New DVD! AmEurAsian Fencing Seminar

Join in as Pete Kautz takes the class at Comtech Headquarters in Oregon through a rapid-fire introduction to the basics of AmEurAsian Fencing, edited to 50 minutes of pure instruction.  Featuring Master at Arms James A. Keating, this presentation covers elements of footwork, evasion, striking, hand switching, attacks to the 5 basic zones with their defenses, and how to flow at long range in constant counter and re-counter!  If you want to gain quick skill with using the single weapon this is it. (39 This Week Only)
 

Intro To AmEurAsian Fencing Seminar DVD
Copyright Pete Kautz 2015

As many of you know, Mr. Keating (Comtech) and I have worked together since around 1997 and have done many projects together like the Modern Knives video series. A few years back we were discussing the connections between a number of world stick and blade arts and he said to me:

“It would be great if someone were to bring all these styles together and draw out their essence, the ground they share in common that makes them truly universal in application outside of time, space, and nationality, and then put it into an easy to learn format. That's something I would want to learn!”

This inspired me to do more research; uncovering the connections that eventually would become organized into the AmEurAsian (American European Asian) Stick & Blade Fencing curriculum, based on core movements universal to European fencing, Filipino martial arts, and the North / Central / South American stick and blade fighting systems.

Because of this, it can look like any or all of these arts at a given time. You could wear the fencer's white uniform and people would think it was an old saber method. Or you could put on a Filipino vest and people would think it was a traditional family system. Change your clothes to boots and a cowboy hat and people would think it is an art from somewhere in the Americas.

The purpose of AmEurAsian Fencing isn't to become any one of those things, however; instead it is to use the aspects universal to them all in your own manner now, today, in real time and not just view these arts as separate historical curios or quaint cultural practices of the past.

This is a quick-start kind of art, much like how Mr. Keating's 5 Keys to Kali gives you a toolbox of 5 universal motions to draw on with many layers of application in hand, stick, knife, disarming, etc.

Similarly, in the first level of AmEurAsian Fencing there are 5 basic movements and with them you will be able to flow in long range fighting with weapons. In a few hours you can grasp what to do and in a few weeks you can become quite proficient doing them at full speed because of the training methods used.

I've just finished editing the video from the first AmEurAsian Fencing Seminar at Comtech HQ and it looks great, 50 minutes of pure instruction covering much of the Level 1 Single Weapon program with Mr. Keating as my training partner! Hats off to the whole crew there and I look forward to training with you all again soon and sharing more of the system!!

In the future hopefully there will be several more videos in the series detailing the rest of the exercises in the Level 1 Single Weapon program, the complete Level 2 Double Weapon program, and perhaps eventually even the Level 3 Empty Hand & Disarming program. But for now the Seminar DVD will get you going strong and show you how to play freestyle in long range like we are in the video clip!

All my very best to you,

Pete Kautz

For More AmEurAsian Fencing Read The Sword Stick Scarf Training Video Article HERE

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