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>> anthony: rondel benjamin and keegan taylor studied fighting styles from around the world before coming around to their own, homegrown martial art. >> anthony: now whats legal? >> rondel: whats not legal. >> anthony: or lets say whats not legal? >> keegan: you cant hit to the legs. >> anthony: you cant? oh damn, cause that would be the first thing i think of. im thinking, oh ive got to get that knee in particular. >> keegan: now to be honest in stick fighting, legal and illegal is a concept, b...

500/600 years old. >> keegan: stick fighting variations occur throughout the caribbean but in trinidad and tobago its like deep in their blood. >> anthony: this martial art was illegal for many, many years yes? >> keegan: yeah. >> anthony: i mean certainly during slavery times it was illegal. >> rondel: to this date i believe there are still laws on our books that ban this stick and if youre caught with it you can go to jail. >> anthony: the laws of slavery times forced this sport underground. l...

Caribbean but in trinidad and tobago its like deep in their blood. >> anthony: this martial art was illegal for many, many years yes? >> keegan: yeah. >> anthony: i mean certainly during slavery times it was illegal. >> rondel: to this date i believe there are still laws on our books that ban this stick and if youre caught with it you can go to jail. >> anthony: the laws of slavery times forced this sport underground. like capoeira, it often has to be disguised as a dance, but this aint no dance...

Caribbean buin trinid an tobago its like deep in their blood. >> anthony: this martial art was illegal for many, many years yes? >> keegan: yeah. >> anthony: i mean certainly during slavery times it was illegal. >> rondel: to this date i believe there are still laws on our books that ban this stick and if youre caught with it you can go to jail. >> anthony: the laws of slavery times forced this sport underground. like capoeira, it often has to be disguised as a dance, but this aint no dance. >> ...

♪ ♪ >> anthony: rondel benjamin and keegan taylor studied fighting styles from around the world before coming around to their own, homegrown martial art. >> anthony: now whats legal? >> rondel: whats not legal. >> anthony: or lets say whats not legal? >> keegan: you cant hit to the legs. >> anthony: you cant? oh damn, cause that would be the first thing i think of. im thinking, oh ive got to get that knee in particular. >> keegan: now to be honest in stick fighting, legal and illegal is a co...

Keegan taylor studied fighting styles from around the world before coming around to their own, homegrown martial art. >> anthony: now whats legal? >> rondel: whats not legal. >> anthony: or lets say whats not legal? >> keegan: you cant hit to the legs. >> anthony: you cant? oh damn, cause that would be the first thing i think of. im thinking, oh ive got to get that knee in particular. >> keegan: now to be honest in stick fighting, legal and illegal is a concept, but it doesnt stop that kind of s...

Producers. we produce an in-house show and a television show. we put up huge screens so people can see everywhere. you can see whats going on in there. but at the end of the day, its all about the fight. we have to make sure we put on great fights. thats wh people want to see. >> when it first started, so much of the focus was on individual fighting styles. what is the challenge of a sport that is a couple decades in? >> when it started, the first-ever ufc where a karate guy beat a kung fu guy, ...