The History of Dekioti Tirsia Siradas Kali

August 18, 2023 Mark Warner 0

The Dekiti-Tirsia Siradas System is part of the ancient Filipino combat and survival systems indigenous to the island of Negros in the Visayan Region of the Philippines. This fighting art is very combative with emphasis on impact and bladed weapons as well as empty hand techniques and even firearms. Established [Read More]

The History of Baringin Sakti Silat

July 17, 2023 Mark Warner 0

  Editors note This Article was submitted to me By Pendekar Dedy Irwawan and the team Baringin Sakti Silat Indonesia.   Birth of Ps Baringin Sakti Abu Zahar, a young man from the city of Padang, West Sumatra had much martial arts talent. Luckily when he was young,  Abu Zahar [Read More]

A Trip to Shaolin

July 10, 2023 Mark Warner 0

A Trip To Shaolin “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain I’ve been [Read More]

The Three Keys of Dekiti Tirsia Siradas Kali

January 24, 2023 Mark Warner 1

All martial arts are a set of basic rules that the practitioner must learn and apply to progress in their style of martial arts. In this aspect of training, Dekiti Tirsia falls in line with all the rest. We have spoken of these three many times not being more insignificant, [Read More]

The use of Empty Hands id Dekiti Tirsia Siradas Kali

December 2, 2022 Mark Warner 0

Although known primarily as a blade/weapon art Dekiti Tirsia has numerous empty-hand techniques that it can call upon in an instant for use in self-defense situations. The Philippines is located right at the juxtaposition of many Asian/Southeast Asian countries that each have a unique martial art. There has always been [Read More]

A moment in time of Dekiti Tirsia Siradas training

Double Sticks in Dekiti Tirsia Siradas Kali

December 1, 2022 Mark Warner 0

Click, click, click, click…the very melodic sound of double stick training in Dekiti Tirsia Siradas, and that is the topic of this months article. Baseline In Dekit Tirsia Siradas, as in all FMA (Filipino martial arts), we want to keep all the moves as practical and combative as possible. However, [Read More]

Generating Power in Kali and martial arts

September 15, 2022 Mark Warner 0

Let’s start at the very beginning The first thing we learn in DTS Kali is our 12 basic strikes, much the same as you would basic strikes or kicks in any style of martial arts. The proper motion is tag to the students to be reviewed time and time again. [Read More]

Many Thoughts on Self-Defense With a Blade

June 30, 2022 Mark Warner 0

When we think of self-defense, much of the time we portray ourselves as an empty handed defender striving to overcome a weapon wielding attacker. However in this day and age, never knowing if, when, or how we may be attacked, should we consider using a blade to defend ourselves? This [Read More]

The Weapons of Dekiti Tirsia Siradas (Part 2)

May 10, 2022 Mark Warner 0

This time we’re going to discuss the main long blades of Dekiti Tirsia Siradas (DTS) as well as other miscellaneous weapons. Negros Island, the home of Grandmaster Jerson “Nene” Tortal is in the Visayan region of the Philippines. That being the case, we will use the Illolngo term for the [Read More]