History of Arnis

(Modern Arnis)

Objective:

At the end of the lesson, you are expected to identify the Modern Arnis history and its origin, appreciate the importance of Arnis as a Philippine National Game/Sport and create a reflection about the Modern Arnis history and its origin using Microsoft Word.

Introduction

The Philippines' official national sport and martial art is arnis. It also goes by the names "Kali" and "Eskrima." These two words are used to refer to the Filipino martial art, which concentrates on weapon-based combat using knives, sticks, bladed weapons, and occasionally other improvised weapons (Filipino Martial Arts, or "FMA").

History

Modern Arnis is the system of Filipino fighting arts founded by Remy Presas as a self-defense system. His goal was to create an injury-free training method as well as an effective self-defense system in order to preserve the older Arnis systems. The term Modern Arnis was used by Remy Presas' younger brother Ernesto Presas to describe his style of Filipino martial arts; since 1999 Ernesto Presas has called his system Kombatan. It is derived principally from the traditional Presas family style of the Bolo (machete) and the stick-dueling art of Balintawak Eskrima, with influences from other Filipino and Japanese martial arts.

Arnis is the Philippines' national martial art and sport, after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed the Republic Act. No. 9850 in 2009. RA 9850 is a consolidation of House Bill No. 6516 authored by South Cotabato Rep. Arthur Pingoy Jr., and Senate Bill No. 1424 authored by Majority leader Juan Miguel Zubiri with the help of Richard Gialogo. RA 9850 is expected to help propagate arnis as a modern martial art/sport that can compete with popular non-Filipino arts, i.e. taekwondo, karate and judo. The Act mandates the Department of Education to include the sport as a Physical Education course.

Origin of the name: ARNIS

The word Arnis got originated from the old Spanish term, arnés, meant “armor”and Eskrima is a Filipinization of the Spanish word, esgrima for fencing. Whereas the name ‘Kali’ was derived from the pre-Hispanic Filipano term ‘Kalis’ which meant Blades and Fencing.

Practitioners of the sport are called “arnisador” for male and “arnisadora” for female in Arnis and “eskrimador” for male and “eskrimadora” for female in the Eskrima and Kali Art.

Moreover, all the three, Arnis, Eskrima and Kali belong to the same family of Filipino weapon-based martial arts and fighting systems.

It was declared as the Philippines’ National sport and martial art on 11 December 2009. The first national organization for Arnis is the National Arnis Association of the Philippines (NARAPHIL) which was founded in 1975 by Gen. Fabian C. Ver.

However, its existence faded post the Philippine Revolution in 1986. The two major types of Arnis practiced as sports are the system followed by WEKAF (World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation) which was established in 1989, and is recognized internationally; and the other system followed by Arnis Philippines (ARPI), established in 1986, which was used prominently during the 2005 Southeast Asian Games.

Question

Who is the founder of Modern Arnis?
Why do we need to know and learn Modern Arnis?
What are the benefits of modern arnis on our day to day basis?

Topic: History of Arnis and its origin

Reference: https://sportsmatik.com/sports-corner/sports-know-how/arnis/about

Material: Short video presentation and word presentation

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