Inayan School of Eskrima

10/10/2026

SATURDAY MAT TALK:
Why do we teach weapons on DAY ONE?
Most martial arts make you wait years to touch a stick or blade. At the Inayan School of Eskrima, you get it in your first hour.
Here's why: weapons teach you distance, timing, and respect instantly. Empty hand gets better faster because of it.
Do you think starting with weapons makes you learn empty hand faster or slower? Why?
Sound off in the comments.
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10/04/2026

We’re planting a flag in Bluffton.

Inayan Eskrima is here — practical, alive, and built for real life. You don’t need to be in shape to start. You start - to get in shape — body, mind, and spirit.

Show up. Work hard. Find your tribe.
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10/03/2026

SATURDAY MAT TALK:
No mats. No uniforms. No rules.
What's one Eskrima lesson you actually use OFF the mat?
Awareness? Footwork? Staying calm under pressure? Dealing with stress?

What do you think? Drop it below.
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10/01/2026

Stop waiting. Start swinging.

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09/29/2026

Very nice breakdown on the Filipino Arts!

Ever defanged a snake? 🐍

"The Art: Why Eskrima Thinks Differently Than Everything Else in This Building

Now, the second story, because I need to correct a misunderstanding that even experienced martial artists carry about the Filipino arts.

Most people, including most fighters, file Eskrima under "stick fighting" — a cultural curiosity, cool to watch, not relevant to the cage or the street. That filing is wrong, and here's the cleanest way I can explain why after a lifetime in both worlds.

Every other art in this building answers symmetrically. If you are punched, you punch back. If you are kicked, you kick back. If you are wrestled, you wrestle back. If the fight hits the ground, you groundfight back. Muay Thai answers Muay Thai problems with Muay Thai. BJJ answers grappling problems with grappling. The entire logic of matched competition — same tools, same targets, same game — is symmetry, and we get very, very good at symmetric answers here.

Eskrima refuses the symmetry. It grew up in a world of blades, multiple attackers, and no referees — a world where trading with the other person's strength is how you die — so it built its entire logic around asymmetric answers. Two concepts give you the flavor:

Defanging the snake. Don't fight the attack — destroy its delivery system. The weapon hand, the striking limb, the thing that makes the threat a threat. You don't out-duel the snake. You take its fangs, and the rest of the snake stops being a problem.

Non-engagement.The trained refusal to be where the fight wants you to be. Not blocking —not being there, and making the attacker pay for the space they just committed to. Where symmetric arts teach you to win exchanges, Eskrima teaches you to make the exchange itself a mistake."

Understand Coach Eric's thesis- https://knoxmma.com/post/Why-I-Put-a-White-Belt-Back-On

09/27/2026

Truly an honor to share the Art. When it's appreciated like this, it makes everything worthwhile. Coming from a martial artist and teacher of this caliber — someone who lives these words — it means more than words can describe. Thank you Coach Turner and KMAA.

A teacher who never stops learning—

Why I Put a White Belt Back On

There's a man in my building who makes me a beginner again, and I want to tell you why that's one of the best things that's happened to me in years.

Some context, for those who don't know the layout: inside our facility, G**o Klement runs the Inayan School of Eskrima — a school teaching the Filipino martial arts, built around blade, stick, and empty hand. And a couple of times a week, the founder and head coach of this academy — a man with 27+ years of coaching across MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing, and BJJ, who has cornered professional fighters at the highest levels of the sport — walks across his own building, stands in line with the newer students, and gets corrected on his basics.

People find this funny, and it is a little funny. It's also the point of this entire post. Because there are three stories tangled together in that picture — a story about a debt, a story about an art most fighters badly underestimate, and a story about what it does to a person to start again at their beginnings. Let me tell all three.

hit the link: https://knoxmma.com/post/Why-I-Put-a-White-Belt-Back-On

09/27/2026

In Memory of Mangisursuro Mike Inay
December 11, 1944 – September 27, 2000.
Warrior and Teacher, tomorrow marks 26 years since you left us. You gave us more than techniques. You gave us a system, a lineage, and a responsibility to preserve it. Your Art lives on in every student who picks up the baston.