Why Filipino Martial Arts?
The core advantage found with any Filipino Martial Arts system is the way it adapts to circumstances and situations. This makes it the perfect foundation for law enforcement and security. It also makes it the perfect glue to hold any MMA system together and give its practitioner the distinct competitive advantage. In the Philippines, martial arts are a part of everyone’s life to some extent. Children practice from a young age, and even the senior citizens are known to carry a knife or stick for self-defense. Before guns, the blade and stick systems were developed over thousands of years dating back to the first warriors long before Lapu-Lapu. When guns came on the scene during the occupation of the Philippines, the adaptability of Filipino Martial Arts became apparent by the ease with which firearms were integrated in. This baffled Europeans because the prevailing hand-to-hand combat style at the time was the back-knuckle Irish style, which focused on using only hands and keeping the o
