How “Kuntaw” Outlawed Posted By G/GM on July 10, 2013 by Kyud Lanada, Sr. The brain of Modern Kuntaw 07/10/ 2013 How Kuntaw outlawed subsequently, during the decades of Spanish rule the native types of self-defense was abolished when the royal Audencia was established in Maynilad(Manila)by the Royal Decree of King Philip II in 1583, for the purpose of checking the Decree of the King Philip II in 1583, for the purpose of checking the native’s (katutubo) rights to exercise their own culture and sports. All forms of Martial Arts practiced were eventually banned by the Spaniards. The Filipinos consequently went underground and continued to practiced their arts. The Art as practiced before were known mainly as kali. The stick play turned into the Arnis de Mano fighting style. The Kuntaw broke off as the Hand and Foot fighting style which also practiced Arnis as the armed weapon art. There were other arts that grew from the main arts, such as buno, gumol, and lampugan (all wristling type of art), and sikaran, tadyakan, and sipaan and (type of foot arts) The arts such as Arnis and Kuntaw were also carefully hidden in the play of Moro-moro dance depecting the conquering and Christianization of the Filipinos. The Dancing woman of the group of Muslim are for the most part, ceremoniallike singkilan, sagayan, and the Maya dance form However, the Spaniards were unable to stamp out training of the fighting arts altogether. Dalubhasa (masters) and kasapi (members) established training sites and hiding places in the Mountain and forest to continue training and development of the art. It was after a century latter, when a more widespread hispanization of the island had been achieved that training in fighting arts such kuntawan by the katutubong native Filipino was again allowed to exist in the open, as a sport for exhibition. But in the southern most part of the country. the predominantly Muslim groups in Mindanao, the art of Kuntaw continued to flourish as a secret form of combat, but exclusive only to the Maharlika (royal family)and virtually did not undergo any changes. Kuntaw, on the other hand is basically hand and foot fighting techniques utilizing the sly, Catlike, soft and hard movement characteristic of those practiced by fore- fathers of the Muslim royalties for the tribes physical and mental and spiritually conditioning. Copyright © 2013 kuntaw.net | Proudly Powered by Wordpress | Theme by The Cloisters
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