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25.01.2022 Davao FMA Festival 2018 Highlights video. Manolo Luis Del Rosario Felipe P. Jocano Jr. Romeo Macapagal Celestino Castro Macachor James U. Sy Jr. Henry Espera Is...agani Abon Asher Mike Escalona Jeff Narzo Arnold Sabrina Bershad Herbert Rosalem JiSeok Lee Adrien Pierre N. Quidlat Viko Aquino Perrine Mario Palazuelo See more

24.01.2022 Great to see some friends from Townsville visiting us on the GC. Justin and Craig have trained around the world together.

24.01.2022 FMA HISTORY HAPPENING NOW We are living through the most important phase of FMA history today. Yeah, you read that correctly. It is the single most important ...phase of Filipino Martial Arts. Now. This is why telling the story accurately today is so important. The past is lost. Yes, you read that correctly also. We have fragments of truth, epic and unproven stories of heroism, origin stories that are, at best, vague. As consumer recording devices became more widely available we were able to preserve some of its near history. Floating around the internet are soundless 8mm film and degraded VHS videos that require the recollection of a human to put it in context. We have lost so much. It is possible that more are lost than what remains. We are dealing with remains. Fragments of a whole. And it is thanks to the tireless efforts of leaders in arts such as Balintawak, Pekiti Tirsia, Modern Arnis and Kalis Illustrisimo that our past clings by a thread to our future. Today, we have a real opportunity to strengthen that thread. To fortify what little we have that connects us to our past. And that thread is not strengthened by the very thing that degraded it to begin with. Tribalism. The idea that one camp is superior to another and therefore must be eradicated or exiled into obscurity. FMA needs to become a community, not a tribe. Tribes don't last very long. Tribes fight one another, leaving one victor, while both are weakened in the process. Communities stand a much better chance at survival. FMA is a sport. It is an exercise. A movement. It is an art. It is a hobby. It is a way of life. It is a system for combat. It is all of those things. It comes from the Philippines, but it belongs to everyone. Each FMA system is different...but it seems to me that when we start moving...when we start fighting...when we start clashing...when we start resisting...it becomes more or less the same. It just turns into fighting. When it matters most, it becomes one thing. Filipino Martial Art. When fighting is the priority...it seems to me that we are bound by the same truths. FMA will continue to homogenize. It has ALWAYS taken that path. Always. It has never stopped the process of blending. Each and every "pure" system has always been a blend of the things that came before it. It just chose to discard, disregard, or hide the proof. Lost history...by choice or by circumstance...gone forever. Today is different. Today, we can write history. We can preserve and possibly even reconnect fragments of FMA's near past. We do this by showing pride in the systems we study without cannibalizing the systems we don't. The path of FMA has always been to adapt and blend. Innovate and evolve. We are living in the most important phase of FMA. The turning point where we can continue to evolve without losing the things we evolved from. I love FMA in all its iterations and manifestations; past, present and future. -PR

22.01.2022 We found this post from Roy Marsh incredibly funny...mostly because there’s a lot of truth to it. Anything you’d add? Keep it light. Have fun... "(This may mak...e some people mad but I think it's an important topic for non martial artists.) When you train a specific martial Art long enough, it changes you. You gain certain skills and attributes from it. However, there is a flip side. You often gain some inabilities and negative attributes as well. The following is a description of some of the most popular martial arts and their practitioners: Tae Kwon Do: due to increasing circumference around your middle, you lose the ability to touch your toes and often to even see them. You cannot say no to weapons with metallic or glitter paint. You believe hairstyles and fashions reached their pinnacle in 1983 BJJ: You've developed the lightning fast ability to flop down on the ground upside down anytime someone threatens you or even raises their voices. You own more funny rashguards than ties. You know 30 ways to pass a Spider Guard but have no idea how to defend a punch. Kung Fu: you lack any ability to cut your hair after you start to go bald - You are the king of the balding ponytail. You also have no ability to use your thumbs for anything, preferring to act like you have stiff mannequin hands. You've also never found the secret technique to defeat your virginity Wrestling: your head is permanently tilted back 15 degrees to try to make your traps look bigger. A childhood of constant weight cutting made sure you never got taller than 5'4. You think the Bowl (Moe) haircut is the best thing ever. Army Combatives: you passed level 1 so you think you're basically a UFC Fighter Marine Combatives: you got your tan belt so you think you're basically Rambo Kali/Escrima: you're ready to pull your weapon and go to prison for 30 years if someone even looks at you wrong. You bring up how many knives you have on you at all times in even the most casual conversation. Gracie Combatives: You've trained. for 14 months and can't resist criticizing "Sport" Black Belts with 20 years of experience. You've also been running your own school for 9 of those 14 months. Your gis are spotless. Krav Maga: you think you're the only people in the world who figured out that hitting someone in the eyes or balls would hurt them. You've basically turned spazzing out as hard as you can into a "martial art" Karate: see Tae Kwon Do but with more grimacing, angry faces, and broken boards. Systema: Russia gave the world Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Kandinsky, Stravinsky, and more. That almost makes up for them inflicting Systema on us. Judo: You're 27 but have the body of a 117 year old bull rider. You make sure to tell every other grappler the correct Japanese name for the move they're doing and how it actually came from Judo anyways. Ninjitsu: you're name is Dylan and you're from the suburbs. Your Dad's a dentist. You're not a ninja. Boxing: kicking isn't fair, grappling isn't fair, clinch fighting isn't fair. Take those out and Boxing is the most realistic, manly fighting style there is. Also, all shorts should be made to slide all the way up to your nipples Muay Thai: yes, we know, you broke a baseball bat with a kick once. It takes longer to pronounce the names of the fighters in a Muay Thai match than it does for them to fight. Sambo: Like the readout in the Terminators eyes, all you ever see are the words "dive on foot". You shave your legs but your gis have epaulets so that's pretty awesome. Aikido: you're basically powerless if no one grabs your wrist or comes running at you with an overhead chop (the way most fighters do). I Don't know if it's worse getting thrown by an Aikido practitioner or smelling like patchouli wherever they touched you afterwards. Hapkido: a thousand different organizations and each one will tell you why all the other ones suck. They are extremely dangerous if you attack them exactly the way they ask you too. And, you don't resist. Catch Wrestling: the Krav Maga of grappling. Savate: a truly terrifying martial art. Because anyone who lost a fight to a French guy would have to kill themselves in shame. Cheap to learn because you only need to borrow your sisters ballet slippers and you have your outfit. Sumo: gotta love any martial art where the weight classes start at Obese and go up from there. From Japan - the nation that loves fat guys in diapers slapping each other and tentacle porn. Kenpo: or is it "Kempo?" Which is it? Actually, never mind. No one cares. Capoeira: weird to name a martial art after the worlds largest rodent from South America. After a capoeira fight, you're not sure who won or lost but you are pretty sure one of you is pregnant MMA: you can't "afford to pay for training" but have roughly $30,000 worth of tattoos. You get confused how to make a complete sentence without "bro" or "brah". You're 3-7 amateur but tell everyone you'll be in the UFC in the next 6 months. You have at least one serious injury at all times. UFC Style: You don't actually train. Your closet contains only wife beaters. You have the same amount of tattoos as the MMA guy but only spent $22.13 on them. You've never trained any real martial art or fought but have your own fighters page on Facebook."

20.01.2022 Hey thanks for checking out my page - don't put content up too often.More so on Kali Townsville Page. Found this of interest though, definately worth thinking about strike areas if the need arises

20.01.2022 I'M TIRED OF PEOPLE TRYING TO CLAIM THAT FILIPINO DIRTY BOXING IS A RIP-OFF OF KRAV MAGA. Here's the TRUTH... The FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS predate the STATE OF ISR...AEL by more than 400 years, at least. FERDINAND MAGELLAN was killed in battle by FILIPINO WARRIORS using the FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS in 1521. The Spanish fought for 377 years to try and colonize the SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES but could only take small parts of MINDANAO because of the fearsome FILIPINO WARRIORS there. The SPANISH SOLDIERS would enter the jungles of MINDANAO and never come out. After the SPANISH AMERICAN WAR (1898), the USA won the Philippines from SPAIN. But the US MILITARY had pretty much the same experience with the SOUTHERN FILIPINOS in MINDANAO. They issued 45 caliber firearms because the 38 would not effectively kill the FILIPINOS. Around the same time, many FILIPINOS and FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTISTS began to settle in AMERICA as migrant farm workers. Expert BOXERS, many Filipinos went into BOXING because they could earn a better purse for boxing in one bout than than they could earn for a week of working on the farms. When WORLD WAR II broke out, the JAPANESE hit PEARL HARBOR and MANILA on the same day. The BATAAN DEATH MARCH followed, but the USA was forced to cut and run from the Philippines, so they could fight elsewhere in the PACIFIC and EUROPEAN THEATRES. The American FILIPINOS considered themselves AMERICANS but enlisted in record numbers in the US ARMY because they wanted to FREE their HOMELAND from JAPANESE OCCUPIERS. As we all know, in EUROPE, GENOCIDE took place as the ancestors of the ISRAELIS were herded into HITLER'S concentration camps mostly without fighting. The Filipinos on the other hand, became America's FIRST SPECIAL FORCES in the US ARMY’S 1ST & SECOND FILIPINO INFANTRY REGIMENT. THE 1ST & 2ND FILIPINO INFANTRY REGIMENT (a racially segregated division of the US Army) were secretly deployed into the Pacific Theatre to fight in guerrilla warfare campaigns against the Japanese, first in New Guinea, then in the Philippines. They were the first US Soldiers trained in FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS to fight HAND TO HAND with BOLOS (SWORDS) instead of bayonets. They would wait for JAPANESE SOLDIERS to enter the JUNGLE and surprise them with BOLO ATTACKS. Why would they fight HAND TO HAND against the JAPANESE instead of just shooting them? Because the sound of guns would give away their positions, and because the jungles were so thick that by the time they saw the enemy they were usually already in hand-to-hand combat range. The ALLIES defeated the AXIS POWERS and WORLD WAR II came to a close in 1945. In 1948, the STATE OF ISRAEL was founded and they formed a MILITARY to protect themselves from hostile neighbors. ISRAEL became the USA's closest ALLY in the region. Over the years, the USA has shared not only MILITARY ASSETS with the ISRAELIS, but also training and fighting methods. In more recent years, thanks to my teacher, DAN INOSANTO (and others), the US MILITARY SPECIAL WARFARE/OPERATIONS units like the NAVY SEALS have been trained in THE FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS. The US MILITARY SPECIAL FORCES have trained the ISRAELI SPECIAL FORCES. The system of KRAV MAGA was popularized by the ISRAELI SPECIAL FORCES. This is an image is of THE FIRST FILIPINO INFANTRY REGIMENT training in the FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS in CALIFORNIA in preparation for being deployed into the PACIFIC THEATRE to fight in GUERRILLA WARFARE campaigns against the JAPANESE.

18.01.2022 Tuhon Mel Tortal doing live ginunting training with accuracy moves.

18.01.2022 Another our old video "The dance with bhata and whisky"...

18.01.2022 Great Machete & Knife Class tonight. Thanks for a good session Simo (Simon James Edwards) Top job buddy !

13.01.2022 If I'm not mistaken this should be Silambam. Tamil stick fighting technique Very nice flow PG Fabrizio Mansur

08.01.2022 Warm up "meditace" ! Dobrá parta

05.01.2022 Got the chance to share The Filipino Martial Art of Kali at a recent Bernafon conference in Tasmania. A big thank you to the following participants - Mel Gray-t...hompson and Nadine, Kate Robertson and Jo Ross-Jackson, Dale Jackson and Brad Cochrane. Also a HUGE thanks to my crash testy dummy - Marguerite Rushworth for her help with the guys. Setting - St Davids Park, Hobart You Guys Rocked It ! See more

05.01.2022 Just published my new book: https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Irish-Art-Sti//ref=sr_1_2

02.01.2022 In Tokyo, Japan. Southeast Asian Martial Arts Collaboration Seminar in Tokyo Japan, on the weekend of 15th & 16th December 2018. This event will be organised by... Shin Kali. Tuhon Kit Acenas will be teaching Kali Mundo and myself Maul Mornie teaching Silat Suffian Bela Diri. For more information please check out the super cool poster; or visit : www.ShinKali.com email : [email protected] Thank you. #Brunei #Japan #Tokyo #BruneiDarussalam #SilatSuffianBelaDiri #SSBD #KaliMundo #PencakSilat #Silat #FMA #FilipinoMartialArts #Aikido #Hapkido #Jujutsu #Jujitsu #Judo #JiuJitsu #Eskrima #Kali #KaliSilat #BJJ #StickFighting #Grappling #Dumog #BruneianMartialArt #JKD #JeetKuneDo #ShinKali

01.01.2022 A blast from the past - Steve and us lads make Filipino TV. Good Times, cheers all Escrimadors.