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The Crossada is the creation of James Albert Keating. It is a bit of something old and a bit of something new all nicely combined to produce something very unique. The old synergy approach I suppose, you know ….one + one = three, yep that’s the formula for things made with spirit and integrity. And the Crossada has those qualities about it, I know because I’ve purposely included them into the overall Crossada designs!Learn the secrets of knife fighting as it was practiced by men like Jim Bowie. This tape reveals the secrets of European and American knife fighting methods, including the use of blade catchers and Spanish notches to trap and disarm your opponent’s blade.For academic study only.Synopsis: James A. Keating teaches early American methods of knife fighting. Using older types of weapons such as Bowie and Arkansas Toothpick knives, techniques such as proper grip, footwork and stance are explained.This is one of the greatest sets ever done on FMA and it covers a huge amount of information and material, literally too much to describe here. But hundreds of techniques, drills, combinations, and sequences are shown, ranging from empty hand to weapons to holds and locks to takedowns and finishing techniques.Two of the videos, the Intensive Blade and Progressive Blade, also feature James Keating, who as I said, collaborated with Mr. Worden on those tapes, and the result is two of the best videos on the combat knife ever produced. Mr. Keating covers the basic and advanced techniques, including dozens of combinations and concepts that you can use to take your knife-fighting skills to the next level. A unique feature is the regular and reverse grip knife flow drills designed by Gurus Worden and Keating and not available anywhere else. Guru Worden mentions that he and Mr. Keating did extensive research and training to create these drills, and this is the only way you can get them.Another nice feature is most of these videos are 80-90 minutes in length, rather than 40 or 50 minutes like you get in most martial arts videos these days. So compared to most video sets this would be more like a 15-18 tape set, so it’s a great value there. The videos by Mr. Keating are no exception.The tapes are easy to learn from and Guru Worden and Keating are known for their abilities to present even difficult and advanced techniques in a clear and concise way and easy to understand way. I consider myself already a pretty strong practitioner and I still learned a lot from these tapes. As you probably know the ultimate goal of the Filipino martial arts is the ability to flow naturally and smoothly and these videos will give you or enhance your ability to do that, from entries to counters to final finishing techniques. It’s all here in one outstanding series of tapes. Some other notable features of the set are:1. Regular and reverse grip knife flow drills designed by Gurus Worden and Keating, not available anywhere else.2. Extensive coverage of puter kapala takedown and its variations and many finishing holds and locks and takedowns3. Very nice tapes on the sibat, the long pole, the best one I’ve seen, including defenses against it and disarms and takedowns4. Complete beginning and advanced videos for solo doble, doble baston, knife, long pole (sibat) and kuntau5. A special sibat tape where Worden connects and integrates the different systems