Editing Arnis (section)

===Sinawali===
[[File:Sinawali.jpg|left|thumb|Practising Sinawali activity at Arnis seminar by [[Terry Lim]] at Marcos Dorta's Essential Defence Academy in Melbourne, Australia]]

''Sinawali'' refers to the activity of "weaving", as applied Eskrima with reference to a set of two-person, two-weapon exercises. The term comes from "[[Sawali]]", the woven material that typically forms the walls of [[Nipa Hut|nipa huts]].

''Sinawali'' exercises provide eskrima practitioners with basic skills and motions relevant to a mode of two-weapon blocking and response method called ''Doblete''. ''Sinawali'' training is often introduced to novices to help them develop certain fundamental skills&nbsp;– including: body positioning and distance relative to an opponent, rotation of the body and the proper turning radius, recognition of one's center of gravity, eye–hand coordination, target perception and recognition, increased ambidexterity, recognition and performance of rhythmic structures for upper body movement, and muscular developments important to the art, especially, the wrist and forearm regions. It helps teach the novice eskrimador proper positioning while swinging a weapon.