by admin | Apr 3, 2014 | Articles
San Francisco Seminar Was GREAT! A big ‘THANKS’ to all the great folks who made my recent visit to SF a truly rewarding experience. The Ramos brothers (Rick and Dan) and their students were excellent hosts. A special nod/bow goes out to Grandmaster...
by admin | Oct 26, 2013 | Articles
First of all, I’d like to point out to that the Cimande style is one of the most famous in Indonesia and along with such styles as Minangkabau, is certainly one of the oldest. Many of the « newer » styles have historically drawn their inspiration from Cimande or have...
by admin | Sep 19, 2013 | Articles
A long-time student wrote the following essay a few years ago after completing his first year of training with us. Thank you, sir…sorry it took me so long to put it up! Reflecting on my First Year of Training in Kali-Silat The following is not intended to be a...
by admin | Aug 31, 2013 | Articles
When I started practicing Filipino martial arts in 1987, we couldn’t tap the internet for stick vendors. The best we had was Asian World of Martial Arts and Dolan’s Sports catalogs, and later I and I Sports out of California. Let me tell you, what they sold as...
by admin | Aug 30, 2013 | Articles
From Blade to Buah: The Integration of Filipino Kali and Silat Melayu This unique training experience will utilize a very basic close-quarter attacking pattern with the knife – taken from the Pekiti-Tirsia system of Kali – as a basis to teach an unarmed student...
by admin | Aug 30, 2013 | Articles
I had the pleasure of Guro Davidson’s teaching at several seminars. I had been drawn to silat in high school because it seemed to offer much more complexity and subtlety than what I saw in the bulk of martial arts schools I had attended. I could tell from the...
