Strategy and Tactics

EDGED-IMPACT WEAPON STRATEGY and TACTICS
by
Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje, Jr.

The PEKITI-TIRSIA system is a system of Strategy and Tactics. In the beginning the Footwork system must be understood as a strategy. Triangulation formations segmented into forward triangle, reverse triangle and the application of close quarter footwork techniques such as side-stepping, shifting of the body high and low in an active motion, Waving In and Out, then execute attacks with evasion to the left or right with the Take-off. The conditioning in terms of movement is developed as part of the minor and major reflexes working and flowing in harmony with the blade. This training provides the initial strategic mentality of the fighter to act and direct the shifting of the offensive attacks to 45 degrees left or right simultaneously, 90 degrees left or right, and 180 degrees left or right to be utilized for double motion on offensive and counter offensive slash and thrust, then the execution of the terminal attacks.

STRATEGY is an organized procedure to be applied to weapon movement. Attacks executed in successive rapid geometrical equations with entry, bridging and terminal techniques. It is in the forms of slashes, thrusts and counter slash with the intentions to limit the possibility of the enemy’s weapons to enter into the danger zone but rather allow the opening for a quick re-counter so that the killing action can be executed with less possibility of counter.

PEKITI-TIRSIA is an organized methodology of major and minor techniques. The strategies are accelerated into the multiple component Micro Geometric Structures coordinated by the principles of tactical triangulation. However, when the enemy manifests similar movements with the intention to break into the micro geometric structures, then the strategy is open to the macro geometric equation, allowing the micro techniques to be swallowed and engulf with no possibility of counter to be terminated in a split second action.

EDGED-IMPACT WEAPON STRATEGY and TACTICS translates the Blade Fighters ability to see the enemy even before the actual encounter. During the training, the first view of the target is the actual image of the enemy in full battle gear, where the body is divided into different sections as targets for dissections and every movement of the enemy is tactically secured disallowing the element of escape.

PEKITI-TIRSIA is the game of Generals who are warriors in the field of battle, not desk generals that talk about strategy but the fighting men were the ones executing in battle. In the art of bladed fighting, it is hands-on strategy and the execution of tactics on the fields of battle.

In our present time today where people have the opportunity to study and involve in what we call normally (self-defense), the layman’s language, classified into Karate, Judo, Aikido, Tae Kwon Do, Silat, or other forms and non-related weapon arts, a person must differentiate that not all times (self-defense) theory is going to work. In the streets of New York, to the Parklane of London, to the Highways of Texas, to the Wonders of China and to the metropolis what is Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, or Manila, the sting of danger is always around the corner in forms of kidnapping, terrorists attack, public massacre, crimes against women and children, executive threats and liquidation, etc. The soft hearted martial arts techniques will never survive.

PEKITI-TIRSIA is in tune in war and in peace. In peace we train, we motivate, we reinforce, we accelerate, we prepare practitioners physically and mentally with sound intelligence to utilize in choosing the exact techniques to be executed with sound judgment applicable against all threats and enemies.