Arnis takes stage at Palarong Pambansa

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MANILA, Philippines - If Japan has karate and Korea has taekwondo, the Philippines also has its own martial arts sport that it could be proud of.
Arnis, also known as kali or eskrima, is a Filipino indigenous martial arts that were supposedly practiced by the natives even before the onset of the Spanish colonization. In fact, it was believed that Lapu-Lapu, having used it during the historical Battle of Mactan against Ferdinand Magellan, was one of the first masters of the sport.

However, because of the new culture brought by our colonizers, arnis was overshadowed and almost went out of the spotlight.

Luckily, with the rise of martial arts as a popular sport during the 1980s, arnis was able to recapture the interest not of the Filipinos, but also of the whole world in general.

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