Storia

 
This paper is part of a not yet published PhD thesis on the history of Filipino martial arts.

It contains four insights sheding light on:
– the origins and meaning of the term “Arnis de Mano”;
– the ten datus, the bothoan schools, the book De Los Delitos and Lapulapu: history or myth of precolonial FMA origins;
– the practice of the duel in the Philippine Islands;
– the instruction of Spanish fencing to the native soldiers of the Ejército de Ultramar en Filipinas.

Although they apparently seem to have no interconnection, they are essential pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

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