They Sent Farmers, They Got Warriors: The Story of Filipino Martial Arts in Stockton California
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- I keep hearing about Stockton California as it relates to Filipino Martial Arts. This video offers a lot of information as to why it is significant...but it is only the tip of the iceberg. The story continues.
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The Filipinos I know are the kindest people I have ever met. However they never back down when pushed.
Got that right haha
i can agree to that
Australia can confirm that ha ha no really dont push them...
You have not met me yet "madapa ka". Haha
@@jinroh516 No nosotros no
"I'm willing to work with anyone who's willing to work with me." Well said.
Half Filipino here
I'm moving to the Philippines permanently from Europe
Always loved Asia more than any other continent.
@Kokoro Kakao
Thanks
Europe is overrated
USA even more
Eastern Asia is better
Australia and New zealand are better than Europe and USA
Better for me to stay in the Philippines
One of the only countries that will remain beautiful in this world.
Make sure you save enough money. MGC is a great place.
@Kokoro Kakao yes can do almost everything
@@Veteransolo I want give a advice, don't trust others who are suspicious. be wise and humble.
Good luck. Have you visited the P.I in the past?
My family worked in the fields with Filipino people, I served in the Army with Filipino soldiers and even married a Filipina. Thirty years later I learned that I have living relatives and DNA from the Philippines.
Your ancestors might be one of the Filipinos who participated in the Galleon trade. During 1600 to early 1800s.
@@maosama3695 I wish that I could turn back time and meet my Filipino ancestors.
plot twist: he's in The Philippines.
@@carlov.4408 I am not in the Philippines, although I have visited the Philippines many years ago.
@@Fire_And_Iron yes but the idea of being a native in this context would be hilarious.
FMA is very much alive in Japan, I am teaching my kids about. It is one of my best legacy that I can pass on to them as a Filipino. Aside from adobo and Kinilaw, they must learn the concepts of how to kill a man within 3 seconds..
I miss eating kinilaw nga baka! I'm so glad you passing on a special legacy!
Gierra sama, saan kapo sa japan, interesado po akong matuto ng kali FMA
You got me at the last part lol
That's scary.
cringe.
The infighting inside FMA is very much true. But I am glad to say this, FMA schools now have good relations with each other. Decades ago, Balintawak and Doce Pares guys will kill each other in duels and ambushes but now you will see Doce Pares students visiting and paying their respects to Balintawak grandmasters. Very beautiful!
No wonder Bruce Lee got real close to Dan Inosanto. FMA knows no bounds, it evolves continuously. Something that Bruce Lee can always relate to.
Kali is used for war out of necessity, so it continuously evolves to be relevant in the present situation.
It’s great to see our Filipino Martial get to the mainstream. Many MMA fighter have picked up on some of it.
Our Greatest FilAm Generation “The Manongs Generation”
I don't think MMA fighters are going to use it
I have been practicing Escrima for 27 years. I saw Filipinos in Glendale in Los Angeles drilling with sticks and thought it looked really awesome, like nothing I had ever seen before. I knew right away that was my path. Mike.
John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
This is the HEART of every FILIPINO.
This hits so close to home, being from the central valley as well as being Filipino. Thank you.
The hits are so close to the hands 😬
This Vet has much Respect for the Filipino people (Baton Death March).
"Bataan" death march
Thank you, God bless!
My dad was in the death March. He passed away 10 years ago!
@@MadeintheUK987 We Filipinos thank him for his service. RIP
Good to see the FMA's of Stockton getting their recognition.
the best instructors are the ones that don’t monetize the art. Sure, they have to make a living or pay for rental space, but it’s the love for passing the culture that shines through. I trained in Stockton with such an instructor and I paid less than $30 a month for lessons that was twice a week.
What style did he teach?
I've been practicing Eskrima for about 14 years, even manage to study a Filipino form of HEMA Longsword. This history is amazing to hear.
Thank you for this video. I'm a Filipino and I'm happy knowing that my fellow Filipinos back then is cool.
Amazing storytelling bro. Thank you for telling the stories of our elders regardless of all our differences
We have more similarities than differences. My grandfather was kumpadre with all the old timers in Stockton. Always friendly with everyone.
You want to know more about fma starting in America in Stockton you should talk to Vincent Cabales, GGM Angel Cabales' son and GM of Cabales Serrada Escrima.
We need to see more video of this gentleman scholar practitioner!
PRICELESS! Thank you so much for sharing!
Love love love the style! Years ago a coworker on Miami Beach showed me how to twirl the bamboo with rags tied to the end for added drag. Great forearm workout. The overlapping circles could be bigger or smaller effecting different arm muscles and it's so mesmerizing. I love how it was confusing at first, but once I got it, I knew it. I showed my friend's little girl the idea. We seemed to get to a log jam pretty quick so I figured best to go to the 2 person drill. It was so funny. Whenever she got it wrong she would profusely apologize but I just had to tell her that she was picking it up so much faster than I had ! My dads dads dad was stationed in the Philippines after just missing San Juan Hill Cuba. 1899 I think. As a child I liked to rummage in grandma's backroom closet. There I found a funny crescent curved knife and a shield. Strange to think that as a kid I adored knives but with that one I was slightly repulsed. I tried again to have a look at it knowing I could have it if I asked but it didn't take. I hope to learn kali. Part of the year I live in DC where I see lots of knives pulled out so it could come in handy. My friends arm is permanently toast because he got stabbed in the soft spot right behind his collar bone. It may not work but he's knocked out a couple of people with it swinging it like a flail. I tell him I would never fight him because I don't want to get knocked out by "The Dead Hand" ;) I've met some teachers and it's so nice when they are friendly, humble and easy going like this guy.
Love hearing the history of a martial art especially of how it moved around the world
I was training FMA with my Master and when I came home my aunt just laughed at me, my family insulted me except my Dad. They even said "she should've sent there and get kicks from her opponent *laughs*" actually that hurts but I just ignored it. I just isolate myself in my room and cry.
Soon... They will regret what they said about me, I'll make sure of that. Soon.
It's okay just be you and show them you are happy doing that. Dont think anything negative. They have a different mind than you and we cannot change that. But they can see how happy you are doing what you love. God bless you.
Great Clip, Mate. That answered the "Stockton Connection" for me. They were migrant workers. Very interesting. Thanks
Arnis has a wrestling aspect, it's called dumog. Martial arts really should evolve. Accept effective techniques from others.
Dumog means wrestling
That's how Bruce Lee approached martial arts!
Dumog in ilokano means to put face down. I can see why dumog is wrestling!!!
Wrestling in Ilokano is gabbo/ginnabbo
@@eldgergerman6019 usto ka gayyem!
There's no point. Kali already teaches you how to kill and that's all it needs. Kali SHOULD be for killing. If you want to learn how to subdue opponents then learn other martial arts. There's no place for half-assing in Kali. It's for survival.
Thank You for Researching and Sharing this.
On a side note regarding the comment on wrestling, Filipinos have their own style of wrestling/grappling/ground fighting called Dumog. Hope you get a chance to Research and Explore Dumog for a future documentary later on.
Bless and Thank You Again.
In ilocano gabbo
I was born in Stockton. And I worked in the fields side by side with them. And we became like family. I trained in varies arts. Stockton is the birth place of a lot great men.
Excellent contribution to the world of FMA and martial arts as a whole. Your sincere and quality efforts are not going unnoticed.
Hi manong Carlito! Good job representing the 209!
I know some of the folks who where were there in the beginning. I listen to their stories not just because I love Phillipino Martial Arts. They literally saved my life.
I'm proud of my Phillipino American brothers and sisters. I am honored to have a chance to learn about Phillipino culture. Much love and respect to the Great Grand Masters!
Before sticks they used dual swords before the spanish colonization..
no, they practiced using sticks so the colonizers won't know they are practicing martial arts
@@ferocious1288 thats when ph got colonized. 1st guy was referring to precolonization
@@ferocious1288 The native Filipinos (before the Christian Spaniards terrorised the Islands) were Muslims. They were equipped with swords.
@@shoWbitz am talkin bout Spanish occupation
@@ferocious1288 Your comment is out of the context. The top comment is referring to the time before the Spaniards rediscovered the islands.
Something is wrong with your brain.
Very nice interview. I really enjoyed it. Thank you posting it!
now a days in rural areas of the phillipines it is practiced secretly, because if they knew you were practiscing such, they come to challenge you... but in the city its open... where im from its not sticks they hold but machete... and once they fight, it almost looks like dancing... only that after the dance ones life is taken... as an art itself it looks beautifull but deadly..
Bolos, not Machetes. Machetes are Spanish creations which they introduced to South America because native americans were incapable of smelting iron or steel when the Spanish conquered them. Bolos on the other hand, were traditional weapons, smelted and created by native weapon masters long before Magellan showed his face in the islands.
Machetes were designed to chop wood, and men were later added to the list. Bolos were designed to kill, chopping wood when men aren't available.
@@eelchiong6709 i choose the term machete so that the internantional viewers wud understand, "bolo (sibgular) / bolos (plural)" are only understood by mostly filipinos, or wud you rather want me to use sunzibar or sundang in my native dialect? also bolos or bolo depending on the diff. regiom of the philippines has diffrent meaning, for instance in my region/home town the term bolo is a short bladed but not sharp tool used for cleaning the lawn from grass... "knan pag dalos la ito it bolo ha amon..."
@@CocoLemon214
Where I came from they are called Tabak or Ginunting(the longer, deadlier version) but generally for whatever reason I'm not aware, Philippine blades are classified as "Bolo". Except for the Tausug kris, which is longer that the Malaysian kris.
However, calling our blades after a Spanish blade that was meant for chopping wood doesn't seem right to me.
I passed by Stockton, CA several times in my last trip. I should have stopped by.
3:27 that's uncle Daniel (Dan) Arca Inosanto.
Never seen this video til now. The picture of the 2 Filipinos, the one wearing the button-up shirt looks like my teacher, my teacher's father came over from the Philippines with GM Cabales and worked the fields. My teacher learned from GM Cabales, the longest student under him after 1966
Thanks ! Sensei 🙏 for such a great inspiration given to us viewers . God bless You 🙏 .
RESPECT🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Wow. Awesome content right there. Awesome insights from the master. Liked and subscribed.
I am proud to be filipino. I may have had some hate before because of someone who hurt me. But now I realized that there is good in the world. More importantly we filipino's are warriors. Filipino's are my brothers
Kali used to be a secret lethal martial arts used for war because the Spaniards prohibits the practice during the colonization of the Philippines.
I wish they would teach this in every school back home in the Philippines as a subject...
We take whats useful for us and make it our own through hard work. We respect this way. Its definitely a spiritual path, a journey to the heart of a kinetically insightful blade culture and people who are only now breaking out of the colonized mindset forced upon them. Take whats useful, leave whats not..
7:43 - That worked real good... I'm going to borrow that one... :)
my gramps was a coconut wine maker from Capiz. My dad said that my gramps did Skrima as a past time when he was in his teens...
This is the main problem in us Filipinos...POLITICS...in any-thing. Instead to be constructive for what we have, we are destroying ourselves internally.
That is what you call mga SALOT NA MAMAMAYANG FILIPINO HEHE...
Look up Agbayani Village, Larry Itliong and Philip Veracruz. Doesn't have much to do with FMA but, the farming aspect does. I'm sure Larry or some of the Filipinos knew FMA.
Promote the ART of the grandfathers....
From Beirut, Lebanon I wish you all the best
Hope to visit Stockton in the coming days and practice escrima.
Maraming Salamat !!!
Not sure if many know, but Stockton, CA was one of the first, if not THE first, place in the US to openly teach FMA. Those guys made history and produced some of the world's finest escrimadors. Their reach may not have been global like some of the more popular systems out of Cebu and Negros, but the Stockton guys from either Giron or Cabales lineage definitely know how to fight. They keep it real because they have tons of fight experience.
Maraming pong salamat!🙏
Im a newyork yankee who learned Toyama Ryu Iaido at a young age Toyama was used by the Japanese to combat American marines in ww2 as well as Filipinos now im persueing kali that was used to fight Toyama i found kali in surching for a way to use Tamahawk and long knife 2 vary American weapons all i can say is thank you for the vids GN dispite the horror of ww2 this white boy has been enriched by both sides of the conflict and im eternally grateful for it all thank you everyone
Yes Hawaii….but Filipinos came to Hawaii 1890!!!!!!!! My late grandfather was one of the 1st wave of Filipinos to arrive in Hawaii(Sacadas)
Here in our province..most of the kids today do not prioritize learning it... But if someone is intrigued to learn it..then its very available there are secret legends around.
*They have to be the example!!! (No more words needed).
Man that loud background piano banging need to tone down!! can hardly hear this man and the interviewer on here. Why are not too many film makers realizing that their musics are always too loud and interfering with the dialogs and conversations on their films.
It’s sad but as Filipinos we’re not a very united people, that goes for pretty much all aspects of life. Too much centering on differences vs commonalities.
Like all nations
@@barryirlandi4217 Not really, Philippines is similar to clans in the middle east. Just because some caucasian drew a line in the sand that does not make people a nation. Especially if you speak different languages and have different religions, customs and traditionally never got along. When Filipinos meet outside the Philippines, the first thing they ask is where you’re from in the Philippines because they are so different.
Plenty also look down on each other esp the darker skinned you are
false, everywhere in the world you will find Filipino organizations
@@eagleofthenorthmacroexcell6843 True, but then you’ll find another Filipino org. competing with the original org. because they couldn’t get along.
Oh ! RESPECT !
Filipinos have their own wrestling and is what they called DUMOG. Do you know how deadly that art is? It's an empty hand combat.. Breaking your spinal column, twisting heads and joint sockets(angkles, fingers, wrists, arms and knees) , popping your eyes, tearing apart your jaws amd busting your eardrums.
Usually happens when the Legal wife and the mistress see each other.🤣🤣🤣
Dumugay o Sabunotay?😅😅
@@ms.val_officialaccnt2237 it’s deadly alright 🤣🤣🤣
@@rdc1431 indeed!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hahaaaa. I remember my childhood days with Dumog! 🤣🤣🤣 Thats was fun!
You are absolutely right men we are naturally stubborn...that's why we dont talk we fight and never back down...😁😁😎
Sup Carlito!
Stockton Strong!
Arnis is part of PE in philippines high school and college. And thats how Arnis preserved for the next generation.
They only teached us the basic of the basics of moves and combination not the most damaging nor deadliest moves but those basic moves can make someone end up with a broken limb or 2 if properly executed since kali still retains its lethality unlike other martial arts that was modified for competitions and have lost some of its fangs for real combat
@@lordm3s447 I am half Japanese and half Filipino. I remember being an exchange student and participating in some Arnis practices but the instructor pulled me out of it and made me practice it for real in a small gym where his old man was instructing. When I came home, I also taught some of it to my kendo club fellows and they fell in love with it. My kendo instructor back then told me how dangerous the hits were when I proposed showing it to him first before showing it to everybody else.
I hope one day Guru Dan Inosanto would visit the Philippines and all the dojos in Cebu, Quiapo & Binondo, Manila, Angeles City, Iloilo, Capiz, Bukidnon, Davao and of course Luneta Park & Quezon Memorial Circle. And during his visits he would video or do documentary of the various styles of FMA and other martial arts practised in the Philippines. This will be wonderful for FMAs and matial arts practitioners in the Philippines. (Too bad Roberto Gonzales is not around anymore. I wonder whatever happened to his brother judo master, Rolando, and sister, Magna, karate black belt, and to all martial art masters of various styles who appeared in his movies, even before Bruce Lee did Big Boss movie. Among my favorite is "Kamay na Ginto", where he fought the very best martial arts masters.
Very cool
Would like to hear him talk about kun tao
Me too.
Looooovveee iittt!! 👊
Kali is the deadliest way of knife us marine used this technique even hollywood but never mentioned spaniards so scared when they encounter
There was a police department somewhere in Cali that included FMA in their training
Prideful... it comes from the early Filipinos - rajah against rajah. Clannish.
He speaks the truth. Why can't we standardized and promote our own martial arts(in its purest form? (Arnis is almost dying in popularity here in the Philippines.
There is an underlying standardization already present in FMA. What ought to happen is unity and embracing the differences that make it great.
Reminds me of the story Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
What I can say is human is human. Human were demi god, could do anything
Guro Doug Pierre at 7:39?! Trained with him on LES in 2001! Want my kids to learn FMA.
Fma is better than chinese kung fu
Nice
all ilocano's in Stockton...suffered through a lot of racism...but never fought back...they could have.
Respect
Sad thing is that FMA is more popular in other country than in Philippines.. taekwondo is the most popular in Philippines.
It's crazy he talks about a story how americans recognizing them as a warriors when in the same timeline in other part of the US a young filipino girl was kept and displayed in zoo
damn rare photo of Bruce Lee 3:26
The title seems wrong. The first "they" and the second "they" are not the same, aren't they?? Can we say something like: They were sent /or They called up for farmers?
I wished I learned this skill , I even have a pair right behind my front door 😝 along with my Japanese bo that doubles as a flag pole 😂. But I learned Aikido instead 😉 and some boken and bo moves
This is where raya learn her arnis skill hehe charrot, salute sir, I'm pinoy aint tisoy haha
Minsan dahil sa gusto Ng mga TH-camrs na dumami Ang subscribers nila,nauungkat Ang history Ng Pilipinas..(ND q nilalahat) Well,maganda nmn na nalaman NATIN na merong beyond the book history Ang Filipinos..
wow...Boss Amo Supremo
FMA in fighting shows Filipino is an artificial western construct. Martial arts from Cebu is different from Bohol or the Balintawak style.
The only problem we have is being friendly that is why we are easily conquered. We are trading with other lands in Asia and they are friendly to us so we haven't anticipated the coming of the Europeans and welcomed them as friends. We are too late to know that they fight in the back.
Ye dat drill is good, ye i barrow dat one!
man i love the filipino accent :)
RIP GM Bonjoc
"Filipino people are naturally stubborn!"
"Oh Yeah! Definitely!
It takes one to know one!
@@rosielupita5230...Aye Are One!-lol
Mas Mabolos sa eba Hati 🙏🏽🎵☂️
You are based in Stockton?
Stockton is the sister city of Iloilo City
What style?
The only sad thing about the Philippines is the fact that there are more keyboard warriors now than eskrimadors...
as a filipino watching old fma footage hives me a sense of pride and regret for losing many of it due to invading countries.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Do the Diaz brothers know FMA?
If some Filipino Eskrima Masters have been so noisy shouting that their school is better than others... well, they have to settle it the old way of stick fighting until one surrenders or KO'd. Simple as that.
Most Filipinos are too proud. I remember when I was in the navy. My friend Rene Caluag was a avid martial arts student and a black belt. He trained kicking and punching old cars in his back yard. I never saw a person with so much calluses on their knockles. But anyway, when I told someone about him, the other Filipinos wanted to spar with him. In short Filipinos are very competitive. But I agree with you on how they should settle it!
People get along until money is involved.
Hopefully sir with your respect my Husband would LIKE to you with your perspective and vision sir, his name is GRANDMASTER RAYLAN CUBCUBAN of eskrima de cuerdas liborio g. heyrosa system from MANDAUE CITY CEBU PHILIPPINES.. Thank you and GOD BLESS.. 🙏🙏🙏
Is Stockton in Utah jazz?