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[edit] Jendo
[edit] Introduction
It is a common mistake for many Filipino and foreign FMA practitioners to tag Stick-fighting or Weapons Fighting as the only Filipino martial art.
The truth is that, in the Philippines there are numerous number of other system of Filipino martial arts that exist alongside with Arnis and several of these have already been making names in the international scene.
Among these martial arts are the Dumog, the Yaw-yan and the famous Sikaran of Baras, Rizal who had already conducted several international competitions, seminars and clinics outside the Philippines for so many years.
In other regions, there are other arts that are also known but silently exist spreading inside and outside the Philippines. Among these are the Bakbakan, Kuntaw or the Kuntawan, the Taisan, the Takadi, Alamid Mongoose, the Tapondo and the Tracma that have already been featured in a movie entitled– the “Red Belt Master”.
In the City of Mandaluyong, we have martial arts called – Jendo, a fighting art that utilizes empty hands and traditional Filipino stick weaponries such as the bangkaw, baot or arnis, dulo-dulo, siit and bladed tools like punyal, itak or buning as a means of self-defense. It is founded and formulated partly based on the ancient oriental systems of discipline.
Jendo is very much different from many existing system. Some are limited to either linear or circular concept in movements. Jendo’s defensive and offensive techniques moves within the context of its own concepts and principles called the “Circuangulinear” movements, the term coined by the founder himself to represent the linear, the circular and the angular motion.
Jendo is considered to be one of the very few authentic contemporary martial arts able to pass the screening of several government agencies concern and several authorities from other martial arts disciplines.
Prominent followers and practitioners of the art translate Jendo as "The Economical New Fist Way". The word Jendo actually is an acronym. The first letter of the word "Jendo", J - was derived from the originator's first name - Jonathan or June; E - stands for the word Economical or economically; N - stands for the word Non-classical or Non-conventional; the fourth letter, D - stands for the word Defense and the last, the letter O - stands for the word Order, which means, the method, the system or the way it is arranged. In Grandmaster Abaya's Weapon's Fighting System, he defines Jendo as June Abaya's Espada y Navaja Depensa Orihinal or simply - June Abaya's Original Stick and Knife Fighting System. The word Espada represents the tools stick, itak or the buneng and the word navaja represents daga, punyal or knife. Grandmaster Abaya introduces his stick-fighting art as Traditional Arnis with a goal of uncovering and preserving the historical values of the art and developing its effectiveness into a highly scientific art using the concepts and principles of Jendo.
The art of Jendo empty hand and weapons fighting method was founded on a systematic principle of physical movements that develop its practitioner into a healthy, physically and mentally well-coordinated person. It is a complete art and a science dealing not just with the study of self-defense but also with the study of human existence, his behavior and relationships with all the things that surround him. Jendo is not just an expression of martial arts defense and counter-attack, it is an expression of one's inner self; a means of attaining life's true meaning. It is the path by which something is and should be achieved.
Understanding Jendo is learning how to be both physically and mentally free; the art is simple in its entirety, direct and natural. It is not fixed and it is alive, ever changing and always searching for new ways; it has room for improvements just like the world or the universe we are living in, never constant, ever vibrant.
This is Jendo...
