History

Introduction to the Art of Jendo

It is a common mistake for many foreign FMA (Filipino Martial Arts)practitioners and Filipinos as well to tag Stick-fighting, Weapons Fighting or Arnis as the only Filipino martial art.

The truth is that, in the Philippines there are numerous other systems of Filipino martial arls that exist alongside Arnis for so many years and several of these have already been making names in the international scene.

Among these arts are the Dumog, the Yawyan, and the famous Sikaran or Baras, Rizal who had already conducted several international  competitions, seminars and clinics outside the Philippines for so many years and the Tracma that had been featured in a movie entitled- the "Red Belt Master" headed by its originator as the lead actor.

In other regions, there are other arts that are also known but silently exist, spreading inside and outside the Philippines like the Kuntaw, the Sagasa, the Tapondo, the Pangamot, the Alamid Mongoose and the system that is being introduced in this book, the Jendo martial arts founded ad originated in the Municipality of Mandaluyong now a City in 1973 by its originator Grandmaster Jonathan Makiling - Abaya.

What is Jendo?

Jendo, is a fighting art that utilizes empty hands and traditional Filipino weaponry such as the bangkaw, baot or arnis, dulo-dulo, siit and bladed tools like punyal, itak or buneng as a means of self-defense formulated partly based on the ancient oriental systems of discipline.

Jendo is very much different from many existing systems. Some are limited to the principles of linear and! or the circular movements and most in the Filipino martial arts as observe and articulated in their systems official logos are into the angular format. The methods of Jendo defensive and offensive techniques moves within the context of its own concept and principle called "buo". This term coined to represent the linear, the circular and the angular motion tag along the art's (Jendo) universal concept of existence - called Tres-Enerhiyas. The word buo was derived from the Filipino Tagalog word meaning "whole "or "complete" .

Jendo is considered to be one of the very few practical self-defense systems, that, if not comparable maybe more advanced than any system that employs the principles of economy of movements and the immobilizing methods of defense and counter.