Patterns

All of the early weapons requirements are patterns. The purpose of these patterns is to help develop a comfort level with weapons. You learn to move in tandem with another person while swinging a weapon in a prescribed manner.

It’s not fighting but it is challenging. In that way, it is a baby step toward developing some courage and competence around weapons. Once you’ve got those basic patterns nailed down, it is easy to get complacent when you do them with a partner. Don’t. Don’t let the patterns become a patty cake drill. Add some variation to challenge yourself.

In the video above you can see some basic ideas (borrowed from Sifu Jeremy) on how to mix things up with the pattern called double sinawali.