Informative Issue No. 158 2015

Shedding some light on the different aspects of Eskrima and the personalities behind the art in Australia.

Shedding some light on the different aspects of Eskrima and the personalities behind the art in Australia.

Commencing a Path to the Future Establishing the Bunbury Eskrima Club Bunbury Eskrima Club Commences its Journey Becoming a Part of WEKAF Western Australia Returning to the Philippines Returning to the Philippines Bunbury Eskrima Club Goes to Hungary Recognition of the Hungarian WEKAF Event

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The FMA Informative is very grateful that Dean Carter consented to share his journey in the Filipino martial arts and his club. A very determined individual Dean proves that with the correct attitude, dedication and heart accomplishments are unlimited. As a teenager growing up in Vancouver, Canada, Dean Carter began basic lessons in White Tiger Kung Fu. This training gave him a base and some skills to work from, but it wasn’t really what he was looking for. An old school friend told him about an Eskrima school held at a church three times a week. Dean had never heard of Eskrima but was curious so he checked it out. The instructor was Mr. Fed Shadian. He received his rankings from the late Professor Remy Presas of Modern Arnis and Grandmaster Guillermo “Bobby” Taboada of the Balintawak Arnis Cuentada style. It was, very eclectic and offered many styles and trains of thought to open the students mind to the martial arts. Dean later moved to Melbourne Australia to attend University and study chiropractic. After graduation Dean accepted an associate position and moved with my wife Susie to Western Australia. Wanting to get back into training, an informal club was started. Dean flippantly named the club “Bunbury Eskrima”. The issue is about Dean Carter and his clubs journey in Eskrima. Dean Carter served as the President of the WEKAF Western Australia . Today Dean Carter is the Vice President of the WEKAF Australia.

Dean CarterI hope this paper sheds some light on the different aspects of Eskrima and the personalities behind the art in Australia. If you are interested you can find fight footage at “Bunbury Eskrima and The Australian Stick fighting Association on Facebook. - Click Here

Bunbury Eskrima Chief Instructor Dean Carter

Unit 1, 8 Marchant St. Bubury, Western Australia

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Commencing a Path to the Future

The following paper is to introduce the Eskrima schools, there disciplines and focus. As well as the personalities of Eskrima in Australia in general. However, defining a martial artist and there discipline is always controversial unless one is an authority of that art of discipline. Hence, I have been asked to write about our clubs’ personal journey, and how meeting these unique Eskrimadors has cultivated our understanding of Eskri-ma. The definition of their clubs that I pass on is from the information that they have given me regarding how they wish to be represented. Australia is a vast continent and how Eskrima is practiced varies greatly. As a teenager growing up in Vancouver, Canada, I began basic lessons in White Tiger Kung Fu. This training gave me a base and some skills to work from, but it wasn’t really what I was looking for. An old school friend put me onto an Eskrima school held at a church three times a week. I had never heard of Eskrima but was curious so I checked it out. The instructor was Mr. Fed Shadian. He received his rankings from the late Professor Remy Presas of Modern Arnis and Grandmaster Guillermo “Bobby” Taboada of the Balintawak Arnis Cuentada style. The school did not compete in sport Eskrima. It was however, very eclectic and offered many styles and trains of thought to open the students mind to the martial arts. I later moved to Melbourne Australia to attend University and study chiropractic. To pay tuition I worked security and bartended at local pubs. Due to my heavy work and school studies I didn’t have time or money for a formal education in Eskrima. I did find training partners though and would drop by the Doce Pares Australia Headquarters in Reservoir to purchase DVDs, books and whatever gear I could afford.

Establishing the Bunbury Eskrima Club

After graduation I accepted an associate position and moved with my wife Susie to Western Australia. Wanting to get back into training, an informal club was started. We flippantly named the club “Bunbury Eskrima”. Wanting to codify and improve my skills I sought out oth-er teachers. Given the reputation of the Doce Pares club as a multi style system our club was imme-diately drawn to it considering it reflected our previous eclectic training. I flew to the Philippines in 2008 and 2009 for the tutelage of Supreme Grandmaster Dionisio Canete’ and Master Garold Canete. With the permission of Grandmas-ter Dionisio Canete the Doce Pares

Syllabus and structure would serve as the framework for the Bunbury Clubs interpretation for the Filipi-no martial arts. Later, other martial artists attended our club. Some joined the club and others would drop by to train in Eskrima techniques that would supplement their own art. Over time practitioners of other disciplines stayed with the club and were able to contribute to its evolution. Patrick Jarvis at the age of 43yrs has been involved in martial arts from the age of 5. He trained many different styles, but mainly stuck with Karate. He was graded by Numuta Sheehan from Japan, and was successful on the tour-

nament circuit. However, street fighting is another thing altogether, so he started looking for anoth-er club based on practical street self-defense. In 2008 he found the Bunbury Eskrima club (Kapitaran Olisi y Baraw). “When I met Dean I did not think much of his school structure, in that there was none! It was just if you hit me here I’ll take and break here, and if you strike with a weapon I’ll disarm and counter attack here. No progression of learned abilities. However, I was very impressed after 30 years of martial arts of his skill both with people and simple street self-de-fense. I left the other clubs and committed to train in Eskrima.”

Bunbury Eskrima Club Commences its Journey

In 2011 the club was invit-ed to the 4th Doce Pares Congress. Patrick Jarvis, Josh Farrier, Craig Farrier and I attended. Patrick notes “In early 2010 Dean asked if I was interested in going to the Philippines to compete in the Doce Pares 4th World Titles I jumped at the chance. So I had a year to learn Doce Pares forms and W.E.K.A.F fighting rules. Dean was in contact with Doce Pares in the Philippines and they sent us DVDs and books which helped. We also studied YouTube clips, but the best training was suiting up and just going for it.” While training for our Black Belt Certification in Cebu the group of us drove to Badian Cebu, the Doce Pares waterfront retreat. There the participants of the congress had a feast. That was followed by training on the beach. It was there I did “semi” controlled sparring with then 4th Dan Marc Toussaint While playing around and doing some controlled sparring Marc accidently buried a stick in the side of my head. I saw him take a quick look, and noting there was no blood said “You gotta move your head mate!” He’s not the type to kiss it and make it better. Master Toussaint has been training in mar-tial arts since 1982 and his current rankings with Doce Pares Australia is the Victorian State Head Instruc-tor and 5th Grade black belt, and Freestyle martial arts 6th Degree Black Belt. He is the right hand man of Master Peter Shannon and has been awarded the 2002, 2005 BJC AEK instructor of the year awards and the 2004 BJC Contri-bution Award.

The sporting side of the 4th Doce Pares Congress was held at Ayala Mall in Cebu. Dean and Patrick fought competitively, but lost to split decisions.

The club was formally recognized with Doce Pares Cebu when they tested for their first degree black belts at the new-ly launched Eskrima Temple in barangay Malubog-Busay, Cebu City. They were the first to be tested there. “But the best thing I have achieved in martial arts was the grading in the Doce Pares Temple. This for two reasons the first being that we were the first to be graded in the temple and the second was they honored me with a 1st degree black belt, in Doce Pares original Multi Style System.” Stated Pat-rick. After grading at the temple I stepped out to chew some tobac-co and saw another guy having a smoke. I recognized him as Paul Cox. He had won his fight in the seniors division the day before. Paul Cox is the Founding member of Wild Geese Martial Arts. Since taking up martial arts back in 1977 he has trained in several martial styles, most nota-bly the Filipino martial arts and Kenpo Karate.

He was instrumental in bringing the Filipino martial arts to Ireland when he became the rep-resentative for Rapid Arnis, he has since travelled to the Philippines

on several occasions and regularly trains privately with Doce Pares Grandmaster Dan-ny Guba. Paul was recently awarded a black belt in Doce Pares “Multi Style” Eskrima. We caught up about our backgrounds and love of the Filipino martial arts. At this point we noticed six Filipi-nos fighting tooth and nail to carry a Karaoke machine up

a 60 degree slope to the temple. I was shocked ant pointed this out. “Is that a Karaoke Machine?” Paul took a drag on his smoke. “The Japanese love Karaoke,” Then he exhaled. “But the Filipinos own it mate.” Norwegian Danny Huertas passed the stringent Doce Pares Master’s examination. Huerta upgraded to 6th grade black belt, a feat made even more special as it was made in the presence of Doce Pares Supreme Grandmaster Dionisio Cañete, Grandmasters and Masters. He is the first and the highest Doce Pares Master to have been awarded the rank at the newly inaugurated and blessed Eskrima Temple. Marc Toussaint earned the title master after he successful-ly completed the 5th-grade black belt examination. Toussaint is now the second highest black belt in Australia next to his mentor Peter Shannon. Master Peter Shannon began training in the martial arts in 1973. His current rankings are Aus-tralian Doce Pares Chief Instructor and 6th Grade Black Belt and a

Freestyle Martial Arts 7th Degree Black Belt, and a Muay Thai Kick-boxing 6th Degree Trainer. He has been awarded in Blitz Martial Arts Magazine as Freestyle Instructor of the Year in 2000 for his contri-bution to the promotion of Filipino martial arts in Australia.

Becoming a Part of WEKAF Western Australia

After our club was rec-ognised with Doce Pares we made contact with Master Shannon. At first I choose just to train on our own and stay under the radar. Master Shannon was motivational and supportive in pushing us along to get involved in promoting the Filipino martial arts. He may not know this, but the initial push sent me far enough to be involved as the President of WEKAF Western Australia, and now the Director of Western Australia for the Australian Stick Fighting Association. Getting involved in pro-moting the Filipino martial arts

was when our club did indeed come up on the radar. We were invited by MAS Seminars of Perth to present a seminar on Filipi-no martial arts. Instructors Mr. Mike Waite and Scott Thakkar of AMAF and Cobra Martials also attended with their students. Advanced Martial Arts & Fitness (AMAF) Director and Chief Instructor Mike Waite, holds a 5th degree black belt with the World Karate Association, 5th degree Muay Thai black belt with the World Kickboxing Associa-tion, plus is a 5th degree black belt (Lakan Lima Kombatan/Modern Arnis) under the late Great Grandmaster Ernesto Presas

Senior. Guro Mike, the Pioneer of Kali Sikaran in Australia has the largest Filipino martial arts school in Western Australia and possibly the largest in Austra-lia. He has also won the hall of fame 2009 International Martial Arts Federation (IPMAF) for propagating the art of Arnis in Western Australia. “I was awarded an engraved Espa-

da y Daga and certificate for my efforts that I am very proud of.” In February of 2014 the AMAF team had the privilege of hosting Punong Guro Jeff Espinous for his Australian Tour. Punong Guro Jeff is the original Founder of the Kali Sikaran Self Defence system that is internationally recognized and trained all over the globe. During his tour he made a guest appearance at the WEKAF Western Australia meeting in February. Scott Thackrah is an in-Guro Scott Thackrah

Punong Guro Jeff Espinous and Guro Mike Waite

structor at the Cobra Martial Arts Dojo and is ranked as a 4th De-gree Black Belt. Both clubs teach traditional Eskrima and fitness. Neither have sport Eskrima in the

curriculum. The Cobra clubs roots are more local and instructors still train under Grandmaster Greg Henderson. You’ll learn more about Grandmaster Henderson in

a moment. Meeting up with these clubs was a great opportunity that came to fruition in the following year.

Returning to the Philippines

Our club returned again to the Philippines in Jan 2013 to train. I graded for a second degree black belt and was assessed by the renowned Grandmaster Nicomedes Elizar and, Grandmaster Alfredo Carin. After we went out to cele-brate and Master Gerald and Ger-

ald Russia introduced us to Filipi-no night life during the Sinulog. Sinulog is an annual cultural and religious festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City, and is the centre of the Santo Nino celebration in the Philippines. The Sinulog Festival commem-

orates the Filipino people’s pagan origins, and their acceptance of and conversion to Christianity (Roman Catholicism). The first of these conversions happened in the island province of Cebu.

MMA Athlete, Grandmaster Nicomedes Elizar, SGT. Clinton Bo-sworth Australian Army, Grandmaster Alfredo Carin, Neil ?, Dean Carter, Greg McEwan, Supreme Grandmaster Dionisio Canete, Master Gerald Canete, Gerald Rusinia.

Westerners trying “Balut”

Returning to Australia

When I returned Grand-master Carin Alfredo had been in touch with Grandmaster Henderson about my grading. All the dots in Western Australia were starting to connect with the personalities in Western Australia. I was asked if I would like to be a representative of WEKAF Western Australia. At this point Rodney Coulman had just taken over from Scott Thackrah. The World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation of Western Aus-tralia was in a fledgling state and

needed a team to represent it in the National tourna-ment on September of 2013 in Bendigo Victoria. The team consisted of Dean, Neil McLeish, Chris Harper and Tom Coleman. Patrick Jarvis also attended as an in-dependent from Queensland. The team did well and Neil McLeish made the club proud by being a National Champion in double stick. Neil came to martial Dean Carter and Neil McLiesh

arts reasonably late in life at 23 years of age (1993) Neil started training in Yoseikan Aikido under the late Shihan Jan de Jong and in that time progressed to 3rd Kyu. After a lengthy break I began training in Bushi Kempo Ju Jitsu (2006) under 2nd Dan Black Belt Kurt Normington. He notes his introduction to Eskrima. “My first introduction to the Filipino mar-tial arts was in 2008. A fellow Ju Jitsu student had been taking a few classes in Eskrima and suggested I check it out. There is an air of mystery and aristocracy in foreign martial arts. “I fronted up to a class the next week and was intrigued by these people swinging sticks,

and by the end of that class I was hooked. I have now been training with Dean Carter in Kapatiran Olisi y Baraw Eskrima for the past 7 years. “A definite highlight in my Filipino martial arts career was last year when members of our club travelled to Bendigo for the Australian Stickfighting Associa-tion National Championships. As this was our first time competing in Sport Eskrima we were just hoping to learn as much as possi-ble and give a reasonable account of ourselves. I personally managed to take out second place in the Full Contact single stick and first place in the Full Contact Double Stick for my division.”

Patrick Jarvis

Bunbury Eskrima Club Goes to Hungary

Next on the agenda is the WEKAF World Championships in Hungary. Putting together a team to go to Hungary costed, and we needed some help. Grandmaster Greg Henderson stepped in for us. We only had two sessions with him but they were a blast. Also, he contributed to our fund raising for uniforms, gear and sparring sticks. Grandmaster Greg Henderson is a major Filipino martial arts enthusi-ast and figure head. He has studied under a massive range of instruc-tors and has received so many awards if I wrote it all down there would be no room left in this paper to continue our topic. His main discipline is Magkuno-Diamond Back Eskri-ma and his main teacher is Grand-master Ernesto “Erning” Berdin who worked as a seaman (Marine Engineer) for 19 years while working his way up in mastering his martial arts skills. He started learning the art of stick fighting

under the instruction of Andres Gumban of Balintawak style at Hipodromo, Cebu City, Philip-pines. He learned the style and eventually excelled and earned a black belt in 1970. With his untiring quest to create a martial system, he went met the Grand-master of the Durandal Excalibur Club (DUREX) in the name of Gerardo Alcuizar and started doing heavy practices in combat Judo, Karate (Tang Soo Doo), and Eskrima. He earned a black belt 1st Dan in 1980. He also prac-

ticed again with another club, and this time with the Doce Pares, under the tutelage of Grandmaster Eulogio Cañete. He was one of the pioneer referees of Arnis Philip-pines (ARPI) under Raymund Velayo. Grandmaster Berdin recently has suffered from a stroke, again Grandmaster Henderson helped out by putting together a fund raising event to help pay for his Grandmasters physiotherapy. Greg’s top student is Maestro Andrew Roberts from Perth Western Australia. Andrew trained a variety of styles over the years, including competing as an amateur Muay Thai fighter and having four fights as a heavy-weight. He also trained for some months in Thailand as well as BJJ for a number of years. His first exposure to the Filipino martial arts was when he served in the Navy as a Clearance diver and as a member of Team Four (United and Undaunted). He has graded in

Cebu under Grandmaster Ernesto Berdin to a fifth degree in his style. Both Greg and Andrew took the time to drive over 200 km south of Perth to do a seminar to raise funds for the Western Austra-lian team. They never took any cash. I think I bought Greg a beer or two. It was a good spirited time. We made just enough money to send off some concepts to a graph-ic designer and come up with a logo and have some shirts and hoodies made up. This crew was being put together based on heart and the love of Eskrima. Training for the team was regularly in a warehouse during lunch break. Neil set up a few bags and there was a shower hot enough to make coffee straight from the shower head. I mean what else could you ask for? We would be in and out in an hour and back to work. Greg Henderson had signed up Danny Collings from New Zealand to represent New Zealand in 2012 in Cebu, and the next day they signed Scott Thackrah up at Doce Pares Headquarters. “Ac-cording to them, I was the only registered member in Australia. “

Says Scott Thackrah. WEKAF Western Australia was actually formerly registered with Cebu before the ASA To the credit of the ASA their members were better prepared to embrace WEKAF and get involved. The Mount Isa crew had been estab-lished back in 2010 and have double & single stick world champions in several divisions. Considering the ASA was on the move and had members in all states except for Tasmania and Western Australia they ended up being the National Representation for WEKAF and were the only organisation that fighters could compete in to reach the WEKAF World Titles by representing Australia. The evolution of a reconstructed Federation post the dismissal of Sharon Burns was social Darwinism at its best. The Australian Stick fighting Association formed in 2012, with founding members Yvonne Triggilla, Glen Eden, Gab De Lorenzi, Matthew and Tamara Bellinger, Ashely Dean, Ken Wan Obrien, Nick Capriossi, Justin Leigh Stone, Andrew Wallis, Karla Savaglia. The federation won 8 Gold 4 Silver 4 Bronze Medals at the World Championships in Cebu 2012. Ashley Dean of the Towns-ville Stick fighting club went to the worlds in Cebu 2012 as a Light-Heavy. “The stand out moment was team match against Philippines. So, exciting going into match...surrounded by the whole tournament! Everyone screaming, going wild!! Was crazy!! Going toe to toe with one of my trainers...and matched him! It was absolutely crazy!! Such a vibe! A real rush! We lost but to a narrow margin.” He has been privileged to

train with Grandmaster Val and notes he also trained a fair bit with JunJun and David from Headquar-ters. “They were both great“. He notes that he has also been privi-leged to have studied with Master Yvonne of Mt.Isa. “Yvonne is a great choreog-rapher of free kata with lots of great traditional moves behind her. She creates real cool katas for us...right down to having in depth conversations on cool facial ex-

pressions!” The two Australian teams rocked up at WEKAF Hungary. Problem was Australia was in-formed that no country could have two teams. Even though both groups had been actively regis-tered, paying dues and functioning for the last two years. Nobody managing WEKAF decided to put the brakes on the endeavour. That is until two teams flew half way across the planet to compete. When given the news that the Australians could not have two teams they acted as Aussies. They walked in as one team (in different uniforms) sacrificed positions in divisions for each other and in the evenings had a few beer. The biggest thank you from the Aussie teams goes to go to

Maestro Andrew Roberts

Supreme Grand Maestro Ernesto Berdin Grand Maestro Greg Henderson

Yvonne Triggilla

Glen and Tamara, who did all the leg work in Hungary, both of them did an extraordinary job keeping the team organised, keeping everybody focused and making sure that everybody had a good time. Tamara Bellinger says her training team mainly focuses on the sport side of Eskrima as op-posed to the traditional aspects for street application. The syllabus flows around the Doce Pares curriculum. “The Townsville crew I believe follow the Cacoy system. At the moment I’m trying to incorporate the Cacoy and Doce

Pares “styles” in sparring since I’ve come from Doce Pares and I’m working with the Townsville group that is Cacoy. We want to blend the two styles with their similarities into one that’s for sport sparring. It has come to our attention up here that we’re not all too concerned with the segregation of the styles, and all just want to learn Filipino martial arts as a whole.” During the Tournament at some stages multiple rings were judged and refereed by no less than 3 sometimes 4 officials. It was again mentioned how often the Australians from both coasts stood up to help in the midst of their own personal campaigns, and how professionally and without bias we were. Ken Wan O’Brien recalls that one of the funniest moments of the tournament was when he was standing ringside with Matt and an American was going on about how beautiful the

Australian judge was. Matt just casually turned to him and said “Yeah I know mate that’s my wife!” Matt’s favourite fight was against a Polish opponent. “I had given everything for the fight before and now I had to beat this giant of a 19yr old for the gold. We both came out swinging and I had to work him out quickly to be one ahead of him at all times. I won the battle unanimously and found my opponent to be a true gentleman. Afterwards as he came and bar-racked in my corner when I played against the American during the

Shawn Butters , Glen Eden, Rob Flinn, and James Plowright

Tamara and Matt Bellinger: Matt Bellinger Heavy Weight single Stix Champion - Double Stix Silver

? Gab De Lorenzi Gabriele De Lorenzi. Gold in Super Heavy Weight di-vision. Fought up from normal Heavyweight division

double stick championship round.” Watching Ken and Glen gave me a new perspective on sport Eskrima. I had been teaching and studying for years that “if you’re in a fair fight your tactics suck”. The sport of Eskrima really came out in these men. I remember Ken yelling out and supporting a referee for formally deducting a point from one of his own team mate. Sportsmanship was valued. One of Glens fights didn’t go

exactly the way he wanted. We were talking and he said “I didn’t feel like I was in my body. I felt outside of my body.” Not, the referee sucked, the judges robbed me, or the other guy was fighting dirty. He just left it at that. The point stick and knife sparring was new to the Aussies. Almost every other team was experienced in this division with two years practice. We had never done this type of fighting before as we stuck strictly full contact. Jonathan Brandis took 4th and Neil took 3rd place in there respected divisions for padded knife. The ballistic moving of point sparring can be hard on the muscu-

lature. I tore my soleus muscle (under the calf). Paul Cox ap-

peared out of nowhere with ice spray and some pain killers. “If ya still wanna fight, these should help.” He gave all he had to offer at the moment. Marco Neri from Canada was not as lucky. He tore the entire Achilles tendon, and was taken to the hospital by medics. The next day I couldn’t walk properly and sat out. Deferring my position to Glen Eden and he reciprocated giving his position up for the team fights. Glen actually

registered and paid for my team registration and didn’t even let me pay him back. Neil went on the get second

Centre Ken Wan Obrien Ken O’Brien 1st place Senior Men’s Mid-dle Weight Double Stick, 3rd place Senior

Men’s Middle Weight Single Stick.

The NPIAMA team L-R: Jacob, Nick, Karla, Justin

Karla Savaglia Middle Weight. 1st place Women’s Traditional Single Stick Forms, 2nd place Women’s Single Stick sparringJacob Hutcheson - 3rd place in Sin-gle Stick and did team fights.Justin Stone - 3rd place in double stick.Nick Capozzi - 2nd place super-heavyweight.

Glen Eden 1st place Men’s Forms

Ferenc Danko

place in the world for full contact double stick. He pulled it off because I think he has the rare quality of being able to fight single stick in an ambidextrous manner. His opponents’ Joe Varadys’ thighs took a bit of a beating. After the tournemant all the clubs met up for the hospitality of our european brothers. It was sensational! The Hungarians left nothing to chance! Food and entertainment was over the top. Outside the venue was a seated area. I was having a drink with big John and Paul Cox sat down with us. Big John is to the Filipino

martial arts is like Big John Mcar-thy to MMA. Big John travels teaching and refereeing Filipino martial arts and works full time as a nurse. Big John was seated with Paul Cox, I dropped by with one of my students and fighters Johnathin Brandis. We shook hands. John said. “My name is John also!” Big John replied. “Yeah, but my name is Big John.” In your place. I passed the medication back to Paul. He looked at me. “Did it help?” “Paul” I replied. “That stuff could drop a clidsdale! Good for pain, not so much for competeing.” So I sat out until the next day.

Talking with Supreme Grandmaster Dionisio Caneta

I then had the privaledge of catch-ing up with Supreme Grandmas-ter Dionisio Caneta. It cannot be argued that nobody has done as much for WEKAF as Supreme Grandmaster Canete. He said to me it was one of the best WEKAFs yet! Although it had it problems, and at times the judinging and time keeping wasn’t spot on. Diony noted. “There were a few prob-lems, but nothing was malicous. There may have been some lack of experience in the arts elements.” Supreme Grandmaster Canete then travelled with Grandmaster Val to England to present at seminars and to support Grandmaster Vals new book. Authored by Rociel Seguri-tan Caneja’s ‘The Lightning Speed of Grandmaster Percival ‘Val’ Pableo’ has now received some serious recognition. Initially cata-logued as sports biography but now

re-catalogued as a Reference Text Book as claimed by: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, The Cambridge University Library, National Library of Scotland, Na-tional Library of Wales and Trinity College Dublin.

By Cielito Caneja (Author, Editor) Percival Pableo (Illustrator)

Recognition of the Hungarian WEKAF Event

The man that was in charge of putting it all together. Ferenc Danko states that the WEKAF director liked his proposal submitted in 2008 as it was “good and well structured”. Ferencs club had a strong sports team. Howev-er, he insisted that his club is primarily based around self-defense and traditional Eskrima. He personally looked forward to his country hosting WEKAF 2014 to promote the Filipino martial arts within the country. It was a great group effort to put WEKAF 2014 together and he wanted to thank his mother, father, sister and fiancé Sza-bina for the undying support. Also, Fibinger Zsuzsa for the homepage, T-shirts, and promotion. Disznes Imre for registration ideas, and the support of Marika Zsolt.

Bunbury Eskrima Chief Instructor Dean Carter

Unit 1, 8 Marchant St. Bubury, Western Australia

(0425) 774-355

Big John Marquez

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