FMA Informative Issue No #131

Informative Issue No. 131
2014
A Place to Stay, Train, and Learn Filipino Martial Arts
Lapunti, Arnis de Abanico - Abnier Kali - Pencak Silat
Biagtan Cinco Teros and much more...
The FMA Center
Reserve Your Spot
Lakan Guro Manny Dacanay
Maestro Fernando “Bong” Abenir III
Guro Christopher Dalida
The FMA Informative representative while visiting the Philippines was taken by Maestro Bong Abenir and
Guro Chris Dalida to a place called the FMA Center located in dela Paz Pasig City, which is basically owned
and operated by Lakan Guro Manny Dacanay and assisting at the center is Lakan Guro Dacanay son Guro David Dacanay and Lakan Raffy Songayan.
A place where a Filipino Instructor of any Filipino martial arts style can teach, have events at a very
affordable price, the goal is to help the Filipino Instructor set up his/her own place.
It has clean comfort room, a good training place, very safe and quite environment also a conference
room for meetings, the roof deck for events and gatherings or parties.
For visiting foreign contingents or visiting FMAers from abroad there is a dormitory or private room
you can stay at while training. Contact the FMA Center and reserve a time whether a week, month or several
months, the FMA Center can accommodate your needs, want to train in several styles, the FMA Center can
arrange it, setting up a schedule that is challenging and full of training sessions that will be an unforgettable
experience.
Lakan Guro Manny Dacanay
Lakan Guro Dacanay objective in taking up the Filipino martial arts is to know and preserve the Filipino
culture in the field of martial arts and to understand how the head of the family and the male siblings protect
their clan from the enemy during occupation.
He teaches Lapunti Arnis every Saturday and Sunday at the FMA Center. Also Lakan Guro Dacanay
teaches the Filipino martial arts to the youth in CIY Church in Pasig to preserve the Filipino values and good
moral character in Barangay De la Paz.
Maestro Fernando Abenir III
Abenir Kali system is a Filipino martial art which is a fusion of different arts such as Kalis Ilustrisimo,
Silat and other fighting systems in the Philippines.
Maestro Abenir is a contributor to the Fight Times on Manila Times Sunday papaer.
Flipino Martial Arts Center
Comfey Lane dela Paz Pasig City, Philippines
Landline: 646-4175 - Cell: (0920) 608-2170
Email: mcd_lapuntiarnis@yahoo.com.ph
Guro Christopher Dalida
Guro Dalida is both a Filipino martial arts instructor of Abenir Kalis and Biagtan Cinco Teros and a certified Malayang Anyo Bodyweight Calisthenics instructor. He studied mixed martial arts in Don Bosco Mandaluyong under Maestro Bong Abenir.
He is the coordinator of several activities participated in by Abenir Kalis.
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To Contact: Maestro Bong Abenir
63 (0927) 278-7260
Email: abenirbong@yahoo.com
To Contact: Lakan Guro Manny Dacanay
646-4175 - Cell: (0920) 608-2170
Email: mcd_lapuntiarnis@yahoo.com.ph
To Contact: Guro Chris Dalida
(0917) 419-3458
Email: mandirigma.dalida@gmail.com
FMA Center
Located in the comfortable and private residence of Guro
Manny Dacanay this Filipino martial arts haven inside Comfey Lane
Dreamhomes offers a training ground for all Filipino martial arts
enthusiasts and practitioners near the Sta Lucia- Pasig and Marikina
area for a very small fee. For P150 you can house a training group of
as much as 30 students in an hour and you have a comfortable gym
area that can also accommodate needs like classroom sessions with
multi-media capabilities, clean comfort rooms and a roof deck for
events and celebrations as well as a private pad for staying foreign
contingents or visiting FMAers from abroad.
Conference room
Dormitory - Living Space
Lakan Guro Manny Dacanay
Welcomes all to the FMA Center
A place where a Filipino Instructor of any Filipino martial arts style can
teach, have events at a very affordable
price, the goal is to help the Filipino
Sitting area and hallway to conference room and dormitory
Instructor set up his/her own place. It has
clean comfort room, a good training place, very safe and quite environment in dela Paz Pasig City. They can
also use the conference room for meetings, the roof deck for events and gatherings or parties.
At 2nd floor there is the ladies and men’s dormitory’s, well secured with CCTV camera on the building.
You just need to schedule your training day and hour so the day will be dedicated to your group already. This is
owned and operated by Guro Manny Dacanay, Lakan Guro of Lapunti Arnis de Abanico.
As many may or may not know most (not all) Filipino martial arts practitioners teach under the tree.
What does that mean? It means that most instructors do not have a school to teach in, they cannot afford the rent
or the utilities. The FMA Center has been built and made available to remedy this, instructors can schedule their
classes at the center for a small fee and teach their students. This facility is ready to use and has the space for a
good size class.
Equipment room
Workout Area
Reserve Your Spot at the FMA Center
Want fresh air to workout in try the Roof top
Presently the FMA Center offers
The code is:
There is a code of honor
that hangs in the hall way near
the entrance of the center (Ang
Mandirigmang Pilipino) that
though it primarily represents
the style Lapunti, Arnis Abanico
which Lakan Guro Manny Dacanay teaches at the center, it is shared
with all Filipino martial arts styles
that enter the center.
This code is highly promoted and passed onto the students.
Lakan Guro Dacanay states, that is
like the Bushido code of the Japanese, but it is for Filipino’s.
Assisting Lakan Guro
Dacanay at the center with classes, but also the maintenance of
the center is Guro Willie Samson,
who is also very knowledgeable in
many aspects of Filipino martial
arts history, and cultural history,
which he generously shares with
students for to him it is very important that practitioners know the
history of the arts and the Philippine culture. Also assisting at the
center is Lakan Guro Dacanay son
Guro David Dacanay and Lakan
Raffy Songayan.
1. Matapang - Courage
2. Malakas - Strength
3. Masipag - Industrious
4. Matuwas - Rightness
5. Marangal - Honorable
6. Mapayapa - Peaceful
7. Makatao - Not to be Self-Centered
8 Maka-Diyos - Believing in God
Lapunti, Arnis de Abanico - Head Instructor Lakan Guro Manny Dacanay assisted by Guro Willie Samson,
Guro David Dacanay and Lakan Raffy Songayan
Abnier Kali - Head Instructor Fernando “Bong” Abenir III assisted by Guro Christopher Lawrence Dalida
Pencak Silat - Head Instructor Fernando “Bong” Abenir III
Biagtan Cinco Teros - Guro Christopher Lawrence Dalida
Many styles have already trained at the FMA Center and also
can be offered.
For P150 you can house a training group of as much as
30 students in an hour and you have a comfortable gym area
that can also accommodate needs like classroom sessions with
multi-media capabilities, clean comfort rooms and a roof deck
for events and celebrations.
For visiting foreign contingents or visiting FMAers
from abroad there is a dormitory or private room you can stay
at while training. Contact the FMA Center and reserve a time
whether a week, month or several months, the FMA Center can
accommodate your needs, want to train in several styles, the
FMA Center can arrange it, setting up a schedule that is challenging and full of training sessions that will be an unforgettable experience.
The following is some information and a sample of the training at the FMA Center.
Lakan Guro Manny Dacanay of Lapunti, Arnis de Abanico
Lakan Guro Manny Dacanay is the Rizal
Chapter Founder a representative and instructor of Lapunti, Arnis de Abanico, which he learned the Lapunti
Arnis de Abanico style, dagger and stick fight, empty
hand technique from Grandmaster Ondo Cabornay
from Labangon, Cebu who is the Founder of Arnis de
Abanico, and was originally with Doce Pares.
Lapanti, Arnis de Abanico is mostly a fan style
art, primarily Espada y Daga. With whirling motions,
cross legged, side stepping combinations.
There are (4) four levels involved and a student must complete a level before proceeding to the
next level. The four levels are:
1. Likas - Spring
2. Luntian - Grow
3. Lilcha - Nature
4. Lalcan - Maturity
Also to be noted is that Punong Guro Mike
Alcaraz taught Lakan Guro Dacanay street fighting
skills, street knife fight, close quarter self defense
technique. Master Cris Ampit from Bulacan taught
Guro Manny Arnis full contact sparring in many occasion in what they call “ The Gathering “ where senior
instructors will
spar after a good
fellowship and
merienda.
To Contact: Lakan Guro Manny Dacanay
646-4175 - Cell: (0920) 608-2170
Email: mcd_lapuntiarnis@yahoo.com.ph
Blocking technique, tiger mouth grab, Abanico strike to opponents temple. Demonstrated by Lakan Guro Manny Dacanay and his son Guro David Dacanay.
Knife technique, quick strike. - Demonstrated by Guro David Dacanay and Lakan Raffy Songayan.
Maestro Fernando “Bong” Abenir III of Abenir Kali
Knife technique, grab and lock with strike. Demonstrated by Guro Willie Samson and Lakan Raffy Songayan
Maestro Fernando “Bong”
Abenir III started training in the
martial arts at the age of 9 through
his father in the art of Kuntao and
learned the art of knife fighting by
a man called Mang Inyong from
Masbate. This started his in-depth
study in the field of martial arts
through different Masters and Instructors.
He studied Yaw-Yan under
Orlando Lapuz and became an
instructor. Iinformally he trained
1994 to 1997 under Grand Maestro Antonio Ilustrisimo (of Kalis
Ilustrisimo, one of the famous
Filipino martial arts system) but
it was short-lived due to tatang’s
unexpected death during that year.
He continued training under Pedro
Reyes and Tony Diego.
He was also trained and
was certified to teach Pencak Silat
by Pendekar Mohamad Hadilmulyo and from O’ong Maryono,
a three time world Pencak Silat
champion. He trained Judo and
grappling from former Philippine
Team member Francis Pisa. He is
also a certified Kru under the Muay
Association of the Philippines.
Abenir Kali system is a
Filipino martial art which is a fusion of different arts such as Kalis
Ilustrisimo, Silat and other fighting
systems in the Philippines.
The Abnenir Kali system
in combining Kali Ilustrisimo
and Silat has found they are very
close to being identical, both are
free flowing, with the exception
that Silat is a bit more flowery in
its movements and some of the
stances, however when it comes
to the hands movements they are
almost identical. With the Silat
side for kicking the kicks are executed mid-level to low level, with
stomps and sweeps.
Abenir Kali System is
primarily a blade based martial art
which derives its bulk of techniques and fighting principles in
the arts of Kalis Ilustrisimo, YawYan, other Filipino martial arts
styles and Pencak Silat. A blade
and street oriented art.
The Founder Master Bong
Abenir had fused these systems
in order to come up with his own
training system and also added
techniques and strategies discovered effective during live sparring.
Most of the techniques that were
effective during a full sparring
session without protective gear
were thoroughly observed and its
efficiency were replicated many
times and eventually included as
part of its repertoire of techniques
and skills to be practiced and
developed over and over until it
becomes an automatic response.
The Founder believes that
during a fight wherein everything
is sudden and happening so fast
that you may not have time to think
but instead rely on your quick
reaction to any attack or situation
you are in. There are no basic
and advance techniques actually,
just chronologically arranged, no
technique is more important than
another.
One of the main philosophies of Abenir Kali is “ Our Kali
is practical. Just plain common
sense” a quote carried on from
Tatang Ilustrisimo.
Guro Christopher Lawrence Dalida of Abnenir Kali and Biagtan Cinco Teros
Guro Dalida is both a
Filipino martial arts instructor of
Abenir Kalis and Biagtan Cinco
Teros and a certified Malayang
Anyo Bodyweight Calisthenics instructor. He studied mixed martial
arts in Don Bosco Mandaluyong
under Maestro Bong Abenir.
When he moved to Cavite
as a resident of Imus he trained
with Master Rey Biagtan in the art
of Pangasinan Cinco Teros while
participating as a sparring partner
for competing Biagtan MMA fighters and instructors.
The art of Pangasinan Cin-
co Teros has (5) five basic strikes,
simple slashes from upward to
downward then downward to upward or vice versa from one side,
repeated on the other side making
the (4) four strikes to finish up
with a thrust. Like a crisscross
action followed by the thrust. And
is basically a blade art.
He eventually re-trained
with Maestro Bong in the Abenir
Kali system and went thru competition and constant drills and
sparring and was later certified as
one of the first bladed instructor of
the new Abenir Kalis system.
Under Maestro Abenir
Guro Dalida learned that there is
no pattern when attacked, but using
instincts based on personal body
type and knowledge and using
what is necessary is the principle to
resolve the situation at hand.
He is a certified Malayang
Anyo Bodyweight Calisthenics under Guro Perry Gil Mallari. Bodyweight calisthenics are exercises
that use the practitioner’s own
bodyweight as resistance whose
chief aim is simply to build maximum raw power and muscles as
well as promote joint mobility.
Commenceing with a low cruzada sliding parry technique, then followed up by a an aldavez or combination of
upward strike. - Demonstrated by Maestro Abenir and Guro Dalida
Estrella parry technique - Demonstrated by Maestro Abenir and Guro Dalida
To Contact: Maestro Bong Abenir
63 (0927) 278-7260
Email: abenirbong@yahoo.com
To Contact: Guro Chris Dalida
(0917) 419-3458
Email: mandirigma.dalida@gmail.com
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