Filipino Martial Arts

The Philippines

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Filipino Martial Arts integrates a “system-of-systems” approach to combat readiness. Filipinos have made significant sacrifices to develop their arts. Throughout the ages multi-cultural, multi-national invaders of the Philippines imposed new dynamics for human conflict and combat. FMA, the “system-of-systems” transformed itself as a direct result of an appreciation of their ever changing environment and circumstance. The Filipino's intrinsic need for self-preservation was the evolutionary genesis of these analogous systems. They learned often out of necessity how to prioritize, allocate and utilize common resources in combative situations. Filipinos have been heavily influenced by the phenomenon of cultural and language mixture. The multitude of languages spoken in the 7107 Islands have not only diverged into dialects, but they have been constantly mixing with one another on all levels: vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and usage (see Languages of the Philippines). As a result, Filipino martial arts and its homogeneous systems comprise a vocabulary of heterogeneous terms. Change is the norm. Some of the specific mechanisms responsible for cultural and martial change extend from phenomena such as war, political systems, social systems, technology and trade. For over three hundred years the Spanish had control over much of the Philippines. The Spanish regime often enforced royal laws and decrees limiting and prohibiting weapons use by the indigenous people. These restrictions of use were partly responsible for secretive and underground nature of FMA. Spaniards often employed Filipino warriors known as Eskrimadors for various battles and wars. The Filipino's battle tested tactics proved strategically effective from angle of old world weaponry and hand to hand conflict. Highly skilled Filipino martial artists are often characterized by a state of "flow" that is decisively responsive, deployable, agile, versatile, lethal, survivable, and sustainable. In 1972, the Philippine government included Filipino Martial Arts into the "Palarong Pambansa" or National Sports arena. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports also included it as part of the physical education curriculum for high school and college students. Knowledge of the Filipino martial arts is mandatory in the Philippine Military and Police. Today, the traditional Filipino martial systems continue to grow, new ones emerge, and new transitional FMA stylists continue to arrive on the Martial Arts scene. There are over 170 languages in the Philippines; almost all of them belong to the Austronesian language family. ... Look up Homogeneous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Heterogeneous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The acronym FMA may refer to: Federal Marriage Amendment Filipino Martial Arts (Eskrima) The Financial Matters Administration The anime and manga series Fullmetal Alchemist The fused multiply-add operation: round(A*B+C). ... Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ...

Note - This page is meant to serve as broad overview of the core components and advanced capabilities supporting the Filipino Martial Arts.

Filipino martial arts - Traditional Filipino weapons

Practitioners of these arts are noted for their ability to fight with weapons or empty hands interchangeably. Filipino martial arts include tactics for a wide variety of weaponry and combative situations. The weapons vary in design, size, weight, materials and methodology.

Impact Weapons

• Mano Mano, hands, open-handed, fingers, fists, elbows, knees, sipa or kicks, locks, blocks, and disarming
• Baston or olisi, eskrima sticks, traditionally crafted from rattan and kamagong
• Sibat, Tongat, staff
• Tameng, shield

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• Daga, dagger or knife - balisong, gunong, punyal
• Espada, swords - kampilan, arnis,kalis, ginunting, barong, pinuti, talibong, golok
• Bangkaw, spear

Flexible Weapons Daga Hundred, or Daga härad, was a hundred of Sudermannia in Sweden. ... A butterfly knife at various stages between its closed and open states The Balisong, called a Butterfly knife in the West, and sometimes known as a Batangas knife, is a form of folding pocket knife with two handles that counter-rotate around the tang such that, when closed, the blade... The word swords can refer to: Swords, Dublin swords (blades) Swords, a suit in the Tarot SWORDS, a ground-based military robot This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... A Kampilan. ... A kalis is a type of double-edged Filipino sword, often with a wavy section, similar to a kris. ... Barong can refer to any of the following things: A Barong Tagalog is an embroidered formal garment of the Philippines. ... Golok is the name given to a range of large knives and short swords originating from Indonesia, most notably from Myanmar (Burma). ... Sibat is a Filipino spear, used as a weapon or tool by natives of the Philippine islands. ...

• Latigo, whip
• Lubid, rope
• Kadena, tanikala, chain
• Yo-Yo, come-come or to return
• Tabak-Toyok and flails two sticks attached together by rope or chain, aka. nunchaku

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• Bow and arrow
• Lipad-lipad, bagakays, Blowgun and darts
• Slingshot

Filipino martial arts - Basic training and tactical methods

Filipino Martial Arts

Signs and symbols
The triangle also represents many underlying philosophical, theoretical and metaphysical principles in the FMA. Many schools incorporate the triangle into their school's logo. The triangle is one of the strongest geometrical structures and stands for strength. Application of these theories are found in defensive and offensive tactical stratagem, including footwork, stances, blocking and disarms Image File history File links Triangle. ... Image File history File links Triangle. ...

• Salutations and signing, non-verbal, gesture communication and recognition is used in teaching and identification. Eskrimador's sign language, utilizing hand, body, and weapons signals, these various gestures are used to convey ideas, desires, information, or commands.

Basic tactical ranges This page discusses salutation in the sense of greeting. ... For use of the term in mathematics, see signature (mathematics). ...

• Corto, Close Range Tactics
• Medio, Medium Range Tactics
• Largo, Long Range Tactics

• Hakbang, general term for footwork
• Corto Mano, close range, short movements, minimal extension of arms, legs and weapons, cutting distance
• Serrada "split step", short range footwork, quick, split action, front and back, low stance

• Serrada footwork is the base of a triangular framework methodology

• Largo Mano, long range, extended movements, full extension of arms, legs and weapons, creating distance
• Fraile, short range footwork, hopping action, balanced position, short hop, pushing off from the lead foot
• Ritriada, short range footwork, shuffling action, pushing backward by pushing off the lead foot, giving six to eight inches of range per action.
• Batran Batran, side to side action - (ilocano translation)

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• Solo Baston, single stick methods
• Doble Baston, double stick methods
• Bati-Bati, butt of stick methods
• Dulo-Dulo, palm stick methods
• Bantay-Kamay, Tapi-Tapi "guardian hand" or "alive hand", auxiliary weapons tactics used for deflecting, checking, blocking, monitoring, trapping, locking, disarming, striking, cutting, etc. Bantay-Kamay is the auxiliary weapon in the FMA. Examples: Solo Baston (single stick) tactics, it becomes the empty hand, Espada y Daga it becomes the Daga; which used in conjunction with the primary weapon.

• Mano y Mano, hand to hand combat methods
• Baraw, knife and dagger methods
• Mano y Daga, hand and dagger methods
• Daga y Daga, dagger and dagger methods
• Espada y Daga, sword and dagger methods
• Latigo y Daga, whip and dagger methods
• Tapon-Tapon, hand thrown knives and weapons tactics

• Numerado, striking and blocking by the numbers, refers to the most basic strikes and angles in Eskrima
• Cinco Teros, five strikes, refers to the five most basic strikes, and counters in Eskrima
• Doblete, two-weapon blocking and countering method of doubles
• Sinawali, weaving - rhythmic, flowing, striking patterns and tactics, utilizing two impact or edged weapons.
• Redonda, repeating pattern, double strikes and tactics
• Ocho ocho, repeating pattern, strikes and tactics, example figure 8
• Palis Palis, force with force, force to force method
• Abaniko, to fan, fanning strikes and tactics
• Witik, whipping, snapping back or picking movements and tactics
• Lobtik, follow through strikes and tactics, horizontal, vertical, diagonal methods
• Crossada, cross blocking methods, hands and weapons
• Gunting, scissors - armed and unarmed scissoring techniques aimed at disabling an opponent's arm or hand
• Lock and block, dynamic countering, attacks based on the striking and blocking methods of the system
• Free Flow, live interaction and play, flowing practice, rapid, rhythmic, weapons tactics

• Mano y Mano, hand to hand combat methodologies
• Kadena De Mano chain of hands, close quarters, continuous, hand to hand combat tactics
• Hubud Lubud, to tie and untie, continuous trapping methods
• Trankada, joint locking and breaking techniques
• Pangamut, mano mano, Pamuok, empty-hand techniques
• Kino mutai, a sub-section of Pangamut that specializes in biting and eye-gouges
• Panganaw, disarming techniques
• Panantukan or Panuntukan, Filipino kickboxing
• Pananjakman and Sipat, low-line kicking components
• Suntukan, Filipino Boxing, empty-hand striking techniques
• Dumog, Filipino grappling methods with an emphasis on disabling or control of the opponent by manipulation of the head and neck

Basic FMA "system-of-systems" training and tactical combinations In Eskrima, this is the use of the single stick, and the core fundamental system in all of the FMA. Beginners learn this system first to learn the 12 basic angles of attack and defense. ... A Filipino martial art performed without weapons, Mano Mano is the empty-hand part of Kombatan. ... Baraw is the component of Eskrima that focuses on knife fighting and its techniques. ... Espada y daga (also known as punta y daga or olisi y baraw (cebuano) is a discipline of Eskrima and the FMA believed to be influenced by European Fencing. ... Latigo y Daga literally translates Whip and Dagger in Spanish. ... A collection of training weapons used in an Eskrima class. ... Cinco Teros refers to the five most basic strikes in eskrima. ... A collection of training weapons used in an Eskrima class. ... A sub-discipline of Eskrima involving smooth, rhythmic double-stick weaving attacks, generally based around a six-count pattern. ... Redonda is an uninhabited island dependency of Antigua and Barbuda. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A chilean TAG machine affixed to a windshield. ... A Filipino martial art performed without weapons, Mano Mano is the empty-hand part of Kombatan. ... KADENA DE MANO the “chaining of hands”. Kadena is the close quarter fighting technique of [Kali Sikaran]. Short, fast blows with hand, elbows, etc. ... Pangamot is a Filipino martial art taught by Dan Inosanto. ... A Filipino martial art performed without weapons, Mano Mano is the empty-hand part of Kombatan. ... Kino mutai is a Filipino martial art that emphasizes biting, and also covers eye-gouging. ... Pangamot is a Filipino martial art taught by Dan Inosanto. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Pananjakman is the Filipino martial art of low-line kicking, associated with Eskrima. ... Suntukan is a form of Filipino boxing found in the northern Philippines. ... Dumog is the term used in Eskrima to refer to wrestling techniques. ... For other uses of the word head, see head (disambiguation). ...

These weapons will vary in design, size, lenghth, weight, and materials used.

Core FMA Left Hand ( LH ) & Right Hand ( RH ) tactical weapon combinations.

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Spiritual or internal practice

• Anting-anting, an Eskrimadors Talisman
• Orascion, an Escrimadors special verse or prayer
• Hilot, Filipino Healing Arts
• Arbularyo, Filipino healers and herbalists
• Kulam, Filipino witchcraft

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Filipino martial art systems

List of eskrima systems Eskrima, Arnis or Kali is a martial art from the Philippines. ...

Sources

• The FMA-Eskrima-Kali FAQ