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Originally posted by Oso
ok, so a witik would be a flick in any direction while the abanico is rotating around the forearm centerline perpendicularly. never heard the term witik in the Presas camp. but, I do love some abanico action.
Yeah, exactly. Nice description of abaniko, by the way. I'm not really surprised that you hadn't heard the term. My teachers used witik instead of abaniko frequently. And we had to guess by context which they meant. *shrug* Peculiar, isn't it.
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so, bust this myth for me, I was told that each of the old tyme escrimadors would have their signature sequence that was how they won all their matches. We were taught Remy's, and I saw Remy demo it once. I still flail around with it regularly because myth or no, i think it's a pretty decent combination.
I can only bust that myth in so far that I've never heard it before. Granted, my teachers were a generation or two down from Presas. So their experience was more stick sparring than actual stick fighting. But in my talk with GM Cacoy Canete, he never mentioned such a thing.