Filipino here too. Most marketing on home grown martial art all went to Arnis/Kali as it's part of the high school PE education system. Sikaran is obscure because it's something you genuinely have to seek out than being readily available
Sikaran is a Filipino game among farmers in the towns in Rizal Province at the start of the 1900s, particularly in Baras, Rizal. In its original form, it's just people kicking each other inside a circle until one is just left as the winner. No use of hands allowed, hence the name Sikaran, which means "kicking each other." In the late '60s or early '70s, a policeman and karateka named Meliton Geronimo mixed karate forms with kicking styles of Sikaran and formed a school / club with it. Later years, the introduction of taekwondo and other martial arts led to what it is now. Filipino here, living in Marikina City where a Sikaran club exists. They look more like taekwondo now than its original form. But frankly, in its original form, Sikaran would not survive. So it needs to be integrated or mixed with other arts to still be known, just like how Korea's taekyon evolved into taekwondo.
ive been recently reading a historical book on Filipino martial arts. and, from what it said, sikaran was originally a game played in the rural parts of the Philippines. It eventually evolved into a fighting style when needed for war and street fights. they primarily use kicks using the balls of the feet or the heel. and practice on precise target aiming. the man who developed the style was name meliton geronimo.
Sikaran is a Filipino game among farmers in the towns in Rizal Province at the start of the 1900s, particularly in Baras, Rizal. In its original form, it's just people kicking each other inside a circle until one is just left as the winner. No use of hands allowed, hence the name Sikaran, which means "kicking each other." In the late '60s or early '70s, a policeman and karateka named Meliton Geronimo mixed karate forms with kicking styles of Sikaran and formed a school / club with it. He proved its effectiveness using it in karate tournaments and being part of a karate team that competed abroad. Later years, the introduction of taekwondo and other martial arts led to what it is now. Filipino here, living in Marikina City where a Sikaran club exists. They look more like taekwondo now than its original form. But frankly, in its original form, Sikaran would not survive. So it needs to be integrated or mixed with other arts to still be known, just like how Korea's taekyon evolved into taekwondo.
I think every Karateka should focus on the power of the kick, the technique is important for point tournaments, Now in a real fight it's about destructive power.
You know that Don Wilson says that having that sharp crisp technique and speed from point fighting can have a advantage in a full contact context. It's all a matter of adapting them to those competitions and I guess self-defence situations. They all have their usefulness. I mean... you do realized a majority of old school american kickboxers came from that, right?
It appears that the Sikaran practitioners stay closer to the earth when they spar. Not as bouncy... There's only so many ways to kick someone, but I think they care more about keeping their balance... Which makes a certain kind of sense right, especially it being Filipino/South-East Asian. I think about Silat and it's emphasis on remaining upright and not falling off the bridge, says Maul Mornie. (side note) Shuai Jiao shares that as well.
Side_side note... Tiger style is okay with being on the ground. Monkey loves the ground. Monkey doesn't care, Monkey will fight you upside down🐒... Leopard/panther will have planned it out. It wants to be able to apply its techniques in every way shape & form. Mantis doesn't want to fall over. Eagle doesn't wanna fall over. For crane, falling is ☠️ while Snake is an Accomplished ground fighter... Shuai Jiao wants to stay standing.. TKD wants to stay standing.. Jiujitsu obviously wants to bring you down to home turf..
When i studied Kali in the 90s, we'd also drill Sikaran kicks along with working with sticks. Low, medium, high levels targets. And I seen Guro Sean connect with Sikaran side, and spin kicks!
You should also look up yaw-yan, it's a hybrid martial arts, originated also here in my country, Philippines. Totally did not originated from karate, that's what I assumed. Just like muay boran(thai), they had to defend themselves(from invaders) and find a way how to. That's how martial arts works, similar style but totally originator.
There are more than one Sikaran,this one is based on Karate or TKD,the trappings,the teaching,it cannot be denied. Still,i like their sparring,arms only to block and trap,and only kicks to strike. The old true sikaran,is the kicking present in old FMA, it also comes from a tradition of leg wrestling i cannot find the name of. It is very peculiar looking,almost look like standing leg grappling th-cam.com/video/ELWEjSFWGRA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9yNx6HTRGJtJjjoO Sometimes they call it Pananjakman,the art of low line kicking,but most FMA are low line type,most use Sikaran,but some regions are specialised in it. The Sikaran you have shown is one of these regional styles,that decided to expand. Their signature kick is the Biakid,a type of spinning back kick,cannot find the difference. I love style vs style,it almost feel like a scientific experiment.
The stances and habits of the smaller guy in the vid feel a bit like Silat. If it's Visayan, then this was almost certainly influenced by the styles of our neighbors during the time of the Sultanate of Sulu
I don't know sikaran, but as i see, their kicks look mechanichally very similar to taekwondo and savate. Just in case you don't know jerry, savate kicks (which you have said they were amazing) are actually mechanically the same as taekwondo kicks. And no, karate kicks didn't come from savate if that's what you are wondering.
Jesse Enkamp made a video about it. Looks like that the front kick comes from kungfu, while all the other kicks come from savate. The first picture of a mawashigeri (roundhouse kick) shown Funakoshi son performing it. Most of those sikaran kicks are TKD style, not savate in my opinion, because savate uses a different way and approach to kick.
@@FightCommentary yes, it was jesse enkamp, but he's actually wrong, if you look at old school shotokan karate kicks they look completely different from savate kicks, simply beacuse funakoshi's son didn't learn those kicks.
Karate high kicks didn't come from Karate? Are you sure? I don't know if they did or not, but i believe they probably did. Classic, Okinawan Karate did not have such kicks and the other place where you could find kicks like that in Japan was stuff like Savate. So where did they come from? Did the students in the universities come up with them or smt? I don't think so. They were definitely out there by the instructors as they were even added to the Kata in Shotokan, so they took them from somewhere
@@antoniostrina82 savate didn't influence karate at all, if you look at that picture of funakoshi's son doing a roundhouse it looks nothing like savate's roundhouse kicks for a lot of different reasons; the old school shotokan karate roundhouse is a snapping kick with the ball of the foot, which only rotates the supporting leg at half and bends it in order to make it more difficult to catch, and on the other hand you have the savate roundhouse, which fully rotates the supporting leg and keeps it fully extended in order to drive all of your body weight through the kick, in exchange to exposing your leg just a little bit more. And guess who also kicks like savate: exactly, taekwondo, note that with taekwondo i mean old school taekwondo from the early days, when it was still known as "korean karate" and their kicks had a ton of follow though, althought old school wtf taekwondo also kicked pretty much like that
This dude pulls off the stuff that TKD guys practise but can't apply. Note at 4:00 he actually pulls the leg back after making contact, rather than trying to take the guy's head off.
Standard rules for olympic style taekwondo use continuous sparring, not point fighting. When the ref broke them up at 2:22 I think that was just because they had come into clinching
All of the techniques used here are found in taekwon-do, karate, kung fu, kickboxing etc. Sikaran is a good art but no better than any of these others. It just so happens that the guys shown here were simply better than their opponents. In the first match the sikaran guy just happened to be very good with side kick and his timing was good. Side kick is found in a multitude of arts. The sikaran fighters shown here remind me of how taekwon-do used to be taught.
Very interesting, never heard of this style. Definitely has tons of TKD vibes...at first I thought it was simply another kicking style which would inevitably draw comparisons to TKD, but things like that textbook tornado kick make me wonder if it is related.
Careful throwing them at very experienced Muay Thai practitioners. If they kniw how to catch it, you'll be in a world of hurt. I believe that every martial art that practices kicks should learn about catching kicks as well. It's crazy that TKD people generally don't know what to do when their legs are caught
Yaw Yan, Sikaran, and Kuntao, Panantukan, and Dumog look like derivatives/local versions of mainstream martial arts, but it's nice that us Filipinos have these
Yaw Yan was created in the 70s as a response to the MMA trend beginning to dominate American Kickboxing. The other "styles" you mentioned existed way before this century in various un-formalized/unincorporated states and overlapping with various SE Asian systems
Again, another martial art that uses kicks better than TKD. I know TKD potential, but the fact that the most of its practitioners prefer to use flashy kicks instead of effective kicks cannot be denied.
Movie Quote by Bruce Lee’s opponent “ What’s your style “ Bruce Lee “ My style ?, You could call it fighting without fighting “ opponent “ fighting without fighting ? “ show me some “ Bruce Lee “ Don’t you think we need more room ? “ opponent “ Where ? Bruce Lee “ That Island, we could take this boat “…….by now opponent stepped onto the small dingy boat while Bruce Lee handled the towing line without ever stepping onto the boat, and already won the fight without a single punch or kick. Hence “ Fighting Without Fighting “ 😎🙏👍
I'm Filipino and a lot of Filipinos here have never heard of Sikaran either. Taekwondo is more popular here in the Philippines
I'm a filipino too and most of our styles are trash
@@PrinceAkaiVtuber
Strange to know this, keeping in account that Jesse Enkamp theorised that karate was heavily influenced by kali.
Indeed. I do respect Tae Kwon do but our home grown sikaran also needs recognition.
Filipino here too. Most marketing on home grown martial art all went to Arnis/Kali as it's part of the high school PE education system. Sikaran is obscure because it's something you genuinely have to seek out than being readily available
Sikaran is a Filipino game among farmers in the towns in Rizal Province at the start of the 1900s, particularly in Baras, Rizal. In its original form, it's just people kicking each other inside a circle until one is just left as the winner. No use of hands allowed, hence the name Sikaran, which means "kicking each other." In the late '60s or early '70s, a policeman and karateka named Meliton Geronimo mixed karate forms with kicking styles of Sikaran and formed a school / club with it. Later years, the introduction of taekwondo and other martial arts led to what it is now. Filipino here, living in Marikina City where a Sikaran club exists. They look more like taekwondo now than its original form. But frankly, in its original form, Sikaran would not survive. So it needs to be integrated or mixed with other arts to still be known, just like how Korea's taekyon evolved into taekwondo.
ive been recently reading a historical book on Filipino martial arts. and, from what it said, sikaran was originally a game played in the rural parts of the Philippines. It eventually evolved into a fighting style when needed for war and street fights. they primarily use kicks using the balls of the feet or the heel. and practice on precise target aiming. the man who developed the style was name meliton geronimo.
thank you for showing this. ive been trying to find sikaran martial arts to study. and, this is the first time ive seen such a good example on video.
@@wtf28 Thanks ^.^
"Unfortunately this looks like point fighting" lol
TKD: now we will decide who is master of the kicks
it's savate
MUAY THAI !!!!
@@coreyyanofsky when TKD guys get exposure to low kicks and learn how to throw and defend against them, they tend to dominate kickboxing
Enter Eddy Gordo
1:46 that was one hell of a kick.
Finally, someone falls after a kick that actually worked!
This was even better 4:00
Guy is impressive.
Sikaran is a Filipino game among farmers in the towns in Rizal Province at the start of the 1900s, particularly in Baras, Rizal. In its original form, it's just people kicking each other inside a circle until one is just left as the winner. No use of hands allowed, hence the name Sikaran, which means "kicking each other." In the late '60s or early '70s, a policeman and karateka named Meliton Geronimo mixed karate forms with kicking styles of Sikaran and formed a school / club with it. He proved its effectiveness using it in karate tournaments and being part of a karate team that competed abroad. Later years, the introduction of taekwondo and other martial arts led to what it is now. Filipino here, living in Marikina City where a Sikaran club exists. They look more like taekwondo now than its original form. But frankly, in its original form, Sikaran would not survive. So it needs to be integrated or mixed with other arts to still be known, just like how Korea's taekyon evolved into taekwondo.
Mention the Tangsoodo
I think every Karateka should focus on the power of the kick, the technique is important for point tournaments, Now in a real fight it's about destructive power.
Not only that. The kyokushin guy should've blocked that kick and push through. Unfortunately he decided to fight with kicks taekwondo way
You know that Don Wilson says that having that sharp crisp technique and speed from point fighting can have a advantage in a full contact context.
It's all a matter of adapting them to those competitions and I guess self-defence situations. They all have their usefulness.
I mean... you do realized a majority of old school american kickboxers came from that, right?
It appears that the Sikaran practitioners stay closer to the earth when they spar. Not as bouncy... There's only so many ways to kick someone, but I think they care more about keeping their balance...
Which makes a certain kind of sense right, especially it being Filipino/South-East Asian. I think about Silat and it's emphasis on remaining upright and not falling off the bridge, says Maul Mornie.
(side note)
Shuai Jiao shares that as well.
Side_side note...
Tiger style is okay with being on the ground. Monkey loves the ground. Monkey doesn't care, Monkey will fight you upside down🐒... Leopard/panther will have planned it out. It wants to be able to apply its techniques in every way shape & form. Mantis doesn't want to fall over. Eagle doesn't wanna fall over. For crane, falling is ☠️ while Snake is an Accomplished ground fighter... Shuai Jiao wants to stay standing.. TKD wants to stay standing.. Jiujitsu obviously wants to bring you down to home turf..
Yep, Sikaran and YawYan are both Filipino contact arts and are both awesome!
By the way, it's pronounced as sih-kah-rahn.
Go FMA!
They sometimes throw out a belt to signify when the time is up on a round. No bells around usually. 😆
Dude, I never thought this martial-art exist. But it's a cool fighting style that should get more exposure.
When i studied Kali in the 90s, we'd also drill Sikaran kicks along with working with sticks. Low, medium, high levels targets. And I seen Guro Sean connect with Sikaran side, and spin kicks!
This video shows good examples of how kicking should be used. I am thankful to experience this Sikiram style. Thanks Jerry for showing casing this
You should also look up yaw-yan, it's a hybrid martial arts, originated also here in my country, Philippines.
Totally did not originated from karate, that's what I assumed. Just like muay boran(thai), they had to defend themselves(from invaders) and find a way how to. That's how martial arts works, similar style but totally originator.
Damn! This sikaran thing is awesome! Never heard of it before untill now. Well, my nick name from now on will be, SIKARAN. 😂🤣😂🤘🏾
There are more than one Sikaran,this one is based on Karate or TKD,the trappings,the teaching,it cannot be denied. Still,i like their sparring,arms only to block and trap,and only kicks to strike.
The old true sikaran,is the kicking present in old FMA, it also comes from a tradition of leg wrestling i cannot find the name of. It is very peculiar looking,almost look like standing leg grappling
th-cam.com/video/ELWEjSFWGRA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9yNx6HTRGJtJjjoO
Sometimes they call it Pananjakman,the art of low line kicking,but most FMA are low line type,most use Sikaran,but some regions are specialised in it. The Sikaran you have shown is one of these regional styles,that decided to expand. Their signature kick is the Biakid,a type of spinning back kick,cannot find the difference.
I love style vs style,it almost feel like a scientific experiment.
The stances and habits of the smaller guy in the vid feel a bit like Silat. If it's Visayan, then this was almost certainly influenced by the styles of our neighbors during the time of the Sultanate of Sulu
I don't know sikaran, but as i see, their kicks look mechanichally very similar to taekwondo and savate. Just in case you don't know jerry, savate kicks (which you have said they were amazing) are actually mechanically the same as taekwondo kicks. And no, karate kicks didn't come from savate if that's what you are wondering.
Who claimed that Karate kicks came from Savate? Was it Sensei Jesse Enkamp?
Jesse Enkamp made a video about it. Looks like that the front kick comes from kungfu, while all the other kicks come from savate. The first picture of a mawashigeri (roundhouse kick) shown Funakoshi son performing it.
Most of those sikaran kicks are TKD style, not savate in my opinion, because savate uses a different way and approach to kick.
@@FightCommentary yes, it was jesse enkamp, but he's actually wrong, if you look at old school shotokan karate kicks they look completely different from savate kicks, simply beacuse funakoshi's son didn't learn those kicks.
Karate high kicks didn't come from Karate? Are you sure?
I don't know if they did or not, but i believe they probably did. Classic, Okinawan Karate did not have such kicks and the other place where you could find kicks like that in Japan was stuff like Savate. So where did they come from? Did the students in the universities come up with them or smt? I don't think so. They were definitely out there by the instructors as they were even added to the Kata in Shotokan, so they took them from somewhere
@@antoniostrina82 savate didn't influence karate at all, if you look at that picture of funakoshi's son doing a roundhouse it looks nothing like savate's roundhouse kicks for a lot of different reasons; the old school shotokan karate roundhouse is a snapping kick with the ball of the foot, which only rotates the supporting leg at half and bends it in order to make it more difficult to catch, and on the other hand you have the savate roundhouse, which fully rotates the supporting leg and keeps it fully extended in order to drive all of your body weight through the kick, in exchange to exposing your leg just a little bit more. And guess who also kicks like savate: exactly, taekwondo, note that with taekwondo i mean old school taekwondo from the early days, when it was still known as "korean karate" and their kicks had a ton of follow though, althought old school wtf taekwondo also kicked pretty much like that
This dude pulls off the stuff that TKD guys practise but can't apply.
Note at 4:00 he actually pulls the leg back after making contact, rather than trying to take the guy's head off.
Standard rules for olympic style taekwondo use continuous sparring, not point fighting. When the ref broke them up at 2:22 I think that was just because they had come into clinching
All of the techniques used here are found in taekwon-do, karate, kung fu, kickboxing etc. Sikaran is a good art but no better than any of these others. It just so happens that the guys shown here were simply better than their opponents. In the first match the sikaran guy just happened to be very good with side kick and his timing was good. Side kick is found in a multitude of arts. The sikaran fighters shown here remind me of how taekwon-do used to be taught.
Very interesting, never heard of this style. Definitely has tons of TKD vibes...at first I thought it was simply another kicking style which would inevitably draw comparisons to TKD, but things like that textbook tornado kick make me wonder if it is related.
They call that kick the dragon whip, i believe.
@ that’s an appropriately martial artsy name for it
Interesting style. This is the first time I've seen it. Aspects of it remind me of Kyokushin: the spinning kicks from the inside, for example.
Side kick always gets Muay Thai
Careful throwing them at very experienced Muay Thai practitioners. If they kniw how to catch it, you'll be in a world of hurt. I believe that every martial art that practices kicks should learn about catching kicks as well. It's crazy that TKD people generally don't know what to do when their legs are caught
In the fourth fight, was it a karateka or taekwondoin fighting the sikaran fighter?
Maybe it was the rulesets, but I don't think I saw a single punch thrown by any of the Sikaran practioners.
Yaw Yan, Sikaran, and Kuntao, Panantukan, and Dumog look like derivatives/local versions of mainstream martial arts, but it's nice that us Filipinos have these
Yaw Yan was created in the 70s as a response to the MMA trend beginning to dominate American Kickboxing. The other "styles" you mentioned existed way before this century in various un-formalized/unincorporated states and overlapping with various SE Asian systems
Again, another martial art that uses kicks better than TKD.
I know TKD potential, but the fact that the most of its practitioners prefer to use flashy kicks instead of effective kicks cannot be denied.
Sikaran looks like old school kukkiwon
Taekwondo's root is Shotokan Karate. Period. If you want to compare the root of any martial art to taekwondo's, just do as if it was Shotokan.
I mean Taekwondo seems to have taken from other places as well. But yeah, just like Tang Soo Do, Taekwondo took A LOT from Shotokan.
That Kyokushin guy was VERY disappointing...
Poor Muay thai guy losing to a trash martial art
Not every muay thai practitioner is gonna be buakaw
Not every lesser-known martial art is trash system
@@James-wd9ib it's lesser known for a reason
Movie Quote by Bruce Lee’s opponent “ What’s your style “ Bruce Lee “ My style ?, You could call it fighting without fighting “ opponent “ fighting without fighting ? “ show me some “ Bruce Lee “ Don’t you think we need more room ? “ opponent “ Where ? Bruce Lee “ That Island, we could take this boat “…….by now opponent stepped onto the small dingy boat while Bruce Lee handled the towing line without ever stepping onto the boat, and already won the fight without a single punch or kick. Hence “ Fighting Without Fighting “ 😎🙏👍