![]() All this, of course, makes the text copious with all the references a reader might need, even if, at the same time, the reading might be demanding. It provides: abundant and precise bibliographical references of the sources used numerous quotations, given both in the original language and transposed into English and in-depth studies aimed at verifying the information available. The four insights that make up this study are the result of extensive academic research. Although they apparently seem to have no interconnection, they are essential pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. ![]() 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. ABSOLUTE NEW: a free hypertextualized version of this paper has been provided for the reader to be downloaded on request to the author via this email address: This paper is part of a not yet published PhD thesis on the history of Filipino martial arts.
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