MAG TV Na, Amiga! featured the Philippines' National Martial Art and Sport of Arnis as a segment of its special presentation of Don Salvador Benedicto (DSB) and its Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival last February 21, 2010 over at ABS-CBN.
The segment on Arnis highlighted the passing of Republic Act No. 9850 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as “An act declaring Arnis as the National Martial Art and Sport of the Philippines“ last December 11, 2009.
Giving the historical and linguistic background of Arnis, or Eskrima in Cebuano, as an indigenous Filipino Martial Art (FMA) was Negros martial arts researcher/historian/writer James U. Sy Jr., Founder/Master of the Conceptual Martial Arts Society (CMAS), Inc.
Giving the demonstrations for a number of Negrosanon systems of Arnis were 1st Generation Inheritor/Grandmaster Benefredo “Bebing” M. Lobrido of the Taloc, Bago City-based Original Filipino Tapado Long Stick Fighting Association (OFTLSFA), Inc., Founder/Grandmaster Elmer V. Montoyo of the Philippine Integrated Martial Arts Academy-Filipino Tang Soo Do Association (PIMAA-FTSDA), Inc., and OFT Master Dr. Raymund Antonio A. Maguad, LVA Senior Instructor John Owen F. Ong, and LVA/OFT Instructors Lafayette A. Diamante, RN, and Lorema “Bing” H. Tacsagon of CMAS.
The group, representing the Intercontinental Federation of Filipino Martial Art Schools (IFFMAS), performed Original Filipino Tapado long and short stickfighting of Bago City, Lapu-Lapu Viñas Arnis (LVA) of Bacolod City, Filipino Tang Soo Do of Bacolod City, and Conceptual Doble Baston and Pang-agaw among others.
Interviews were also made for a few elementary and high school PE teachers and demonstrations by their students. With the signing of RA 9850 into law, Arnis has again been reintroduced in the Philippine educational system as a form of fitness for the youth of the republic.
The official rules adopted by the Department of Education, Culture, and Sports (DECS) is that established by Arnis Philippines (ArPi), the sole recognized National Sport Association (NSA) of Sport Arnis by the Philippine Government, Philippine Olympic Committee (POC), and the Philippine Sport Commission (PSC). Arnis Philippines, founded in 1986, is currently headed by its President, Raymund A. Velayo. Its Negros Occidental Commissioner is Grandmaster Danilo “Danny” Cardinal. Sy is the PIO of the Bacolod/Negros Occidental Chapter of the association.
The primary feature on Don Salvador Benedicto (DSB) showed the municipality adopting Arnis/Escrima, or more commonly known as Kali in the US, as one of its cultural heritages. Under the leadership of Hon. Mayor Lawrence Marxlen J. de la Cruz, DSB celebrated its 29th Founding Anniversary and 20th Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival last February 6-9. 2010. DSB is the youngest municipality in Negros Occidental.
DSB is known for its Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival, which was originally known as Halad “Offering (Cebuano/Hiligaynon),” a celebration and thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest. The Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival had been successful in attracting tourists to the town, which is also known as the summer capital of the Philippines because of its cold climate.
The feature also showed the various crops of DSB such as the pineapple as well as its varied products, customs, and culture. A significant portion of the segment showcased the street dancing competition of the Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival.
Also in the episode was Phemmostocles A. Belleza, originally of Northern Negros Occidental. He demonstrated the Negrosanon esoteric arts as he practice them by applying boiling oil on his arms and face without scalding or injury. He also showed several lana/potions which he have for protection. He talked about the use of prayers and stressed that such knowledge are not to be abused.
MAG TV Na!, started in 2008, is the brand of regional talk/magazine show of the various ABS-CBN Regional Network Group stations in the Philippines. MAG TV Na, Amiga! is the version designed and broadcasted by the Western Visayas Regional Network Group. The hosts of the program are Carmela Gamboa, Sedfrey Cabaluna, and Jeffrey Javines.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Kali-Kalihan and DSB on MAG TV Na, Amiga! This Sunday By: James U. Sy Jr.
MAG TV Na, Amiga! will be featuring Don Salvador Benedicto (DSB) and its Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival this coming February 21, 2010, 9:30 AM, over at ABS-CBN.
Don Salvador Benedicto (DSB), under its Mayor Hon. Lawrence Marxlen J. de la Cruz, celebrated its 29th Founding Anniversary and 20th Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival last February 6-9. 2010. DSB is the youngest municipality in Negros Occidental, having been founded on February 9, 1983 by virtue of Batas Pambansa Bilang 336, authored by Pambansa Member Alfonso Garcia and Jose Varela, Jr. and by putting together two barangays from Murcia and Calatrava each and three barangays from San Carlos City under its jurisdiction. The town was named after the late Vice-Governor Salvador Benedicto, who was part in setting up the Revolutionary Government of Negros Island and Siquijor at the area during World War II.
The formation of the new town was prompted because the seven barangays were located at more remote areas and most times can’t be reached by governmental support. The town’s path to development was started by its first appointed Mayor, Hon. Nehemias “Nene” G. de la Cruz and continued by Hon. Ricardo T. Arnaldo, Jr., Cynthia “Bebing” J. de la Cruz, and presently, Hon. Lawrence Marxlen J. de la Cruz.
DSB is known for its Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival, which was originally known as Halad “Offering,” a celebration and thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest. The festival has adopted Eskrima “Fencing,” or more popularly known as Kali in the USA, as its cultural heritage. The Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival had been successful in attracting tourists to the town, which is also known as the summer capital of the Philippines because of its cold climate.
MAG TV Na!, started in 2008, is the brand of regional talk/magazine show of the various ABS-CBN Regional Network Group stations in the Philippines. MAG TV Na, Amiga! is the version designed and broadcasted by the Western Visayas Regional Network Group.
MAG TV Na, Amiga! will also be including a segment on Arnis as a sport with guests Negros martial arts researcher/historian/writer James U. Sy Jr., Lafayette A. Diamante, RN, and Lorema “Bing” H. Tacsagon of the Conceptual Martial Arts Society (CMAS), Inc. and Grandmaster Benefredo “Bebing: M. Lobrido, 1st Generation Inheritor of the indigenous Negresanon/Bagueño long stick fighting art of Original Filipino Tapado and President of the Original Filipino Tapado Long Stick Fighting Association (OFTLSFA), inc.
Don Salvador Benedicto (DSB), under its Mayor Hon. Lawrence Marxlen J. de la Cruz, celebrated its 29th Founding Anniversary and 20th Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival last February 6-9. 2010. DSB is the youngest municipality in Negros Occidental, having been founded on February 9, 1983 by virtue of Batas Pambansa Bilang 336, authored by Pambansa Member Alfonso Garcia and Jose Varela, Jr. and by putting together two barangays from Murcia and Calatrava each and three barangays from San Carlos City under its jurisdiction. The town was named after the late Vice-Governor Salvador Benedicto, who was part in setting up the Revolutionary Government of Negros Island and Siquijor at the area during World War II.
The formation of the new town was prompted because the seven barangays were located at more remote areas and most times can’t be reached by governmental support. The town’s path to development was started by its first appointed Mayor, Hon. Nehemias “Nene” G. de la Cruz and continued by Hon. Ricardo T. Arnaldo, Jr., Cynthia “Bebing” J. de la Cruz, and presently, Hon. Lawrence Marxlen J. de la Cruz.
DSB is known for its Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival, which was originally known as Halad “Offering,” a celebration and thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest. The festival has adopted Eskrima “Fencing,” or more popularly known as Kali in the USA, as its cultural heritage. The Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival had been successful in attracting tourists to the town, which is also known as the summer capital of the Philippines because of its cold climate.
MAG TV Na!, started in 2008, is the brand of regional talk/magazine show of the various ABS-CBN Regional Network Group stations in the Philippines. MAG TV Na, Amiga! is the version designed and broadcasted by the Western Visayas Regional Network Group.
MAG TV Na, Amiga! will also be including a segment on Arnis as a sport with guests Negros martial arts researcher/historian/writer James U. Sy Jr., Lafayette A. Diamante, RN, and Lorema “Bing” H. Tacsagon of the Conceptual Martial Arts Society (CMAS), Inc. and Grandmaster Benefredo “Bebing: M. Lobrido, 1st Generation Inheritor of the indigenous Negresanon/Bagueño long stick fighting art of Original Filipino Tapado and President of the Original Filipino Tapado Long Stick Fighting Association (OFTLSFA), inc.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
"WARRIORS WRITE HISTORY WITH A STICK"
(This is reprint of an article in Cebu News Day dated January 31, 2010. Reprinted here in toto)
(The main title on page 6 of the featured article)
(The front page picture in the Cebu News Day)
There is more to Eskrima than stick fighting. Last night's premier of Eskrimadors, an independent documentary film of the unique Filipino martial arts, proved just that.
Filmed by an independent Cebuano production outfit Pointsource Films, the documentary captured for the big screen the history and world class identity of Eskrima.
The chinese have Kung-fu, the Japanese have Karate, Eskrimadors showed that Eskrima is "one of the fastest and deadliest" martial arts in the world and "a complete fighting system", that encompassing combat moves for the hands, the legs, the various locks and submissions as well as the use of different hand weapons.
The film was made in Cebu, the "spiritual home" of Eskrima and its best known grandmasters.
Directed by Kerwin Go, an emerging Cebuano film maker who studied in Los Angeles, California, the film featured several grandmasters.
The only living member of the original Doce Pares group formed in 1932-Ciriaco "Cacoy" Cañete, who is 90 years old - amazed the audience last night with his quick stick maneuvers on stage, one of several live demonstrations given before the premier.
Eskrima fighters were highly feared as duelists who were known to engage in no-holds barred matches or juego todo, long before Bruce Lee took notice of Eskrima in the 1970s and introduced it to the world in his movies.
Derived from the Spanish word esgrima which is loosely defined as "the art of fencing", the practice is also know as "arnis" or "kali" in different parts of the Philippines.
A highlight of the documentary is a juego todo match that opens and ends the film.
Juego todo had its heydey in Cebu in the early 1950s to '60s, know as the "Golden Age of Eskrima". Grandmaster Cacoy Cañete, Anciong Bacon, and Inting Carin ruled the arena. Today, Eskrimadors showed how masters like Cacoy Cañete proved a warrior's mastery is resistant to the passage of time.
Grandmaster Cacoy, a World War II veteran, is the current clube president of the Doce Pares (12 pairs), a name inspired by the 12 bodyguards of French Emperor Charlemagne. He's held the position for more than two decades.
Eskrima traces its history to an art practised by pre-Spanish Filipinos influenced by refugees of the Sri Vishayan Empire who fled to the archipelago in the 13th century.
Mactan chieftain Lapu-lapu was know for his fencing prowess, no doubt a skill that helped him defeat the Spanish fleet led by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.
Several Eskrima groups performed live demonstration as a curtain raiser during the premier of the film, including World Nickelstick Balintawak Club with founder Nick Elizar.
The school has instructors from different countries, including England and the United States.
The documentary also starred the second generation of the Eskrima gurus: Grandmaster Dionisio Cañete, a lawyer and the son of the principal organizer of Doce Pares, who was grand Cacoy's brother, and Lapunti Arnis de Abanico International grandmaster Undo Caburnay, who exhibits fan-like wielding of the stick, hence the term abanico. Undo was the son of Arnis de Abanico founder Arsenio Caburnay, also a WWII veteran.
In Liborio Heyrosa Decuerdas Eskrima, this fighting system of Eskrima has students holding a single stick and a knife. They learn to fight in tight spaces with little of no lighting.
The film showed how Eskrima gained world-wide attention after some masters went to California and performed demonstration with Filipino-american martial artist Dan Inosanto in the mid 1970s. Bruce Lee also promoted it in his movies.
Since then, Hollywood incorporates different Eskrima manuevers in films such as the Bourne Identity which stars Matt Damon; Tomb Raider: The Cradle of life with Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible, among others.
Scholarly records of Eskrima's origin are hard to find.
Compared to Chinese and Japanese martial arts which were practiced by monks and the nobility, Eskrima has been known as the martial arts of peasant.
It was "the art of the bum", said Supreme Grandmaster Dionisio "Dioni" Cañete, who said they to "civilize" it in order to ensure Eskrima would live on. They set contest rules and made their own protective gear before mounting tournaments.
Sport events and competitions made the martial art more popular abroad than in its own home province.
the need for better appreciation by Cebuanos of a martial art of their own is one of the main driving forces behind the film as a project.
This is why the film makers - Go, cinematographer Ruel Antipuesto and producer Gigi Borlasa - are determined to show the film in Cebu Schools.
Last night at the premier, the Cebu provincial government, represented by Provincial Board Member Agnes Magpale, presented the Eskrima masters with plaques of appreciation.
Cacoy Canete
Diony Canete
Cinematographer Raul Antipuesto (with camera) and director Kerwin Go during the shooting of Eskrimadors.
(The main title on page 6 of the featured article)
(The front page picture in the Cebu News Day)
There is more to Eskrima than stick fighting. Last night's premier of Eskrimadors, an independent documentary film of the unique Filipino martial arts, proved just that.
Filmed by an independent Cebuano production outfit Pointsource Films, the documentary captured for the big screen the history and world class identity of Eskrima.
The chinese have Kung-fu, the Japanese have Karate, Eskrimadors showed that Eskrima is "one of the fastest and deadliest" martial arts in the world and "a complete fighting system", that encompassing combat moves for the hands, the legs, the various locks and submissions as well as the use of different hand weapons.
The film was made in Cebu, the "spiritual home" of Eskrima and its best known grandmasters.
Directed by Kerwin Go, an emerging Cebuano film maker who studied in Los Angeles, California, the film featured several grandmasters.
The only living member of the original Doce Pares group formed in 1932-Ciriaco "Cacoy" Cañete, who is 90 years old - amazed the audience last night with his quick stick maneuvers on stage, one of several live demonstrations given before the premier.
Eskrima fighters were highly feared as duelists who were known to engage in no-holds barred matches or juego todo, long before Bruce Lee took notice of Eskrima in the 1970s and introduced it to the world in his movies.
Derived from the Spanish word esgrima which is loosely defined as "the art of fencing", the practice is also know as "arnis" or "kali" in different parts of the Philippines.
A highlight of the documentary is a juego todo match that opens and ends the film.
Juego todo had its heydey in Cebu in the early 1950s to '60s, know as the "Golden Age of Eskrima". Grandmaster Cacoy Cañete, Anciong Bacon, and Inting Carin ruled the arena. Today, Eskrimadors showed how masters like Cacoy Cañete proved a warrior's mastery is resistant to the passage of time.
Grandmaster Cacoy, a World War II veteran, is the current clube president of the Doce Pares (12 pairs), a name inspired by the 12 bodyguards of French Emperor Charlemagne. He's held the position for more than two decades.
Eskrima traces its history to an art practised by pre-Spanish Filipinos influenced by refugees of the Sri Vishayan Empire who fled to the archipelago in the 13th century.
Mactan chieftain Lapu-lapu was know for his fencing prowess, no doubt a skill that helped him defeat the Spanish fleet led by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.
Several Eskrima groups performed live demonstration as a curtain raiser during the premier of the film, including World Nickelstick Balintawak Club with founder Nick Elizar.
The school has instructors from different countries, including England and the United States.
The documentary also starred the second generation of the Eskrima gurus: Grandmaster Dionisio Cañete, a lawyer and the son of the principal organizer of Doce Pares, who was grand Cacoy's brother, and Lapunti Arnis de Abanico International grandmaster Undo Caburnay, who exhibits fan-like wielding of the stick, hence the term abanico. Undo was the son of Arnis de Abanico founder Arsenio Caburnay, also a WWII veteran.
In Liborio Heyrosa Decuerdas Eskrima, this fighting system of Eskrima has students holding a single stick and a knife. They learn to fight in tight spaces with little of no lighting.
The film showed how Eskrima gained world-wide attention after some masters went to California and performed demonstration with Filipino-american martial artist Dan Inosanto in the mid 1970s. Bruce Lee also promoted it in his movies.
Since then, Hollywood incorporates different Eskrima manuevers in films such as the Bourne Identity which stars Matt Damon; Tomb Raider: The Cradle of life with Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible, among others.
Scholarly records of Eskrima's origin are hard to find.
Compared to Chinese and Japanese martial arts which were practiced by monks and the nobility, Eskrima has been known as the martial arts of peasant.
It was "the art of the bum", said Supreme Grandmaster Dionisio "Dioni" Cañete, who said they to "civilize" it in order to ensure Eskrima would live on. They set contest rules and made their own protective gear before mounting tournaments.
Sport events and competitions made the martial art more popular abroad than in its own home province.
the need for better appreciation by Cebuanos of a martial art of their own is one of the main driving forces behind the film as a project.
This is why the film makers - Go, cinematographer Ruel Antipuesto and producer Gigi Borlasa - are determined to show the film in Cebu Schools.
Last night at the premier, the Cebu provincial government, represented by Provincial Board Member Agnes Magpale, presented the Eskrima masters with plaques of appreciation.
Cacoy Canete
Diony Canete
Cinematographer Raul Antipuesto (with camera) and director Kerwin Go during the shooting of Eskrimadors.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Crishar Taekwondo Tilt Held By: James U. Sy Jr.
The Taekwondo Family Day competition was successfully held by the Crishar Taekwondo Training Center of Head Instructor Harny Tabuada last January 31, 2010 at the Bacolod City National High School (BCNHS), Bacolod City.
Crowned overall champion was San Carlos Crishar Taekwondo Training Center under Chapter Instructor Ricaredo Panunciar with a 12-5-2 medal haul. It was also champion in the elementary division.
Bacolod City National High School (BCNHS) was champion in the secondary division. Julio Ledesma National High School (BCNHS), which merged with San Carlos Crishar Taekwondo Training Center, was 2nd place.
Other participating chapters were Crishar-BQPTA, Crishar-Delarama, and Crishar-St. Joseph La Salle.
Crowned overall champion was San Carlos Crishar Taekwondo Training Center under Chapter Instructor Ricaredo Panunciar with a 12-5-2 medal haul. It was also champion in the elementary division.
Bacolod City National High School (BCNHS) was champion in the secondary division. Julio Ledesma National High School (BCNHS), which merged with San Carlos Crishar Taekwondo Training Center, was 2nd place.
Other participating chapters were Crishar-BQPTA, Crishar-Delarama, and Crishar-St. Joseph La Salle.
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