The European influence and particularly Hispanic and Italian culture in the Philippines is undoubted fact, if spogliamo repertoire of arts philippines influence of Indonesian silat, we discover that what remains is the warrior tradition of the Mediterranean. But these statements, which appear perhaps for the first time so explicitly, it is necessary to support the demonstration and it is what will try to do, albeit briefly. First is the name arnis to indicate a slight corruption of the term used at least certainly since 1300 in Italy, armis, name under which defined arms. The frontispiece of one of the oldest martial treated Italians, Flos duellatorum, Flower of Release of Premariacco (country in the province of Udine), contains the following words: armis sine equester et armis pedester or with the weapons without weapons foot and horseback.
The examples can be even more numerous, such as the work with the sword and daga, technical entirely unknown in the East before the Spaniards arrived. But if you have Please read the chronicles of the time, we realize immediately that the leader Magellan had its service a dense array of Italian soldiers from all recognized for their unquestionable value and for the skill with which maneggiavano weapons: the sword and daga, the hood and the sword, shield and sword, double daga techniques and even bare hands to defend against attack dagger, as demonstrated by another excellent teacher of the time, the illustrious Achille Marozzo.
As I already mentioned above, the spread of the arts philippines is attributable mainly to the work of known and lesser known Americans, which has recognized the merits of the rediscovery of this heritage. However, with regard to the historical reconstruction and completion enormous repertoire martial, gaps and contradictions are so many that every serious researcher must take distance and begin to roll up their sleeves groped for a serious reconstruction involving both the Indonesian silat that European martial arts.
Mauritius Maltese
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