PTK Abecedario

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PTK Abecedario

The PTK (Pekiti-Tirsia Kali) Abecedario is an excellent way of learning many important attributes in weapons training.

The PTK Abecedario can be used to teach the student:

Footwork.
Weight shifts between sequential strikes.
Types of strikes / cuts/ attacks.
An intuitive understanding of weapons use, and efficient, fast movement sequences.
Multiple Attacker Scenarios - The Abecedario can be adapted with direction changes to simulate multiple attacker scenarios.
Weapons - Using different weapons such as impact weapons (stick), long blade weapons, knife, with similar footwork, and similar techniques between the different weapons making learning more intuitive, and the form easier to remember. The footwork and weight shifts for one weapon, can be very similar to another weapon, so training one weapon such as stick, prepares you for using a long bladed weapon or knife also.
Duel weapons use.
A template that can be built on in their own training.

We train an adapted form of the Pekiti-Tirsia Kali (PTK) Abecedario.

Adapted PTK Abecedario (APTKA)

We teach an adapted form of the PTK Abecedario, ensuring that weight changes and footwork can easily be applied to multiple attackers at different orientations and angles to the student.

Students should be able to use and adapt the APTKA based on where the attacker is in relation to them, and what type of weapon the student is holding.

Instead of a student just learning static forms, which are practiced again and again in exactly the same way, we believe in learning the template well, and practicing applying the template to a range of different situations during training.

This should become intuitive for the student, the APTKA must be seen as a set of tools and not a static form practiced in exactly the same way every time. The student themselves should also be able to creatively use and adapt the APTKA during their own training, making training more dynamic and adaptable to more situations.

Since Flow Blade doesn't need to adhere to any formal system or its historical techniques, certain systems can be adapted for use in modern times.

We believe in training close to the way you may need to use techniques in a real life self-defence situation (where there is no option to escape and you must protect yourself, or other people using force).

In a real life unavoidable self-defence situation, a person should use an acceptable level of force, based on the threats they are facing.

For this reason, high strikes 1 and 2 of the APTKA (with impact weapons), are aimed at the collar bone in a diagonal downward strike, instead of to the head.

We train with metal poles which are likely to cause far more damage to a potential attacker (in an unavoidable situation where you are attacked and cannot escape) than a wooden stick.

Should it be absolutely necessary strikes 1 and 2 can also be adapted into head strikes as a conscious decision rather than something that is drilled hundreds of times.