The Pekiti Tirsia Kali strategy is based on mobility, counterattacking and triangular movement and clearly comes from the era when when it was common for Filipino men to carry swords and knives based on what they used predominantly in farming.
Pekiti Tirsia Kali is a Filipino close quarter fighting system that focuses on edged weapons. It encompasses a wide range of traditional weapons and tactics, namely:
- Single stick (single sword)*
- Double sticks (two swords)*
- Single knife
- Double knives
- Espada y Daga (long blade and knife)
- Sibat (spear)
- Empty-handed techniques and grappling (dumpag and dumog)
* Sticks are used in training in place of swords
The system originates from the provinces of Panay and Negros Occidental and was created by the Tortal clan. The family patriarch and Grandmaster of Pekiti Tirsia, Grand Tuhon Conrado B. Tortal, passed the system to his only grandson Grand Tuhon Leo Tortal Gaje, Jr.
Grand Tuhon Conrado B. Tortal, like the other family leaders before him, further developed the system through the testing and the research of technique and strategy. Practicing within the family, duels with other systems and actual combat continuously honed and validated Pekiti Tirsia as an effectives and deadly fighting system. The current headmaster of the system, Grand Tuhon Leo Tortal, inherited the system from his grandfather Conrado Tortal. Grand Tuhon Gaje began to study the system at the age of six and eventually learn it in its entirety.
Grand Tuhon Leo Gaje inherited the system at the passing of his grandfather. As with family tradition, he practiced and kept the system within their clan. When Grand Tuhon Gaje immigrated to the US in 1972, he realized the potential of sharing the family system to others and began teaching the system to a select number of martial artists.
Grand Tuhon Gaje is widely recognized as one of the top edged weapons instructors in the world, and served as a technical advisor for theSurviving Edged Weapons law enforcement training video.
(Sourced from Buddy Acenas, founder of Pekiti Tirsia Manila at ptkmanila.com)
Pekiti Tirsia Kali – Hangkilan is the training group led by instructor, Mataas na Guro Patch Caballero. With the blessing and guidance of Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje jr., supreme grandmaster of the Pekiti Tirsia Kali System and Tuhon Rommel Tortal, founder and chairman of Pekiti Tirsia Kali Asia Pacific Confederation. Dedicated in propagating the Filipino fighting system here in the Philippines to fellow Filipinos and to other nations abroad. “Hangkilan” which means “Ferocious Warrior” in hiligaynon is the name given to the group by Tuhon Nonoy Garrucho in 2011.
Mandala Maginoo Nonoy Garrucho(L) with Mataas na Guro Patch Caballero also Pekiti Tirsia Hangkilan Instructor (R)
Me (L) with Mandala Maginoo Nonoy Garrucho (R)
I miss getting back to training, looking forward to train with my buddies in PTK Manila and PTK Hangkilan soon.
Pekiti Tirsia Hangkilan Training schedules are Mondays and Wednesdays from 8:00pm – 10:00pm at the covered court area of Brgy. UP village, Diliman, Quezon City. Saturdays (optional) from 3:00pm – 5:00pm.
For more information:
Mobile number: +63.922.581.2525
Email: ptkhangkilan@gmail.com
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