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Learn Visayan Style Corto Kadena Larga Mano Online!

Rooted is an online learning platform with Visayan Style Corto Kadena Larga Mano eskrima video-on-demand courses. Maestro Sonny Umpad created VSCK, a blade-based style emphasizing movement and random flow. Before his untimely death, many people had to travel the world to train with Sonny, but now VSCK is available here on Rooted. The online courses are designed to be progressive, slowly building skills on top of one another. Ensuring a strong foundation in VSCK eskrima.

Free Foundations Classes

The Sun Salute

The standard “sun salute” is a great warm-up before you start training. It is a gentle sequence of poses and postures that will acclimate you to VSCK body angulation.

The Pendulum

The Pendulum is the cornerstone of third-generation VSCK. It is a tool, a way of learning, created by Sonny Umpad. It involves cooperatively oscillating partners’ entries and exits to explore and hone skills with quality repetitions.

“…dying is easy; the art is in the living.”

— Sonny Umpad

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  • gregory@therooted.school