Remy A. Presas' Modern Arnis
Modern Arnis and I met years ago, when Guro Eric Alexander
(Lakan Tatlo - 3rd degree black belt)
gave me my first taste of the art. Since then, I have studied under
Professor Remy
Presas himself, and have worked out
with a few of his close students, including Master Dr. Randi Schea,
and
Guro Raymond Montoya (Lakan Dalawa - 2nd degree black belt).
In 1997, Professor Presas awarded Lakan Dalawa
(2nd degree black belt) rank in Modern Arnis.
At the request of the Professor, I founded the
TAMU Modern Arnis Club here at
Texas A&M University in 1995.
When I teach,
I emphasize flow, real-life applications
(i.e. convince me this'd work), disarms and joint-work. I've found
that my Modern Arnis training has helped in my understanding and application
of kung fu as well - kind of a cross-pollination. One of the single best
training tools in GM Presas' system is Tapi-Tapi, with all its
variation, free-flowingness, and applications put in - WONDERFUL!
Of course, the full gamut of other drills are explored as well as
their variations involving applications, follow-ups, empty-hand translations,
guntings, disarms, counters, striking styles, locks, reversals, takedowns,
pins, etc. Some of these are:
in addition to these, Guro Martinez and I have devised (just for fun):
We also spend a great deal of time investigating how these things tie together
by working them in different variations and combinations. For example, we may
work single cane versus double cane in sinawalis, weave sinawalis together
seamlessly and randomly, or sneak disarms, locks, and/or counters into any
of the drills. We will often work armed techniques and drills unarmed or work
unarmed versus armed attacks or any of an almost infinite number of other
variations. It's a real treat to find how well these variations work together.
This page is devoted to one of the arts we teach separately at
Tye's Kung Fu; i.e. Modern Arnis.
We are planning on re-opening Modern Arnis classes in Northern Virginia soon.
the 12 Basic Strikes
the Basic Blocks
sweep (stick-up and stick-down), umbrella (inside and outside), cutting
Striking Styles
labtik, witik, tusok, punyo, banda-y-banda, rompida, taas-baba, abaniko
(largo & corto, single- and double-action), piguro de otso, double
zero X, pabilog (arko)
Multitudinous Sinawalis
Single Sinawali, 4-ct Single, Double Sinawali, 3-ct Sinawali ("Cowboy"),
Reverse Sinawali, Heaven 6, Earth 6, 4-ct Double, and on and on.
Anyos (forms)
empty-hand, single cane, double cane, and staff
the Flow Drill
"Dance of Pain"
Flowing effortlessly from joint lock to joint lock while inserting throws,
takedowns, pins, come-alongs, etc.
Palis-Palis
Abanico (Corto, Largo, Double Action, etc)
Single Dagger
Espada-y-daga
the 6-Count Drill (Anim na Bilang) and the Box
Drill
same-side and opposite-side
Tapi-Tapi
R vs. L, R vs. R, and crossovers
the 14- and 18-Count Drills
the Range Drill
Guro Eric Alexander explaining some fine points of joint locks using Guro
Raymond Montoya as the dummy.
From left to right: Guro Raymond Montoya, Master Dr. Randi Schea, me
Guro Anding DeLeon and the Professor playing Tapi-Tapi, R vs. R
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