MLARTC_FM.part 1.qxp

and shield, as well as other weapons in the stage combat arsenal used to enact scenes drawn from India’s great epics, the Mahabh ...

now internationally known system of training performers using the princi- ples of techniques of Asian martial and meditation art ...

Filipino armed combat is known variously as arnis, eskrima(fencing; Spanish, escrima), and kali. Arnisderives from the Spanish w ...

ten said that Filipinos have Malay ancestry, Chinese culture, Spanish reli- gion, and American education. Mestizos are racially ...

is oral and the history is written. The culture was alternately destroyed and created by foreign colonization. Martial fiestas o ...

his people. Although its authenticity is questionable, the eighteen com- mandments of the Kalantiyaw code may be one of the few ...

ble knife; (5) single knife and empty hands; (6) empty hands; (7) short stick; (8) flexible weapons; (9) throwing weapons; (10) ...

Also in the first category are the ax (wasay), club (batuta), and sword (kalis), when such weapons are used by themselves. Filip ...

fencing school. Since General Ricarte campaigned in the Filipino revolution against Spain, these foreign methods may be a result ...

While the sixth category, empty hands, is certainly not undeveloped, battlefield commanders considered training in hand-to-hand ...

though it stings and is useful for punishing restrained persons, the whip is not adequate for combat. Heavier and more flexible ...

curer (seruhana, arbolaryo) and chiropractor (manughilot), but not an FMA practitioner. She uses massage, exorcism, and incense ...

numbers. To play by numbers means to work counters and recounters against attacks in an ordered sequence of play. Few exceed thi ...

Besides reasons of civilian self-defense and cultural preservation, Fil- ipino martial arts are used for police and military tra ...

Political Conflict and the Martial Arts In social conflict, martial arts emerge not only as direct confrontations, but particula ...

inant group, thus establishing the basis (and justification) for ethnic war- fare. In the martial traditions under consideration ...

turn aside knives and bullets in battle. These “Ghost Shirts” were based on a traditional Plains model, the war shirt, which, li ...

lieved to follow in the wake of Sufi enlightenment would prove an asset to the practice of silat. Although the connections betwe ...

zation) politicians. Similarly, ten years later, the 30,000-member organiza- tion Nasrul Haq (NH) was singled out not only for i ...

mareans was attributed to the skills of “King” Zumbi, reputedly a capoeira master. Even as the art exists in the twentieth centu ...