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Sounds interesting, and was only able to find one video showing it in a quick search on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_YoaP0cHpQ

So this is what is meant by hacker news

I wonder how similar / different this to the Filipino martial art known as Arnis, which is also bladed weapon + stick based?

Perhaps an interesting cultural example of convergence or parallelism (depending on how you think about the shared influence of Spanish colonialism w/respect to the development of these martial arts in Columbia and the Phillipines).

Very cool and hopefully they keep the tradition alive.

In Historical European Martial Arts, we have messer fighting

Casual sparring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY-y_Y7IUfY

More cinematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHNzL9-zpg

They want the tradition to continue, but they should also record everything: get experts and record them from multiple angles, record demonstrations, etc... With image/video => 3d, and AI to recreate the system of fighting, it would be 'saved' for the future.

Reminds me of Haitian Machete Fencing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_NUEn7F_g

Just when I thought I'd seen everything, here comes organized fighting with actual machetes -- oh, and without protective gear.

Looks pretty similar to escrima.