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What is FMA?

Many of you might not have heard about FMA (Filippine Martial Arts), it might be because tv and books have help making other martial arts from China, Korea and Japan famous a lot faster.

But these days FMA like Arnis/Escrima is beginnig to be more and more popular because of its very street wise, easy to learn and can even be used as a fun sport!
FMA and Arnis has roots many years back and its said that the native here in the Philippines defeated Magellan and his men with there stick fighting skills.
Later on in history Arnis was again used in World War 2 and the war agaist the US, when they did not have enough rifles they gave Philippinos Bolos (Swords) and had them use Arnis to run down a enemy soldier and cut him down!
This was a lot more effective then it sounds, its said that the US Army changed there handguns to get more stopping power since, the Americans discovered that some Philippinos just keept coming after 2-3 shot and cut down their soldiers.
Now a days the special forces in the Philippines and US are still training and using Arnis….
But as a system in general its still very street wise and up to date for the common person also, it happens many times down here that some Philippinos has had to protect them self using Arnis.
FMA in my mind is a very effective and good MA, that has been overlooked for way to long…..

Originally posted 2009-08-31 17:42:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter