Homburg
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Well, this post is going to seem horribly fan-boy-ish, or something, but I figured I'd ask anyway.
In Dr. Mabeuse's thread entitled "Why do you whip?" I wrote down some prose on my actual experience in whipping, and I realised while writing that I fall into the positions I learned years ago training in Kali-silat. The strikes I use mimic many of the eight pattern and others, and that I shift stances and follow the triangle without even noticing it. It has been over ten years since I did any Kali work, yet I hit those patterns and strikes without even thinking of them. I even hold my off hand in the normal spot.
I also realised that it is why virtually every flooger I've made has a substantially longer handle than commercial floggers I've played with, and why I feel comfortable with shorter crops. It all goes back to that old training.
It is perhaps an esoteric question, but have any other Dom/mes, tops, switches, etc had any MA experience and found themselves falling into those movement patterns?
And I'm starting to wonder if I should start working my old two-stick skills for flogger florentine. Interesting concept.
In Dr. Mabeuse's thread entitled "Why do you whip?" I wrote down some prose on my actual experience in whipping, and I realised while writing that I fall into the positions I learned years ago training in Kali-silat. The strikes I use mimic many of the eight pattern and others, and that I shift stances and follow the triangle without even noticing it. It has been over ten years since I did any Kali work, yet I hit those patterns and strikes without even thinking of them. I even hold my off hand in the normal spot.
I also realised that it is why virtually every flooger I've made has a substantially longer handle than commercial floggers I've played with, and why I feel comfortable with shorter crops. It all goes back to that old training.
It is perhaps an esoteric question, but have any other Dom/mes, tops, switches, etc had any MA experience and found themselves falling into those movement patterns?
And I'm starting to wonder if I should start working my old two-stick skills for flogger florentine. Interesting concept.