![Attacker (left) delivers a strike using both canes. Punong Lakan Nicolas blocks using his left cane while countering with a left temple strike using right cane.](https://www.manilatimes.net/uploads/imported_images/uploads/2013/10/sinawali20131020-300x228.jpg)
Attacker (left) delivers a strike using both canes. Punong Lakan Nicolas blocks using his left cane while countering with a left temple strike using right cane.
Sinawali is the double-cane method of fighting of arnis, escrima and kali. The name sinawali came from the Tagalog word “sawali,” a woven split bamboo mats used as walls of nipa huts. The crisscrossing movements of sinawali weapons fighting mimic the pattern of these mats hence the name.
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