#Filipino Martial Art

[makapatag]

got a new update up on my slick bladepunk dharmacore progression fantasy web serial.

THE KNIGHT VAGRANT is like if Dragonball had Maritime Asian aesthetics and overtly Buddhist themes.

maritime asia? think the Maritime Silk Road/Nirvana Route: from parts of South Arabia to India to SEAsia to South and East China to Japan to Korea,, the whole shebang of buddhism's extent. keep in mind its only really inspired by maritime asia: it's still a progression fantasy at its core. eventual god killing will ensue, but a god killing guided by enlightened compassion.

imagine if breath of the wild was built ground up from southeast asian aesthetics, ethics, and traditions. xianxia by way of southeast asian hindu-buddhist-animist esotery instead of only daoism

writing progression fantasy (think shonen anime, growing in power is the point) feels like home to me.

blurbs and shit ya'll:

[jadevine]

An online friend sent me this video on Nov 10, and I immediately started taking notes on it, lol.

There is nothing better/worse than a white dude learning about arnis and getting So Fascinated by it. Thank the gods that he has a Filipino friend.

The first few minutes are generally a solid if brief history: Eskrima/kalis/arnis started as a commoner’s art with no official “system,” aside from being practical, deadly, and using a variety of weapons.

Spain came around and forbid blade usage, hence the transition into the now-famous sticks. Speaking of which, Filipinos killed Magellan using the bladed version of eskrima. Like… A LOT of Filipinos. Magellan and 49 Spaniards just rolled up to a full army of 1,500 natives and assumed, “Well, we have guns, so we’ll be fiiiiiiiiiiine!” Fuck around and find out, colonizer.

The thing that jumped out at me was the comment about eskrima being “hidden in dance and play,” which is likely referring to two things: The maglalatik dance is specifically a war dance. I don’t know if that’s “hidden,” so much as “this is literally supposed to be practice for young men to learn how to fight, and for seasoned fighters to keep in shape.”

The other might be the common old wives’ tale saying that kalis fighters practiced to music. This is something that I’ve only seen done 1) for performances/displays where no actual fighting was going on, or 2) to pull foreigners’ legs about secret Pinoy techniques. Some people call it “cheesy,” and I personally think some guys saw Pinoys sparring to their workout playlist (or the historical equivalent), and they thought we did that all the time.

Like, nobody minds if a white guy spars with “Eye Of The Tiger” blasting because maybe he just likes working out to music, but when a Filipino guy/group spars with eskrima to their favorite beats, suddenly it’s a “time-honored tradition?” I haven’t seen any dance-battlers mentioned in the Boxer Codex or other records, so until someone has evidence, I won’t say it’s historical.

Regarding the hands-on stuff: I feel like they intentionally skipped the most boring stuff, either so the video would be more exciting, or to just fuck with poor Martin. Like, they handed this poor man a stick right off the bat and started him out with hitting stuff and sparring? Where is the training montage??? Was all of it cut???

Also, here’s an intersection with “real fights aren’t nearly as long as the movies pretend” and “fighters are not necessarily good video-makers:” The spars lasted all of five seconds each, and it was mostly to “the first one who lands a hit wins.” This is okay when it’s clearly in good fun, but it’s also not very educational and it tips a little bit into “TELLING people how awesome eskrima is” instead of “SHOWING people how awesome it is.”

Martin does not look like he learned any footwork, either, but he says he knows boxing! The sport that people literally compare eskrima’s footwork to the most often!

Maybe this is my entertaining/acting side coming out, but if you’re planning a video well in advance, with someone that you know is not trained in this field, and an indirect purpose of this is to spread knowledge of your country’s national sport/combat-style, I feel like you need to set aside a couple hours for a crash-course of “here’s how to do X, Y, and Z,” while the actual students and teachers are doing fancy stuff. You can film however much you need, and then CUT however much you need to fit the time-limit.

The video would have greatly been helped if they kept a training montage that lasted twenty or thirty seconds--it would be much more involved than what the video seems to have done, by just tossing a new guy a stick and messing around with him.

General impression: An easy to digest taste of eskrima, like Cup-O-Noodles / instant ramen, or whatever your country’s version of “cheap and easy food” is. Not bad for what it is, but you’ll need something meatier after a couple of hours.

[marhikit]

They were buried mid scream. Their teeth

Turned gray by gravel, shouting silenced by concrete.

- Film Center// Martial Law, Poems for the Dead by Arvin Abejo Mangohig

An accident occurred around 3:00 a.m. on November 17, 1981, during the construction of the Manila Film Center. The scaffolding collapsed, and at least 169 workers fell and were buried under quick-drying wet cement.

[strangerskies-wfiles]

Double sticks practice

[kalisikaransweden]

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[brokehorrorfan]

Day Zero will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 11 via Well Go USA. The 2022 Filipino zombie thriller is available on Digital now. Mixed martial artist Brandon Vera stars.

Joey De Guzman directs from a script by Ays De Guzman. Pepe Herrera, Mary Jean Lastimosa, Ricci Rivero, Jema Galanza, Joey Marque, Freya Fury Montierro, and Yohance Levi Buie round out the cast.

No special features are included. Read on for the trailer and synopsis.

After serving eight incident-free years in prison, a former elite soldier is released, finally free to reunite with his estranged wife and young daughter. However, he re-enters civilization only to discover that the outside world has been completely overtaken by a dangerous virus with terrifying effects on the human body. Chased by hordes of the undead, he races through the dangerous urban landscape in a final desperate attempt to redeem himself and rescue his family.

Pre-order Day Zero.

[big-mom-energy]

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!

[dr-grayson]

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.

[mikejaffa]

One of my favorite martial arts.

[aeoulus]

First time ko makipag sparring kanina putangina ganito pala kasakit yung mga tama tho nung time naman nayon di masakit.

[kala-ya-aan]

Remember bro it's not that hard!

[makapatag]

a lot of THE KNIGHT VAGRANT was inspired by leftist schisms in the wake of the burgeoning victory of capitalism, meditations on ideology and the emptiness of identity and heritage. the violence of borders and nations. the poetry of combat. the struggle to snatch the new world from the jaws of the old one. a dramatic romance of betrayal and traitorship in the name of power and ideology.

all tied together in a monsoon asia and buddhist world, a majority of my lived experience, struggling and becoming violence by dint of my existence. the knight vagrant is the story of a wanderer who has been ripped from their story due to people gripped by their delusion, and must claw their way back to enlightenment.

it's a journey of tremendous physical, social, and spiritual violence, inspired by the likes of xianxia novels, jin yong's books, naruto's kinetic jutsu, dragon ball's whimsical martial arts, and even disco elysium's slipstream world building

it's not a journey for everyone.

so set your heart ablaze.

may you walk in Revolution.

[nothingbutferal]

I've come to the realization that while people my age have been going out making friends I've literally been studying the blade.

[melbournemartialartsclubcom]

Karate in Melbourne | Melbourne Martial Arts Clubs

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[plugonetwo]

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