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After Tatang Ilustrisimo's death in 1997, Tony Diego was elected the head of Kalis Ilustrisimo. Tony Diego later added a descriptive to the system which became known as Kalis Ilustrisimo Repeticion Orihinal. This was on the suggestion of the late Pedro Reyes—that the senior students of Tatang should set up their own schools.
Antonio "Tatang" Ilustrisimo (1904 in Bagong, Bantayan, Cebu – 1997) was the Grandmaster of Kalis Ilustrisimo (KI), a Filipino martial art bearing his family name. Early life [ edit ]
Arnis, also known as kali or eskrima/escrima, is the national martial art of the Philippines. [3] These three terms are, sometimes, interchangeable in referring to traditional martial arts of the Philippines ("Filipino Martial Arts", or FMA), which emphasize weapon-based fighting with sticks, knives, bladed weapons, and various improvised weapons, as well as "open hand" techniques without weapons.
In 1981, he moved to Manila to train under Grandmaster Antonio Ilustrisimo. After relocating to the United States on June 30, 1989, he became instructor to Dan Inosanto and Larry Hartsell. Recognizing the talent and knowledge that Edgar possessed, Dan Inosanto would become a lifetime student and an advocate of the Lameco system.
Kalis Ilustrisimo - Founded by Antonio "Tatang" Ilustrisimo; important as the ancestor of many current eskrima systems. [3] [4] Some senior students are Antonio "Tony" Diego, [5] Epifanio "Yuli" Romo, Christopher "Topher" Ricketts, [6] Rey Galang and Romeo Macapagal; Jose Rizal practiced Arnis de Mano from Laguna [7]
2010: In the movie Repo Men, Forest Whitaker (a long time kali student under Dan Inosanto) and Jude Law used kali for the vicious fight scenes with Jeff Imada as fight choreographer. [ 11 ] 2010: In the movie The Book of Eli , the title character, played by Denzel Washington , uses a stylized Bolo blade in self-defense.
Edgar Sulite (September 25, 1957 – April 10, 1997) was a teacher of Filipino martial arts.He was the creator of Lameco Eskrima and trained such notables as Dan Inosanto, Ron Balicki, Larry Hartsell, Fred Degerberg, and Diana Lee Inosanto.
Modern Arnis is the system of Filipino fighting arts founded by Remy Presas as a self-defense system. His goal was to create an injury-free training method as well as an effective self-defense system in order to preserve the older Arnis systems.