The philippines martial arts are a set of experiences eastern and western consolidatesi over the centuries. Today subject of great interest of special departments throughout the world and increasingly known and practiced by ordinary citizens. Arts combat where skill counts much more physical presence. These disciplines suitable for everyone, women and men. With the name of kali, escrima or arnis is connoted all the martial arts philippines, little known to the broad public until the seventies. In those years these arts meet the interest of a group of students to read the famous actor and marzialista Bruce Lee, that the spread first among martial arts enthusiasts. Yet these disciplines can boast a glorious past, in 1521 the first white men, headed by the commander Magellan, the Philippines conquering North did knowledge, at its own expense, native martial arts. On Mactan, in fact, Magellan and his men will be driven back into the sea after a bloody clash with the natives led by Lapu Lapu, a hero of the island. The same Magellan meet death on the coast of that island Philippines.
Regardless of this incident, Europeans reached and occupied part of the archipelago, over the years, have mixed the local population. The culture and customs have mixed indigenous to European culture, particularly the Spanish culture, which spread widely in the Philippines. Along with the language and the costume was made off the martial culture that with the mixture of races European and indigenous peoples, gave rise to the mestizo culture, a form of knowledge that indigenous tradition merged with the European culture.
Even the arts combat European merged with the local traditions, giving rise to a system that for the first martial merged Eastern and Western elements.
We can therefore infer that the martial arts philippines have conquered the West, perhaps because the West recognizes the vast repertoire of the arts of combat kali large part of its cultural heritage martial. Of course not only the arts Westerners were the backbone of Filipino martial culture, but another great strength influenced the arts combat the archipelago: the pencak silat. From South fact, the island of Mindanao, the land of moros - sadly famous Muslim fundamentalists - to successive waves silat dated back to the North, to reach schools in escrima and arnis (those strongly linked to the western fencing). The available mentality of the masters of escrima led them to incorporate into their system anything that could enrich our martial. So some schools arnis or kali differed from others for sophisticated work that came through for Mindanao, Indonesia and in particular the island of Sumatra.
Just travelling in South-East Asia to realize that the arts are especially philippines known by the name of escrima or arnis, while the word is spreading kali nell'arcipelago especially in recent years, after the USA this title successfully identified the 'Philippine art. In my experience I have known several Filipinos, some great masters widely recognized, others perfect strangers, and yet they call their discipline arnis, while the term kali was often unknown to them. To cite a figure known in Italy, whose role and whose skills are beyond question, the teacher called his Matagay discipline arnis, initially rejecting the name kali.
Probably the term kali, Malay origin, was used, according to some theories, to identify silat in the Philippines. In the last years of this century, these disciplines martial various departments concerned have special police and the army in various places on the planet, and even in Italy. The extreme practicality with bare hands and with the weapons makes this excellent martial activities for the defence personnel.
Mauritius Maltese
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