Hello Guys,
First, it is Sayoc not Sayok.
Second, Having trained in a variety in both Budo and Sayoc for sometime, many people have asked which art would be better for a real world situation so let me explain a few things about training first.
Back when I was actively training with Shihan Severe in Budo, one thing that got us into trouble with many, and yes I do mean many other practitioners was the hard style, force on force training we did. That included actual sparring, makiwara striking, and body toughening drills every opportunity we had. Now looking back this was the late 80's and early 90's and people did not spar often in the Bujinkan. As I came out of full contact karate and judo, wrestling sparring was an every class experience, so it developed in me an attitude that everything you train in should be geared toward the street level attack. There are many good techniques and kata in the Bujinkan system but they were not at that time being put into practice well. Looking out a few years later many newer practitioners began adding grappling into their practice as well as padded sparring to ramp things up a bit which definitely has added to the systems effectivity.
Training in Sayoc is a different approach at first a student is given a few drills to begin to familiarize them with some concepts that will be expanded upon dealing with a bladed/weapon based encounter. From this foundation it ramps up fast, sparring, drill adaptation, templates, medical management, tactical scenarios, training modifiers are all progressively dumped onto a students training program to push a student to new levels constantly. As a weapon based encounter is fast, your reflex training has to at least allow you the ability to survive the initial attack and then to counter or to immediately pre-emptively stop the attacker in his tracks. Sayoc material is consistently high on the list here. Now does every encounter involve the most extreme level of threat elimination? No of course not, and Sayoc also contains material that deal with this scenario as well.
So which is better? I would say that both have a great degree of material that can increase the practitioners ability to survive an attack. In the edged weapons arena, definitely Sayoc takes it.
All that being said, I have also practiced a variety of other arts (and continue to do so) this is advocated by Pamana Tuhon Sayoc to continue to have new fresh perspectives continually evolve the sayoc curriculum. On my end it is a personal things to gain from each master their strategies and tactics to help increase and refine myself and that of my students always.
Hope this helps
Gumagalang
Guro Steve L.