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Filipino Martial Arts - Marcaida Kali When: October 1-2, 2016 Time: 8 AM to 5 PM Where: Los Angeles, CA Cost $200.00 per person for two days Register at  www.413group.net . $25.00 T-Shirt made exclusively for this event by Bayani Art Watch "Kali Without Words | Filipino Martial Arts" This is Kali. An art expressed without words and manifested with brutality in moments we hope to never encounter. This is my interpretation of what I captured. It was a moment when Fred Mastro jumped in to replace one of his students during Doug's demonstration of Kali principles. He jumped in with respect and humility as Doug does with him during his demonstrations. This exchange happened without words. Even as Doug eloquently spoke, he did so without words because his audience spoke a different language. The vast majority of learning happened with what we saw more than what we heard. In my interpretation of this moment, I chose to remove the words and instead add musi...

Join Yaw Yan Ardigma and Liahona Warrior Arts FMA - Filipino Martial Arts When: September 24-25, 2016 Time: 10 AM to 5 PM (each day) Where: Yaw-Yan ArDigma Sacramento Address: 10473 Folsom Blvd, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 Price: $150 for both days $90 for 1 day Contact: Rocky Twitchell rrtwitchell@me.com or 916-747-3694 

FMA Friday: Marcaida kali and Mastro Defense systems Marcaida kali and Mastro Silat Defense System will be in Los Angeles October 1-2, 2016. t

Los Angeles, California • 1991. MAHARLIKA: GENESIS Chapter 1: What Is My Truth?. Filipino American fiction, poker, identity, decolonization, post-Marcos diaspora, Vermont Avenue Los Angeles. FICTION • MAHARLIKA: GENESIS • CHAPTER 1 What Is My Truth? Los Angeles, 1991. He can read every man at the table — the surgeon, the dealer, the kid with the gold chain. The one face he can't read is his own. MAHARLIKA: GENESIS — a Fil-Am who can read every man at a 1991 LA poker table except himself. MAHARLIKA: GENESIS is the novel I've been carrying for years — a mystery about a man who can read everyone except himself, set in the Filipino diaspora of 1991 Los Angeles, in the shadow of a dictatorship we were still learning how to talk about. I'm serializing it here, chapter by chapter, the same way I've tried to write down everything else that matters on this site: for my kids, and for anyone else still asking the same question Miguel is...

Wanting to Reconnect with your Culture? This Innovative Filipino Martial Arts Program Can Fill the Void. Written by Joseph Bautista: Did you grow up as a second or third generation Filipino-American in the United States? If so, have you experienced being embarrassed for not knowing how to speak Filipino or not being familiar with Filipino culture or history? You are not alone. In the San Francisco Bay Area , a new program is coming to Daly City to help you overcome that.  Eskabo Daan Filipino Martial Arts  has developed a program to help fellow Filipino-Americans learn about Filipino culture and have fun while doing so. Classes will teach participants how to translate: Weapons fighting to empty hand fighting English to Tagalog Tagalog to Baybayin The program is designed to expose all participants to self-defense techniques, fitness, history, culture, language, writing and more through Filipino Martial Arts . Filipino Martial Arts, more popularly known...