Had great workout with one of my morning students on small blades.  We use a hard focus pad as the target and arm guard and glove with my knife hand, that is the secondary target. The drill is like a boxing drill of get the focus pad 1st, look out for the the punch but instead you use the the knife to counter attack. I always use safety glasses for eye protection safety. I have a variety of training knives in different sizes, these are great for working with copies of tactical folders,…

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It was Gm Leo Fong a noted Martial Artist who shared this concept with me. He has used this in boxing, Chi-Fong and Modern Eskrima. This concept in one that sounds so simple of just being relaxed until you just about to hit. This concept sounds funny at first but when you realize that this will allow you to strike harder & faster and last longer when fighting sounds almost too good to be true. GM Leo showed me this using little weights just 3 pounds. This when coupled with Chi-build ing…

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 Christmas season with my Fil-Am family and our Arnis club is my favorite time of year. This is the time of year when  friends & families get together sharing friendship & food. No sparring or completions, just good times and parties. Visiting old & new friends. December for us is from one party or gathering to the next. In the Philippines the light the Parol Lanterns and holiday season begins. i hope that other group are doing the same and remembering that season is about giving…

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Yesterday I took three of my fighters from our club (SBFMA) to the Way of the Stick & the Blade tournament. It was held at LAX Hilton Hotel. Unfortunately there was not kids their age group to fight. They were a bit disappointed about that but were up to do a demonstration match. Two of my fighter- one of my sons and my nephew did a full contact sparring (including punching & kicking) demo using mixed weapons for 1 1/2 minutes. The boys showed the using 36 inch rattan (long sword)…

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Sept 11th, 2001 created  a chain of events that is still moving forward today. This event was our generations "Pearl Harbor". I work as Firefighter so the events are very real still today. I was dropping my son off at my in-law's house for child care when the incident took place.  It is the series of events that happen after that stands out. This one of several that occurred for me.

A friend of mine pointed out that those events would have never happen on Chinese, Japanese, Koren or…

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The South Bay FMA club is doing public demonstration of Filipino Martial Arts as part of the FPAC -Festival Philippine Arts & Culture in San Pedro California, on Sunday Sept.11th. It will be at Point Fermin Park at the end of Gaffey street. We will be on the Generations stage at 1pm. Please come down and support us. Our kids will be demonstrating sparring WEKAF style, Sparring USFMAF style the audlts will demonstrating single stick fighting double stick fighting, hand on weapon methods and… Continue

The South Bay FMA club offers kids classes every Monday night from 7-8pm and Saturday mornings 8-9 am in Gardena. Kids age 4 to 12 are welcome in this class. Kids classes are a combination of drills games and sparring with padded sticks. The classes are small, with limit of no more than ten kids to the class. We have been teaching a kids class for 4 years now. We do charge dues of 35.00 per month to pay for the use of Karate Dojo. Families get it for 60.00 per month, but they have to live in…

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We have Arnis Class at Shugyokan Dojo 6-7pm tonight. If you are in the area come by and visit

Got up early and worked out while still cool @ dawn 0530 could not sleep any more so just worked out in the early morning quite. Just watching the dawn and building my Chi. It is great to work out then before the hustle and bustle of the day gets started. The Sayaw flows well with the breathing techniques. Practiced it three different ways with stick with out and small hunting type blade trainer.

Last night it I worked out in the late evening. I work in rural area that gets warm, it was 94 during the day. I did my Sayaw with breathing techniques as Grand Master Leo Fong taught me. I have described this as Filipino Tai Chi to others. I found that if you do your stick motions slow and clean while moving and flowing and using the method of building Chi you will be greatly rejuvenated after a 1 hour practice. I will then do my empty hands motions as well. i visualized my opponent and then … Continue

After years of interaction with Guros,  Masters, Grand Master & Instructors I have completed my book. The Basics of Filipino Martial Arts. it is a 92 page book filled with details and pictures of what makes up the basics of FMA fighting system known as Arnis, Eskrima or Kali. It is the perfect companion to any FMA style you are learning. It does represnt just on style but what is the common threads of what makes up FMA.

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Our Baranggay, the South Bay Filipino Martial Arts club went and supported the FPAC festival on Sunday, Sept. 13th. This year we did something that we only talked about before, we had illustrated kid books that had basic Arnis inside with Kid Hero story. (This booklet was project of my collection of stories and the great illustrations by Le Roid David of Kid Hero’s & Lumpia film) We also offered to hold free 45 minute class for the kids and parents who came to out the Martial Arts village… Continue

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