Dan-Anderson-Arnis-Functional-twirling – Download – EN

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How functional twirling is done by  Grandmaster Dan Anderson, 9th Dan MA 80

In September 2019 GM Dan Anderson taught a Karate seminar in Paderborn and an Arnis seminar in Dortmund.
The topics of the Arnis  seminar were Functional twirling and 6 count drill with grabbing.

Twirling is not only swinging the strick around the body. You should be able, t0 put a meaning behind every movement. With stick and also empty handed. This is functional twirling.

GM Dan Anderson explains step by step all the movements, goes into the stick and empty hand applications, tells about timing and the unexpected movements.

This video has chapters.
Here is an explanation how they work and how they can be used: chapters in download videos

Content of the video:

00:00 Intro
00:27 Introduction by GM Dan Anderson
01:50 Twirling pattern: 5 techniques
02:45 Twirling pattern rear view
04:01 Single applications: stick
04:12 Number 1
04:50 Number 2
06:38 Number 3
11:06 Number 4
13:42 Questions: what does the left hand do?
15:41 Number 5
19:00 2 of the 4 pillars of MA 80
23:44 Bodymechanics
25:56 Single applications: empty hands
26:05 Empty hands: Number 1 + 2
27:24 Gunting
30:06 Empty hands: Number 3
36:18 Empty hands: Number 3 against the left hand
37:15 3rd pillar of MA 80
38:36 Empty hands: Number 4
41:48 Empty hands: Number 5
44:19 Using the free hand
46:58 2 stick vatiations
51:16 Info
51:44 End

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Here you find the 6-count with grabbing video from GM Dan Anderson.

About the author:

Grandmaster Dan Anderson
is Director and Chief Instructor of Dan Anderson Karate and has the 8th Dan MA80, the 9th Dan Karate and the 6th Dan (Senior Master) in Modern Arnis.

He was a 4-time national US champion in karate and has won over 70 Grand Championship Titlel. He is the founder of American Freestyle Karate, an American martial art and the author of the bestseller “American Freestyle Karate: A Guide To Sparring”, which has been on the market for over 30 years and is reprinted over and over again.

He met GM Remy Presas already in the early 80s and trained Modern Arnis ever since. With all the books he has written and DVDs he has produced, he is a very infuentional GM within the Modern Arnis.

Prof. Anderson’s school has been teaching martial arts in East County for over 25 years, making it the oldest karate school in the area.

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