One evening a girlfriend was showing him how to Cha Cha at his house, and as she tells it he suddenly had an inspiration, becoming fascinated with the idea of using the interplay between dance partners as a way to teach his Visayan style dueling.
Why not? There was range, angle, timing, leading, following, sensitivity, and rhythm already built in, but to add swords, striking and evasion to the mix? Now that's genius.
Points if you can see the pendulum step and half body pendulums here.
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And bruce lee danced cha cha.
Several renaisence sword masters were recognised as good dancers of teachers of dance as well.
@EHCG:
Yeah - I heard that about Bruce Lee, and I can absolutely see the connection between dueling and dancing.
Sonny would send his more uncoordinated students off to Salsa class to improve their mobility. After all there HAS to movement in sword play, and a connection to the other person ... you just got to tell more lies when dueling ;-)
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