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Overview
In many systems of Eskrima, a warrior's skill with both weapons and empty hands are developed at the same time, using training methods designed to emphasize common elements. Practitioners of Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) are noted for their ability to fight with weapons, or empty hands, interchangeably. Most Eskrima systems include: - weapons training
- striking with hands, feet and elbows
- grappling
The AMOK! system shares this approach and is constantly refining and honing its practical skills and mindset for application to daily civilian life and military combat alike.
AMOK! a definition Defitions of the word amok include: - 1: a murderously frenzied state
- 2: a crazy state of being, such as "a virus that had run amok"
- 3: undisciplined, uncontrolled, and faulty behaviour in the sense of "urban legends about super-computers run amok"
There are no synonyms for the word "amok".
AMOK! (upper case with exclamation mark) is a mentality best expressed by the live blade.
AMOK! South Africa AMOK! South Africa is headed up by Kelee Arrowsmith and Mark Human. AMOK! International is based in North America, and headed by South Africa to settle in Cape Town. The absence of effective knife and other edged-weapon skills available to professional and law-abiding civilians was immediately evident. Local criminals had taken a single aspect of blade attack, and along with a ruthless mentality, had refined surprise attacks and ambushes to gain a deadly advantage. The solutions to these threats were crystal clear within the AMOK! combative framework. At first, these combative methodologies were shared with friends and a few interested individuals who heard about AMOK! through word of mouth.
As of 2004, there are more than 15 AMOK! study groups represented throughout South Africa. The AMOK! skills set and advice regarding Close Quarter Combat (CQC) are utilized by professionals, soldiers, law enforcement officers (LEOs), martial artists and civilians throughout the country.
In martial arts a constant factor is change — and change is born out of necessity and/or innovation. In some cases, change and innovation take students of a system in a full circle. AMOK! presented today in training seminars looks very different from its first appearance in Pretoria (1998). The system continues to change and meet the challenges of daily life in South Africa. Although there are a number of schools and systems claiming to have developed uniquely South African solutions and approaches to eskrima-based FMA and bladework, AMOK! can truly claim to be an original.
As Professor Sotis states at seminars:
- You are not here to learn AMOK!
- You are here to discover the AMOK! within you.
Teaching is learning AMOK! teachers are inspired to discover whether their combative beliefs are in fact combative "truths", or if they are combative fantasies. They do this by testing them within non-cooperative, unpredictable environments. AMOK! South Africa has successfully, and consistently, been put to the test in the “field” on an almost daily basis. This has resulted in the reinforcement of sound methodologies: the changing of some, the discarding of a few, and above all, new innovations and instructional methods. AMOK! South Africa has made many contributions to AMOK! as it is known today. Some examples of this are: - effective use of blade and firearm as a working unit
- anti-grappling techniques
A blade art AMOK! is by no means limited to the blade, and as such, encompasses empty-hand skills, alternate weapons, projectiles, psychological and metaphysical elements. However, the AMOK! mentality is best expressed by the blade.
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