User:Guro Kali

Khalid H. Khan, master Guro number 13 of Serrada Eskrima, studied the Filipino Martial Arts of single rattan stick (18 to 22 in. in length), and its associated Empty-Hand Kadena de Mano counter system, from the late Grandmaster Angel Ovalles Cabales of Panay, Philippines, in the late 1980s-1990s. Master Angel Cabales was at that residing at Cotton Court in Stockton, California, and taught from his house at the front porch, one to one to his students. The Serrada Eskrima curriculum is as follows: 1. 70 + Basic Fundamental counters against 12 incoming strike angles. 2. Sparring drill-1: Lock & Block, espada y daga, a two-man speed and reflex drill. 3. Sparring drill-2: Flow Drill or Flow Fighter drill, basic thru advanced formats, with sector-ing, and tempo change. In the Serrada Flow Drill, each attack and its counter is fixed so it looks like a fixed pattern. But that is only at the beginning so that the student can learn to handle the stick, and move on the triangular serrada footwork. After he has shown proficiency in this fixed pattern of attack and counter, he may respond to any strike with any of the counters for that strike further down the curriculum. All in all Khalid Khan has designed 12 formats of the Flow Drill, each of which a student must master, until he has become proficient with all the counters in the curriculum in live speed. After this, the next step is also to learn changing the strikes themselves, and doing half-tempo strikes and strikes that change in angle in the middle of arriving to the target. Then, there is the high to low movement on the stance itself, and also sector-ing and zone-ing. Khalid Khan's teaching is very patient, and detailed, and he has not changed the basics of the Serrada or omitted any of its fundamentals, which is a sign of all the good professors and trainers of any martial art style. 4. Empty-Hand VS Weapon drills, dis-arms. 5. Empty-Hand Self Defense. 6. Empty-Hand VS. Stick. 7. Spritiual Training: Khalid Khan's class always begins with prayer to the Lord, as without His Blessing we cannot have permission to see any subject. When there is prayer in the class, then there is a calm, and peace in the teaching and the learning. Khalid Khan is also credited for writing two Eskrima based experimental screenplays for film, and two Italian spaghetti western screenplays for film. His solution for world peace is for people to study martial arts in its true educational spirit, and to travel and meet other cultures and not to run after material things but to create blessing wherever they go.