KALI
Originating in the Phillipines, Kali is an art mainly focusing  on armed combat.  Kali training is done extensively with rattan sticks about as long as the distance from a persons armpit to their wrist.  Daggers are also heavily incorperated into the training.      I think that Kali is a great art to train for preperation of armed confrontation.  Proper Kali training will give you muscle memory on the best way to react to whatever angle a weapon or strike is coming at you.  If someone swings a baseball bat at you for real, you can't defend against it like you would a punch or kick.  Footwork is heavily incorperated into kali to enable you to properly deal with weapon attacks.  Besides from being a beautiful art to train, Kali  is also a highly effective way to deal with armed combat; but neither you nor you opponent have to use a weapon to use Kali.  The techniques from Kali can just as easily be used in empty hand (unarmed) combat.
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