Filipino Martial Arts

Edged and Impact Weapons

We train for both the application and defense of edged and impact weapons. Our philosophy is if you can protect yourself against a knife you can also survive and empty hands attack. The reverse is not true.

Proactive Mindset

Rather than thinking in terms of defense, we prefer to think of offense and counter-offense. This simply means we want to be proactive in our approach to keep our attackers off-balance, and adjusting to us.

Unarmed Skills

Our system addresses striking, takedowns, and groundfighting. These skills are always trained to be effective and assume although you may not be armed, your attacker probably will be.

Relevent Today

The nature of warfare and violent crime involves weaponry. This will never change. Though there is a long history and tradition in the Filipino Martial Arts, the skills are modern and applicable today.

Background

When Conrado Tortal taught his grandson, he said, "Use this to protect our land." Now it is being used to protect the entire Philippines.
Pekiti Tirsia Kali was founded by Conrado Tortal and his brothers in the central Philippines. The art was passed to Leo T. Gaje. Jr., who brought it to the world.

Pekiti Tirsia Kali is now used by the police and military of the Philippines, including the Force Recon Marines who regularly fight local Al Queda terrorists to keep their homeland safe.

Pekiti Tirsia Kali

Pekiti Tirsia Kali is our system of Filipino Martial Arts, which rose from a history of guerrilla fighting and the survival of not just individuals, but a culture.
Once occupied by Spanish invaders, the indigenous Filipino culture was in danger of being stamped out. A clandestine development of fighting methods, known as Kali, eventually contributed to the freedom of the Filipinos and a preservation of the Filipino culture. Pekiti Tirsia Kali is a true Filipino fighting system that focuses on edged and impact weapons including single and double stick, knife, long blade as well as empty hands. It is both traditional and modern in application. In Pekiti Tirsia you will learn how to use weapons, and you will learn how to defend against them. Pekiti Tirsia is the official system for the Philippine Marine Corps and a number of crisis response, presidential security and other law enforcement groups in the Philippines. Our Pekiti Tirsia program is made available thanks to our instructors Mataas na Guro Erwin Ballarta, Mandala Rommel Tortal and especially Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje, Jr.

Dumog Pangamut, known as Dumpag for short, is a subsystem of Pekiti Tirsia Kali. Dumpag is a combination of the empty hands strikes and techniques consistent with the weapon motions and tactics of Kali as well as takedowns, locks, breaks and what Grand Tuhon Gaje calls muscle, tendon destruction. This class is a part of the Filipino Martial Arts Program.

Last Updated on Friday, 22 July 2011 11:23