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• Archive: Combat is as old as man himself.
• In the Philippines it developed to a degree of effectiveness unsurpassed anywhere in the world.
• The Filipino martial arts is an expression of man's indomitable will to survive adversity in the most direct and self-reliant manner possible.
• There has been an obvious need for a book that coordinates and puts into perspective the roots and principals of a fighting art--a book that explains the relationships between weapons and empty hands, philosophy and history, asseses strengths and weaknesses, and finally a book that liberates the mind from the classical way of thinking.
• Here now is that book.