Garrote's primary principle is to avoid. It seeks to evade attacks via footwork and parries, rather than block them with the stick/machete.

This is extremely different from the Kali that I have studied which seems to rely on a combination which favors the stick as the tool for blocking.

There are undoubtedly more, but this is the most basic and the most often stressed to me.

Examples will eventually be given as a movie to the left.