Sunday morning, July 9, 2017 I was scheduled to visit Balintawak Sugbu's Headquarters at Carlo Campaña's house in Jugan, Consolacion, Cebu to buy sticks. Carlo Campaña is known for making customized eskrima sticks which are carve and burned with a touch of his own style in designing it, he also tells me that customized sticks that he will be making in the future will have leather grips, well that is one thing that collector of his masterpieces on a stick will soon be waiting to have. Balintawak Sugbu is one of the closest groups I knew may be because practitioners of their system is like a brother to me whom I can talk to whatever we want to talk. Just a bit of Balintawak Sugbu's background, Carlo "Kaloy" Campaña learn eskrima through his neighborhood friend John Villasin who is a son of the late Atty. Jose Villasin, one of the original founding members of Balintawak Eskrima. Kaloy served as the chief instructor of the Villasin club for a number of years until he decided to put up his own club called Balintawak Sugbu. They are having their training every Sunday 2pm. I took a picture of him holding his masterpiece with a dragon design.
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Combate Eskrima Maranga is headed by Rodrigo Maranga, he is the son of the late Major Timoteo Maranga who is one of the original members of Balintawak who later founded a system called "Tres Personas Eskrima De Combate Super Kwentada System" and was later shortened as C.E.M or Combate Eskrima Maranga. His son Rico maranga was a good friend who also resides in Lapu-Lapu City, he invited me to come to their training, I took my camera with me since it is a moment to see them train. What I had in mind is to see them train with their cuentada system since they have a broad background in the Balintawak system but later I found out that they are also practicing their own system in fighting long range. I always had a great talk with Rico Maranga whenever we will meet may it be martial arts or spiritual and I guess having my camera with me became a lifestyle to preserve moments that are meant to be treasured, they were training along with their foreign students, the training end with a group picture that I took. |
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