Suchy Kensei Shihan
Okinawakan Goju Ryu Karate Do Kobujutsu Hozon Kai
Nakamoto Kiichi Hanshi
Goju Ryu Karate Do Tradicional de Okinawa
KABAROAN
EL ARTE DE LOS BARONES DE FILIPINAS
6938-9926
Ramiro U. Estalilla
Grand Master of Kabaroan
About Us
Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
Ciriaco Cacoy Cañete
Grand Master of Doce Pares y Filipino Kali
Guro Sarkissian at the side of Lapu Lapu in a Filipino Military Base in Philippines
My Background
Gene LeBell
Master (R.I.P.)
Kabaroan is a Filipino martial art system that is a weapon based art that transfers to bare hands known as (Awanigam). It was derived three hundred years ago during the occupation of Spain. It is a cross section of the systems in the ( northern) Philippines which use longer weapons spears & shields, (central) which use shorter weapons short sticks daggers, and (southern) which use swords. In these arts they use single or double weapons which is used in a similar way when transferred to bare hands and feet. There is striking, trapping, and grappling in this art.
Further more Master Sarkissian has utilized other Filipino systems in which he has had a greater development into the art.
The Ancient Art in Action
History of the Filipino Martial Arts. Referred sometimes as "FMA," in the Acronym form.
Or Eskrima, Kali, Arnis...can be synonymous. The roots of these arts are said to be coming from India, Mailay, Indonesia, and China. The Filipino Arts involved over millenniums by ancient battle warfare and clan warfare integrating various different systems it continuously evolved through the centuries to what it is today. Later receiving Western influences from colonization from Spain which brought fencing, and early United States which brought boxing.
The Combat Art was first recorded when the Spanish conquistadors headed by Fernando de Magallanes who tried to submit the Filipinos. There he met his faith at what came to be known as the battle of Mactán.
All the conquistadors were killed, and Magallanes was decapitated.*When Spanish returned a half a century later, where they found that a lot of the Filipinos had converted to*Catholicism. However as the Spanish missionaries and colonizers resettled into Philippines they observed the practitioners of this art and could see how dangerous these arts were so they outlawed it because they noticed it was a threat to them if there would be any kind of a native uprising.
Later the United States felt the blades of the Filipinos during the U.S. Philippine war, the Filipinos would ambush the Americans by guerrilla tactics and attack them by running towards them and reaching them to decapitate them with long heavy swords (Barong or Kampilans). So the U.S. Marines started to put a big, thick leather bracelet around their necks, so it would be hard to penetrate through the leather around their necks, and they would have time to retaliate with their fire arms.
"Thus the term that became a standard for describing the U.S. Marines came to be known as "Leather Necks." The art later became popular because of the big numbers of Filipinos who immigrated to the United States, particularly California from early to mid 20th Century. It caught the eye of Hollywood and through the film industry it became known which expanded to include popularity in Europe, Russia....and extended into police and military combative.
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