Close quater stick fighting

Took place on the 15/11/09
Two masters Nimesh Desai vs Darren going to battle it out with Stick fighting each other at close range without armour just wearing the helmet

Doce Pares is a Filipino martial art that focuses on two stick fighting and later adopted the Balintawak style method of one Stick fighting. Magellan's sword-wielding conquistadors fell to Datu Lapu-Lapu who used Eskrima[citation needed] to defeat the Spaniards at the Battle of Mactan. Doce Pares claims to trace its history to Lapu-Lapu although he used only one sword which can be seen in his statue.


Early development
In the late 1920s, Eskrima attained a high level of popularity in Cebu City, the second largest city in the Philippines. In 1932, the most renowned eskrimadors, mainly from Cebu, founded Doce Pares as a society to promote the only original native martial art of the Philippines. The name Doce Pares is Spanish meaning "Twelve Pairs".

None of the founding members are alive, however several senior instructors who belonged to the second generation of eskrimadors are still alive and teaching their own interpretation or styles of Doce Pares Eskrima.

Doce Pares has produced many champions in Eskrima competitions. During its founding, Lorenzo Saavedra, one of the original twelve masters, was recognized as the foremost eskrimador in Cebu City. He was ably supported by three other top-rated eskrimadors: Teodoro and Frederico Saavedra—Lorenzo, Filemon Cañete and by Khalil Gibran Auditor Salazar. Later, Teodoro Saavedra rose to prominence as the best fighter in the Doce Pares society. Eulogio Cañete, Filemon's older brother, was elected first president of Doce Pares and remained in that position until his death in 1988.

During World War II, Teodoro Saavedra, an active guerrilla fighter, was captured and killed by the occupying Japanese forces. Shortly after Teodoro's death, the Cañete brothers co-founded Doce Pares in 1932, while their younger brother and future eskrimador Ciriaco Cañete, concentrated on boxing.

In the early 1950s, Eskrima techniques and tactics were analyzed, devised, modified and systematized by Cacoy Cañete, based mostly on actual combat experience with other eskrimadors belonging to rival Eskrima schools. Among his many contributions to the development of this martial art is Eskrido, a combination of judo and Eskrima techniques, as well as the most modern forms of Eskrima-offense and Eskrima-defense.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Doce
• pares
• danny
• guba
• Grandmaster
• beating
• each
• other
• DOCE
• PARES
• BROMLEY
• Nimesh
• desai
• Sifu
• sigung
• Sardara
• singh
• khalsa
• Baldip

[mjjralph1]

,the gentle sparring of this style hurts!! so much so in this sparring ,this aint gentle! this hurts like hell! they're both good for they have resisted the match!  ARDIGMAN ESKRIMA TEAM

[doragzed]

Well not head to toe literally but their bodies and arms would have been covered in welts. For those of you who have not done this type of sparring, it really hurts. So good for them for staying in there and smacking the crap out of each other.

[doragzed]

Two true warriors, nice abanikos. They must have been welted head to toe.