Master Sumbrada – The Comprehensive Course

If you, like so many, were taught and now practice Sumbrada as a patterned and cycling exercise, you are a slave. The widely-held belief that Sumbrada is a box-pattern is just flat-out wrong. Moreover, that approach to training is the antithesis of what Sumbrada is intended to impart and only instills and reinforces patterned and therefore entirely predictable responses that can easily be countered. When it is understood and done correctly, Sumbrada is a remarkably safe exercise in intelligent problem-solving in the most dangerous and exigent of circumstances: a patternless, high-speed, full-power collision of armed and highly-skilled Eskrimadors hell-bent on taking each other out. By contrast, regardless of how sophisticated and challenging it may be to 'master,' box-pattern training has about as much combative skill-development value as leap frog or patty-cake. At best, it is a waste of time. At worst, it is actively carving potentially fatal bad habits into both your thinking and your foundational skills that will leave you vulnerable and seriously impede your path to true mastery in this art. In this comprehensive course, Guro Mark Mikita clears away the confusion and misguided reliance on patterns to show you the right way to do Sumbrada. However, be warned, this course is the proverbial red pill and once he shows you how deep the rabbit hole goes, there is no going back to feeling comfortable and secure in practicing the imprisoning drill you've been led to believe is Sumbrada. The box-pattern, in all its vaunted and fanciful permutations, is complacency defined... but, of course, you must've suspected that or you would not be reading this. Time to discard it and take the red pill.