Fighting Sticks of Arnis DVD

Featuring:

GM Bobby Taboada
GM Nicomedes Elizar
GM Jerry Dela Cruz
GM Rodel B. Dagooc
Datu Tim Hartman
GM Bram Frank

A rare chance to travel across the Philippines and explore Filipino Martial Arts with our guides on this epic journey, datu Tim Hartman from the USA and grandmaster Bobby Taboada.

In our journey we meet many Arnis masters who were students of the founder of Modern Arnis, grandmaster Remy Presas. "I started in Modern Arnis" says grandmaster Rodel Dagooc. "Remy Presas was my godfather. Without him, Arnis would have become a dying art. One Arnis style that grandmaster Remy Presas mastered is Balintawak, a dynamic single stick system. At his Cebu Nickelsticks club, grandmaster 'Nick' Elizar explains: "The aim of Balintawak is to disarm your opponent. This means using counter to counter because we assume our opponent is smarter than us" Elizar says

"Striking is easy. We teach you to defend and react very fast."

Aris, like all martial arts requires hard work and personal sacrifice.

Grandmaster Bobby Taboada talks about his early years of Arnis training: " learned to accept the pain. That's the reality of training in the Philippines... are you ready to accept the pain"

Length: 1 hour