A Kalis Ilustrisimo seminar is coming up on March 14, 2015
Time: 10:30 am
Place: the Blessed Sacrament school gym on Heather St and West 14th Avenue.
The Seminar will be taught by Guro Tom Dy Tang.
A bit about Kalis Ilustrisimo:
“The Ilustrisimo clan from Bantayan Island in the Northern part of the Cebu region was known for their Eskrima and has practiced its own traditional stick and sword fighting style for over five generations. Its first known practitioner was Pablo Ilustrisimo who passed it on to Juan de Dios Ilustrisimo, who then passed it to Isidro Ilustrisimo, to Melecio Ilustrisimo and to Regino Ilustrisimo. Although Tatang was taught by father Isidro Ilustrisimo and practiced his family style in his boyhood, he lived a long storied life and developed his own personal fighting style from his different teachers, compatriots, experiences and subsequent travel as a seaman, during which he faced numerous duels, challenges as well as “deathmatches” with live blades.
Today, there are several organizations that continue to teach and propagate Tatang’s art in part or in its entirety, like Kalis Ilustrisimo Repeticion Original headed by Tony Diego. Grandmaster Diego died on August 25, 2014. He named Tom Dy Tang as his successor in Kali Ilustrisimo Repeticion Original.”
From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalis_Ilustrisimo
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