CARABAO FMA !!! Some parts of our Nickelstick Balintawak Eskrima training.

 ...meet the Carabaos...

...Palakaw, ''the playing''...

The Agak is leading the attack, and the defender has to respond.

The speed and intensity will be adjusted to students level or to the purpose of the exercise. It is neither ''real attack'', nor ''coreography''.

Offense - Defense

understanding and mixing some of the 'tools' in the curriculum 

(from begginer to advanced)

semi-hitting, disarm, body stance, full power strikes...

Semi-Hitting
...in this exercise the defender will concentrate on hitting the attackers hand that holds the weapon

Multiple Hitting
applying multiple hits as a more effective defense
- the attacker is delivering a higher level of pressure and speed,
(this is why protection gear is highly recomended)

Trapping and Countering
trapping - applying locks with use of stick
counters - each technique or movement has at least one counter that can be used to block or evade it... each counter becomes a technique or movement, that also be blocked or evaded...

CARABAO FMA is a Filipino Martial Arts (Kali Arnis Eskrima) club in the city of Grenoble, 38, France. We are currently training the Balintawak style curiculum of World Eskrima Club from Cebu City, Phillipines, as a part of their French representative Blade Eskrima.  Get in touch if you want to train with us or want to know more about our style of Filipino Martial Arts.

CONTACT US at

carabaofma@gmail.com

World Nickelstick Eskrima club was established on the 27th of April 2003 .The term "WORLD" is used because the Nickelstick Eskrima Club is represented by instructors from the Philippines, England, United States, and Europe. It is also our hope that we propagate Balintawak Eskrima to the rest of the World.  “NICKEL” is from Nick ELizar's name. “STICK” signifies the single stick style of Balintawak, while “ESKRIMA” represents the filipinized Spanish word which Filipinos have come to name their martial arts, a term that comes from the Spanish esgrima, loosely defined as "the art of fencing". We also use Balintawak style, originated from the Cebu club headed by the late Grandmaster Teofilo Velez, the late Grandmaster Atty. Jose Villasin and the late Great Grandmaster Venancio Bacon. GGM Nick Elizar learned and mastered Balintawak Eskrima from the original school. It is also from this club, in which Grandmaster Nick Elizar headed the white chapter of Teovels Balintawak Group, that the World Nickelstick Eskrima Club was born.

Blade Eskrima is the club of GM Pascal Wasson and M Fabienne Andre, coordinator and one of the representatives for World Nickelstick Eskrima Club in France.

History: GM Nick Elizar and Nickelstick Balintawak Eskrima

After more than 20 years of faithfully representing Teovel’s Balintawak Group, under the White Chapter, Nick Elizar finally decided to establish his own club. In April, 2003 the World Nickel Stick Eskrima Club was established in Cebu City, Philippines. Although under a new name, the teaching methods that Nick Elizar uses are still very much the same training methods employed by Jose Villasin and Teofilo Velez. Nick Elizar has been teaching Balintawak since the 1970s. He is known as both a fighter and a good teacher. Nick Elizar has garnered respect from various eskrimadors in Cebu and throughout the Philippines. His establishment of the World Nickel Stick Eskrima Club has since been supported by many, friends and eskrimadors alike. It is the intention of Nick Elizar to continue to propagate the art of Balintawak in the Philippines and also to the rest of the World.

Philosophy and Training Methodology

Balintawak Methodology, by GM Nick Elizar 

 

Balintawak is defense oriented. We assume automatically that our opponents are skilled. Because of this, skills in defense are first perfected. Once timing and speed in defense are fully developed, progress in the offense is automatic. When both defense and offensive skills become flawless, fluidity in movement is achieved. It is here that one’s skill as a eskrimador becomes true. This is the essence of Balintawak.

Balintawak History

(wikipedia)

History 

 

In 1932, the Doce Pares Club was formed, composed of eskrimadors from the Saavedra and the Cañete family. This was headed by Lorenzo Saavedra. Venancio Bacon was among the first members of the Doce Pares Club and became one of its best fighters. According to an interview in Bladed Hand, a Filipino documentary about Filipino martial arts, Grandmaster Ciriaco "Cacoy" Cañete said that Bacon was among the best fighters in the Doce Pares Club, second only to "Doring" Saavedra.

Bacon eventually left the Doce Pares Club, citing skepticism of the system's combat effectiveness. Per information provided by T. Buot, the reason why V. Bacon did not rejoin the Doces Pares group as he felt that his alone vote would not have any weight against the Canete family. In the 1950s, together with Delfin López Timoteo Maranga and others, Bacon established a new club, calling it the Balintawak Street Self-Defense Club. The newly formed club started training in the backyard of a watch shop owned by Eduardo Baculi, one of Bacon’s students, in the titular street, a small side street in the Colon St. area.

Anciong Bacon, the Grand Master of Balintawak Arnis Eskrima

Here below is wome reading on the life and work of he who was
Grand Master Anciong Bacon:

Watch MISSION BALINTAWAK short Documentary

Watch Mission Balintawak documentary featuring GM Nick Elizar and GM Bobby Taboada..

''A small documentary about the last meeting of legendary Grandmasters Balintawak Arnis Eskrima Bobby Taboada and Nick Nicomedes Elizar in their homeland in Cebu,Philippines during November 2014! A short video, but very important memories of that time! Thanks a lot, Igor Kholkin for making this nice video!''