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Strategy is the combative plan and principles that all Tactics must adhere to and include. Tactics are the specific methods of offense and counter-offense techniques executed in combat.  Many instructors of self-defense, martial arts, and combat systems fail to teach the Strategy and Tactics of close-quarters combat.  In Pekiti-Tirsia, the effective application of Strategy and Tactics are taught throughout the system and are in fact the foundation of the training program and instructional method.  Since no two combative encounters are the same, the mastery of effective Strategy and Tactics allows the practitioner of Pekiti-Tirsia to execute offensive and counter-offensive techniques in dynamic situations.  This fluidity of movement and adaptability of technique is the hallmark of Pekiti-Tirsia Kali.  

STRATEGY – TACTICS – TECHNIQUES

The foundation strategy of Pekiti-Tirsia Kali is:

1. Protection from all attacks.

2. Destruction of opponent(s) weapons.

3. Domination of all opponents and neutralization of all threats.

Combat Bladefighting tactics are executed according to this strategy.  Tactics and training must provide skills for protection, evasion against opponents’ strikes, and the ability never to be hit.  The live blade provides instant realization of this principle.  Protection from strikes and attacks are accomplished by footwork mobility and maneuver, counter-offensive strikes, and by striking the opponent first.  Opponent weapons are destroyed by direct strikes to the weapon hand or incapacitation by striking vital areas off-time of opponent’s strikes.  Domination of close-quarters combat is executed by attacking, quartering, controlling, and neutralizing the threat regardless of terrain, environment, or multiple adversaries.

The essence of close-quarters combat is defined, detailed, and executed through the system of Pekiti-Tirsia Kali.  The understanding and ability provided by this training will allow the practitioner to counter any combat technique with weapons or empty-hands regardless of system or style.

In Kali there is only Life, therefore it is a live art containing the center of understanding of all arts.

Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje, Jr.

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“You know, but do you understand?”

Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje, Jr.