Cadena De Mano The Chain of Hands Includes: Cadena De Mano basic principals of parry; check; counter strike on the inside and outside lines; including 'V' footwork; body positioning; entry and advanced concepts of defeat. The traditional arts are known as Kali; Eskrima or Arnis; stick; knife and hand to hand fighting was developed over a period of many centuries in the Philippines as her people fought for their independence from foreign invaders. Each skirmish with a new culture added to the Filipino Martial Arts as warriors developed techniques to combat foreign styles. Subsequently; more than 100 different Filipino Martial Arts styles developed; which can be grouped into three complete self-defense systems which utilize sticks; swords; empty hands and other weapons. Our core system is a Mountain Visayan fighting system bought to the USA by our system's Founder (Pundador) GM Felix Roiles. His Grandfather called it Pakamut also called Pangamut. This referred to having skilled hands in Cebuano; a Visayan dialect. He shared this with Marc Lawrence; his families fighting system. Marc L awrence had his own FMA fighting system that he had learned in his travels. In his travels and fighting other systems he developed the Modified Pangamut System. This is what he teaches and fights with; Marc Lawrence is our Punong Guro (Head Instructor) and he is a National Champion in the Filipino Martial Arts.

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