Greetings everyone! We are proud to be teaching the following classes for this year's Saratoga Martial Arts Festival - SMAF- in New York:
This is the academy’s archived announcement for the festival in New York.
From Blade to Buah: Filipino Kali and Silat Melayu
The archive describes this workshop as a comparison of Filipino Kali and Silat Melayu. It traces the material to the academy’s Pekiti-Tirsia and Malaysian lineages and describes the instructors’ interest in connections between them.
The Core of Malaysian Silat
The Malaysian Silat workshop drew on the systems the academy studied in Malaysia. The announcement emphasized how those schools approached training and how their traditions differed from Filipino Kali.
The Yoruba Martial Art of Gidigbo
The Gidigbo session introduced a martial tradition indigenous to the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. The original announcement described its ceremonial role at festivals and its sporting forms, as well as the people who have helped pass it on.