8 Deadly Strikes from a Secret Martial Art only Few Know About

though they have some of the most incredible systems and styles the Southeast Asian martial arts are some of the most unrecognized martial arts around the world and is where I spent most of my martial arts career guess you could say in study and practice martial arts systems like sea lot which are more of the Malay and Indonesian Styles and systems and styles like Kali Arnis escrima which come from the Philippines in my personal biased opinion I think that more people should learn about these arts and practice these Arts not just to keep them alive but to keep these Arts growing and thriving in this video I want to share with you eight devastating empty-hand strikes that come from ponentuken which is one of the empty hand systems of Filipino martial arts I've done a video in the past on some of the most devastating empty hand striking techniques of sea lot which I will link in the description and down in the comments and you can check out that video right after this one to compare both the similarities and differences between sea lots and ponentuken in the Philippines there's a lot of different dialects and within Filipino martial arts there's a lot of different names for different subcategories of the art I mean just the general names of Kali escrima Arnis are three completely different names however they're all basically talking about the same thing now the Filipino martial arts are primarily weapon arts and the empty hand strikes of panetukin are based off of weapon movements and there's two categories of weapons that all these techniques are based off of number one is The Edge weapons either a sword or a knife and these techniques are going to be taken from both The Cutting patterns and the thrusting patterns of the edge weapons and the second category of weapons that these empty hand strikes come off of is the impact weapons such as a stick let's go over to Bob so we can learn and demonstrate these eight devastating empty hand techniques of Pawn and toucan or Filipino martial arts our first pawn and two can striking technique is the hammer fist we're going to close a fist strike with the bottom of the hand these strikes can come from the forehand side or the backhand side they can come down on the diagonal lines on the vertical lines or even on the horizontal lines the technique of the hammer fist is taken directly off of the impact weapon because again we have the forehand backhand strikes on the diagonal we can strike on the vertical and we can strike on the horizontal as you can see the pattern of the hammer fists comes right from the pattern of the weapons here with very little training you can learn to develop an immense amount of Power with the hammer Fists [Applause] now a bonus with the hammer fists is there's a little bit lesser known way to apply this technique which as you experience you'll be able to utilize the same principle with all the different striking techniques and that is a spinning Hammer fist foreign is used quite often in the Filipino martial art known as yayan which translates to Dance of Death yaw Yan is a sport orientated version of the Pontoon or the Filipino martial arts you can go ahead and research on your own on YouTube and go check out a bunch of knockout videos of the spinning back Fist from yayan they're pretty incredible our second striking technique is just like most of the other striking martial arts out there is our punches and we have our straight punches and we have our rounding punches or arcing or curving punches like our Hooks and our uppercuts now the punching techniques of pontotukin come directly from the thrusting techniques of the edged weapon right here both The Sword and the knife so as you can see they mimic the exact same motions as the thrusts foreign the third empty hand strike of panitukin is the back fist bam right there and we're striking with these top Knuckles right here kind of like the edge right there that top Edge the back fist Works more as a flicking type of motion just like if I had the sword or the knife we can flick what we call a top Edge because our swords have a top Edge right here we flick that out into the opponent and make contact with that same thing with the knife even on the impact weapon right we can flick that top corner right here and when you hit somebody with that it actually does a lot of damage it's a pretty deceptive strike but we can take that same exact motion from the weapon and apply it to our empty hands the sneaky thing about the back fists is that they can move around the guards and attacks of your opponent and come in at more unorthodox angles that your opponent is least expecting foreign [Applause] number four is the form hacks we're using the outside of the forearm right here and we can strike again on the forehand side on the backhand side we can come down on the vertical we can even come across on the horizontal if we look at how this technique is taken from the weapons we're using more of the middle of the blade to hack in to our opponent and these strikes are really good for closing that distance from long range into what we call short range or quarto we get very close um because we're coming in behind the protection of the weapon at full speed full force and in Weaponry we have What's called the strong of the weapon and the weak of the weapon and we can use the strong of a weapon to knock our opponent's weapon offline opening up a pathway to get in close and finish the fight quickly and same thing with the forearm strikes we can use them to strike away all of our opponents attacks as we are closing in that distance with speed aggression power and with coverage Zoo [Applause] in pontotukin will also strike with the Open Hands and we have that slap or also known as the Palm strike when we slap this is taken from the cutting energy of the weapon when we Palm this is taken from the thrusting energy and the slaps do a really good job at dispersing energy or power into the opponent okay our sixth empty hand technique of pontotukin is the finger jab or the eye jab this is where we're taking the pads of the fingers right here and we're going to flick them and go right for the opponent's eyes sometimes you can even go for other soft targets of the body like the throat again this is like taking the point of the knife and flicking that right to the opponent's eyes this one has a little bit of controversy around it because what happens if you flick and you end up hitting their forehead and you know breaking your fingers well if you have the proper techniques then you will not break your fingers and as you're training this one you have to make sure you're wearing some eye protection because believe it or not in training the fingers somehow just kind of find their way to the eyes and that may have to do with the way that the eye area of the face is designed and as you target right to the top of that cheekbone even when they close their eyes your finger slides up opens the eyes goes underneath the eyelid and finds its way into the eyes be careful when you're training this one with a partner wear some eye protection foreign watching some pro wrestling when I was a little kid and you had the whole clothesliner right there yeah we have the exact same striking technique in pontantouken we call that the inside form again taken from the weapon typically this is done if you miss a Thrust or you're in close and you want to bring the opponent in maybe you don't want to like thrust this person and permanently terminate them but you just want to kind of subdue the person maybe you need to control it or what then you can kind of come around it kind of hooks them stops their ability to get away from you so that way you can pull them in to more grappling or close quarter striking same thing in the empty hand version we come across with that clothesline and a lot of times this strike is yes very devastating on its own and it can absolutely cause a knockout but a lot of times this strike is used to transition from striking into the grappling Filipino martial arts known as Doom hog foreign last but not least but probably the most devastating strike that you can deliver with the arm is the elbow in the Weaponry of Kali this is where you're striking with the punyo end of the weapon now in panitukin when we're utilizing the empty hands we typically want to keep the hand in an open position because that exposes more of the bone as when we close and tighten it it contracts the muscle which wraps around a little bit more of the bone not the end of the world still going to be effective this is just gonna bury that blade Edge in a little bit better when the hand is open and just like pretty much all of our other strikes beautiful thing about elbows is that we can rain them down from multiple different angles we can strike on the diagonal downward and upwards we can come downward on the vertical in different ways and we can even come across on the horizontals forehanded backhands as well thank you thank you again like all the other strikes pretty effective whether you are striking to the face or you're striking digging your elbows into the body if you enjoyed this video and these eight devastating empty-hand strikes of panitukin make sure to check out my deadly empty hand strikes of sea lot video next and then you can do a little compare and contrast of these two styles of martial arts and be sure to learn these and train these practice them Master them to help keep the Southeast Asian martial arts not just alive but thriving if you enjoyed this video as much as I enjoyed making it hit that Thumbs Up Button let me know down in the comments which of these strikes in this video are already in your Martial Arts Arsenal and while you're doing all that commenting and liking all that make sure to hit that subscribe button and then I'll see you next time