It was the 25th of February of 2012 when I got this Kamagong Stick, a work mate of mine named Lemuel Fuentes gave me this kamagong stick he said it was his father's stick who also practiced eskrima, no one is practicing eskrima in their family anymore and his father was already gone. I've met him when I was still working as their team leader in the assembly line at Sawo Finland at MEPZ2, I was assigned by the manager to interview and pick additional men in my area and going through those papers whom they hired was an experienced carpenter/assembly man, so I looked for him, I was surprised to see him in the machinery area carrying a trash bin, I told the manager that I need this guy, he had enough experience based on his previous job description in his resume, as I approached him I told him if he want to join my team, and he agreed and joyfully join our team. Days passed by and one of my team Eduard Maglasang who was into karatedo joined me in one of our training in Eskrima we would had a chat on breaktime about eskrima, Lemuel Fuentes heard about it and joined the conversation and said that his father was also into eskrima, that was the time he told me that he would give me his father's stick and on the 25th of February 2012 he went to our house and gave it to me, it is made of Kamagong (scientific name: Diospyros blancoi) a plant of the genus of ebony trees and persimmons which is a wood that is typically used as an impact weapon in the Filipino Martial Arts, the stick is 28" long , with a diameter of an inch, and had several chips at the center part of the stick maybe due to some impacts on trainings, and the bottom of the stick was shaped manually, its color was black and had a few strips of brown. I use this stick whenever I want to do and perform the basic routine that I usually practice, a round of the amaras and the basic defense and strike form in a slow and correct form for the stick is quite heavy compared to the usual rattan that I am comfortable with . The last time I visited him in his house he told me that a student of his father who is based at Palawan came to his house and was looking for his father and he told him that his father passed away, the guy then gave him a kamagong stick and said he brought the stick for his father. How I wish I would have known his father but then I'm still happy to have met his son.
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We were having a heritage walk at Parian, Cebu City along with me was my cousin we visited several old houses and found some antique bastons, I was into Filipino Martial Art so I'm happy to see some beautiful antique pieces of canes and sticks, we've visited the Yap-San Diego Ancestral House and Casa Gorordo. We've took some pictures at the old houses but there's something weird that happened at Casa Gorordo as we took a few shots while we were at the upper floor of the house at the back portion near the banyo the camera won't click and I told my cousin to stop taking pictures and we went out, we felt weird, while we were browsing pics we've noticed an image of a person reflected in the mirror, also attached in this post were pictures of the antique bastons that were displayed.
I watched an arnis tournament at Gaisano Grandmall, Students mostly in their highschool were playing the sport type of arnis, it is organized by Arnis Philippines and the group Magkuno Diamond Back Eskrima. I had a great talk with the Supreme Grand Master of Magkuno Diamond Back Eskrima, Ernesto "Erning" Berdin, his background in eskrima was Doce Pares the late Larry Alquizar and the late Momoy Canete were his mentors who taught him about eskrima. He also told me that the sport of Arnis is like a "Dawat-dawat you hit and you'll be hit, it is a sport but in real life you shouldn't be hit by the opponent at all, when an opponent strike you hit him back with 4-5 strikes" . I shook his hand as I went home and thank him for still being passionate with eskrima and teaching it to the next generation. I took some pictures of the tournament. pls. check them out... |
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