The Secret Art of Derobio Escrima: A Martial Art of the Philippines by Medina Dan

Author:Medina, Dan [Medina, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tambuli Media
Published: 2016-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Founders of General Ablin School of Escrima: Chief Master Gary Largo, Chief Master Leslie Largo, Senior Master Carlton Cramer, Senior High Chief Knut Peacock and Senior High Chief Peter Schmall

My next military assignment took me to Albuquerque, New Mexico. I contacted a local school with hopes of being able to teach. As luck would have it, I got a hold of Shihan Ray Barerra, who was the first non-Japanese to win the All Japan Karate Championship in kata. He is also an International Karate and Kickboxing & International Martial Arts Hall of Fame instructor. Barerra asked me to show him what I did and after giving him a brief demonstration of my skills, he marched into his office and began calling all the other Martial Arts schools in Albuquerque. This part of the country had never been exposed to my type of Philippine martial arts and I was treated like the new “hot commodity.” I received offers from many schools to teach and from many others to do seminars. I had spent years accumulating knowledge and I was ready to share it with anyone who wanted to learn.

As a result of this firestorm, today there are close to 1,000 Escrima students in the Albuquerque / Santa Fe area. Of the students I am proud to have taught, some of the more famous ones are Arlan “Salty Dog” Sanford, my protégé Prof. Brandon Jordan (who is now teaching in the Miami area), Chief Instructor Antionette Chavez (Owner of Takai Mine Karate, who continues to represent Majapai in New Mexico), and Chief Instructor Melcor Chavez. Then there are those that made instructor and will only teach privately and not in a commercial setting, including Chief instructors Gene and Adam Wolf, Gathan Garcia, Mike Wanke and Amalie Fritshnecht, to name a few.

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