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FMA, Crime, and Geo-Politics
In the Philippines the police are learning arnis to combat crime. I’d say about 40% of the people I see in classes and FMA seminars are LEOs here in Washington State. I’d imagine that’s pretty representative of the general population.
It’s interesting to me that the Philippines can afford to not only pay officers to do [...]
There is no such thing as an Eskrima stick!
I hang out on the Internet a lot and one of my worst ‘time sucker’ habits is to look for ANYTHING that is associated with Filipino martial arts. One of the things that I come across often is this notion of a bona-fide Filipino martial arts weapon called an Escrima stick!
Now…what exactly is this [...]
All things A/V
I go off on these tangents, where for a month or so, I spend a lot of time trying to learn Tagalog. And then it lapses and subsides. So I’m not doing that, again, this time. But…I did find some pretty cool links in my latest culling of the intarwebs.
For instance PinoyChannel.TV or PinayChannel.TV. [...]
