You the reader are on a journey of finding yourself in FMA. Think of every fight like two rooms and a door in the middle. You are standing in one and your opponent is in the other, someone will open the door, remember walk into the other room, walk around visit the room then close and lock the door. Do not give them a chance to do the same to you.

Filipino martial arts is not just martial art but a thought process in which a practitioner lives by. Over the years I have developed a list of notes or bullet points to operate by.Point #1 Arnis is about finding your own way. Enjoy the journey. Point #2 Break everything down to its smallest parts so you can learn it. Then put it back together. Point #3 To be great you must practice, practice, and practice. Point #4 Arnis is like fishing it is all about the little things. Remember that it is the little things that will kill you. Point #5 Remember to Breath. Point #6 The stick is just a poor man’s punching bag. Point #7 Move like water and flow around them. Point #8 The Key to FMA is three things: Timing, Rhythm and Fluidity Point #9 Remember to defang the snake! Point#10 Remember the stick is an impact weapon attack the joints. Point #11 Attack by Combination know your ABCS Point #12 Protect the Core-Control the Core Point #13 Strike where they are not Point #14 FMA is about the use of reversing, Reverse the Reverse. Point #15 Your Empty Hand is the most dangerous weapon Point #16 God gave you four sticks it is you job to know how to use them Point #17 Learn to get a shuffle Point #18 Injure them first then follow through Point #19 Learn to think Third World-It is about drawing blood not backing down. Point #20 Attack the joints, strike where they are weak Point #21 Uproot the tree- Wrestling-disrupting the body Point #22 Arnis is about rhythm learn to find the rhythm

ContentsAbout the South Bay Filipino Martial Arts Club The Complete Story of Master Marc Lawrence Methods of an American Arnisador Tournaments & Awards Competition Workshops Community Recognition Gallery Notable Accomplishments

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The Adventures of South Bay Filipino Martial Arts Club Punong Guro Marc Lawrence of Modified Pangamut System

About the South Bay Filipino Martial Arts Club We are the South Bay Filipino Martial Arts Club. We are a Filipino American Barangay (Village). We organized to share the Filipino Fighting Arts and Culture with residents of the South Bay community. Our purpose is to ensure that the Filipino Ameri-can Communities of South Bay of Southern California does not forget its heritage of the traditional fight-ing arts of the Philippines. If you are Filipino, Filipino-American, Filipino-Hawaiian, Mesteso/Meste-sa, Filipino by Marriage, or if you just love all things Filipino you will find our village/club quite wel-coming. We teach Men’s, Women’s and Children’s classes. Our core system is a Mountain Visayan fighting sys-tem bought to the USA by Grand Master Felix Roiles. His Grandfa-ther called it Pakamut also called Pangamut. This referred to hav-ing skilled hands in Cebuano, a Visayan dialect. He shared this with Marc Lawrence, his families fighting system. Marc Lawrence had his own FMA fighting system that he had learned in his travels. GM Felix Roiles certified our Punong Guro Marc Lawrence as a Master under Pakamut International Asso-ciation. Master Marc Lawrence is a National Champion in the Filipino Martial Arts. Our club is active in competitions to apply our knowl-edge.

The Modified Pangamut System The Modified Pangamut System is a modern adaption of the Mountain Visayan System known as Pangamut or Pakamut. Panga-mut means to have skilled hands, Pakamut means to slug or scratch in Mountain Visayan. Panga-mut is a term from Cebu, Philip-pines, which means to describe A Person’s Way or Knowledge of Defending Oneself. Usually, you may hear the Cebuano’s say to a person: “Maayo siya mangamut. (He has a good way of defending himself.)” or “Naa siyay panga-mut. (He has a way of defending himself.)” I feel that my style- Modi-fied Pangamut is just that (He has a way of defending himself.) and more!About the system The Modified Pangamut System is a Filipino-American Martial Arts System. The South Bay FMA Club experience’s in tournaments across the USA and in real life situations has brought about adaptations to the new chal-lenges. This is the same as it was back in the Islands as each new raider brought about changes in styles of fighting to defend the Barangay (village). The Modified Pangamut System is a complete system. It has three ranges these being Largo- Long Range, Meda- Me-dium Range and Korto- Close

Our school plaque says this:This is our village meeting place where we practice with sticks, knifes, fight and wrestle Dinhing tungora nato pasidunggan and atong mga katigulangan nga nahiuna kanto.This is where we honor the older brothers who came before. Atong pasidunggan ang kanhing mga kamagulangan natong mga igso-on dinhing dapita.

Range. It is not a complex system, using simple motions combined to make fighting combinations. It does not require one to be in great physical shape or even have special talents or skills like other arts. It uses three different medi-ums of fighting, these being single stick fighting, blade fighting and hand and foot fighting. When these mediums are combined together they create Combat flows. We teach the concept of Combat flows that transition through the different mediums of fighting. This concept was developed due to real life situ-ations that came from law enforce-ment, military, security work and street self defense situations by members of the system.

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The Complete Story of Master Marc Lawrence

Here is my story. I started as kid in the late 1960s with my mom teaching my brother and I French stick fighting. It was a lot like fencing but done with bamboo sticks. We had a little stick fight-ing club in our neighborhood in the hills; we would fight with cane hollow stick for sword and a solid staffs. We fought with them as quarter staffs. My dad had taught us some of what he had learned in the army. My dad had friend that taught Karate who taught us to kick and punch. His name was Dave Delgato. He was the first black belt I met and he had a LAPD registration card for his hands. We never had any money for formal lessons with Katas, just backyard down and dirty style of fighting. This paid off in my teens. In my teens we had moved up to the San Francisco Bay area and our family’s money was tight. We moved to a crappy neighbor-hood where being a Mestiso kid got me into fights. One time went I was in middle school I was jumped by three high school guys. Using my skills and Pilipino style fight-

ing I beat them. I used my back pack as shield and my pencil as knife. I stabbed the biggest one in the arm when he tried to grab me. Another time I was going to the store my brother and I were jumped by six kids trying to rob us. My brother was knocked and was wrestling with one over his wallet and I was left with five guys to fight. One thing I had learned was kick & hit then re-angle. Its kind funny if you keep this up, nobody want to jump in.

I was working at gas station in high school and I met Grand Master Hyuk Sul of Kuk Sool Won. He was the first per-son to give me formal training. I trained with him for several years. I hated Katas or form and would ask him why –because I found they did not work when sparring. I went for many years without fur-ther training but having used my skills to keep myself safe. I was working ambulance as EMT in the 1980s. We would get called out on voluntary psy-cho calls and they would become violent after the cops would leave or before the cops showed up. I would have to restrain (joint locks and pressure points) them. Fight-ing with someone who was crazy or high in back of ambulance and protecting yourself and your part-ner was not easy. I remember one time I was at a hospital and nurse in the ER was attacked by a crazy person. I had to take the guy down pretty fast and rough. We had this call where a guy tried to jump out a window and had to grab his belt and pull him in and then pin

him and tie his wrist. We had to file a police report. After that the Sheriffs want me to go to work for them. They said that I knew how to handle myself well in unarmed combat situations. In my late twenties I met older Filipino who taught FMA. He had shown me some basics and found that it blended well with what I already knew. In my late twenties I met my wife, a Filipina. After we got married my father in law a WW-2 vet and I were talk-ing and he told me about how he was trained in Hawaii, it was the Cinco Terros. I met other family members that would show some. We used the cane stick we had for the garden. It was my mother in laws relative (Manong Espi) in law who was good. He was an old school Arnisador. It was funny how my father-in-law and other family members never showed my wife any of this. They consider it a man’s job to protect the home and family. My first son got to age 6 and started having issues in school so my wife enrolled him in Judo. I never was much of armchair dad so I started working out and club when my son would train. Being a Fil-Am family, we were not treated the best, even though we kept winning in tournaments. I found it good for close quarters sport fight-ing but not very practical for real world. I found fellow who prac-ticed Arnis in the park, he taught the Cacoy Doce Pares Method. I was my mother-in-law who told me of a teacher who was new to the USA and needed students. His style was Doce Pares Multi-

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system. So we went up to LA and started training with him in his yard and then at Griffith park. At the factory where I worked we formed a club to prac-tice FMA at lunch. I found that parts were very practical and parts were not, but I like the sparring. I found that FMA excited my sons about their Filipino Heritage. My

wife’s nephew started training with us also. I was very fortunate to meet Master Felix Roiles. He was no BS kind of guy who could fight and had real world experi-ence. Master Felix said “here build on what you know not start over”. I started fighting in local and dis-tant tournaments along with both of my sons. My sons and I started

doing public demonstrations about FMA. This made my wife and her family proud of her husband and children. It also made other family members proud of their Filipino heritage. I found my FMA system to be very pragmatic. We as family enjoy sharing FMA with the com-munity. So I teach and compete with my art, Modified Pangamut.

Methods of an American Arnisador In the 4 years, I have fought in FMA 41 divisions, with now over 100 bouts with only 9 losses. My friends asked me these ques-tions:First: What is it that makes you a good fighter Second: how do you prepare for competition, Third: what goes through you mind when you fight, Fourth: what did you learn for your fights, Fifth: what tips can you give someone who wants to be a suc-cessful competition fighter?To answer all of these questions I will do it one at time. First a little background about me, I am married to a Fil-ipina lady and have two sons. We as family compete and support the FMA community. I have worked as an Industrial Firefighter for the last 20 years and work in the Fire and Rescue business for 30 years. Durring my carrier I have received 1 Departmental Medal for Life Saving, 1 Departmental Medal for Bravery and 1 Departmental Medal for Meritorious Service. Ok, so my idea of good day is running into a burning building with my buddies while everybody else is running out! I am an avid salt water angler

and have fished since I was six years old. I love being on the deck of boat and feeling the fight of the fish and the adventure of the hunt. To answer the first ques-tion, what make you a good fight-er, first a fighter got to have heart! You can train anyone to swing a stick but you must have heart! My teacher, Felix Roiles says “you must have a heart like a lion”! I firmly believe that this is true and you must be willing to go the distance. I have seen many fight-ers start out brave and melt under the pressure of combat. Remember that this is weapon based combat, it just have rules! The next part of this is the willingness to train with intensity. Train like your like de-pends upon it, because it may one day. The last part of is this ques-tion is this: it is really all about the little things. Filipino Martial Arts is all about little things just like fishing. A master angler sees all of the little things that it takes to catch the fish. No matter where he goes and adapts by humbling and learning from other successful anglers. Arnis is exactly the same. You may know your methods but to be successful in new environ-ment you must adapt! Open your mind to each situation and learn. To answer the second

question of how does one prepare for a competition, goes like this, you must have good foundational concepts of FMA. These are good footwork and body maneuver-ing, good use of the weapon hand and good use of the live hand. To do this you need to practice, use a tire bag and get yourself plenty of rattan stick the right size. You need to practice bagging by hit-ting with footwork. Practice going the rounds just like the tourna-ment circuit you are fighting in. If you are going to fight one minute rounds then practice hitting one minute and the stopping for 30 seconds. Start out slow and get your combinations with footwork down then start speeding it up. If you think you will have three matches in a tournament then plan to practice for 9 rounds. Add an additional round or two so if you end up in sudden death match you are ready. You need to bag until hands get raw and the just tape up your hands. Bag on things that give. I had friend who hurt his hand because he was bagging on Oak trees. Go for walks with your stick and practice while walking. Practice with your sparring gloves and in your mat shoes to get feel for your equipment. Now the next part is to practice hitting and using

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your live hand for checking. If you have somebody to work with you practice hitting the bag then block-ing as your partner strikes at you. Practice with everybody you can. Even if they will beat you. You just need to learn from it. I have had the privilege of sparring num-ber of WEKAF world champions. These guys can really fight.

Alright here are my thoughts and tips on the use of the weapon hand: My experience in sparring has taught me that the Manongs were right and the use of the weapon hand is as criti-cal as the empty hand when you are fighting. Your weapon hand serves a variety of functions like gripping the stick, striking fore-

hand, striking backhand, thrusting (Songkiti), Punching (jabs, cross, hook and uppercut), butt striking (Punya), Curving strikes (Pitiks, Witiks, Arcos, Circulos, Sidewind-ers) re-angling strikes (Abaniko), Forward and Reverse Hooking (Punya method), Locking, Block-ing, Parrying and Throws.

Grips Let’s start with the basics. To hold your stick, knife or bolo you must be able hold / retain your weapon. The grip on the stick is critical in retaining your stick when fighting. I use an overlapping thumb grip. There is also straight thumb, side thumb and reverse overlapping grip. Each grip has specific application to provide the maximum effect.Overlapping - To find your basic grip position, put the stick in your left hand with the butt even with the bot-tom of your hand, close all four of your fingers, then wrap your four right fingers and overlap your thumb. This is natural grip or over lapping thumb. Straight Thumb - The basic straight thumb is done by putting the stick in your left hand with the butt even with the bottom of your hand, close all four of your fingers, then wrap your four right fingers and put your thumb straight up. This grip is used in Espada Y Daga for the knife grip. This grip is also called a foil grip.Side Thumb - The basic side thumb is done by putting the stick in your left hand with the butt even with the bottom of your hand, close all four of your fingers, then wrap your four right fingers and put you thumb bent against the outside stick. This grip is used for a rapid reverse technique of the stick or knife.Reverse Grip - The basic reverse grip is done by putting the stick in your left hand with the butt even with the top of your hand, close all four of your fingers, then wrap your four right fingers and overlap your thumb. The reverse grip is used when you would strike some with a Punya/butt strike, it is also used when you are knife fighting and throwing a punch with the knife to cut them with a jab. This grip is also called an Ice-Pick grip.

Basic Strikes Strikes are broken into three basic groups based upon the direction of travel of the strike. These are forehand, backhand and thrust strikes. It does not matter if the strike is linear, curving or reversed it still three basic ones. All strikes generate the most power through proper body mechanics. Power is generated in the feet properly spaced through feet/leg rotation and is transferred to the hips and into the shoulders, and finally into the arms. The wrist proves the snapping motion. The weapon hand gives direction and targeting to the strike. Your knuckles serve as the blade edge reference to the strike. Strikes are done with three parts of the stick: tip, blade and butt. For the most transference of energy, the tip strike is most effective. How you strike is adjust according to the range you are fighting. Your range of motion is shortened as you get closer to your opponent. Remember to attack the fangs of the snake first! Go for the hands then the knees.

Intermediate strikesSongkiti - The thrusting motion generates energy through two methods a straight lunge thrust or a curving re-angle motion known as Songkiti. This is used to target soft areas of the body like the eyes, throat, solar plexus and groin. A properly done Songkiti can put the diaphragm into spasm in one motion. Punya - A Punya done to the same areas in close quarters fighting (Korto) can do equal damage when done with force. Just quick short motions can cause your opponent to be disabled quickly. This motion can be done to trig-ger a gag reflex in the throat when done to the throat at the Sternal Notch. The same motion can be done to the base of the jaw by the ear; this will cause intense pain without permanent damage.

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Punching - There are five basic punches and two advanced method punches. The five basic are the hammer fist, jab, cross, hook and uppercut. Two advanced punch are the spinning back fist and hammer fist-elbow strike. Power is generated from the hips into the shoulders then the arms. A good punch is aimed 6 inches past the body. One must image that they are punching through the body. A hammer fist is the same motion as the fore-hand and backhand strikes only if using the weapon hand you are striking with the butt of the stick. If you are striking with a fist it is with base of the fist. A jab is the same as media strike; the only difference is that stick is what hits your opponent instead of your fist. A jab punch is done straight at your target. A cross punch is done across the body to the opposite side of your opponent’s body. A hook punch is done as name in implies with a hooking motion. An elbow strike can be added when one throws hook punch. For maximum impact if you use the checking hand to stop/ hold your opponent and then hit them with the hook. With stick in your hand you are using butt of the stick for the strike. A spinning back fist is done when you reverse from the hawk stance, and change direction and strike with a backhand strike.Curving Strikes - The curving strikes group basically consists of Pitiks, Witiks, Circulos, Arcos and side wind-ers. A Pitik is done in flicking motion of the wrist by the weapon hand, it is tip strike. This strike is usually done to distract but can be extremely effective when done to sensitive areas like the breast. A Witik is done with a wrist snapping motion like you would do with a wet towel. There are inside Witiks and outside Witiks, inside done in a forehand motion and an outside are done in a backhand motion with wrist. A Circulo strike is done with the wrist and forearm in a circular motion. For maximum effectiveness you start with you forearm with the butt of the stick straight up and the tip is brought forward in clock wise motion rapidly. You follow all the way through on this strike. An Arco in just two Circulos are done one right after another. Twirling strikes are best to keep crowds back. These are effective for multiple opponents when using edge weapons. Sidewinders are done similar to a Circulo except that it goes opposite side from where the strike originated from. You start with the butt up striking curving manner hitting first the spot where you first hit in combination. A Sidewinder is usually the third strike of the combination.

Complex StrikesRe-angling strikes - The Abaniko or fan strike in done two basic methods- Traditional and Modern. Traditional is wide striking pattern of 360 degrees of arc, to be really effective you must have total body mechanics for the rotation of your body when tip striking with your stick. Modern is a short quick strike done with just the wrist and a forearm in quick rapid manner. This is usually done to the face mask of your opponent with quick follow up power shot to the body. Ricochet strikes are true re-angle strike done from bouncing the stick off the floor and quickly into an on-coming opponent, or off your opponents stick and into your opponent’s face mask.

HookingForward Hooking - The butt or Punya method is done as throw based upon the principle that were the head goes so goes the body. The technique is done like a J-wrap in empty hands to the back of the neck, but you use the butt of the stick quickly and throw them forward. It is best to use this in combination with a knee to the face as you quickly pull them down into it.Reverse Hooking - The butt or Punya method is done as throw based upon the principle that were the head goes so goes the body. The technique is done like reverse J-wrap in empty hands to the back of the neck, but you use the butt of the stick quickly and throw them forward. It is best to use this in combination with a knee to the face as you quickly pull them down into it.

LocksLocks - Locks are used in stick grappling techniques. There are wrist locks, chicken wings, arm bars, ankle locks, leg bars, chest bar and chokes. These are done in conjunction with strikes to soften them up and with quick motion take-down or restraint. These locks are done in conjunction with the empty hand and will be cover in detail separately.

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BlockingBlocking - There are two basic blocks reinforced and augmented. There are rigid blocks and augments blocks. Reinforced blocks are used at two ranges, Largo and Media. A basic skill that should be taught to students is the importance of angling their stick in all of the blocks of Largo, Media and Korto ranges.Largo Range Blocking - When you blocking at the Largo range you use an overlapping thumb grip and re-inforce the wrist with your empty hand, angle your stick outward to take the shock strike. This allows you to have fast counter strike. When teaching blocking, start with have the student reinforce the tip and keep the stick straight. Have them progress to reinforcing the stick with the meaty part of the palm. They should finish with a reinforced wrist on the weapon hand. When blocking in the Largo range against edged weapons like the Bolo verses Olisi take the hits toward the tip of the stick. It is extremely important to have your stick angled outward.Media Range Blocking - When blocking at the Media range the stick is kept close to the body, sometime it necessary to have the butt against the body. The stick is gripped with the overlapping grip. The stick is rein-forced with meat part of the palm / edge of your hand. Keep the stick angled outward slightly to take the impact. If you are going to plan to disarm your opponent then you may block with your stick and reinforce the stick with the meaty part of the forearm. Your stick is angled slightly outward. This allows you to snatch and grab their weapon or check their weapon.Korto Blocking - When being attacked with an inside Witik a downward shield block works well for low line attacks when combined with a live hand checking to your opponent’s shoulder. For high line attacks us a shield blocks. Follow up quick shot to the body.

ParryParrying - Is type blocking that is used when defending against an Estokada to the upper body/chest or the legs. The block is sliding block using the edge of the stick, allowing the energy of the slide across the weapon in striking edge to edge. This prevents breaking the stick from a stick to stick collision. The strike used by your opponent is a slicing strike. This strike can be parried and check at the same done with practice of a coordinated effort of the weapon hand and empty hand.

ThrowsThrows - Throws and sweeps are based upon the idea of disrupting your opponent’s balance. This is done at the head-neck level, chest level and knee level with your weapon hand and stick. There are other sweeps and throws that are done with your empty hand Vining, hip throw and with leg wrap. - Punya Throw: The butt or Punya method is done as throw based upon the principle, that where the head goes so goes the body. The technique is done like a J-wrap in empty hands to the back of the neck, but you use the butt of the stick quickly and throw them forward. Combine with a sweep to the leg. - Knee Sweep: The knee sweep can be done as simple as after striking your opponent at the ribs then insert your stick behind the knee and pull while pushing on the chest with your empty hand at the same time. - Chest Throw: The chest throw is done after softening up your opponent with strikes, your stick is inserted at the chest while pulling them forward and off balance. You are disrupting their balance at the chest level. Sweep their leg as you throw them.Some of these techniques are not legal in certain tournament circuits, be failure with the rules of circuit you are fighting in! Learn what the judges looking for and what will get you disqualified!

The Live Hand or Empty Hand OK so now we get to the live hand or empty hand as it is called. Here are my thoughts and tips on its usage: Yes, the Manongs were right and the use of the empty hand is critical when fighting. Your empty hand should serve a variety of functions like re-enforcing, checking, jamming, pulling, hooking, pushing, deflecting/passing, grabbing, opening, punching and blocking. These skills are not style specific but are general in nature with FMA system that teaches Arnis, Eskrima, or Kali. First, your hand should be on your chest in the guard position. You hand should be shaped like “C”. If 7

you are blocking at the largo to media range you should be over the weapon hand, re-enforcing it still in a “C” shape. Your arms are extended outward.Re-enforcing - “Kalasag” When you are rigid blocking with your stick, use the meaty part of your palm resting against your stick. Your arms should not extended, keep your elbows tucked in. Remember that you are block with stick at the media and corto ranges. Checking - When you are checking typically your hand come from behind the weapon and stopping the for-ward motion of the stick. Your hand is in a “C” shape and you are catching the stick and hand together at the hand. Do not wrap your thumb in. The check is light like you would use to catch a light bulb, not like ball. Al-low your hand to stay in contact with light pressure and move with your opponent’s weapon hand to set them up for disarm.Jamming - “Ipit” This done when you can anticipate your opponent’s strike and can throw in your empty hand to jam the weapon. This is to keep them from swinging the strike. This is done throwing up your hand and jam-ming before they swing on the forehand strike. On the backhand strike you jam the forearm downward, you can also hammer fist downward on their forearm. When you are being thrust at, use an inward jamming motion with a “C”-shaped hand. Jamming is also done with your empty hand & arm. You basically cloths line your opponent across the chest, with your elbow at the arm/ shoulder level as you come in this jams the weapon arm and your opponent’s forward motion.Pulling - “Hatak” This done when you can grab the stick after you have blocked it. You just pull stick and rotate your body. They may or may not let go. You can also simply grab the guy’s cloths or body protector sleeve and pull them off balance. This is done by pulling them in the direction they are already traveling.Hooking - The hooking with two fingers known as the Kowit is done typically after you have checking the incoming weapon/ weapon hand. It is done with two fingers, the pinky and ring fingers. This is typically done in an inward/downward or outward pulling method. Typically it is used to pull your opponent off balance and leads to a disarm. Hooking with your empty hand to your opponent’s neck and pulling forward throws them off balance. Your hand is shaped like a hook.Pushing - It is just as it sounds to push on you attacker on their weapon hand shoulder in tournament. In real life it is to the face or the jaw, pushing it upward and back. This is simple tactic that is highly effective. Your hand is open and in the C shape when pushing against the jaw or face. Use more of an open palm when pushing on the shoulder.Deflecting/Passing- Deflecting by the empty hand is done when your “C” shaped hand comes downward and deflects your opponent’s weapon hand down. You can deflect your opponent’s weapon wand outward. This is done in Songa-Wakli motions. This is done in a circular motion. By deflecting your opponent’s weapon hand you make and opening for you to strike them.Grabbing- “Agaw” It is just as it sounds, first you block and check then you grab their weapon. While you hold it then you hit them as they try to pull away on their weapon. Grabbing can also be done by grabbing their gear and pulling them toward you, this takes them off balance and then you hit them. Sometimes when you clash with your opponent you can quickly grab and pull his weapon away if their gripe into to firm.Opening - “Hubad” is to make an opening in your opponent’s defenses by deflecting and passing their weapon hand away and this makes the opening. It is done with your empty hand in a “C”-shape. Punching -“Suntok” When you are fighting and you have blocked your Opponent’s stick and weapon hand you can punch them with you empty hand with a jab, hook, a cross or an uppercut. Make an opening by setting them up to block and check then hit them with your fist from the other way.Blocking - Using your Empty Hand to block, if you’re busy attacking and you are checked by your opponent use their empty hand. Block their arm with the meaty part of your arm. This technique will only work at the corto range and it is a ridged block. This works for forehand and backhand strikes.Distracting - Using your empty hand for distracting is done when you are getting ready to spar. You move your

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fingers like a spider’s legs up by your face to have your opponent focus on this instead of on your weapon hand.Remember that everything I have just described are mental tools. Build up you tool box of skills and learn use all of your tools when you fight.

To answer the third ques-tion of what goes through my mind before I fight is really very simple, is I relax and clear my mind. In order to fight your best you need to get past the point of thinking about the techniques and just do them in flow without thought. Be like water and flow with the fight. I clear my head of all thoughts and approach in calm manner. Do not become angry when you fight as it will cloud your mind. Do not be hungry to get the other guy as you will not be able to feel what your opponent is flowing at you. To answer the fourth ques-tion of what did you learn from your fights goes something like this: I have learned from my losses and my wins, I learn to adapt to each situation and grow from it.

First remember to show up and be ready to fight. Sign up and fight in all of the divisions you can. Some days there is nobody in your division. This means if they offer padded stick, fight in it, if they offer live stick fight in it, if they offer Sayaw compete it, if they of-fer double stick fight in it, if there is knife, fight in it, if they offer team sparring be a part of the team and fight. You will never know where you need work unless you battle test it. Learn what the rules are what pleases the judges for the circuit you are fighting. Ok here is an example when I fought my first River Rumble I lost due to I was hitting with speed but not with power. What I learned I passed on to my son who won a medal. I

learned after that to hit with power and speed together. In 2006 in the Battle for Carson when I fought knife for the first time I did not have anyone to practice so I got kind of beat up. But because I got 1st place in single stick and the rest of the team did well, our team won the team trophy! At the 2007 WEKAF western regional I won because I learned to use my foot-work. I found that I had to move like I did when dancing. I had a Monang tell me if you can dance then you could fight. You have to learn to be graceful and move in and out of the ranges. When I fought at the 2007 Eskrimador’s challenge I won in double stick because I had practiced clash and counters as well as dis-arms.

Tournaments & Awards: - 2008 USFMAF Nationals Men’s 1st Place Form Division - 2008 USFMAF Men’s 1st place Self Defense Division - 2008 USFMAF Nationals 1st Place Men’s Senior Padded Stick Point Sparring Division - 2008 USFMAF Nationals Senior Men’s 1st place Padded Stick Continuous Sparring Division - 2008 USFMAF National Senior Men’s 2nd place Live Stick Point Sparring Division - 2008 USFMAF National Senior Men’s 1st Place Continuous Live Stick Sparring, - 2008 6th Annual Battle for Carson Eskrimadors Challenge 1st Place Men’s Senior Heavy Weight Division - 2008 6th Annual Battle for Carson Eskrimadors Challenge 3rd place Team Sparring Division - 2008 WEKAF Nationals Wild card Team Competition 2nd Place - 2008 WEKAF Nationals-US Team single stick competition 4th Place, US Team Completion - 2007 WEKAF Western Regional 1st Place Men’s Senior Single Stick, 1st Place Men’s Senior Double Stick - 2007 Eskrimadors Challenge 1st Place Men’s Senior Single Stick, 1st Place Men’s Senior Double Stick, 2nd Place Open Knife Division - 2007 International Karate Championship 1st Place Men’s Senior Division -Pacific Fighting Arts Division Single Stick Fight - 2007 Compete 2007 Black Belt Championship 1st Place Men’s Senior Division Single Stick Fighting - 2007 Presidential Fitness Award- Gold - 2006 KA Open International Martial Arts Championship/ LA Sheriff’s Cup-1st Place Men’s Senior Division Single Stick Fighting, 1st Place Men’s Senior Division Knife Fighting, 1st Place Men’s Senior Padded Stick MMA - 2006 Battle for Carson , Eskrimador’s Challenge 1st Place Men’s Senior Single Stick, 2nd Place Open Knife Division - 2006 Presidential Fitness Award- Silver - 2006 Presidential Fitness Awards-Bronze - 2000 Guerrero’s Invitational 2nd Place Men’s Division

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- 2008 Best of the Best Tournament Masters Division Champion - 2008 USFMA Regional Sports Organizer (RSO) of The Year Award - 2009 West Coast Eruption First Place Weapons Forms - 2009 West Coast Eruption Grand Champion Empty Hands Forms - 2009 West Coast Eruption Seeder - Jose Pachaco Dojang 1st place Self Defense Division and 2nd Place Sayaw/forms Division - 2010 West Coast Eruption Seeder Jose Pacheco Dojang Mixed Weapons Sparring Grand Champion - 2010 Angel Cabales/Serrada Legacy Tournament Mixed Weapons Sparring First Place - 2010 UFTC 1st Place Weapons Forms - 2010 UFTC 1st Place Black Belt division Solo Baston - 2010 Kick-Punch Blood & Sweat award for Martial Arts Support - 2010 Mahar Martial Arts TV Show Award for Stick Fighting - 2010 Kick-Punch Award-Top Rated in Weapons by UFTC

Master Marc Lawrence in 2009 received the FMAdigest recognition for his continued efforts and demonstrated abilities as a competitor in Filipino martial arts competition.

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My Travels to the USFMAF Nationals 2008 October 25 - 26, 2008

My older son Michael and I had qualified for the USFMAF Nationals that were to be held in Orlando, Florida. They were to be part of the Disney ® Martial Arts Festival held October 25 - 26, 2008. To get ready for this tourna-ment we had to train seriously a month before. For me, this was

not so much as more as I train in Filipino martial arts four days a week already. My son, Michael had made it on to a travel basket ball team and they were work-ing hard, so I knew his endurance would be fine, we just had to work on his sparring. He and I did a lot of sparring with friends and fam-ily to be ready. Just 1 1/2 weeks before the Nationals, my son had an accident while playing basket ball and injured his right arm. That caused him to have to get a cast! We had purchased our tickets (they were non-transfer-able) and made arrangements to use a timeshare condo from my

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Fighting Arts. We went over and over this for several hours then showed it to Master Darren Tibon, who gave great feed back about slowing it down so the audience could see the moves. Disney had given us four minutes to highlight five separate Filipino Fighting Art systems together. All of us from Pakamut-Torrance and Angels Disciples Serrada got to together with Tuhan Ray Dionaldo, Instructor Rich Verdejo and Instructor Gigie Alunday of FCS to plan what we all were going to do. This was a fun discussion by far. Ok, so about now some of you are giggling at the thought of five separate sys-tems working together to show off their art in front of a large crowd maybe 1500 people with just about every martial culture from around the world demoing their respective arts. Well, with one of the greatest sports facilities in the world with a phenomenal stage and lighting effects, mist and music. We had four minutes on stage in Florida, we put on a great demonstration, with back light Sayaw with blade and candle, with bull whip and blade forms, with combat flow and flow spar. It was a great thing to be a part of and to see what we in the Filipino martial arts could do working together! So Sunday morning rolled around and my son and I had to get ready for the big day. I found out that USFMAF of-fers a handicapped division so my son Michael, with his cast on his right hand, could complete in two divisions, one was Cadenza/ Forms and the other was Padded Stick Point Sparring. Michael had to use his left for forms. You know how your teacher always says “learn to use your left in case

your right gets injured”; well that’s what he had to do. Michael got a gold medal in Junior Handicapped Division. Michael was up first in padded stick point sparring and he still able to take a gold medal in his division. I had entered in six sepa-rate divisions. I had a day’s work ahead of me. My first division was Cadenza/ Forms good thing I like to practice this by myself in the park; I managed to pull a 1st place gold medal with high marks. My

second division was going to be different as it was the Self Defense Division. The rules in USFMAF say you must demonstrate six techniques for this division at two speeds one at slow explaining and the second at real time and mo-tion. Phillip Labatad really came through for me as he volunteered to do this with me and was demon-strating stick grappling and take-downs. True to my teacher meth-ods that he taught me well, I was able to get a 1st place gold medal for this division. I knew the spar-ring was going to be work. I was going to fight style I have never fought before. My first was padded stick point division, this is from a blade perspective, and it works on first contact strike get the point unless they clash. It goes for three minutes or first one to seven points

timeshare association for place to stay. I told my son he could still go if he went as my corner man and coach for the Nationals. That was the only way my wife would agree for him to go. When we flew in we came a day early so we could adjust to the time difference, it was a longer flight over to Florida than to Hawaii to the big island to see family. It was rainy and humid when we got there, kind of like Hawaii. When we got in and settled I called Darren Tibon the President of the USFMAF to let him know we were there as we were to be in the Saturday night Showcase as well as be volunteers for judging and helping with the tournament. Due to Michael’s hand being in a cast, I had to make arrangements to have someone else become my partner in the flow my son and I had developed. The flow was developed as way of honoring my teacher, Felix Roiles the Grandmaster of Paka-mut International. The flow we were to show would show largo, media and corto single stick fight-ing, corto knife fighting and hand to hand fighting. Darren Tibon had a member of his school, Phillip Labatad that had volunteered to work with me to learn the flow on Saturday. Saturday morning we met up with folks from USFMAF at the front gates of the Disney ® Wide World of ® Sports Complex. We did our registration and met up with our friends. We also saw some other friends that were there from California, Rich Verdejo and Gigie Alunday of FCS were there for the FSC blade competition. So I got with Phillip and we started working on it together. Phillip was great to work with as he was get-ting a crash course in the Pakamut

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with a reset after each point scored. I had practiced this plenty with my students and friend in the park and at my club. I did well getting a 1st place gold medal in this division. My next division was padded stick continuous sparring. This is very different with then a WEKAF tour-nament that you must show 50 % defense, the whole body is a legal target, only the disarms that counts if someone takes the stick away, not dropped and thrusting to the

body is legal. So now you really have to be a high level in your game with good live/check-ing hand clash and counter and use of foot work to distance. The fights went well for me and I was able

to get another 1st place gold medal in this division. In the live stick point was new to me and I did not practice this so it was tougher for me to pull out good scoring, I did well with a loss to my new friend Phillip Labatad who got the 1st place gold and I got a 2nd place silver. My last fighting division was live stick continuous. I did well with corner support from the MDT Lameco Martial Arts people.

Master Lawrence, Master Tibon and Philip Labatad after live stick point sparring

They cooled my neck, gave me water between the rounds, my son gave me coaching points he was seeing on how I was fighting. I feel this combination really helped. I was able to get a 1st place gold medal in this division. My son and I had great time at the USFMAF Nationals. I liked the USFMAF method of sparring more than WEKAF. You start out apart at the far ends of the ring. The judges are trained and certified by the associa-tion after attending a workshop. The judges are taught, it is about honesty and integrity and the right person wins always! This is the way Filipino martial arts matches should be. We a re looking forward to next year at Disney Anaheim 2009 and the USFMAF Eskrima-dor’s World Tournament in Long Beach August of 2009. Hopefully I can see you next year at the USF-MAF tournaments’!

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News-Shugyokan and Pakamut-TorranceMixed Weapons Martial Arts Challenges

November 30, 2008

Gardena, California - November 30th 2008. The Okinawan Karate Kobudo Doukoukai and in con-junction with the Pakamut Fili-pino Martial Arts debuted the first MWA (Mixed Weapons Arts) get together at the Shugyokan Shorin Ryu Dojo Hombu Dojo. The joint training com-prised of Okinawan Kobudo vs. Pilipino Weapons sparring. The Okinawan stylist used tonfa and the rokushakubo against the Pili-pino’s baston (sticks) and knife. The training allowed each stylist to test their ability of handling their particular weapons in an open combat arena. According to the Shugyo-kan Dojo Deshi’s David Acosta “I always look for ways to explore a variety of martial arts. I have found that each one has something to offer and makes my overall fighting skills better. Philippine stick fighting is one of the hard-est things I have tried and this method throws you right into it. I can see practical applications of this fighting in many other forms.

If you want to push your limits, this is definitely worth trying”. The weapons used in this ‘mock” combat are pad-ded. “It feels like being smack with a sofa cushion” ac-cording to Prince Loeffler, who fought using the tonfa against Guro Marc Lawrence of the Pilipino Pakamut Fighting Art. Guro Lawrence believes that “As a fighter I am always willing to try my skills against other styles of fighting. This al-lows me to grow in ways that otherwise I could not. Sparring in mixed weapons-mixed system re-ally makes my skills to be pushed in positive way. I feel that if you are truly serous about learning to fight than this is path you must take.” The Shugyokan Dojo and the

Pakamut-Torrance has decided to name this joint program as Mixed Weapons Art or MWA for short. The MWA Challenge will now hold this fun event every last Sun-days of each month beginning at 10:00 am till 11:30 am. This concept came out of the USFMAF Cultural Chal-lenge that will be held April 2009 and August 2009 at the USFMAF Tournaments. The USFMAF-Es-krimador’s World Tournament will feature USFMAF and Chanbara meeting on the mat for the first time. It will be an open padded weapons division.

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South Bay Filipino Martial Arts Club Adventures at Long Beach International August 7-9, 2009

On August 7-9, 2009 was an amazing weekend for Filipino Martial Arts here in South Califor-nia. The USFMAF (United States Filipino Martial Arts Federation) in Brotherhood with Eskrimadors Accademy had two tournaments together side by side. The form competition was held with joint judging by the two groups. Every-body went to the Long Beach Inter-national for the variety of fighting styles and systems. There were two FMA tournaments held as part of giant martial arts event in a World Class facility-the Long Beach Con-vention Center. With Masters of many arts doing seminar upstairs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday while tournaments were happening downstairs. On Saturday in one ring was the USFMAF with all seven of its divisions and in the next ring was Eskrimadors Accademy with WEKAF style it’s single and dou-ble stick divisions. The action was great; fighters could fight either circuit or both. The WEKAF style fighting happen on Saturday only with the USFMAF happening on Saturday and Sunday. There were some great fights that happened that I watched as well as coaching my fighters from our club. This was for many of my fighters their second tournament ever. For some it was their first one!

I have never seen more near knock-outs and with pad-ded weapons, no less!!!! Those new padded sticks by Action Flex Century were really great. Some other team’s fighters got hit hard and dropped to one knee and got up shaky. Live-stick was just fierce with some hard core battling hap-ping. My guys really could hit. They were fighting with standard rattan sticks with the skin on not the kiln dried ones. The Cultural Challenge was really something with strikes from padded weapons so had that they broke shields wood and the fancy foam-rubber types too. I saw some of the non-FMA helmets crack and faces masked dented in. It really pays to have good equipment. I was really glad we use quality equipment. Sundays afternoon wrapped up with great action happening with knife with kick and punch. My fighters were really holding their own against other systems and arts that came to play. We took 1st and second place in the division. There were venders (FMA included) there of all kinds of Martial Arts equipment. While all of this action was happening, the House of Champions in Van Nuys was hosting the 90th birthday party and seminar for SGM Ca-coy Canete, and on Saturday was

FCS’s Seminar and tournament at the park in Eagle Rock. Because so much was happening many groups sent people to as many as they could. Our club’s brother group from Lake Elsinor, Pakamut -Riverside area Guro Jason Stanley went to the FCS and fought hard bring back the gold. Our Grand Master Felix Roiles was able to go on Saturday and support the FCS event with a seminar and on Sun-day the USFMAF event with the same. I felt like kid in candy store with so much FMA happening at once. Our Club was glad to at Long Beach were history was made with a FMA Open World tournament. It was the weekend not to stay home but to get out play in FMA.

Long Beach internationals 2009 Mat-thew and Gil winnings

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Long Beach International 2009 L-R: Boris, Jason, Donavan, Jenifer, Milo, Eric, Marc Mike Merrill, Gilbert and Matthew

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Workshop USFMAF at the schoolUSFMAF and South Bay FMA Club Judging and Referee Workshop

July 19, 2009

On July 19, 2009 the South Bay Filipino Martial Arts Club, Gardena, CA, sponsored a USFMAF judging and referee workshop for the upcoming Open World Tournament, It was held at the Long Beach International on August 7 - 9, 2009. The clinic was well attended by folks, we had 26 people come and participate. We were planning for maximum of 25! We could not fit any more people in the place. We had all chairs filled and folk in the back and sit-ting on the floor. It was the biggest event that our little school has ever had there. This event was supported

by other FMA schools beside ours, and they were Professor Jesse Dancel’s Dalan Ilokano FMA- Banning, Master Mario Gajo’s Gajo Martial Arts - San Diego, Khalid Khan’s Filipino Eskrima-Hollywood, and Punong Guro Darren Tibon’s Angels Disciples- Stockton came and supported the event. We showed all of the divi-sions that USFMAF has to offer with the exception of Double stick. We performed padded stick point, padded continuous stick, live stick point, live stick continuous, Cham-bara/Cultural challenge-AKA mixed weapons sparring, and knife fighting-with kick and punch.

My younger son Matthew and my Gilbert nephew were real troopers and supported by fighting in four different divisions just to show people how each was done. All of my club’s fighters worked really hard and show each of dif-ferent divisions. It was great watch Milo Cudanes and Eric Fodran in the mixed weapon sparring with Eric using a shield and short sword and Milo with Katana. I have to thank all of my students and family who came and worked so hard in the setup, running the event and the cleaning up of the event afterward.

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Stick Grappling Workshop November 15, 2009 The stick grappling workshop was an experience to remember. Held with few practitioners due to limited space, and unfortunate absence of Master Instructor Ronald Manrique due to the flu was unfortunate. Master Marc Lawrence did a fantastic job in hosting this workshop. All prac-titioners got a real taste of stick grappling from Punong Guro Dowd and Grandmas-ter Roiles. With limited participants this afforded the opportunity for a lot of one-on-one training.

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South Bay FMA Club Workshop March 21, 2010 This was an event of Friendship in the Filipino martial arts. Guro Roger Agbulos, Adam James and Punong Guro Steven Dowd were the instructors. Now due to the size of the School which Master Lawrence uses to teach only 15 to 16 people can work out comfortably, and it ended up there was 18, so it was a little tight but no problem. Charged to attend the event was a very minimal amount to cover gas for the instructors and food for a light lunch, (which was very good). This was a get together of friends sharing their knowledge and just to have a great time.

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Group shot of those who taught the first half of the Legacy Tournament for Elmer Bais, Master Frank Rillamas, Guro Jeff Finder, Grandmaster Alex France, Master Marc Lawrence.

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The Del Mar’s visit to SBFMA Club 2010

Leo Fong and Adam James Workshop October 30, 2010

Other Workshops at SBFMA

All Styles Workshop at Shugyokan Dojo

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SBFMA club visits Guru Ed Martins Kali-Silat group’s workshop 2010

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Community

18th Annual Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture SBFMA Club at the FPAC Festival September 12-13, 2009

Our Barangay, the South Bay Filipino Martial Arts club went and supported the FPAC festival on Sunday, September 13th. This year we did something that we only talked about before, we had illustrated kid books that had basic Arnis inside with Kid Hero story. (This booklet was project of my collection of stories and the great illustrations by Le Roid David of Kid Hero’s and Lumpia film) We also offered to hold free 45 minute class for the kids and parents who came to out the Martial Arts village at the FPAC festival. One of our groups donated the cost of the sticks for the kids so the first 20 kids got a free rattan stick for coming to the class. Our group had planned to do a demo at the village, but the director of the Martial Arts Section felt that because we were shar-ing with the community we could have some stage time. On short notice we were told that we would have stage time on the big stage! With like five minutes to spar one of the stage crew came on got our group and took us to the big stage. Within 10 minutes we were up on stage filling a 20 minute time slot. I had my little kids come our spar on stage using padded sticks. Then I had one of my women student come up and perform a traditional Sayaw. Next was my bigger kids sparring each other. Then my older son and I show combat flow showing single stick, knife and empty hands flowing from one to another. Then I had three of

my adult male students come out on stage and show what we call empty hands, three on one self de-fense. This is empty hands demo one Arnisador verses three armed opponents, one having a baseball bat, one with stick/club, and one with a knife. My students were really great about this getting take disarmed and taken down by their own weapons. We finished with my favorite demo my older son and myself showing bolo verses stick. This done with live steel and regular rattan stick. Afterwards we bowed and told a little bit about our group. We made it back with just 15 minutes to spare before our kids class started. I thought maybe we would get 10-15 kids at the Martial Arts Village; we were mobbed by the kids and parents. We had 25 kids and 25 sticks and I had to maintain a 5-1 ratio for

safety. We had the kids hit a BOB that we brought. We lined them up and showed them the five basic strikes. We showed them basic foot work. We used Cinco Terros and that was something that everyone knew and was not specific to any one style. It was the best generic Filipino martial arts we could show. Then after the kids were done hitting BOB we had them start learning to block. All of the kids and the volunteer instructor had fun. I love watch all the kids leave with their parents with a stick in one hand and small kids book on basic Filipino martial arts in the other. I was happy that we could share some of our heritage to the kids. I had a Lolo come up to and thank me latter and said that I had created 25 new Eskrimadors. I felt very happy that our group was able contribute to do this event.

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Teaching Military Philippine Scouts group at Old fort MacArthur days

2010 Filipino History Month Demonstration-Breaking of Boards

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Recognition

Masters Promotion Dinner 2007

Supporting Coach Kidd D Jason Weapons 2009

FMAdigest Writer of the Year 2010 Download

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Masters Hall of Fame 2010

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USFMAF President Darren Tibon and Master Marc Lawrence showing Hall of Fame Rings

Marc Lawrence accepts 2010 Masters Hall Of Fame Awardfrom The Accademy of Masters

Marc Lawrence was presented a lifetime achievement award by Masters Hall Of Fame, Filipino Martial Arts Ambassador Darren Tibon. Marc Lawrence a Master and Punong Guro (Head Instructor) of South Bay Filipino Martial Arts Club received the Lifetime Achievement Award for the continual support and propagation of the Filipino Martial Arts regard-less of the style. Some of his achievements include writing books and articles on the subject of FMA, developing and publishing a kid’s book to introduce children to FMA, resurrecting the lost art of the making of FMA weapons and training aids with local materials and teaching these methods, develop-ing a community outreach program hosting and teaching free classes to the public, establishing a Filipino Martial Arts Community Center in the North Torrance-South Gardena Community and developed his own style called Modified Pangamut. Master Lawrence and his students have appeared and demonstrated FMA on the Kidd D. Jason Martial Arts show. He and his students have supported FMA tournaments, events and schools through-out California over the years. He continues in his tireless support of FMA schools and teachers in the support of the arts.

Coach Kidd D. Jason and Master Marc Lawrence showing awards at the 2010 Hall of Fame

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Boris Fritz, Eric Lee and I at Best of the Best Tournament 2006

Master Erwin and the boys Backyard training

2008 Best of the Best Masters Division

Da’ Local Boys Garage Training in Lawndale

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Old Pakamut LB Vets Park crew

Michael and I at USFMAF Nationals in Florida

Long Beach Internationals 2010

UFTC Awards Dinner 2010

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Notable Accomplishments

Home Made Training Equipment and Conditioning Marc Lawrence shares his homemade backyard training gear. And he does it all from baston practice, hand and foot training gear and also makes his own inex-pensive weapons just to practice with. With a bit of island ingenuity, a practitioner of Filipino martial arts can con-struct their own studio with quality training aids and weapons. A basic studio can be set up in garage, backyard or other location. I have one constructed in my backyard, another at work in a storage area. The focus of this article is for Filipino martial arts practitioner to be able set up anywhere and be able to practice their art with locally available tools and equipment. I will brake down this into three areas, these being first striking aids, second are striking and cutting weapons and third is projectile weapons.

The Adventures of “Mesteso Matt” the Littlest Eskrimador By Marc Lawrence © January 2008 Illustrations by LeRoid David

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Philippine Weaponry Marc Lawrence has put together a very good list and has added some com-ments about weapons that are known and used in the Philippines. This project was started as an answer to question by one of my students and my son who asked a simple question, “Is there a book on Filipino weapons from A to Z that I could read”? My house like every other Fil-Am house has a Weapons of Moroland or Weapons of the Philippines plaque in it. I went looking for some books but the closest I could find was a book from 1920 by an archeologist. I found it very dull and dry. I have collected a large amount of information from many sources on the weapons of the Philippines. I wish to share with you.

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If you are interested in learning more about us, come and visit our club at a class. For more information about Master Marc Lawrence and the Modified Pangamut System, please visit: Website: www.southbayfmaclub.com Email: sbfmaclub@gmail.com Phone: (310) 961-1266 Club location: 15205 Crenshaw, Gardena, Ca. 90249

Mondays (Youth Class) 7:00pm - 8:00 pm Wednesdays (Adult night class) 6:00pm - 7:00pm Saturdays (Open Class) 8:00am - 9:00am.

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