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International Modern Arnis Federation
Hong Kong
Chairman:
Guro Abner Anievas
 About IMAF
International Modern Arnis Federation Hong Kong was formally
established last August 05 in Fanling Hong Kong. IMAF Hong Kong’s
goal is to promote Filipino Culture, its heritage, sports and
history. One of IMAF HK contribution is the
preservation and development of the art is to continuously and
selflessly teach the art.
Modern Arnis is very adaptive, pragmatic and are equally based
in weapons and empty hands skills. An
ancient arts primarily practice for self-defense designed to be
simple and easy to learn style of martial arts.
It is a complete martial art system, encompassing weapons
training and empty-hand self-defense.
Modern Arnis is an eclectic (made up from elements from various
sources) style. There are empty hand forms,
stick forms, Filipino Jujutsu, grappling, kicking, Sinawali
boxing, stick and dagger, knife, double stick, single stick,
anti-stick grappling, as well as combinations of all the parts
mentioned
Modern Arnis was devised to be a complete system, integrating
the cultural connection of the Filipino arts and the ability to
adapt and make your foudation art more functional for
self-defense. Modern Arnis has the
functional value of traditional Filipino concepts Abaniko
(fanning of the stick), Palis-Palis (passing of engery), Benda y
Benda (horizontal slashing or striking), Rompida (diagonal
slashing or stiking), Sungkite (thrusting), and other principles
extracted form the stick work, offering a great deal of
adaptable translation and flow based qualities.
All these concepts are interactive depending if the
intent is to strike, lock, throw, control, disarm, slash, stab,
attack, or disengage.
 IMAF-HK will provide leadership, growth, and comprehensive
mental and physical training in the Remy Presas Modern Arnis
system in its entirety. The IMAF-HK member
arnisador will learn to embrace and apply the Way of the FLOW in
life. Ultimately the Modern Arnis practitioner will learn (1)
self-discovery and self-control, (2) achieve personal
excellence, and (3) gain self-mastery. In
the face of life’s daily uncertainties, challenges and
opportunities.
The IMAF HK commits to higher goals: to enable the art to serve
the Filipino people, to spread the art to foreign land,
contribute development progress and above all the pride of
Filipino people.
About Arnis
The History of the Philippines is a long one, with records
stretching back to as far as 900 AD The fighting arts of the
Philippines, like in many other places, were influenced by many
different cultures and migrants. Regarding the spreading and
propagation of Arnis in the Philippines is that ten Bornean
datus (sometimes nine) fled here and settled in various parts of
the Philippines. They brought with them their fighting systems
and taught these along with other arts in the academies called
the bothoan.
The first known
Philippino hero, Lapulapu, was believed to be one of the
foremost masters of arnis, which was known during that time in
the native dialect as pangamut. In fact, Lapulapu had vigorously
trained and prepaired his men for "Showdown" fights against his
enemies long before his historic battle with Ferdinand Magellan
on April 27, 1521, in Mactan Island. It was no surprise then,
that when the first circumnavigator of the world tried to subdue
the recalcitrant Lapulapu, who refused to come and meet him in
Cebu, Magellan and his men were met not with a hail of bullets
but with wooden instruments, spears, and bolos. It was ironic
that when the smoke of that epic battle cleared, the Spanish
conquistadors more "modern" weapons were no match for the crude
wooden arms of Lapulapu and his warriors. Magellan lost his life
in that battle.
When Miguel Lopez de
Legaspi landed in the Philippines and established the first
settlement in 1565, he and his men noted that the Filipinos were
a class by themselves in the art of stickfighting and blade or
swordfighting. He had his first glimpse of the natives
exceptional skill and ability during his landing in Leyte in
1564 when he was entertained with an Arnis demonstration by the
warriors of Chieftain Malitik. Similar demonstrations were made
upon visits in Limasawa, Camiguin, Cebu and other places.
International Modern Arnis
Federation
Hong Kong
E-mails:
Homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/imaf_hongkong
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