I think weve discussed Papa machete before, but Im going to - TopicsExpress



          

I think weve discussed Papa machete before, but Im going to mention him again because A) the film about him is debuting at Sundance and, consequently, NPR is currently running a story on him, B) he recently died, and C) Haitian machete fighting is one of the only living sword arts left outside of the Asian models. From the TPLA perspective, Papa machetes style is interesting because hes using a weapon without a handguard but the style is designed to be defensive in nature, drawing an obvious comparison to Soresu. Note how, in the training video, the student is only allowed to defend, not attack. https://youtube/watch?v=DeANV5fn86o
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:10:33 +0000

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