About Upstate Sayoc Kali

The Art of the Blade

Sayoc Kali includes knowledge of how to use a single knife, with a progression to the use of multiple blades, sticks, flexible weapons, and empty-hands combatives.

Included in these categories of training are proper handling or blade edge discipline, drawing the blades, vital template targeting, counter blade techniques including disarms, and projectiles used in conjunction with blade work. Students are also taught critical injury management.

Guro Matt Horton is Upstate Sayoc Kali's training group leader and has been training Sayoc Kali since July 2012. Guro Matt trains with Tuhon Patrick Consing and the Kapatid Sayoc Tribe. Guro Nick Stevens is a Sayoc Full Instructor and the training group's sponsor. In addition to training Sayoc, Guro Matt is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) blue belt.

"Before the blade, humans were the prey" – Tuhon Rafael Kayanan