Philippine Pride: ARNIS MARTIAL ART

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ARNIS

is the system of Filipino martial arts foundes by the late Remy Presas as a self-defense system. His goal was to create an injury free training method as well as an effective seld-defense system in order to preserve the older arnis systems. The term Modern Arnis was used by Remy Presas' younger brother Ernesto Presas to describe his style of Filipino martial arts ; since 1999 Ernesto called his system as KOMBATAN. It is derived principally from the traditional Presas family style of the Bolo (Machete) and the stick dwelling art of Balintawak Eskrima with influences of other Filipino and Japanese martial arts.source

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Arnis was declared as the Philippine National Martial Art and Sport on December 11, 2009 through Republic Act 9850 signed by Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

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The primary weapon used in this traditional martial art sport of Philippines is called a cane or a baton. The cane or baron varies in sizes but the original length of it is 28 inches. The cane used in this sport is also considered sacred by the Arnisadores practitioners, which is why the cane is hit on the hand or forearm of the sparring partner and not at the latter’s cane during the sport.


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How to play

▪Players could basically participate in two types of arnis sports, the anyo or form, and the laban, or full combat competitions.
▪Different scoring systems and rules and regulation apply for each division, depending on who hosts the competition.
▪In anyo, athletes would perform sequences of movements using 2 batons. Competition will judged based on the execution of the anyo and the creativity of overall choreography of the performance.
▪Gracefulness combined with strength and force is needed to execute these forms properly.
▪Meanwhile, in the full combat competition, players are required to strike their opponents’ different body parts with one baton.
▪Unlike other combatitive sports, arnis does not usually require any body contact between each player besides the batons that they are holding. Any attack using bare hands or feet is considered a foul.
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