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Weaponry is Kali - Eskrima - Arnis
The emphases of the KaJuKenBo weaponry flow will come from
the Filipino Martial Arts called Kali - Eskrima - Arnis.
In 1988 Sijo Adriano D. Emperado divulged that KaJuKenBo is
actually an art within an art. This was unknown to many
KaJuKenBo members at that time, the principles contained in
Filipino Eskrima provided the way to combine the hard style
techniques of many diverse styles with fluid body mechanics.
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A little about Kali - Eskrima - Arnis is that it is known to
be the cultural gems of the Philippines, the styles of distinct
fighting arts that developed over the course of a long
turbulent history. Historically, the arts of Kali-Eskrima-Arnis
have been in existence for hundreds of years with the art of
Kali predating the discovery of the Philippines by Ferdinand
Megellan of Spain in 1521 and speculatively known to have been
developed during the arrival of the 10 Datus from Borno who
integrated their art of Silat with the Filipino natives Ates
art of stick play fighting.
The Filipino art of KALI (One theory is that the name means
hand movements) : KA - Short for KA-TA-WON; LI - Short for
LI-HO, KA - Means Body and LI - Means Motion or KA-MY-LI-HO
which means Hand Motions, others say the name comes from the
word Kalis which means bladed weapons and some believe it was
named after the 10 Bornean Datus who fled from the tyranny of
Datu Makatunaw and came to the island of Panay; They believe the
name for the art Kali was short for the name of the city they
had come from which was Kalimantan (Borneo) in Indonesia,
but again Kali is not familiar to most martial artists.
Kali is an indigenous Filipino art whose origins can be traced
back to beginnings of the Filipino civilization.
It is a complete martial art that uses the hands and feet as well
as an interchangeable variety of weapons. While other styles do
exists within the system (such as Arnis, Eskrima, Kuntao, Silat,
Panandata, Kabaroan, Sinawali, Kaliradman, Kalirongan, Pagkalikali..
etc.) These arts are all PHASES of KALI, but Kali is the MOTHER or
ANCESTRAL Art of the Philippines.
These arts are very similar in that they make use of weapons such
as swords or sticks for practice.
A reason why KaJuKenBo and Kali - Eskrima - Arnis blend so
well in my opinion is that the Ebb and tide or flow of the
weaponry art compliments the rigid and hardness of the other art.
Prior to 1988 the art of KaJuKenBo's known flow was taken
from the Kung-Fu arts. This is true in a sense and still holds
forth but the alternative for finding what best
work for you is to understand both and use what you feel
is useful or use both !
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