kali is effective when it was created until this modern day times. Inside or outside of the ring and in real life danger. And nothing is added nor subtracted. It is still what it is. PROUD!

I saw the documentary; I bought the cd. amazing. i learned more about my culture and the art itself

Glad I Found you Brother Awesome 💪❤️😎🙏

Proud be both a Filipino and an Arnisador. I've always found FMA to be extremely underrated in the public eye and as a martial art. I hope the bladed hand can help spread FMA a bit further and encourage people to take it up. Can't wait for it's release!

im more impressed by the old guy with the sword at 0:33. the blade is so freakin close to his head.

The screening tour will happen after the premiere, and we will take the film around the Philippines and California. Other countries are still in the works. DVDs will not be available until after the tour. Cheers!

In the last part, the scenery is incredible!!

Alexander Mikhailovich! It is nice to see a compatriot who in his case achieves the best result. Thanks to his mentors who help him.

@TheGreaterGood80 I appreciate your comment. I can personally say that it must be legitimately so since my dad and uncles are still alive to relate their encounters with dueling or engaging with it during WWII in their teens.There are so many accounts from others out there using their own family systems who take pride to pass it onto their children and share it with others.I guess this can also be said for Indonesian and Malayasian related systems as well. Peace bro!

@bisaiia i'm a Filipino, Visayan blood, and a Filipino martial artist. Your comment is like the spaniards and other oppressive colonizers , you divide and conquer looking to serve your ego and not seiing the bigger picture of this film.... promoting Filipino culture, regardless what province or stye you represent. Stop hating.

The dates on the two trailers have been postponed due to updates and editing tweaks. But the premiere is already scheduled for July 7, 2012, and the announcement was made on the Facebook Group Page for The Bladed Hand. It will be at the Crossroad 77 Convenarium along Mother Ignacia Avenue, Quezon City. For now, all details are being finalised, and so the ticket sales info will be announced in a matter of weeks. We will keep you posted.

Im so proud !!!!!!!!!.....Superbly done, for the discriminating eyes.!

The clip showing Tabimina teaching Mumbakki is from an event held in Manila earlier this year, when Mumbakki brought the Russians over to learn from Lightning Scientific under Prof. Felipe Jocano, Jr., Kali De Leon, GM Tabimina and Yuli Romo. They were joined by Douglas Marcaida's contingent from New York, and Jun De Leon's group from Canada.

The Bladed Blooded Hand proud pinoy Martial Arts. Handspeed the opponent kill 2 to 3 seconds. The King Blade. MABUHAY!

Its a Visayan Martial Art, The Visayan Grand Masters passed it down to the world coz they are great people. Now the other people from the philippines that are not Visayans are claiming it like its theirs, and taking credits for it.

The music has no title. It was a live improvisational percussion jam that i recorded.

The choreography in the stegal movie "Siege" was done by Guro Dan Inosanto and Francis Fong. Stegal wields a big Mac better than he does a knife.

@karambitmaster - Mumbakki started with Remy Presas, then Ernesto Presas, and for a brief period, took lessons with Tabimina. His fallout with PTK has allowed him to retconnect with his roots and, as the head of a new FMA alliance in Moscow, it is his job to promote other FMA systems. Training with these other systems is essential for him to acquire a working knowledge of the other systems that he plans to bring in to Russia. Before representing PTK in Russia, he was teaching a generic form of

If I'm not mistaken, bladed hand is the very same martial arts that Steven Segal and Tommy Lee Jones (as the film villain) did in their fight scene at the final part of the old Segal film called "Siege". The fight took place inside the control room of a huge sea battleship that Tommy's villain character usurped and Segal's mission was to free it from Tommy. The fight was done in very dizzying speed that you can't follow the knives and their hand motions and who was cutting who. I'm amazed.

Well done, Jay!!!!

@dockilat PTK, as a system is legit in combat effectiveness, as well as the different groups of Balintawak. GM Bobby is sharing his knowledge w/ Mumbakki and the documentary. Mumbakki himself is a very skilled FMA practitioner of several systems and styles with the ability to blend all of them into effective combat.

Sigh.. Government should support this more and should be taught deeper in schools PE.

@tejereroe26 Next year. Screenings will be held first then followed by VOD on the website (in development) then DVD.

That's true for a lot of practitioners Though there are some styles that do sacrifice the functionality of the punyo to gain a longer range when fighting, :)

@bisaiia So much anger. Many of the Visayan Grand Masters are included in this documentary and support it wholeheartedly. Their contribution and of the masters before them will certainly get the recognition they deserve. From other comments on different videos regarding Bladed Hand, there have been other Bisayans also showing the same hatred you have. I went to Cebu thinking there would be such hatred toward non-Bisayans but was greeted with open arms. Good people are everywhere.

And for the record, Mumbakki did not shift to Balintawak. He is his own man. He enjoys learning from other systems and his only commitment these days is to the Alliance of the Filipino Combat Arts in the Russian Federation (Alyanz for short), with the task of promoting other FMA systems in Russia. Alyanz is not representing any particular system. With regard to your warning that Balintawak should be careful as to whom they befriend, it seems like an insinuation that Mumbakki is someone that can

@mrBullsheet panay man daw una ana..pero Bisaya ra gihapon..well illonggo..pero same ethnic identity

@bisaiia mao gyud. kabalo kos imu gi bati. tan-awa ng Eskrimadors na dvd by a cebuano. baling nindota

@Deetroiter not yet released. select screenings tbd in the states.

Well its not common when I'm in a MMA match. Its possible that they alow it but the more focused places they there not allowed is mostly the eyes, under the armpit, groin and my favorite biting your opponents fingers off.

FMA is thee most advanced weapon art. Combat proven.

Bruce Lee's exposure to FMA (as well as Dan Inosanto's, who showed him what he knew then) was very limited at that time. And he was definitely more focused on empty hand fighting then too.

Asteeeeeeeeeeeeg

Who else wants to train Kali with Rachel Grant?

I cant wait to see it!!!

How can we get hold of this documentary? Please update. Thanks.

When is this dvd going to released to purchase? I can't find it anywhere. If any info please share so I can buy this dvd. Thanks!

Where can I buy the CD of your documentary film the bladed hand?? I really wanted to it.

Ive done Philippino Martial arts myselc Doce Pares and Pekiti tersia before.. and I have to say it s a great martial art.. but when it comes to there knife work.. those moves u see are just drills.. and the angles the attacker is using are kinda easy to work with... its realy different if someone realy rushes fast with a knife... not just going for the specifik angle attacks.. like the x motion slash or stab from left or stab from right!!!

Good vid brother!

Where can I get a copy of the documentary? Will you be releasing DVDs? :)

Ancient Pilipinos arnis martial arts in reality is a fast kill move! No more extra form just hit it!

Yeah, those as well, just the groin is the one everybody goes on and jokes about. You can't kick shins in MMA? That's often a staple.

btw: UFC is a sport, thats why eskrima is not allowed because its unfair for the eskrimador to be able to attack in places the MMA practioner can't do.

san b ko matututo n'yan?

On the same page with you!

pwede ma ngayu ug kampilan nimu noy?

Bruce lee thought Wing Chun was the ultimate martial arts before he developed Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do. It's bullshit for CloudsBeyond to claim that Bruce Lee thinks Filipino MA is BS. Bruce Lee also said that you can't dismiss anything until you have done it and understand it. Keep training CB.

All practitioner how to determine the advantage and disadvantage in your opponent?

@karambitmaster Mumbakki studying Balintawak cuz he's no longer w/ PTK is also not true. this is for the documentary w/ GM Bobby showing Mumba Balintawak style, Tabimina method.

When and where is this coming out, Jay?

So its just grown ups doing what we did when we were children

Nice video, but, the only thing that bothers me with this video is that they're holding the sticks near the end (a few people exempted); I was taught not to do that, but to hold it at least a hand's width from the base of the stick..

@bisaiia brad relax ra. ma abot ranang atong well deserved na glory. nya mag sugod natag batik (tattoo) ani?

Eyeballs, Throat groin, shins, under armpit ect.

what bruce lee said or w/e ur trying to misconstrue is not important. what is important the facts speak for themselves,kali is a functional art,thats what matters.im not gonna reply anymore i already made my point. maybe one day, you will realize no martial art is better than another.u never know you might like kali if u just give it a chance. :)

when is this coming out?

Like the groin?

English women...hilarious! "When I stahhtud filipeeeneww mahhshal aahhts immejiately they poot a hooweapon in my hand and i was like hyyeass!" Thats it I am going to save up money and spend a summer in the philippines learning martial arts in luneta park.

@CloudsBeyond We train so that we are prepared with some response to an attack. Under your logic, you would just have us lay down and die. Futhermore, in your course of bashing FMA, you have clearly demonstrated you inexperience. The purpose of our drills is to train coordination, reflex, spacial relations, and timing, all of which are necessary for fighting.

your second comment says "balintawak should be more careful of who they befriend." if GM Nick Elizar and GM Bobby Tabimina have befriended him (and they know the story of Mumbakki's departure from PTK) who are you to say what Balintawak should do or not do?

@CloudsBeyond sport mma guys do not practice harder than kali practitioners or any other martial art, the shaolin monks training is at the top of the list of hardcore training. watching bellator or ufc does not make anyone expert in mma, get your facts straight. you embarrass yourself by saying kali is just twirling of a stick, there is so much more to it, kali also has a grappling system, its called dumog. you shouldnt underestimate it, a stick with skill could one day save your life.

Too much crab mentality insinuated in this thread of comments. I'm all about the motive to promote FMA to the world, but if fellow Pinoy Arnisadors and International FMA enthusiasts are gonna be busy with talking shit to each other over petty politics, then I'd rather maintain the same low profile I always kept. It's not my problem.

SYSTEMA!!!!!

I wouldn't waste my time arguing with a small minded person,If he thinks actor can do anything else but act,Both Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris have students and grandstudents that S.O.B needs to glove up with them.

You should be careful of commenting on something you don't know about regarding WHY PTK kicked him out.

I'lm sorry but i don't see how ufc is in any way an actually fighting system that you can use in real life, sure it depends on how you use it but mma and ufc is pure sport, not something you would actually use.

@CloudsBeyond did you think, before you posted, obviously you did not. lying about bruce lee, shame on you, and (i quote) lol MMA, where did it originate? if i am not mistaken alot of notable ufc fighters, and president dana white refer to bruce lee as the godfather of mma, but why? because jkd is a mixture of various effective arts, thats why! thats what REAL mma represents, not egomania.

@TheGreaterGood80 Couldn't have said it better!!

@CloudsBeyond There's a plethora of Global Armed Forces and Law Enforcement that would dispute your claim.

1:24 KAMPILAN

@karambitmaster You have no idea of the story WHY Mumbakki was "kicked out" of PTK. I know. You should be more careful of commenting on things you don't know.

@CloudsBeyond hahahaha do you think MMA and especially BBJ are going to save you on the street from a knife? MMA is a sport, where each person is completely aware of the others intentions, and one tries to both defend and attack. Its a game just like boxing or any other sport karate, tae kwondo etc. Kali as well as many other martial arts are designed for war scenarios, where your attacker is going for a kill shot, and they don't wait for a ref to say 'fight'...

@CloudsBeyond Well, where are you videos proving that you have something better. I have never trained with any FMA practitioner or instructor who claimed invicibility. On the contrary, I have been taught and continue to teach that if you fight against a blade, you will be cut, the only thing you can to (through proper application of principle and technique) is limit the lethality. I propose he analogy of boxing. Even the greatest boxers in the world get hit.

Wtf? Props to Doug, BUT, Does Marcaida think everyone around him will understand him better with that fake-ass accent? Doug: Brownin' it down.

subtitulos in spanish please, thanks

***** "How many Filipino Kali masters in UFC today??? "...... COMMON SENSE tells you that Eskrima Kali is a weapons art.... they are NOT allowed in MMA..... the empty hand of Kali Eskrima is similar to Kick boxing and Muay thai as the core striking art.... so there is really no reason to criticize the art since muay thai and kick boxing are extensively used in MMA.....

@bisaiiya - This film glorifies the Visayans who happen to be Filipinos. Itvhasn't even come out yet, and you are too quick to judge and curse.

Your name suggest other motives haha

So Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Jet Li and Jackie Chan are (or were in Bruce Lee's case) shitty fighters because theyre acters? your comment is BS. Someones skills (such as fighting) are not limited by what there career is (such as acting)

@CloudsBeyond, you convince yourself that mma guys train harder than anyone else you keep telling yourself that,because the reality is what you believe is all b.s. you mentioned "flashy" which proves yet again, you know little to nothing about martial arts, just like wushu, there is more to it than just aerobics. if u want to find out for yourself then enroll yourself in a kali class, prove to urself that your theory is indeed fact, if not then, ur just another mma fan boy trollin

Where you there when Bruce Lee said that? Get off the kool aid bandwagon and train. Bruce Lee is not the final answer to any martial art. And I highly doubt you are nearly anywhere near his attributes or intelligence.

Classical mess.