Cinco teros (literally "five strikes") is an old style of arnis-escrima endemic in Northern Luzon particularly in the province of Pangasinan. Despite being renowned in Filipino martial arts (FMA) circles as a battle-tested system, it is not easy to find an authentic cinco teros expert nowadays. I believe that the reason why cinco teros is not very popular in the FMA mainstream is that it looks too simple at first glance (there are only five strikes in this system hence the name) and lacks the flamboyant appeal of better-known styles of arnis-escrima. Being a simple system though doesn't mean it lacks potency. One master who now actively teaches cinco teros in the Philippines is Raysaldo Biagtan. Biagtan, a native of Malabago, Mangaldan, Pangasinan is also a seasoned Muay Thai and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. He experienced both training and fighting in Thailand. Biagtan recently competed in the Battlefield X1: Supremacy, a professional Thai boxing tournament in Beijing, China as well as the Universal Reality Combat Championship, the Philippines foremost MMA tournament. Biagtan said that the techniques of cinco teros translate easily from stick to blade. "Some escrimadors do not care much on what part of the stick they're hitting with but in cinco teros we play close attention to knuckle alignment and always strike with the stick as if we're actually using a blade," he said. Biagtan stated that they work on delivering really forceful strikes with the stick in cinco ...
Obviously the wing chun double knives are superior to a roman gladius with a buckler shield if the sword fighter has no chain mail and further protection. The wing chun fighter can always attack the arms or wrists because he can move his relatively light weapons much faster. In the end I got hit on the elbow, but fortunately nothing serious happened. She just grazed my ulnar nerve at the elbow which made my forearm burn like fire for a few minutes.
Grayson's Nightwing costume was a high-tech suit specially designed for his high-flying acrobatic style. His gauntlets and boots each contained eight compartments in which he could store items. They had a self-destruct feature built into them, similar to the ones in Batman's utility belt, and, as another security measure, the suit contained a one-use-only taser charge, which automatically emitted a high-voltage electrical shock when someone attempted to tamper with either the boots or gauntlets. Each gauntlet's sections could contain a wide array of equipment, such as sonic or smoke pellets, modified batarangs ("Wing-Dings"), knockout gas capsules, and throwable tracers. The right gauntlet was also equipped with a 100000-volt stun gun. Like the gauntlets, his boot compartments could carry vital equipment such as flares, a rebreather as protection against any airborne non-contact toxins, a mini-computer equipped with fax, modem, GPS, and a minidisk re-writable drive. Other items were lock picks, a first-aid kit, a mini-cellphone, flexi-cuffs, antitoxin assortment, wireless listening devices, and a small halogen flashlight. After coming to New York, Dick added a black utility belt to his costume, eliminating the need for his boots and gauntlets. Held in spring-loaded pouches in the back of his costume, Dick carried a pair of Escrima truncheons made from an unbreakable polymer that were wielded as both offensive and defensive weapons. Some depictions displayed these tools ...
