Union City, California, is having a cultural festival this coming weekend and my martial arts class is doing a raffle. If anybody in the East Bay is interested in learning Filipino Stick Fighting this is a great opportunity for a free class and bag of gear!
Now for something a little bit different. For those who don't know this august I earned my instructorship in Jun Fan Gung Fu and Filipino Kali under Guro Dan Inosanto, regardles my school had me test for my Black Ecot anyways and here is one segment from the lengthy test.
2 characters from my fighting game development, Inspired by two fighters I know and Street Fighter, with traditional martial arts. Still don't have names but on left is the Kali/Arnis/Eskrima Fighter and right is the Kickboxer, Muay Thai, Boxer, MMA Fighter Working on finishing up the eight main fighters all with different martial arts styles.
probably the most annoying myth/lie about Filipino martial arts history
Late last year I was doing RA work for a Filipino Martial Arts paper and I was very frustrated by the almost universal proliferation of a certain statement about the arts, and I cannot stress enough how FMA schools need to get rid of it: the myth that the Spaniards banned the Filipinos from practicing their combat arts.
This claim is unsubstantiated and ahistorical. There are people who claim the Spanish colonial authorities banned it out of fear or to control the native Filipino population. But no one has produced any document to prove such a ban existed.
(Above: Painting of a Cuadrillero, a native Filipino militiaman who served as local law enforcement and auxiliary to the colonial army when needed; Jose Honorato Lozano, 1847)
Furthermore, the claim is ahistorical because native Filipinos formed the majority of colonial military and police for the entirety of the Spanish colonial period. Almost every town in the Spanish colonial PH had their own militia (later called cuadrilleros) to serve as local law enforcement and auxiliaries to the colonial army (who were also mostly natives) during military campaigns, and they often had to train and arm themselves.
Native Filipino milicias/cuadrilleros are often depicted with a mix of native and European-style weapons and equipment.
(Filipino militiamen from Ilocos led by the local native elites wielding spears and swords during the Basi revolt, 1807; Esteban Villanueva, 1821)
The Spanish consistently relied upon the natives' fighting capabilities to end rebellions and to conquer new territories throughout the archipelago. When you consider this, plus the fact that Filipino towns had to train and arm their own cuadrilleros, it makes no sense.
(Above: Filipino militiamen armed w/ native weaponry fighting alongside Filipino soldiers in the Spanish Colonial Army during the Battle of Balanguingui, 1848; Antonio de Brugada, 1850)
The more likely explanation is that, like many other pre-colonial Filipino traditions, Filipino martial arts blended with Spanish martial traditions over time while maintaining its roots in our native weaponry and warrior philosophies, which is why as “Arnis” and “Eskrima” (Spanish loanwards) are the most prolific terms to describe the martial arts of Christianized Filipinos, and why Arnis/Eskrima schools, while focusing on Filipino weaponry, often share many terminologies with historical Spanish martial arts.
Deadly techniques only for life & death situations. Real martial arts not the watered down version commonly taught at the commercial dojo were meant for warfare and the battlefield. The techniques were designed to kill and to break bones and dislocate multiple joints. They were designed to be brutal not as a recreational past time to cultivate discipline and character. Cultivating the character and developing self discipline was however necessary so that the practitioner would not misuse his training and become a ruthless killing machine.
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Yo Budoblr folks, as I'm sure many of you have noticed I've been putting out a lot of content recently and really trying to build my following. I am open to just about any request or suggestion. If you have a question pertaining to a certain style or technique I can address it (I plan to formally turn this into its own series in the future). But just as a general reminder these are the arts I've practiced. I hold instructorships in Jun Fan Gung Fu, Savate Boxe Francaise, Wing Chun, and the Filipino Martial Arts. Furthermore I have a purple belt in CSW (Combat Submission Wrestling/Catch Wrestling) and have my blue belt in BJJ (soon to be purple), on top of that I've been training Muay Thai and Boxing for a little over a decade along with the rest. So I have many different arts I can pull from and inform about, just ask.
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