AntingAnting in Warrior Arts:
FMA Seminar

Sunday, July 16, 2023
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Legacy Filipino Martial Arts
200 Northgate Avenue, Daly City

KULARTS with Legacy Filipino Martial Arts presents AntingAnting in Warrior Arts: FMA Workshop and Discussion, as a part of Alleluia Panis’s AntingAnting Project. The series of workshops will incorporate three distinct FMA practitioners from various disciplines to instruct in technique, history, and storytelling from their respective lines of experience and knowledge. The event is offered to all levels and provides an educational and accessible community activation space that serves to expand our ideas of FMA and to better understand its role in the movement, history, and resistance of Pilipinx peoples. This knowledge guides us toward a practice which serves to strengthen our relationship to our culture pre-colonization and the resources to cultivate with each other in our communities.

Registration required by July 15, 2023.

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Women’s Self-Defense Workshop with Guro Kristen Cabildo

Duration: 2 hr
Cost: $30
Recommended Experience: All levels
Workshop Lead: Guro Kristen Cabildo

Learn more about the physical and intuitive skills necessary to escape an attack. By drawing on techniques and concepts from Filipino Martial Arts, you will optimize your chances of survival in a dangerous confrontation. This workshop is designed to give women with no previous martial arts experience a set of self-preservation tools that can be used for immediate application.

In this workshop, you will learn:

• How to take control of a dangerous situation so you have the tactical advantage even if an opponent is bigger, stronger, or more skilled than you.

• Self-defense, however, is more than just fighting, also about paying attention, strategy, and finding options.

• To use your senses to orient to your environment and tapping into your intuition to avoid potential danger.

• Situational awareness, reading body language, and understanding your own personal boundaries.

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Youth FMA Class with Master Joseph Bautista

Duration: 1 hr
Cost: $15
Recommended Experience: Basic/Beginner
Age range: 7-12 yr old
Workshop Lead: Master Joseph Bautista

Introduction workshop to the Junior Mandirigma class combines a mixture of Filipino Martial Arts and modern day self defense to create an electrifying curriculum that makes kids feel strong, reassured and confident.

This age-appropriate programs will include:

• Cardio, strength training, and flexibility

• Teamwork and leadership skills building

• Listening, motor skills and muscle memory improvement

• Variety of drills, exercises and martial arts training to keep them engaged and entertained

Values and Goals of this program:

• The class places a high emphasis on the traditional martial arts philosophies of fitness, safety and respect

• Participants will enjoy a friendly atmosphere as they become physically fit and they will also learn self-discipline

• Encourage participants to live a healthy and fit lifestyle and will teach them the basics of bully prevention

12:30 PM - 4:30 PM
FMA Seminar: Workshop and Discussion with Guro Greg Manalo, Guro Kristen Cabildo, and Master Joseph Bautista

Duration: 4 hr
Cost: $45
Recommended Experience: Basic martial arts knowledge of any form
Workshop Leads: Guro Gregory Manalo, Guro Kristen Cabildo, and Master Joseph Bautista

FMA Seminar will provide a taster from 3 different styles, each system with its own unique characteristics, and understanding how FMA practice can be a source of healing and well-being in the contemporary world.

This workshop and discussion will include:

• Exploration of the different FMA techniques, learning what makes every system different as well as how they can complement one another

• Learning the history of each system to provide participants a more comprehensive understanding of FMA

• Examination of FMA as more than a physical practice, but also present spiritual, mental, emotional, energetic, and community awareness

About the Practictioners