why are these among all of the I think
that this has to do with a personal
journey like everyone or most of us who
have experiences sometimes people who
want to do stuff to us we get bullied
and the diamond you know one of the
first things that I walked in with how
do I defend myself and when I got to
college and decided I'd like to try
martial arts and the first part I Drive
was a pillow Shopify Telecom oh that
worked well enough although I never had
the chance to use it
thank you I wouldn't know what happened
although yes the Karate Kid was popular
and the early Persian hat and for those
of you who are about my age you know who
was starring there now there was
something lacking now because it was
without due respect to the originators
of carotenoid it was something not
within the scope of what I understand my
culture to me and I still was learning
much about what this being Filipino was
all about and things began to shift a
bit and my father brought home from
Singapore a book called the Filipino
martial arts by our well-known
Philippine Americans guru or teacher in
Daniel Sanka and that really blew me
away I said I gotta find some way to
learn here and you know this is the
supreme irony of it all let's start that
really
got to me here are foreign when you call
the foreigners they're natives in their
own land of course but then another
country
these people could advertise their art
and a lot of people come to them and in
case you're wondering about the
significance of why I mentioned that
yourself it was he who taught the people
who choreographed the different action
movie specifically the men who
choreographed the Bourne Identity the
men who choreographed the fight scenes
for the hunter and all of that including
300 they were all students of darkness
and those movies Filipino martial arts
and artists and with meantime right here
where do I find an early school now you
know you don't get to find an artist
teacher except by personal referral and
one of my classmates in law school
introduced me to his teacher first judo
and the parties and that got me started
among all the other arts and tried why
on this well here's why providing a
unique collection to Latino identity
what was it about the art you know like
why what is this thing we call artists
it's such a unique art what is the term
are nice mean anyway well the word are
nice comes from this but yogurt unless
Minnie armor or arts or gonna be the
stuff that we carry with us but the
artists as we martial art actually
refers to an indigenous martial art it
centers on the use of web sticks
I didn't bring my sword today and start
to give it scary and they use some
knives and of course applications with
your empty hand and historically
speaking this art this indigenous art is
device from
condition
the points of combat mixed with the
Spanish sword methods taught to the
militia yes you lose a Christ
the Spaniards did teach their own
fighting tactics to the local militia in
the township they have already occupied
and this fusion results in the
contemporary forms we call our this day
now yes this school became a big big
deal for me I learned how to identify
with Philippines with the word Filipino
to this it was a part of our history but
something that we don't always recognize
and we don't even think that it was that
important because it is a physical organ
we value the intellectual but actually
this is very important this imbalance
and here our display the role in our
history because it was used in Paris
resistances against the foreign invaders
in world war two battalions of infantry
men were known as the Bornmann they had
lack of breakfast but the local fighters
knew how to use their weapons and they
use this they were known as the bottom
now when we talk about the benefits of
martial arts it's easy to say oh well
you know this is like any other martial
art you learn some protection we are
having groups should keep moving aerobic
condition you learn how to be calm you
learn how to be self discipline anyone
from any martial art could claim the
same thing so what made Army's special
for me okay now here is where we see
again as I said it's a different way to
look at our culture here I found a
warrior similar to but not the same as
the Bushido of Japan okay or what we
know the Wulin of Chinese the martial
way of China or in fact the cold of not
good in the in Europe now similar but
not the same because there are
front set of storage there are different
circumstances that shape its growth how
is this exemplifying mythology and
folklore how many of you would know if
you're from the Messiah how many of you
have heard the names whom enough know
this one
LaVon don't good very good yes the white
mana Messiah but this love up who drew
the a Liguilla here are the warrior
epics from the past in which they
exemplify an ethos that was common to
mainly mainly communities in Angeles but
practicing an art in which they have a
linkage about history and a culture and
it was unique because these things are
echoed in the contemporary setting where
did I find the sources and my work as an
anthropologist they had to review
ethnography we have to read about the we
have to continue reviewing scholarly
works about communities and it was there
it just needed to piece it all together
see what were these different things
that we found out right what makes her a
warrior I'm under invite in Kigali
Pagani as a word use in the South among
the savanna and many other groups magani
by the way is a cognate of the world I
am II think about the Pagani is a
warrior
Diana as hero right here is an
embodiment of the following qualities a
began you must always be courageous
Matata you can pick face any situation
from me a magani must be strong tell
animal on us to meet all sorts of
challenges Abigail you must act with
honor at all times
Moran had a began you must be respectful
of others Mangala
a began II must be humble McCune Baba
sometimes you know when you practice
these arts the danger is that of pride
you become proud of Aragon yet and then
you become the target of
wants to pull you down or test you
because your ground sometimes the Apple
humidity also means you have to conceal
what you have so as to be careful what
others might say or do and not to cause
fear right Abba Gandhi should be helpful
to others
mahtim Lincoln and the mangani loves a
community almost always the stories of
this heroes center on the defense the
protection of the community against an
outsider and yes there are female Magali
to in our mythology one of my favorite
stories about the female warriors is the
story Matt Ibaka and this lead and the
diet of the wind in this particular
story of this young woman rescues her
brother who was captured by the invaders
and how she did it is a story that's
working for telenovela if somebody would
pick it up now about Danny is foot is
for a beginning is a practitioner of
whatever the religion is and you know
this is again founded all of those
indigenous stories it is something that
we need to go back to Nepal Panem
Palatine now now what's the special
bubble couldn't be saved in any order
warrior culture these are the same yes
but here is a difference again going
back to our academic study in academic
literature here there is a context you
know these values these eight warrior
attributes that are outlined here we
were born out of the research but also
they were born out of discussions with
colleagues and scholars and one of a
close friend of mine who is also a
fellow warrior it's wonderful to have
put to work with me sharpen your mind
and that is an exemplification what we
did to sharpen what he did to sharpen me
it's in this slide these values are not
for individuals they are for a community
they are for other people this word Papa
means that you find yourself you are
part of others you are not just for
yourself alone but you live your lives
for other people and in this what were
your values this eight whole warriors of
course these are not the only ones but
they said the most prominent we've been
able to find this warrior values help
you understand what it means to truly
live with one another in harmony through
pockety son to show mutual respect for
people of an equal status to and best of
all to react and to come together as a
community when crisis erupts the true
meaning of hockey gear and here that is
an essence of what they've learned along
the path trying my best to become a
warrior that these things challenge me
because I grew up in the mid more in the
mid 60s
yes I will betray my age there are mania
here you are my batch mate you know who
you are being born in the mid sixties I
grew up in the 60s and 70s and early 80s
with this popular notion that we in us
live the life of the small the smallest
fish the smallest volcano and even our
national heroes who small why should me
what way should these other people have
all the tall ones why not us oh well
okay but should that have been a one was
that rather highlighted all the time
there's something not quite right here
what is missing in this not only that
look we were in our education from
time we were taught and nature a history
of course start falling
the fall of Baca and the fall of Korah
heed or the fall of Manila oh my gosh
now we are repeating that cycle all over
again the fall of our economy the follow
of our politics what are we doing wrong
here and this is one of the things that
only stopped me to look at is there
something beyond this again discussions
with my father and with my friends help
sharpen this thinking because in the
practice of this martial art it is there
is no place to be small if that's what
you want to think there's no place for
small thinking you have to expand you
have to go big if we are forced to live
beyond ourselves we are forced to
challenge this idea and one of the
greatest lessons I've learned here is
that these ideas these channels worth a
lot more when they are transferred to
others and this has been lately
instantly between the some of my friends
a small advocacy has been crystallizing
the use of this concept in Filipino
martial arts to challenge ideas of
culture and to take that and use it to
transform the immediate spaces and the
places we work in we live it you don't
have to be a martial artist to learn all
of these but you could be good at least
to know that there is another facet in
Philippine that we need to be aware of
and then this last part we will be
demonstrating your physical practice
what I've been talking about how it
means to be work together what it means
to come together what it means to help
one another journey and I can introduce
my student and partner for this
demonstration mr. a Shapiro
we'll be going set the three exercises
from our school of armies the first one
is a control pattern we call the guy ,
which is to say literally giving the
strike and the chain of movements
nemesis flow continues continue that
once an initial defense
this last one here careful with this
when the adrenaline gets up we call this
a pencil depends
it's a limp freestyle format attack and
defense it's time you rely only on our
timing in our own skill we have to be
very control can a hippie Sangha back L
to watch out for one another
Nikita Natalya and you'll be responsible
what we do otherwise Nicaragua die