Balintawak Eskrima at Doce Pares Tournament

Grandmaster Crispulo Atillo and Master Virgil Cavada were invited to do a demonstration of basic Balintawak sparring at the recently held Doce Pares tournament in Sacramento, California. The event was a huge success, attended by over 500 people and over 100 competitors.
Our million thanks to Master Leonilo"Nilo" Baron and Master Mike Mackenzie for the very warm welcome, friendship and hospitality !!!!!!

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• arnis
• eskrima
• kali
• stick fighting
• Filipino martial arts
• self defense
• martial arts
• hand to hand combat

[tfo23]

This is pure FMA. They are working in the middle to close range. Most guys in the US think long range is it. While it is safer and easier, the fight does not conform to your range preferences. If you lack the Close Quarters skill, you will be destroyed when your opponent brings the fight down you throat. FMA is attribute based (ie. reflex, line familiarization, timing, etc.) You achieve this through drills where you can work your techniques from motion.

[layogtabay]

@tfo23 You have made all the correct comments and I admire your knowledge of FMA and what it is REALLY all about. To be a complete FMA practitioner, one must be able to fight for REAL or tournaments, long range, middle and close range.

We address all 3 scenarios in our teachings and that is where, for an advance student the empty hands application for close quarters fights come in.

[renrakali]

@tfo23 I only disagree in that with the stick a close quarters "grappling happens" as the Dog Brothers say. Now I always envision the stick as a safety device for practicing blade work and with a real blade there is probably less of a tendency to fight in corto range or grapple.

[layogtabay]

@renrakali To be a complete all around fighter you have to be able to do long range, medium and close range. Almost all fights end up close range, that is why we need to deal with it, whether we like it or not. So the best scenario in training is to practice all angles and distances. Thanks for the comment and insight !!

[wutc36]

These two great instrutors did a siminar at the Escrima school I'm attending. The were patient with everybody in showing all their knowledge of FMA.

[layogtabay]

Layogtabay means let us wrestle, in Cebuano, a Filipino dialect. Sometimes it is called Dumog or Sambunot. If two people are actively wrestling it is called, NAGLAYOG.

[LCStreetPhotographer]

@tfo23 i've been boxing since I was a kid..if someone comes at me with a gun or a knife...i'll give him my watch my wallet.....and then i'll run away. Thats called being smart...if someone comes at me in a fight I have blistering footwork, I fight from the peekaboo stance and can shoot to the inside and bust a few ribs with the left to the body before , as fast as lightening, smashing the same left back up under them in an uppercut. Boxing is effective, simple and easy to learn.

[LCStreetPhotographer]

@tfo23 and if someone attacks you thinking outside the box all those drills training etc etc goes out the window. As happened to a good friend of mine...13 years of JKD/FMA's and he got beaten to a pulp.

[gangstarr0work]

i wanna smack a HUGE redneck in the back of the head. when he turns to me and is about to destroy me, i'll say "naw doood.......it was that cat in the red shirt right there."

[kmkfiction2]

FMA + Kajukenbo+ Tracy Kenpo is what I love and breathe

[katz808]

"Most guys in the US think long range is it."

We in Hawaii train Corto (close), Medio (medium) and Largo (long) range. That's were the foot work becomes critical. In a real fight it's not really nice.

[katz808]

"Most guys in the US think long range is it."

We in Hawaii train Corto (close), Medio (medium) and Largo (long) range. That's were the foot work becomes critical. In a real fight it's not really nice.

[mrMP40sw]

i just reading the comments on this post.. you guys are great!!! a lot of people including the people who came up with these arts are indeed very skillful.. but explaining the science of the art like you guys are doing is a very beautiful thing.. this is what the art is all about.. it comes to a point that you barely discuss on the styles or the forms, but its now more on the beauty of the thing itself as it evolves. kip up the good comments and more power to FMA and all you who believes in it!!

[Ilanactingreel]

@tfo23

Well I kind of have to disagree and agree. I trained Doce Pares most of my life which is indeed a very in close stick fighting system but I switched to Ilustrisimo and realized how effective using long range can be as well. Some FMA styles favor range over being in tight in training and will work really getting out to the side at a distance to keep striking the hand (such as ilustrisimo). It's amazing how they all developed so differently.

[renrakali]

@layogtabay I my self enjoy training in this range and as one friend of mine stated "this is the range people die in".

This is the range disarms can be employed in but this is also the range where you should be killing you attacker before he kills you and not worry about trying to get a disarm. In reality there is no medium range, nobody fights in medium range per se they just transition from largo to corto. Most assaults start in corto, most fights start in largo.