Kali Ilustrisimo the Sword Fighting Art of Antonio Ilustrisimo
Kalis Ilustrisimo is a fashion of Eskrima founded by Antonio "Tatang" Ilustrisimo.
Name [edit]
Kalis Ilustrisimo means "The Bladed Art of Ilustrisimo": calis (or caris) being some other term for sword, blade and knife in Luzon and the Visayas and its usage as esgrimir and esgrima (Castilian for fencing/sword fighting) as defined in Spanish-era Ilocano, Pampango, Tagalog, Bicolano, Ilonggo, Waray & Cebuano dictionary/vocabulary recordings dating back to 1512,[1] equally the art of Tatang is more blade-oriented than stick-oriented.
History [edit]
The Ilustrisimo clan from Bantayan Isle in the Northern part of the Cebu region was known for their Eskrima and has practiced its own traditional stick and sword fighting fashion for over v generations. Its first known practitioner was Pablo Ilustrisimo who passed it on to Juan de Dios Ilustrisimo, who then passed it to the brothers Isidro, Melecio and Regino (the meliorate known of Tatang's uncles). Tatang was mentored past his father Isidro besides as by his uncles. Another antecedent was Agapito Ilustrismo, a rebel confronting the Spaniards who escaped to Mount Banahaw and established a religious cult.[2]
Tatang retained his family style while he lived a long, storied, and tumultuous life and refined his fighting way from the influences of at to the lowest degree Pedro Cortez, a Zamboangueño compensation hunter, and a Tausug family who adopted him from age 10 to 17. He had his experiences equally an eskrimador in various matches, as a seaman going around South-East Asia and as a security-enforcer for business establishments in diverse areas of the Philippines, including the Tondo-Binondo areas of Manila. He faced numerous duels, challenges as well as "decease matches" with live blades. Family members that Tatang taught were his cousin Floro Villabrille (1912-1992) and his grandnephew Samuel Ilustrisimo.
Throughout nearly of his latter life, Tatang was secretive most his methods of fighting for they had kept him alive and undefeated for decades. It was simply in 1976 that Tatang started openly educational activity his refinement of the family unit style to "outsiders", with Antonio "Tony" Diego (1946-2014) and Epifanio "Yuli" Romo as his showtime students in Manila where he had migrated.[iii] Other notable students were Christopher "Topher" Ricketts (1955–2010), Romeo "Romy" Macapagal, Pedro Reyes, Edgar Sulite (1957-1997), Rey Galang, Norman Suanico, Inocencio Glaraga, Roberto Morales (deceased 2010), Marker V. Wiley and Ernesto Talag. Prior to World War II, Tatang had besides privately taught a contemporary, Timoteo Maranga (subsequently on Major Maranga of the Cebu police forcefulness).
Fifty-fifty at his advanced age, Tatang retained the respect accorded him as a fighter in the tough streets of Tondo where he resided. Every bit a attestation to his reputation, archive footage of Ilustrisimo taken well into his 80s show his speed, control, timing and accuracy with sticks, blades every bit well as empty mitt disarms confronting alive blades in spite of his declining eyesight.
After Tatang Ilustrisimo's death in 1997, Tony Diego was elected the head of Kalis Ilustrisimo. Tony Diego afterward added a descriptive to the organization which became known as Kalis Ilustrisimo Orihinal Repeticion. This was on the proposition of the late Pedro Reyes—that the senior students of Tatang should prepare their own schools. Thus, at that place were Bakbakan Kali Ilustrisimo past Rey Galang, "Kali Ilustrisimo" by Topher Ricketts, Tagpas Kalis Ilustrisimo past Romy Macapagal, Luneta Kali Ilustrisimo by Pedro Reyes and Samuel Ilustrisimo and Olistrisimo Eskrima by Roberto Morales. Romy Macapagal, as archivist of the Kalis Ilustrisimo system and not founding a school, dropped "Tagpas" and retained Kalis Ilustrismo. Romy Macapagal went on to archive the whole system on a historic projection with The Immersion Labs Foundation.
Diego had named Tom Dy Tang as successor of Kalis Ilustrismo twelve years prior to his death (2002). Diego died on Baronial 25, 2014. Peachie Baron teaches Diego's "Punta y Daga" manner. Arnold Narzo was appointed as Kalis Ilustrisimo Chief Instructor by GM Diego two years (2012) before his death (2014).[iv]
Influential & Famous Practitioners [edit]
- Christopher "Topher" Ricketts
- Edgar Sulite
- Miguel Zubiri
See too [edit]
- Arnis
- Kalis
- Filipino Martial Arts
References [edit]
- ^ Marasigan, Vicente (1985). A Banahaw Guru: Symbolic Deeds of Agapito Illustrisimo.
- ^ Diego, Antonio; Ricketts, Christopher (1999). The Secrets of Kalis Ilustrisimo: The Filipino Fighting Art Explained. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN978-0-8048-3145-1.
- ^ Romeo Macapagal (August 30, 2014). "Tribute and tribulation". Manila Times.
Bibliography [edit]
- Antonio Diego/Christopher Ricketts (2002) The Secrets of Kalis Ilustrisimo, ISBN 0-8048-3145-9.
External links [edit]
- The Deadly Art of Kalis Illustrisimo, A Candid Interview with Principal Romy Macapagal
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalis_Ilustrisimo
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