Guazabara blade arts in Illinois

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armbreaker 69

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Anyone here familiar with this blade system called Guazabara? Its a puerto rican blade system. I heard good things about it. The school is in Geneva, Illinois. Taught by a police officer from Puerto Rico. Check out the site.

http://www.guazabara.com/Guazabara.Article.htm

When I gets some extra spending money I might go visit this school I think.
 
Hey 69,
I spoke with the guy awhile back. He seemed cool on the phone. The one thing that stood out in our conversation was that sometimes they sparred 'Dogbrother style.' You know as little safety gear as possible, all the way to the ground. Interesting stuff, but definitely call Maestro Perez.
 
The web site has alot of good info. It all sounds good anyway. I might check it out when I have some spare spending money sometime.

http://www.guazabara.com/

Hey guru Mike, I'm always skeptical to about things until I see it in person. This stuff sounds like it might be very real though. I do know that the south americans and carribeans are deffinitly compareable to everyone else when it comes to blade arts. They just are not as popular, so they nevr get the credit. I am still skeptical though because I have'nt actually seen it yet.
 
armbreaker 69 said:
Hey guru Mike, I'm always skeptical to about things until I see it in person. This stuff sounds like it might be very real though. I do know that the south americans and carribeans are deffinitly compareable to everyone else when it comes to blade arts. They just are not as popular, so they nevr get the credit. I am still skeptical though because I have'nt actually seen it yet.
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yeah, i understand...i just wish they wouldn't include FMA backgrounds, that way when someone checks it out they wouldn't have any prenotion and automatically assume that they just mixed some other arts in it.

alot of FMA originally started very simple, like cinco teros...basically it was a system by itself. something very easy to learn...just the original five strikes, footwork, and defenses...then the practitioner would study another art, then another, and combine it all together.
 
Mike, I was the same way when I notived he had an escrima background. He learned from Manual Taningco in Ohio. A largo mano style, which could easily be translated to machette. The only thing that made me start to think different is that there are actually alot of web sites from south america that are all about knife fighting and machettes from that region. There is even a web site I found from Venizuella(sp?) that is a stick fighting system. They have all kinds of old pics, and video clips. So that started to open my eyes to this being possible.
 
armbreaker 69 said:
Mike, I was the same way when I notived he had an escrima background. He learned from Manual Taningco in Ohio. A largo mano style, which could easily be translated to machette. The only thing that made me start to think different is that there are actually alot of web sites from south america that are all about knife fighting and machettes from that region. There is even a web site I found from Venizuella(sp?) that is a stick fighting system. They have all kinds of old pics, and video clips. So that started to open my eyes to this being possible.
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Hey where are you at in illinois man? I was thinking about takin a trip up there myself once i get a little ahead money wise myself. Shoot me a PM. There's also another guy who dabbles around here called Grey_Knight, he shot me a PM and he lives about 2 miles from me and is also interested in heading up there.
 
armbreaker 69 said:
south america that are all about knife fighting and machettes from that region. There is even a web site I found from Venizuella(sp?) that is a stick fighting system. They have all kinds of old pics, and video clips. So that started to open my eyes to this being possible.
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yes, i'm well aware of the art...here's a very little known trivia...since the Spanish conquistadores loved invading and enslaving people, they actually imported some Filipinos to central and south Americas, vice versa...(not many but it did happen) Especially Mexicans, they were imported to the Philippines islands for labor. i'm not saying that the ones who were migrated to the Americas were all fighters, but it's just interesting to connect a link o them. After all it was the Spanish who really introduced the use of steel to a lot of Indians they conquered with the exception of the Philippines who learned metallurgy from the Chinese.
 
saint o'killers said:
yeah, i understand...i just wish they wouldn't include FMA backgrounds, that way when someone checks it out they wouldn't have any prenotion and automatically assume that they just mixed some other arts in it.
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Does sound interesting, though as soon as I saw his FMA background, a red flag did go up. Still, it is never good to judge before experiencing it first hand.
 
keith jennings said:
Does sound interesting, though as soon as I saw his FMA background, a red flag did go up. Still, it is never good to judge before experiencing it first hand.
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hi Keith...you are right but one cannot help it.
i myself have studied other bladed arts just to compare FMA to it and understand the similarities...maybe his personal research was in the same line of thinking. after all once you understand the basic principles all arts are the same really in its most fundamental form...the ingredient moves being: forward, backward, turn right/left, move up down, contract and relax or freeze.

but for those who are going to visit him...please post back and let us know what you think of it. it would be interesting.
 
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