Filipino stick fighting
Stick fighting is excellent fitness training, strengthens the entire body and promotes a sense of distance. Selected elements of stick fighting are often trained as a spectacular sequence of fighting movements.
I teach Filipino stick fighting (Escrma), in which we first train with one stick and later with two. The techniques and movements can be transferred to everyday objects (e.g. pens) and are therefore highly effective for self-defence.
In addition to strength, conditions, coordination and self-defence, stick fighting addresses the following school-relevant goals:
Pedagogical Goals
- Learning to learn
- Becoming aware of the learning process
- Mistakes as a prerequisite for successful learning
- Using the principle of pausing to rediscover and utilise ease, joy and curiosity in learning.
- This makes learning more effective.
- Freedom of thought and feeling as the basis for free decisions
- Discover and develop alternative courses of action
Social Goals
- Developing esteem and respect for the partner and the weapon
- Learning and accepting rules for working together
- Learning rituals
- Channelling your own aggression
Sensory / sensorimotor goals
- Differentiation between focussed and panoramic or peripheral perception
- Development of body awareness (tension – relaxation – ideal tension)
- Recognising your own feelings (fear, anger, joy, …)
- Holistic sensory perception
- Sense of distance and space
- Sense of time – timing and rhythm
Motoric goals
- Eye-hand coordination
- Right – left coordination
- Cross coordination
- Isolation of joints and muscles
- Coordination of muscle chains
- Automation of movement sequences
Facts
- Language: German
- Time: Tuesday, 4.15 – 5.45pm
- Level: Grade 5 – Grade 9
- Price: 70 CHF / lesson
