27/03/2026
Sumbrada knife with Tuhon Ray Dionaldo!
During the 11th FMA World Festivals 2026 in Boracay, Philippines, Tuhon Ray Dionaldo taught several lessons.
This lesson had "Sumbrada with the knife" as the topic. The first lesson was Sumbrada with a "Basic close quarters: Sumbrade with a stick".
It can be bought as download or download ans streamng video:
https://www.abanico.de/abanico/en/tuhon-ray-dionaldo-sumbrada-knife/
It will be added to the Abanico Academy for the members free of charge
Tuhon Ray leads you throug the why and how of his Sumbrada with a knife, establishing the flow. The next topics are accessing your own knife, disarming using the body of the opponent and knife transitions.
All techniques are are demonstrated in great detail so you can learn them best.
You'll enjoy this video!
The video has chapter markers.
If you watch the video with the VLC player, go to playback and then chapter and you can choose the chapters like a menu of a DVD.
Here the content of the video:
00:00 Intro
00:28 Welcome and introduction
00:49 Sumbrada knife flow
00:55 - Attacks 1 + 2
01:03 - The concept of sumbrada knife
03:59 - Rule #1
04:56 - Controlling the blade
07:15 - Attacks 3 + 4
08:26 - Attack 5
08:43 - Rule #2
09:14 - Protecting from both arms
12:58 - Attack #6
13:46 - The complete flow
14:49 - Never occupy both arms at the same time
16:21 Accessing your blade
16:31 - Why this skill is important
18:21 - Accessing your knife in the flow
19:14 - Tricks to draw the blade
20:47 Disarming the knife
21:24 - Disarming using the attacker
23:37 - Same disarming in pakal or dagger Position
24:37 Transitioning the blade postion
26:48 - Using a safe method
28:04 - Other transitions
28:55 - Making the blade disappear
30:28 The concept of sumbrada
31:20 The essence of FMA
32:19 Conclusion
32:52 Information
33:22 End
Very interesting with a lot of fun techniques and great information!
