Tom Cruise swinging sticks on Oprah

Filipino martial arts is getting to be the "hip" new art in Hollywood it seems, from Matt Damon in "Bourne Identity" to Benicio del Toro in "The Hunted" and now it seems, Tom Cruise for "The Last Samurai" everyone is learning something about Filipino martial arts.

Just saw a promo for Oprah and they showed a quick clip of Cruise doing Sinuwali, which is a twirl done with two sticks. Suwali are the woven walls in houses. Sinuwali is the motion of weaving these walls, which I suspect the name of this twirl comes from. It's a common technique that seems to cross all the the forms and schools of FMA. Just about everyone does the doublestick twirl, including Tom Cruise.