Before you start, you should have the students
run half a mile, and do lots of Karate kicking until
they start to sweat. When they start to sweat that is
when you begin the Eskrima technical training. If someone
is in the class just for entertainment and conceptual
understanding of the techniques so he can talk about it
later to friends, you dont need him. The reason is each
and everyone of your students should participate in the class,
and the class must have 50 % physical preparation training
before technical training is begin (in each class time).
This is because if the student is not TOUGH, he
can still lose against a simpler fighter who has trained
to be tough and doesnt give up, even though your student
may have many advanced techniques in his repertoire.
Martial arts is a continuous determination, and each
art can lose against the other, unless the presenter of
the art is TOUGH, persistent, and Knowlegeable, and also
CLEVER as well.