The Philippines martial art of arnis evokes 16th-century tribal ruler ... AFP / WAKIL KOHSAR Players in body armour and grilled helmets bow to one another in the middle of the fighting square ...

To the untrained eye, arnis — the stick-wielding martial art of the Philippines — is brutal and frenzied ... Players in body armor and grilled helmets bow to one another in the middle of the fighting ...

Juan Miguel Zubiri, the Philippines Arnis Federation president ... Players in body armor and grilled helmets bow to one another in the middle of the fighting square before attempting to strike ...

The stick-wielding martial art of the Philippines is back again ... when the country hosted the Games. In arnis, two players in body armor and helmets try to hit each other with a baton made ...

But he wanted to do all those things back in the Philippines. Dantes soon came back for a long stretch to see what could be done. Arnis Philippines was all but an old boys’ club, with no way of ...

ANGELES CITY-- Four podium finishes closed the Philippines' sustained dominance in the arnis competition of the 30th Southeast Asian Games Tuesday here in Pampanga. Crisamuel Delfin and Mary Allin ...

"When we won it alongside co-champions Vietnam in the 2005 SEA Games, unfortunately the national sports association (NSA) back then (Arnis Philippines or ARPI) wasn't really able to touch base ...

As an arnisador (practitioner of arnis), it gives me joy to see other people getting interested in the Philippines’ National Martial Art and Sport, as declared by Republic Act No. 9850. Not because ...

Its success prompted Philippine Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation (PEKAF) president Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri to lobby for the inclusion of the sport as a regular event in the biennial meet.

PHNOM PENH—Charlotte Ann Tolentino and Jedah Mae Soriano pulled off a double-gold effort on the first day of arnis competitions ... and Soriano pushed the Philippine output to 46 gold medals ...