The Modern Arnis Six Count Drill
The 6 Count drill is one of the staple Modern Arnis drills. From our perspective, the most fundamental skill this drill teaches is check hand usage. It is often taught at Modern Arnis seminars worldwide. Before you learn this drill, you must learn the basic…
2008 Toronto FMA Workshop
Kudos to Mike Cooper for a great job in putting this together! I enjoyed the 2008 Filipino Martial Arts Workshop, which was very well organized by Mike Cooper and featured myself, Sean Tyler of FCS, and Punong Guro Rudy Cosico of Arnis Canada. I kicked…
Paul Vunak and Filipino Martial Arts
In the April 2008 edition of Black Belt magazine, there is an article on Paul Vunak and the topic of “Defanging the Snake.” This interview with Vunak was done in an interview format and one section piqued my interest: “Black Belt: Why should martial artists…
Modern Arnis-What it is and it isn’t
First and foremost, Grandmaster Remy A. Presas designed Modern Arnis as a self-defence system. While Modern Arnis and many Filipino Martial Arts (referred to as FMAs) have origins in bladed weapons usage, Professor Presas preferred not to teach the bladed aspect of the art. Over…
