Some rumbles elsewhere & huberous

Hey Doc,

I have been following a thread on mtc that was created from one sentence in your recent blog post under the "My Comments" regarding the Atillo list of disciples and successors.  The posters on mtc are making big deal out of the fact that you stated that several organizations were not recognizing the rank and rank certificates of people who had earned their statuses from the late GM/Professor Remy Presas.  You did send a private e-mail to one guy and he mentioned that fact in his post on the thread.
You were talking about some exchanges that you had with the new leadership of the IMAF/MoTTs back in 2001/2002.  Several of your critics are saying that the current leadership never mentioned that they would not honor or recognize rank certificates given by the late GM Presas.  I think that they have missed the point of your comments to the one gentleman, who I am assuming posted the correct information about exactly who had been mentioned to him.

Here's my take on the entire matter.  Back in 2001/2002, when Jeff Delaney and Randy Schea were the co-leaders of the IMAF?MoTTs group of Modern Arnis, they were requiring everyone with rank given by the then recently deceased GM/Founder of Modern Arnis, to re-test with the new leadership.
That was (and still is) a bogus requirement in my opinion.  Neither of the two people mentioned above have or ever had the stature and reputation of Professor Remy Presas.  They were way out of bounds in making that sort of requirement of anyone who already had a rank certificate from the system founder.  They should have acknowledged and accepted the rank already earned and then they
could have required new tests for continuing advancements in the IMAF.

However if they followed that line of logic and showed deference to and respect for their deceased GM, it would have cost them some money (testing fees).  Since the departure of the 2 people mentioned above, their successors may not be following the examples cited by you as reported to the mtc by one of the posters.  That makes since to me.  New leadership brings out some new approaches to the way an organization is run.

My impression is that some of the posters were not reacting to the information presented as much as they were reacting to the fact that you were the person who made the initial comment and subsequent clarifying private e-mail to one person.  Once some of those folks found out that Dr. Jerome Barber was the source of the information, it was time to honker down and get defensive.  That's really too bad but I understand why you didn't want to post on the thread itself.

BTW, I agree with your idea that the GM Atillo list is news and should be given wide distribution.
By making his list of successors public, prior to his passing away, GM Atillo has taken all of the steam out of a possible succession fight of the type that we have witnessed so often in the past and in so many systems when the GM passed on.  I believe that he done has a great thing for the students and followers of his Atillo-Saavedra Balintawak Eskrima System and I hope that other GMs will look at this as a precedent setting way to do business in the future.

Of course these are all my own opinions and hopefully people will read it as simply one man's thoughts about some public discussions.  There is no need for folks to their knickers all knotted up over my opinions, they are free to have their own opinions and disagree with me ;-)

Adam Toussaint

My resignation letter to the Mataw Guro Association

Earlier today I sent the following letter to the Mataw Guro Association, tendering my resignation from that organization.  As the long time followers of this blog know I was a charter member of the 10 Mataw Guro inductees in 2010.  I was quite proud and pleased to be recognized as a teacher of the FMA.  I believed that the subsequent organization would be a viable umbrella group that stressed the basics of FMA and prepared new students to the FMA with a strong foundation that they could take into any specific system/style as they continued their studies.  That was the promise made at the first MGA Gathering and organizational meeting.  That promise has not been kept and I have decided to sever my relationship with the organization. My letter follows:

An Open Letter to ALL MGA Members

Please be advised that I WILL NOT be attending the 2013 MGA Gathering.
Several things have led me to this decision:

1. My understanding of what the MGA was supposed to be and what it has morphed
into between 2010 and 2013 are very far apart philosophically.

2.  My critique of MGA policies have gone unanswered.  My expectation was that as
equals within the organization that ideas would be exchanged and debated.  When that
does not happen, there is little to no opportunity for growth and development either as
individuals or as a collective group.

3.  There is a persistent and pervasive undercurrent of ethnocentric xenophobic behavior
within the leadership ranks of the MGA which I simply can not understand and will not be
a party to for any reason.

4.  The MGA Board of Directors is totally non-functional.  The BoD members have refused
to meet and discuss policies and other matters related to the business of the MGA.  I hereby
formally resign my position as a member of that board, effective today, July 12, 2013 at 5pm,
EDST.

5.  I am also tendering my resignation from the MG Association, effective today, July 12, 2013,
effective at 5pm EDST, so that PMG Lou Lledo will have time to name a person to serve out the
remainder of my 2 year appointment as a member of the BoD.

I shall not be using the MG designation after 5 pm EDST today and any communications that any
member of the MGA might wish to have with me should use the title "Dr."  or "Professor" since
both are earned titles and not associated with the MGA in any manner.  I will retain the "MG"
as part of my professional resume since it was awarded prior to the formal organizational structure
of the MGA.

Good bye to all.

Respectfully,

Dr. Jerome Barber,
Grand Master, Datu, Principal Teacher,
INDEPENDENT Escrima-Kenpo-Arnis Associates

Professor Park and the Gathering of Eagles

Author	Michael D. Park
E-mail	michael.d.park@verizon.net
URL	http://www.KempoKarateofPlano.com
Comment	I met and trained with Dr. Barber at the Gathering of Eagles / Kenpo Hall of Fame. I found him to be an honest representative of authentic technique and one of the few that impressed me with a solid tactical understanding and complimentary philosophy. He is a humble, effective and accomplished teacher of martial-arts. ----------------------------------------------------------- I just met Professor Park at the 2013 Gathering of Eagles in Chicago, last weekend, through a mutual friend Master John Bain.  We were able to attend one another's seminars, which ran 90 minutes each and it gave us an opportunity to compare notes and ideas about personal self-defense tactics and techniques.  All three of us share a Kenpo/Kempo background, but have introduced elements from several other styles within our presentations. Professor Park and Master Bain are "old school" trained and their ideas and philosophies are quite similar to my own.  For instance, in training our students, the student is shown the technique, run through several repetitions and then given an opportunity to practice against new partners, critiqued and only then allowed to ask questions.  Then we explain  the details and give a possible variation if necessary.  We expect our students to execute the techniques correctly in practice and "short-cutting" is not an option available to our students because we know that under the stress of an actual street confrontation our students will not be able to perform the technique at 100% efficiency, therefore getting it right in practice means the student has an 85 to 90%  chance of making the techniques work in the street, where it will count the most and there are no 'do-overs'. I want to thank Professor Park for his kind words and I am looking forward to working with him again in the near future. Sincerely, Jerome Barber, Ed. D.

Mobility and Basic Footwork in the IEAA

                                                                                                                                                   

I was always taught that the long bladed knife or Bolo was the primary fighting tool of a number of FMA systems.  Modern Arnis, as taught by Professor Remy Presas, is an example of this general bladed orientation.  Sifu Don Zanghi, my first Kenpo-Arnis instructor made sure that his students were aware of this orientation and stressed that the rattan stick was a training tool and represented the bolo.  As I read through the introductions of Professor Presas' first 2 books, Modern Arnis: Filipino Martial Art: “Stick Fighting” (1974) and The Practical Art of Eskrima: The Filipino Martial Art of Attack and Defense with cane or bare hands otherwise known as Arnis (1975), it was very clear to me that the blade was the weapon of choice in the Philippines prior to the modern era of firearms.  All anyone needed to do was examine the number of blade types that Professor referred to in his 1974 book on page 10, “...kris, bolo, kalis, laring, barong, gunong, kampilan, gayang, pira, punal, itak banjal, bangkcon, lahot and the panabas” and any doubts about the bladed orientation would be easily removed.   

Given that array of bladed instruments, it seems to me that effective defensive skills, beginning with footwork and mobility are absolutely necessary if one is going to stay alive, healthy and retaining all of their body parts intact.  My first Asian Martial Arts instructor, Sifu Don Zanghi, taught a self-defense style that blended Tracy System Kenpo and Modern Arnis.  He placed a great deal of emphasis on good evasive footwork.  Therefore I am going to follow his lead in this booklet, as I have done over the past 30+ years.  I will introduce the basic fighting stance of the IEKA, the neutral stance and the footwork that drives our IEKA single stick blocking methodology.

One of the benefits of stepping as you stick block or strike is that you will naturally and very easily rotate your hips thereby adding power to both motions.  Since blocks are in reality your first counter-strikes, you want to have both speed and power as you execute your blocks.  The smaller you are in physical stature and muscle size, the more important it is for you to generate as much power as you can from the smallest movements that you make.  This is a form of “economy of motion” or the idea of making 2 or 3 positive things happen at the same time with a single movement.  The full economy of motion concept is beyond the scope of this booklet, but the idea can be found in many areas of movement within the FMA.

In the IEKA instructional format we use the “clock” system to determine where a person is stepping as they are attacking or defending.  This system can also be described in terms of compass directions.  The following schematic depicts the clock system:

                     12

     10:30                  1:30

9                   +                  3:30             

     7:30                 4:30

                    6

As the defender, you will begin your defensive actions from the center (+) spot in the clock and it is assumed that you are always facing 12:00 at the beginning of any sequence of movements.  Your opponent or opponents can be at any spot on the perimeter of the clock, including being directly behind you.  That latter situation will of course necessitate that you take some sort of evasive action in order to turn and face that person(s) as well as counter the opponent’s attack.

All of the directions for you, the defender, will be given in terms of the starting position in the center of the clock and moving in the direction toward one or more of the other positions listed above in the schematic.  Moving in a clockwise progression the compass points would be North (12), Northeast (1:30), East (3), Southeast (4:30), South (6), Southwest (7:30), West (9) and Northwest (10:30).

Neutral Stance:

The neutral stance is the key to our mobility training within the IEAA Escrima Amis program. While the horse stance provides the sturdiest foundation for the legs, the neutral stance allows us to move faster and easier than the horse stance. The reasons are very simple and direct. The horse stance is lower and wider. There is excellent side to side stability, but virtually no front to back stability and it exposes our entire center line or vital organs to attack.   The neutral stance corrects both of those defects although there is of course, a trade-off.  The neutral stance since it is higher is not as stable or strong.   On the other hand the greater mobility that it affords us is a very acceptable alternative benefit.

To establish a neutral stance, start with your feet together, shoulders on the 3 – 9 axis line of the clock and facing 12:00.  Take one (1) full step toward 12:00 with your right foot (RF), pivot on the balls of both feet, turning toward the left or counter-clockwise (CCW) so that you are now facing toward the 10:30 position.  Your feet are pointed toward 10:30, your shoulders are now on the 7:30 – 1:30 axis line.  Take a half-step or stride toward 10:30 with your left foot (LF).  Turn your head to the right and look in the 12:00 direction.  You are now in the basic neutral stance position with your hands at your sides.  Bend your arms at your elbows to raise your hands up on either side of the face in a guard position and bend your knees slightly so that neither joint is in a locked position.  Raise your left heel slightly off the ground.  This is your basic empty hand neutral stance fighting position.

In this position, your hands can protect your face, your elbows and upper arms protect your ribs, you right thigh is protecting your groin from a frontal or 12:00 attack and can rotate your waist to your left in order to further protect your groin from an opponent’s hooking attack originating from the 10:30 quadrant.    You can use inward or outward forearm blocks to protect your chest and mid-section against hooking attacks.  Add a stick to your right hand (RH) and you are in the right side (Rs) forward neutral ready stance for stick fighting using strikes and/or blocks.

Reverse the directions of the feet and establish a left side (Ls) neutral stance.  If you keep the stick in your right hand, place your stick against your raised left forearm, in a horizontal plane and you will be in the left side (Ls) forward neutral ready stance for stick striking or blocking from a backhand orientation.    In  both the right and left side neutral stances, the elbows are kept down and against your ribs thereby providing protection for the ribs.

Neutral Stance Basic Transition Drills - Stepping Through:

1.   Begin with a right side (Rs) forward neutral stance.  Step forward with your left foot (LF) and assume a left side forward neutral stance.

2.   Step forward with your right foot (RF) and assume a right side (Rs) forward neutral stance.

3.   From the current right side (Rs) forward stance, step back toward 6:00 with your right foot (RF) and assume a left side (Ls) forward stance.

4.   Step back with your left foot (LF) and assume a right side (Rs) forward neutral stance.

 These "step-through" drills allow us to make the basic stance transitions while maintaining the same type of stance, merely shifting from a right foot lead to a left foot lead and then back to the original right foot lead.  We can advance or retreat in a protected body positioning sequence.   One consideration that must  be kept in mind when using the 'step-through' transitions is the need for protecting your groin while moving forward or backward and changing the lead sides. The legs must never be opened too widely.  A quick natural turning of the hips must accompany the steps, so that your groin and bladder areas are not facing forward and unprotected. Your shoulders and hips must always be re-aligned along one of the lines of the "X" axis from 1:30 to 7:30 or 10:30 to 4:30, as quickly as possible in order to prevent a kick or punch to those areas.

Push-step:

The push-step is a quick forward or reverse movement to either close or open the distance or "gap" between yourself and your opponent.  Start from the Rs neutral stance and push off with your rear foot, and step toward 12:00 with your Right Foot.   Your rear foot should land in front of the spot vacated by your lead foot.   If the lead foot moved 6 inches, then the rear foot should move the same distance forward.  You should still be in a balanced, Rs neutral stance.  To move back or retreat, push back with your lead or RF, as your rear or LF steps back toward 6:00. You should still be in your RS neutral stance at the end of the procedure.  The push-step may also be used on a forward angle toward 10:30 or 1:30 or on a retreating angle toward 7:30 or 4:30.  This angled movement is sometimes referred to as "Triangulation".   It is a very important, yet basic, evasion maneuver.

 
Shuffle:

A series of push-step maneuvers used to cover a greater distance than can be accomplished with two or more push-steps in any direction.  The shuffle allows the user to remained balanced and in a protective neutral stance while moving.

In-place Stepping:

This stepping method is used to establish a strong base for blocking and striking by shifting your weight from one side of your body to the other while maintaining a solid well balanced neutral stance.  The transition from your Rs neutral stance to the Ls neutral stance is accomplished by stepping forward with your LF to the 12:00 position next to your RF and stepping backward toward 6:00 with your RF.  Returning to the RS neutral stance is completed by stepping forward to 12:00 with your RF, placing it next to your LF, then stepping back to 6:00 with your LF, to establish the RS neutral stance.   In-place stepping is used    to hold your position, without gaining or losing ground.   It is very effective and useful on wet slippery surfaces, where there is a strong possibility of slipping    and falling as you try to defend yourself against an attacker.

Lateral Shift Step:

This is a side to side variation of the in-place stepping technique. Starting from a RS neutral stance, step toward 10:30 with your LF, then step to 6:00 with your RF. You are now in the Ls neutral stance.   Return to your Rs neutral stance is achieved by stepping to 1:30 with your RF and to 6:00 with your LF.  The lateral shift step allows you to change your position to either side of your original starting point as you defend yourself against an attack and set-up your counter-attack.  It is a form of “triangulation”

V-Stepping:

The V-Step pattern is another angled stepping pattern.  It utilizes the rear step of the in-place pattern, however instead of stepping straight forward to change the lead foot, the second step is angled.  This pattern also has the added element of shifting from one point to an entirely different place or position that is not easily done with the lateral shift step movement.  The major advantages of V-stepping are in the positional changes that can be added to the initial rear step.  With the V-steps you can easily add a step to your left or right sides as well as a second rearward step of open a wider gap with your opponent.

Side Stepping:

The side step is fairly easy to do since it involves both feet moving in the same direction and maintaining  your shoulder width placement and neutral stance orientation without changing from the Rs to the Ls or vice-versa.  The stepping rule is quite simple, if going to your right, step first with your right foot, then move your left foot and place it in position on the floor re-establishing your Rs neutral stance.  If you side step to your left, move your left foot first, then your right foot and re-establish your Rs neutral stance.

Cover and Turn:

In a street confrontation, where there are no judges, referees or rules of sportsmanship being followed by your opponent(s).  It is very important that you have mastered some evasive movements and avoid being struck or cut so that you can effectively counter-attack with speed, strength and power.

Cover and turn allows you to survey the area around you and turn to either side or toward your rear quadrant, with relative safety and maintaining good balance and using only a minimal amount of movement on your part.  Place yourself in the Rs neutral stance and then assume that you want to turn so that you can face 6:00. To accomplish this goal, you will step toward 10:30 with your RF, pivot on the balls of both feet, with the toes of both feet pointing toward 7:30, your shoulders on the 10;30 to 4:30 axis, you should be looking toward 6:00 in the Ls neutral stance with your stick in front of your right shoulder.  You have just completed a cover and turn movement. 

To return to the 12:00 position, step toward 7:30 with your LF, pivot on the balls of both feet, with your toes pointing toward 10:30, your shoulders will be on the 1:30 to 7:30 axis of your clock and your head is turned toward 12:00 and you have reassumed your original Rs neutral stance.  (Please note that you will have moved 2 steps to your left after you complete the return to your original Rs Neutral stance.  You have NOT done anything incorrectly.  The Cover and turn maneuver takes you off the original 12 – 6 axis line and establishes a new 12 – 6 (or N – S) axis line with each turning movement.)

If your goal is to turn to face either 3:00 or 9:00 from your Rs neutral stance, cover and turn will help you accomplish going to either direction. To change and face 3:00, step toward 10:30 with your LF, pivot on the balls of both feet, pointing your toes toward 1:30 and your shoulders will be on the 4:30 to 10:30 axis and you can face 3:00, and you will still be in a Rs neutral stance with your stick in front of your right shoulder. 

To transition to face 9:00, from your Rs Neutral stance, that is oriented toward 12:00, step toward 1:30 with your RF, pivot on the balls of both feet and point your toes toward 10:30, placing your shoulders along the 1:30 to 7:30 axis, you will be facing 9:00, and in a Ls neutral stance with your stick in front of your right shoulder.

It is extremely important that you learn how to use the "cover and turn" technique, because you should never assume that you will always be faced by only one nasty person at a time whose intention is to hurt you. The ability to quickly turn and change your body positioning, correctly while covering yourself, is a vital skill that could be the difference between escaping serious injury or death on the streets.

Neutral Stance Four Directions Cover and Turn Drills:

The Right Side Orientation:                                The Left Side Orientation:

12:00 Rs neutral stance                                       12:00 Ls neutral stance

9:00 Ls neutral stance                                             3:00 Rs neutral stance

3:00 Rs neutral stance                                             9:00 Ls neutral stance

12:00 Ls neutral stance                                         12:00 Rs neutral stance

6:00 Rs neutral stance                                             6:00 Ls neutral stance

12:00 Ls neutral stance                                          12:00 Rs neutral stance

3:00 Rs neutral stance                                              9:00 Ls neutral stance

9:00 Ls neutral stance                                               3:00 Rs neutral stance

12:00 Rs neutral stance                                          12:00 Ls neutral stance

Close                                                                          Close

In the IEKA curriculum we train our students to utilize both their right and left side movements.  The reality of combat confrontations is that you do not know what angle or direction an opponent may choose to strike from, therefore, you must be prepared to defend every angle or degree of the clock.  You have to be comfortable moving to or from both your strong (dominate hand) and weak sides.  Therefore, above I have included the left side orientation of the cover and turn drill.  Practice these  drills on both sides and never allow yourself to develop a “sugar side” or a one sided orientation in the combat/self-defense arts.  Go back to earlier sections of the booklet and practice everything shown on both the right and left sides of the body.  An attacker will never willingly or graciously attack you only on your strong side and always after giving you ample warning that he/they are coming.  Please keep in mind something that I post in ALL of my curriculum handouts:

“Prior proper preparation prevents piss poor performance!”  

Jerome Barber, Ed. D.
GM and Mataw Guro,
Independent Escrima-Kenpo-Arnis Associates

Some Personal Thoughts About Modern Arnis Instruction

As a young child growing up and particularly as a teenager, I was taught to be thoughtful, analytical and critical. My parents did not subscribe to the notion of being compliant, docile or blindly obedient to any religious, political or educational authority, although, I had to be courteous and respectful toward my elders. 

As a sociology and philosophy student in college I was encouraged to be intellectually curious, resourceful, analytically critical and to conduct scientifically based research. My parents and college professors clearly worked from the premise that I should not follow the lead of others simply because they held titles, ranks or social positions of authority.

Over the years I have heard that I was too critical of others or that I expect too much from others. Yet, I have always maintained that if one expects less than one gets even less than was expected. Yes, my standards are high and I hold myself to those very same standards. A good number of my peers inside and outside of martial arts are old line systematic followers. They do not and will not accept any significant responsibility for their own behaviors, while seeking comfort and adulation from others who are lower on the status ladder of life.

For my own part, I am seeking new information, ideas, knowledge and understandings about how and why things work the way they do. I want to know how and why some things work better than others. As I look back over a number of years at comments and ideas that I posted on the internet, I came a somewhat logical but disturbing realizations... most of my martial arts peers are not very objective with regard to what they are doing, studying, teaching or actually believe in. They are high dogmatic in their beliefs and tend to be quite dictatorial toward their own students. At every turn and on every issue, these people tend to believe they have ALL of the correct answers, even to questions that have not even been asked. These folks are always right and there is not a single aspect of their art that they need to question, nor are they willing to entertain anyone else asking questions. If someone is unwilling to take their word on everything within the system, that person identified as being malcontent and an enemy to be abused and dismissed as the enemy.

It is sometimes amusing to me that as an independent minded, thinking for myself person, that a good number of my Modern Arnis peers - some of whom do not actually know me, but they have heard about me - are so quick to rally around the flag of Modern Arnis orthodoxy. They become quite angry with me and other so-called independents because we do some things differently and these orthodox people can not answer our questions about how and why they do things within the art. It is a classic case of kill the messenger, simply because myself and a few others have gone down a slightly different road within the system as designed by the late Professor Remy Presas. I am not saying that what the majority of these people are doing/teaching is flawed or wrong. I do not know that to be absolutely true. However, these orthodox-traditionalist are very quick to say that the independents such as myself are wrong. We are not doing Modern Arnis correctly. We do not do the art exactly as Professor Presas taught it.

Personally, I do not reject the methods used by the orthodox-traditionalists, I simply have a different way of applying and teaching what I learned from Professor, after researching the roots and alternatives within the system. I have gone off in a different direction by choosing to investigate all of the smaller subsets such as redonda, sinawali, rompida and abanico that are part of the totality that Professor included in his system that he designated as Modern Arnis. I am a researcher, not a follower. I ask questions and seek out answers. I am not a blind conformist. I want to explore, discover and innovate, not follow traditional authority. Objectivity and sound reasoning are very important to me, rank, title and years in system are not as valuable. That makes me a very difficult person for the orthodox-traditionalists to deal with when their goal is to use ranks, titles and seniority as the basis for the their leadership justification. A good number of orthodox-traditionalists also want people to blindly accept their claims of leadership simply because they claim that Professor told them this or that, without witnesses and they can not provide any written documentation to support their claims. Yet these very same people will often reject any similar unverifiable claims made by others who might be viewed as being in a position to challenge them for a leadership role in the Post-Professor era of Modern Arnis.

I have seen claims by a number of people who stated that their belt ranks earned under Professor Presas in earlier years were considered invalid by the new would-be leaders of the Post-Professor era. These people were told that they would have to re-test in the new organizations to have their current rank recognized. How in the world can anyone reject the belt ranks awarded by the system founder, Professor Presas, when in some cases that rank was earned before the current leaders ever became associated with Modern Arnis? Talk about hubris; those so-called leaders are at the top of the examples list.

I was part of an academic tradition long before I began training in the martial arts, met Professor Presas or joined the International Modern Arnis Federation. For me, discussion, debate and factual proof were integral parts of my way of life and the martial arts were merely another area of intellectual interest. I simply applied my sociological and educational training to the study of self-defense in the real world of street confrontations. I agreed with the late Sigung Bruce Lee's notion of taking what was useful and adapting it to fit yourself. Professor Presas version of that idea, that he often stated at camps and seminars was "You must make it for yourself." State either way, it makes a lot of sense to me. From my perspective, martial arts training is not about who or what is right, it is about what works in the real world of confrontation and conflict for you and/or me!

It is my belief that too many of my Modern Arnis peers are totally wedded to dogmatic certainty slavish mimicry of the late Professor Presas. Whereas I can see and understand the virtues of a sport orientation, forms competitions and the like, these will not necessarily transfer over to become an effective street self-defense system, where rules and referees are totally absent. The hard-core cloning of Professor Presas leads inevitably to the skeletalization of the system that was brought from the Philippines to the western world as a true fighting art.

Personally, I am very content to watch and enjoy others as they go their own way within Modern Arnis and as they present the art as they see fit. If their particular approach is comfortable for them, then by all means they should pursue it in the manner that best fits them. My intention is to continue to teach Modern Arnis as it was first presented to me by my instructor, Sifu Don Zanghi, at the Fighting Back Institute, in Buffalo, NY, as fighting system for self-defense, blended with Kenpo, Jiu-jitsu and Buno.

Jerome Barber, Ed. D.
Grand Master & Mataw Guro,
Independent Escrima-Kenpo-Arnis Associates