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FMA Informative Newspaper Vol2 No.10 Vol 2 No 10 - 2013 Newspaper Propagating the Filipino Martial Arts and the Culture of the Philippines How to Choose Takes More Than Just Being Filipino a Martial Art By Eric Primm By: Mustafa Gatdula years after his death, JKD experts quote Article When I was a snotty young man, I “Bruce” (they like to talk about him like they Does Eskrima Need hung with some older, wiser–but Ameri- knew him) more than they quote the Bible. to Be “Well-Rounded”? caner–martial artists. They had not traveled And what was that By Mustafa Gatdula as I had, they only spoke one language, and stuff about idol worshiping? Article many only knew one martial arts style. But So, we Americans like to worship race for some reason, my 20-something year old too. It’s the reason why Jesus statues in your Interview with Maestro ignorance thought I was somehow superior churches have a White guy in a robe when Je- Lajolo di Cossano to these men. Even though some could have sus was actually Middle Easterner. And why a By FMA Informative easily beaten me in sparring (doing so many Black guy with a Mexican restaurant will nev- Article times; that’s why I hung with them - was er make any money, even if his Siete Mares hoping to improve by training with them), I is the best in town. Or why people snicker at often spoke with authority. I spoke with ar- Panda Express locations that have a White About ... rogance and ignorance, because of the faulty cook instead of a Chinese guy. Or how you Future Events notion that I knew what I was talking about would buy shrimp fried rice from a Korean Past Events “because I’m Filipino.” restaurant, but not from a Greek one. And Health & Safety I think I heard a chuckle. the more “authentic” a master is–broken Eng- Tid-Bits Yes, you know I’m right. And like some lish, old, ASIAN–the more knowledgeable AA member starting with the man in the mir- white guys you will step over to pay your ror, I say this with authority because I was money to watch the old Asian guy twirl his guilty of it myself. You’re probably laugh- sticks for two hours and then sign your cer- ing because you’re either Filipino and do it tificates. We have this thing, that we believe yourself, or you’re a white guy who has “lost” foreign is better–but it has to be the *right* arguments with Filipino martal arts teach- foreign, and this is why the busiest Muay ers pulling the “I’m Filipino card. It’s okay; Thai gyms in my town are run by Asian guys everyone does it. Sometimes people do it rather than the Mexican guys who are ac- because they have degrees. Or they have tively fighting and proving themselves in the stripes on their belts. Or they have muscles. ring. It’s the reason my high school sweet- Or they are affiliated with Bruce Lee/Dan Ino- heart, who is a world-champion boxer usu- santo/Remy Presas/Antonio Ilustrisimo/the ally ends up teaching fitness classes when Gracie family. Or they were once cops/mili- she’s the only Champ with a gym in town. tary/security guards/stabbed with a knife. Please don’t take offense by anything And we all sound like 50-Cent: I’m saying here. I am just pointing out the Buy my bullshit because I was shot. interesting observation that we tend to put Or rapper Just Ice: Buy my more on things that matter least and some- bullshit because I was in prison. times in the process we slight good, experi- Or Snoop Dogg: Buy my bullshit be- enced, un-Asian teachers. I’ve done it myself, cause I act like a ganster. and chances are that some of you do it too. I was once exchanging with Guro Billy How about this: Buy my bullshit because I Bryant when I had first opened my school. At know what I’m talking about, and if you don’t this time, I was just beginning to teach the cur- believe me… I’ll prove it to you. riculum I created years earlier and was trading (crickets) with him for some techniques from his Cha-3 For some reason, the ones who speak Kempo style. He and I would play hands so with the real authority–proven skill and will- that I could show him my Kuntaw, and then ing to prove it again - are listened to the he would show me his techniques. For some least. In the martial arts community, we reason, and I know many martial artists have like resumes and certifications. We like as- this experience, most of the techniques he www.fmapulse.com sociation too: “Guro ______ certified him, showed me were familiar to me. Except he so he’s the real deal.” Notice how Bruce had his own way of doing them. Rather than Visit the FMA Informative Group on Facebook Lee almost never spoke of Yip Man, but 40 shut my yap and learn what he was teaching Click Here 2 FMA Informative Vol2 No10 2013 Vol2 No10 2013 FMA Informative 3 me, I kept saying, “I know that, pino martal arts pure by cer- tial arts philosopher created weeks of learning how to at- that we’d master dropped it’s in Kuntaw/Eskrima/Jow tifying more Filipinos. Well I Cebuano Eskrima the equivalent of a Big Bang tack the eyes, four weeks of away when we put on the Ga… because I’m Filipino.” have news for you; none of Beyond the Myth in my intellectual world. Until applying techniques to the at- fencing helmet and gloves. It Ouch! It’s painful for me my first generation of instruc- By Ned R. Nepangue, M.D. and this time, I hadn’t met anyone tack dummy. It was fantastic, was frustrating, and I began Celestino C. Macachor even to repeat this story. Told tors under me are Filipino. It who thought deeper into the and as I struck up a friendship to question why I was doing you I was young and dumb… doesn’t matter. But the sad Cebuano Eskrima: Beyond process of the arts and broad- with the instructor, I wanted all of those drills if I couldn’t I could tell it was irritat- thing is, that as we get more the Myth boldly unravels with er across the spectrum of hu- to start training with him. He make them work. That frus- ing him, and finally, he said, and more weak Filipino - Fili- compelling and provocative man physiology than were wasn’t so keen on the idea tration was an internal thing hypothesis on the Hispanic “Moe, you need to stop that. pino martal arts people out origins of the Filipino Martial embodied in the Tao of Jeet and recommended taking because I had fun training You know because you are a into the media it will cast a Arts known as eskrima, arnis and Kune Do. I read and reread training with a local guy first. with the Majapahit group. The learned martial artist. Not be- shadow on public opinion estokada Bruce’s book but did not get He also said to come back to members were bright and in- cause you’re Filipino. You’re go- of our arts. Filipino - Filipino The authors present prima facie back into the martial arts. Pri- the next self defense session. teresting people. We trained evidence on the fraud of the ing to need more than just be- martal arts people lately have supposedly precursor art called marily because I couldn’t find So, I did, and I did. The local could vicariously pick up the hard and had some good ing Filipino to get by.” Actually, been coming up with bullshit kali. someone to teach me Jeet guy did what he claimed was JKD principles from Kali and training experiences. During this is something he had said stories about their arts’ origins A more plausible theory on the origins of eskrima are presented in Kune Do (JKD). My high school a Korean form of Kenpo, which apply them to Wing Chun to that time, I had the pleasure of many times. And it’s the rea- and techniques and accom- startling detail from its early beginnings as a defense against Moro ambitions were thwarted, and again had really nothing to do get a poor man’s JKD. (Yes, I attending seminars with Pak pirates and slave traders and its later fusion with Spanish fencing son why he insisted that I spar plishments that either don’t through the Jesuit warrior priests during the pivotal years 1635- martial arts was nowhere in with what I think of as Kenpo did think highly of myself.) As I Herman Suwanda of Mande matches almost everytime I exist or matter. They make up 1644, the height of Spanish rapier fencing in Europe during the my future. today. At the second session learned the arts, Kali captured Muda Silat and Gat Puno Abon came down with whomever neat drills and demos and try Renaissance. Obviously I was wrong. of self defense classes that I my interest, and I dropped the of Garimot Arnis. Watching was there. See, Billy was sort to garner interest by selling It also presents a comprehensive chronology on the development of attended, I started working Wing Chun class. This was my those two artists was amaz- eskrima in Cebu, a meticulous commentary of Cebuano pioneers and of my “manager” - he was my seminars, certifications and innovators of eskrima and elucidates the pre-eminence of Visayans in In the previous post, with the instructor’s advanced first exposure to the Filipino ing and a great opportunity.
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