Doce Pares Eskrima by Frans Stroeven
In 1932, the most renowned Eskrimadors, mainly from Cebu, founded Doce Pares as a society to promote the only original native martial art of the Philippines. In this first work, Frans Stroeven, European President and direct pupil of Great Master Cacoy Cañete combines the "Doce Pares" system with his own. Such system is the result of a wide experience in other Arts (Judo, Wing Chun, Latosa Escrima, and Jeet Kune Do_). Disarming techniques, blows sequences, control locks, knock-outs, Espada and Daga, knife against knife, empty handed against knife, Pangamot, and hitting training methods, blocking methods and against the hand methods, from this outstanding Master who has even taught courses to the Philippine Army.