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    Arnis is a Filipino martial art that originated from the ancient weaponry skills of the Malays and indigenous Filipinos. It has three main forms that use sword and dagger, single stick, or double sticks. Arnis was crucial for self-defense and was practiced by many important Filipino heroes who used it to fight against Spanish colonizers. Today, there are various regional styles of Arnis throughout the Philippines, but it remains an important part of Filipino culture and history.

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    Arnis is a Filipino martial art that originated from the ancient weaponry skills of the Malays and indigenous Filipinos. It has three main forms that use sword and dagger, single stick, or double sticks. Arnis was crucial for self-defense and was practiced by many important Filipino heroes who used it to fight against Spanish colonizers. Today, there are various regional styles of Arnis throughout the Philippines, but it remains an important part of Filipino culture and history.

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    Arnis is a Filipino martial art that originated from the ancient weaponry skills of the Malays and indigenous Filipinos. It has three main forms that use sword and dagger, single stick, or double sticks. Arnis was crucial for self-defense and was practiced by many important Filipino heroes who used it to fight against Spanish colonizers. Today, there are various regional styles of Arnis throughout the Philippines, but it remains an important part of Filipino culture and history.

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    DEVELOPMENT OF ARNIS IN THE PHILIPPINES

    History

    Arnis

     Born in the Philippines known as Kali ( an ancient Malayan word implying to a bladed
    weapon longer than a knife. Practiced primarily for self-defense
     Filipinos were forced to become experts in fighting with the use of bare hands or with
    bow and arrow out of necessity and self-preservation. The primitive negritos from
    Central Asia were found to be experts on these weapons.
     In 200 B.C. the Malays migrated to the Philippines and brought with them the skill
    using a long knife- bladed weapon thus enriching the Filipinos arsenal in fighting arts.

    Most artistic knives in Mindanao as testimony of their love for the bladed weapon, they even have a
    variety of names

     kris, bolo, kalis, laring, barong, gunong, kampilan, gayang, pira, punal, itak, banjal,
    bangkon, lahot and the panabas.

    Fighting art Arnis has three forms:

     Espada y Daga (sword and dagger) using a long sword and a dagger.
     Solo Baston (single stick) using a single long muton or baston
     Sinawali a native term applied because of the intricate movements of the two mutons
    resembling the weave of a sawali (criss-cross fashion).

    Arnis today also has three traditional training methods:

     Muestrasion or pandalag which taches the artistic execution of the swinging


    movements and striking for offense and defense.
     Sanga at patama or sombra tabak wherein striking, thrusting and parrying in a
    prearranged manner.
     larga muton or labanang totohanan, which two trainees engage in a free practice trying
    to outmaneuver each other using all their skills.

    Arnis the pre-Hispanic martial art which was the brawny and bloody power of the Filipinos in the
    protection and preservation of dignity and power.

    Filipino heroes are linked with Arnis:

     Lapulapu was a kali expert. Pigafetta, Magellan’s chronicler and historian, recorded that
    on April 27, 1521 Lapulapu felled the great Spanish warrior with a bladed weapon.
     In 1564 another conquistador, Miguel Lopez de Legaspi was noted to have been shown
    the Filipino combat skill with kali as a show of hospitality.
     In Abuyog Leyte by the chief of the Island Malitik and his son Kamutunan, and in
    Limasaw and Kamiging in March 11, 1564
     Cebu on April 27, 1564 by Chief Tupas and his warriors.
    Kali was a standard fighting technique in hand to hand combat of the Filipinos when the revolted against
    Spain using itak and bolo.

     Bonifacio used a bolo as a weapon in the famous “Cry of Balintawak.


     Dr. Jose Rizal studies Kali or Arnis before leaving for Europe.
     Generals Gregorio del Pilar and Antonio Luna also studied Arnis before the revolution.

    Arnis has many in the different parts of the region:

     pagkalikali to the Ibanags


     kalirongan to the Pangasinense
     kaliradman to the Visayans
     escrima or garrote to the Cebuanos
     baston to the people of Panay and Negros Occidental
     sinawali to the Pampangeños.

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