My thought, much like Jigoro Kano’s thought (he used swim-rankings as inspiration for why he introduced ranks into his system), is that students at different levels need similar training partners and groups in order to focus their attention properly.
Read MoreWhat truly matters is who you are, what you believe, and how good you are at your craft. Because, you see, when you take your belt off at the end of the day, we’re all just White Belts anyways…
Read MoreSo, forget the infinite spectrum — the spectrum will come through your own self expression — just learn to master the basics and you will come to realize that what you thought was complicated, is actually quite simple when fully understood.
Read MoreThough the style has flourished within the educational system of today's contemporary Philippines, many practitioners of the original art of Arnis have derived their own expressions of the style — from Balintawak, to Tapi Tapi, to Doce Pares — though made most-popular, combatively, by the Cañete family in Cebu.
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