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[ANALYSIS] Just How Bad Was Corruption During the Marcos Years?
[ANALYSIS] Just How Bad Was Corruption During the Marcos Years?
Marcos does have a legitimate Guinness World Record to his name: “Greatest Robbery of a Government” to the tune of $5 billion to $10 billion. This record has yet to be beaten. Yet so many myths about the Marcoses still abound.
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Published at 2019-09-19 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Documentary, History, Politics
Enter the Escrima: Bruce Lee and Filipino Martial Arts
Enter the Escrima: Bruce Lee and Filipino Martial Arts
Bruce Lee is regarded as one of the greatest martial artists, if not the greatest master of the art to ever live. His art revolutionized cinema forever, changing the way the western world perceived martial arts. Over the course of his life, Lee’s fame came not only from his films, but also from the creation of his own art. Jeet Kun Do, “the way of the intercepting fist,” drew influences from every art Lee studied, which included Filipino martial arts.
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Published at 2018-03-17 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Documentary, Sport, Stories
Jose Rizal, Martial Arts Warrior
Jose Rizal, Martial Arts Warrior
Jose Rizal was born a frail, sickly child. To compensate for his small size, he devoted himself to a regimen of exercise and body-building. He had a private pastime he called higante(giant), in which he would stand on tiptoe and stretch his body, legs and arms. He studied arnis de mano (stickfighting), dumog (wrestling), suntukan (boxing) and fencing (foil and rapier), which became lifelong disciplines to him.
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Published at 2018-03-15 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Stories
Arnis
Arnis
Arnis, also known as Kali or Eskrima, is the national sport and martial art of the Philippines. The three are roughly interchangeable umbrella terms for the traditional martial arts of the Philippines ("Filipino Martial Arts", or FMA) that emphasize weapon-based fightingwith sticks, knives, bladed weapons and various improvised weapons as well as "open hand" or techniques without weapons.
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Published at 2018-02-08 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Culture, Sport
Arnis: the Philippines' National Sport and Martial Art
Arnis: the Philippines' National Sport and Martial Art
Arnis enjoys the status of the de jure national sport of the Philippines. It is a martial art characterized by the use of “swinging and twirling movements, accompanied by striking, thrusting and parrying techniques for defense and offense.” Having been handed down from generation to generation for centuries, the discipline hones the skill, speed, accuracy and agility of its practitioners.
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Published at 2018-02-05 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Culture, Sport
Philippine Martial Dance
Philippine Martial Dance
Martial dances pertain to war, combat, or duel movements common to dances for men. In the context of Philippine dance, these dances symbolize manhood. It can mean community acceptance in the council of warriors as practiced in the Mangayaw of the Bontoc – an ethnic group in the Cordillera Region of Northern Luzon. The Mangayaw is a a pre-headhunting ritual performed by adult villagers where new warriors are presented to the council.
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Published at 2017-12-25 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Arts, Culture, Documentary