a Hawaiian born and raised boxer and student of Bruce Lee, visited Hawaii for a seminar. Chatting outside before the seminar started, I told him (with some surprise in my voice) that I had been applying trapping in the ring at the Palolo Boxing gym. Even compound trapping. He peered at me with a gleam in his eye and said with no surprise, “That’s cause you know how to fight!” Lesson learned.Hand trapping adds a completely unique facet to kickboxing, MMA, or self-defense. Instead of just blocks and strikes, trapping procedures allow us to remove barriers to our striking or momentarily keep the opponent from striking while we counter. This provides a significant advantage over someone who is not familiar with hand trapping.It has many practical uses for self-defense as well. Over the years, I’ve had many JKD trained bouncers tell me that they used trapping regularly to deal with unruly patrons.Trapping is also a great way to get to the clinch for control or takedowns. In a self-defense situation, it provides an excellent way to preemptively stop an attack before the irate aggressor unleashes. And trapping is absolutely essential for stifling a violent aggressor’s attempt at drawing a weapon. If you want to enjoy the benefits of hand trapping for self-defense, in sparring, or for combat sports such as MMA, boxing, or Thai boxing (Muay Thai), you need thorough training in trapping methods that work against truly resisting opponents, and you need to know how to practice those techniques to optimize your skill. This is what this program provides.The Functional JKD Hand Trapping For Self-Defense and MMA program is an extremely in-depth certification course on how to apply a variety of traps in various situations where hand trapping will give you a distinct advantage. You will use trapping as an additional facet of your kickboxing, MMA, or self-defense strategy. After practicing the various drills included in this program, you too will be able to apply trapping in sparring, self-defense, or combat sports competitions. I even added a short section on how you can use hand trapping in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. (It’s actually easy in BJJ.)All this may sound good, but we know that talk is cheap. That is why I’ve included over 2 hours of sparring clips where I break down hand trapping as it is applied in real time in live sparring or fighting. And it’s not just me doing the trapping. I have clips of my students here in Hawaii along with clips from students in Ohio, Illinois, Virginia, and Italy all successfully applying hand trapping in sparring. Even my wife Sarah (a JKD Unlimited instructor & BJJ For The Street black belt) makes a few appearances applying trapping in sparring.I put in a lot of extra time and effort to include sparring breakdowns so that you can see how it actually looks in fighting. Instead of just theoretical demonstration on a cooperative partner, you need to see what it actually looks like in order to better understand how you can apply the moves yourself. I even break down examples of hand trapping applied in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA competitions.One word of warning. There are a lot of people teaching what they refer to as “functional trapping”, but most teach methods that haven’t been pressure tested. These instructors often show techniques that only work because their trained partner is cooperating. Many of these instructors are sincere in their teaching, but sparring was never part of their training. They are merely passing on what they learned.In this day and age of constantly having a video camera handy on your phone, ask yourself why an instructor doesn’t show sparring footage of a technique if that technique is actually functional. If the instructor knows how to make the techniques work in sparring conditions, then they should be able to show the techniques in live sparring. (Unless they are older and no longer able to spar.) Unfortunately, much of the trapping that is taught as functional is actually the demonstration or cinematic side of the art.Then we have some instructors who resort to what I call “fake sparring” (I have a whole section on this in the program.) They move around with a partner to make their audience think they’re sparring, but it’s actually a choreographed routine. If you really know how to apply hand trapping in sparring, you don’t need to choreograph a fight scene in order to demonstrate the techniques. If you know how to do it, you can just get with a partner, turn on the video camera, and start sparring.None of the clips in this program were set up. They were extracted from actual sparring sessions where hand trapping was applied against a partner who didn’t want that trap to be applied; just like in a real fight. And with training, you will be able to able to apply these as well.Do you want to take your kickboxing, MMA, Jeet Kune Do, Muay Thai, Karate, Kenpo, Tae Kwon Do, boxing, or other self-defense striking art to a higher level? Do you want to be able to play a game that your opponent isn’t even aware of? Then I highly encourage you to get this program and up your level. I don’t hold anything back, and, as always, I simply tell the truth as I have experienced it through applying the scientific method to martial arts. Honest martial arts is what we’re after. Pressure testing is the way.For those who want to eventually teach my Functional JKD Hand Trapping For Self-Defense and MMA, I’ve also designed this program as an instructor certification course. It’s the same program, but you will log rounds of drilling and moderate intensity, safe sparring and then send in tests to be reviewed. You will eventually become a certified Functional JKD Hand Trapping For Self-Defense and MMA instructor, making you eligible to teach this program in your school, to fighters, or in workshops and seminars. That’s a great way to spread the method while supplementing your income.

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Silat For The Street blends the most brutally efficient Silat techniques with the training methods and tactics of elite-level MMA.

Highly structured for fast skill development, and the drills are efficient, safe, and fun.
Learn how to defend yourself against larger, stronger, trained attackers, including those with an MMA background.
Organized curriculum and teaching outline that takes the guesswork out of teaching others. An effective teaching system translates to more satisfied students and greater income.

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You can purchase Silat For The Street Series 1 and Silat For The Street Series 2 individually or buy the Combo right away if you prefer.
Our modules are suitable for all levels from beginners to experienced martial artists.

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Series 1 includes 4 videos, one per student level 1,2,3,4.You can take your Instructor Level 1 test after you pass Level 4.
- Disc 1: 64 min
- Disc 2: 61 min
- Disc 3: 60 min
- Disc 4: 56 min
Series 2 includes 4 videos, one per student level 5,6,7,8. You can take your Instructor Level 2 test after you pass Level 8.
- Disc 5: 58 min
- Disc 6: 52 min
- Disc 7: 55 min
- Disc 8: 61 min
Why Choose Silat For The Street?
This unique certification program was developed by world renowned self-defense, silat, and MMA expert Burton Richardson.
- teaches highly effective real world street self-defense in an easy-to-learn, structured format.
- exploits the weaknesses of the body to prevail against a much larger, stronger attacker.
- is fun to learn and practice
- uses methods specifically designed to deal with MMA tactics and positions.
- is laid out in a logical, step by step manner to take anyone from beginner to expert.
Who is Silat For The Street for?
- The Pentjak Silat practitioner who wants to learn the all important details that make silat work and how to apply the art against a trained MMA fighter, taking him out of his “sport” environment.
- The MMA practitioner who wants to learn a system of true street self-defense that blends very well with MMA training. Learn how to alter your training to be street effective.
- The traditional Martial Artist who wants to learn another method that is highly adaptable and is open to another perspective on highly functional street self-defense.
- The beginner Martial Artist who wants to learn in a well-organized step by step presentation. Everything is laid out to go from beginner to expert.
- The advanced Martial Artist who wants to understand the minute details that make Silat work, and learn how to apply the art against an MMA-trained fighter.
- The hobbyist martial artist who wants to start teaching and needs a solid curriculum, at an affordable price that is easy to share with students of all levels.
- The veteran Martial Arts teacher who wants to have another program to introduce to his students, which keeps students excited, help increase revenues and retention rate.
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Silat For The Street is a complete curriculum that follows a logical progression to take students from beginner to advanced level all the way to instructor certification. We have taken all of the guess work out and made it easy for you to teach this cutting edge curriculum.

We are keeping the teaching license fee low, so anyone can afford it.With just one student on a one-year contract, paying $100/month, you will make a profit on your investment (even after buying all the DVDs and taking all the tests up to Instructor level)

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- Teaching has never been easier. We have done all the work for you! What you will teach is organized and easily accessible on the DVDs, including techniques,training methods and drills.
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- We do not take a cut of your profits! You charge your students what you want and keep 100% of the tuition! (all students are required to activate a membership with of our association $50/year)
- You can start teaching even before you reach Instructor level! This is a great way to get more training partners so you can get to instructor level faster. Your name is on all certificates even before you reach Instructor level! Your students cannot bypass you to train directly with us without your consent.
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Solo Sinawali and Karenza Flow

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"My Solo Sinawali (double sticks) and Karenza program starts with the beginning fundamentals of sinawali stroking and footwork, then takes you step by step to the expert level. Instructor Certification is available for those who want to teach this program. Regardless of whether you want to be able to move the weapons with speed, power, and precision for demonstrations, film work, to enhance your fighting ability, or for the all-important health and longevity benefits, this program will work for you. " Burton Richardson- Black Belt Magazine Hall of Famer

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BURTON RICHARDSON'S EXPERTISE

Burton Richardson is known for his pressure-tested approach to functional self-defense to BJJ, MMA, and weaponry arts. An original Dog Brother (Lucky Dog) and Full Instructor under Guro Dan Inosanto, and a Kali Ilustrisimo instructor directly under the great Tatang Ilustrisimo, Burton travels the world teaching people the details and training methods that make the art highly functional in the real combat. But did you know that Burton was also a Karenza (forms) champion? Way back in 1991, Burton took first place in one of the largest FMA championships in the country: the Eskrima Coalition Championship in Stockton, California. His ability to move the sticks and his body fluidly and with purpose also got him into the movie industry where he did fight choreography for 12 feature films. Burton has garnered all his expertise to put together this easy to follow program that will take you from beginner to expert in a fun, engaging progression.

WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?

Anyone who wants to move and feel better now and for years to come from complete beginners to advanced practitioners.

How would being able to move the sticks with phenomenal flow help you? Guro Dan Inosanto says that his instructors touted the “almost magical” qualities of sinawali (double stick) training. Practitioners in their 70’s, 80’s, and even 90’s regularly retain an uncommon degree of mobility. It is a very low impact exercise with an element of resistance training. The motions gently encourage full body motion that leads to greater mobility and balance. Whether you are a young combat athlete or part of our older population, sinawali training can help you stay fit and limber longer.

I AM AN ATHLETE, WHY DO I NEED THIS PROGRAM?

For athletes, coordination carries over to almost all sports, especially because footwork is included with the double stick upper body motions. Do you want to fight better? You need to be smooth, accurate, and have the ability to move wherever you need to in a split second. Properly performed sinawali drills develop these abilities. That’s why many of the best stick fighters have outstanding Karenza. Do you want to have a fun and interesting way to keep your body loose and agile as you age? Knowing a variety of solo sinawali drills will maintain your range of motion and keep your muscles and neural connections firing.

I ALREADY TEACH, WHY DO I NEED THIS PROGRAM?

Teachers who need to demonstrate the art in order to get others interested. A good karenza is always impressive and gives insight to the depths of the Filipino Martial Arts. This program allows you to have a step by step blueprint to sharpen your own skills and teach your students.

I WORK IN THE MOVIE INDUSTRY, WHY DO I NEED THIS PROGRAM?

Every time I have trained a movie star (Keanu Reeves, Brandon Lee, etc.), I start them with sinawali drills to enhance their ability to move in a relaxed yet powerful manner. This really comes across on the big screen, and has proven invaluable to many actors and stunt performers.

Regardless of whether you want to be able to move the weapons with speed, power, and precision for demonstrations, film work, to enhance your fighting ability, or for the all-important health and longevity benefits, this program will work for you.

The program is broken down into three sections.

First quality movement and a progressive 12-Part Sinawali warm-up that introduces various types of hand and body movement. The set will ingrain many of the most important movements, the ABCs of double stick motion, along with several footwork patterns.
A wide variety of drills are introduced in the second section.
The third section introduces exercises that get progressively more demanding. It’s a fun workout that works your mind and body at the same time.

Learning to move the double sticks well will enhance many attributes that are essential for high level martial arts and better everyday living. Hone your footwork and accuracy while developing combat attributes such as speed, power, and coordination,, grace, fluidity, body mechanics, and flow. And it will help you to, as Burton often says, Enjoy Your Training!

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We also offer Partner Sinawali Universal Drill, Battlefiled Kali Knife, Battlefield Kali Single Stick, Battlefield Kali Sword.
Our certification courses are suitable for all levels from beginners to experienced martial artists.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART 1

1 Introduction

2 Practicality Of Sinawali Training

3 Quality Stroking

4 Three Basic Positions

5 Basic Patterns Of Motion

Footwork

6 Torsi – Upright posture or leaning back.

7 Female triangle – Replacement step and complete triangle.

8 Male triangle – Replacement step and complete triangle.

9 Hourglass – Female triangle and male triangle in and hourglass formation.

10 Square – Start at the bottom corner or top corner.

11 Freestyle with various footwork

Warm Up (WU) Sequence - Exercises 1-12

12 WU 1 Twisting Middle grip on stick, fanning

13 WU 2 Pumping

14 WU 3 Crossing thrusts, alternating which is on top, low to high then high to low.

15 WU 4 Upward figure 8, alternating which is on top.

16 WU 5 Parallel slashes on X

17 WU 6 Closed outside 4-count

18 WU 7 Fluid attack

19 WU 8 Walis Walis (golf swing)

20 WU 9 Horizontal parallel sunketes (curving thrusts), using the parallel slashes as a transition.

21 WU 10 Gunting into squat with roof and leg slash

22 WU 11 Open 4-count florettes

23 WU 12 Redondo 6

24 Full Warm Up facing the camera.

25 Full Warm Up facing away from the camera.

PART 2

26 Universal Sinawali Combination Solo

27 VARIOUS PATTERNS – Quality Is Paramount

28 Jab, Circle, Slash Open And Closed

29 Asterisk

30 Open 4-Count Doblete

31 Thrust To Slash

32 Redondo 10

33 Deconstructed Redondo 6

34 Closed Outside 4 Count With Redondo.

35 Closed Outside 4-Count With Witik And Redondo

36 “T” To Redondo 3 With Sempok Footwork

Redondo Fluid Attack Combinations

37 Redondo Fluid Attack Combination 1

38 Redondo Fluid Attack Combination 2

39 Redondo Fluid Attack Combination 3

40 Crossed Redondos To Fluid Attack

41 Witik Fluid Attack

42 Reverse Fluid Attack

PART 3

43 Helicopter To Payong To Transition

44 Slash To 2 Abanikos

45 Redondo 6-Count Transition To Upward 4-Count

46 Upward 4-Count Transition To Redondo 6-Count

47 Spinning Thrust

48 Burton’s Rift

49 Closing Remarks, Kali Philosopy, And Freestyle Karenza

50 Bonus 1 – Twirling

51 Bonus 2 – Kneeling Karenza

52 Bonus 3 – Freestyle Karenza

53 Bonus 4 – Short Karenza Set

54 Bonus 5 – Various Japan Clips

55 Bonus 6 – Tatang Ilustrisimo Sinawali Video Breakdown

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The complete series includes 3 parts
55 video clips total, 2.5 HOURS. Click on last image thumbnail to read the Table of Contents. Each section corresponds to an instructional video.
- Part 1- 55 minutes
- Part 2- 44 minutes
- Part 3- 49 minutes
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