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A picture can express a 1000 words - so moving pictures may do more than that. Of course, they could also invite more criticism, or more misunderstandings. Like claims that this looks like sinawali. Well, people do claim to see all sorts of shapes in cloud formations too...

Note: As I’ve mentioned on the blog in the announcement, these are off the cuff demos. Keep in mind that Piper is not about ‘technique’, it’s about ‘intent’. You don’t do ‘techniques’ in Piper. When the attitude is there and the intent is formed to do harm then the movements develop organically out of that. It’s an expression of an attitude and an intent, so view it as a different paradigm than standard Western and Asian blade fighting.

The first 2 clips are in .3gp format - in other words it’s designed to be viewed on a cell phone. Download it, unzip it and Bluetooth it onto your phone to view, or use Apple’s Quicktime or VLC Media Player software on your PC to view them instead. The rest are DivX 5.2 .AVI files.

For any questions please E-mail me, or talk to us on our Forum.
 

1. Piper System demo by Aviv - .3gp
    
2. Piper Close-in Swapping and Spiking - .3gp

1. Piper 01 - 732 KB .AVI
    
2. Piper 02 - 921 KB .AVI
    
3. Piper 03 - 933 KB .AVI
    
4. Piper 04 - 1.3 MB .AVI
    
5. Piper 05 - 1.71 MB .AVI
    
6. Piper 06 - 3.11 MB .AVI
    
7. Form Style 1 - 1.02 MB .AVI
    
8. Form Style 2 - 1.25 MB .AVI
    
9. Form Style 3 - 1.11 MB .AVI
    
10. Form/Blade Hybrid - 1.51 MB .AVI
     
11. Piper Attack 01 - 1.33 MB .AVI
     
12. Piper Attack 02 - 1.5 MB .AVI
     
13. Piper Attack 03 - 1.33 MB .AVI
     
14. Piper Attack 04 - 2.66 MB .AVI
     
15. Piper Attack 05 - 2.19 MB .AVI
     
16. Roll and Strike - 2.26 MB .AVI
     
17. Nigel Attacks - 2.28 MB .AVI
     
18. Humming Bird/Box - 1.68 MB .AVI
     

:: Interview Series ::

These files are all 4.8 MB in size and smaller, running for a maximum of 3 mins each. Encoding: DivX 5.2 .AVI

Nigel’s Interview

1. What is Piper?
2. Piper Philosophy
3. Piper Philosophy, other influences on Piper
4. Piper in Jails, and its Zulu origins
5. Piper and Silat. Piper's uniqueness. Blades
6. Piper Styles, Gangs and Knives
7. Numbers Gangs, Piper Experts, Piper's Creation
8. Piper's Creation, Use of Shimmering Blade
9. Shimmering Blade, Piper as an African System, Teaching it, Perceptions
10. Piper's Overseas Evolution
11. Ignorance about Piper and Piper's Evolution

Jason’s Interview

1. Intro to Piper
2. Street Adaptation and Xhosa Stick
3. Negativity and Piper’s Sceptics
4. Piper as learned at home
5. Piper outside of SA
6. Piper in the future

Lloyd’s Interview

1. Intro to Piper
2. Preventing Violent Crimes
3. Research and Creating a learnable Syllabus
4. Beginner’s Piper Syllabus
5. Piper and Deceptiveness
6. Knife “Duelling” and “Expecting to Get Cut”
7. Stopping the Threat, and dealing with Fear
8. Intent and Training with Live Blades
9. Piper Differences, Parrying, Intent
10. Piper’s Attack Range
11. Why Take Piper Public
    
     

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‘The Piper System©’ is an original name chosen by Nigel February for the system he created
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