Pekiti-Tirsia Kali (Filipino Martial Arts) Applications & Integrations – Radius Factor

What else does PTK-SMF empty-hands entail? How much in-close fighting exists? How narrow a space? Well, Pekiti-Tirsia essentially means “close-quarters”. In other words, there’s an effective range of applications for extreme close-quarter engagements. And it still exists in a progression. (The simpler the better, but a few examples are in the video.) . The PTK-SMF lineage of Pekiti is known for adhering to dynamic evasive footwork, sensitivities of the combat flow of weaponry and integrated tactical skillsets. However, on the good ole interwebs you may not always get to see the range of applications of close-quarter empty-hands. . One reason is because of the training method design and the standard operation to constrain the initial pipeline of training content, keeping the training simple and dynamic to develop and optimize every category of core skills much more quickly. (This is a specific attribute of SMF which is why I like it so much.) Yet, it doesn’t mean that other hand strikes, elbows, k