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MULTI-STYLE SYSTEM
The components of the "Multi-Style" system.

For many years and even up to the present people are still confused about Kali Eskrima Arnis,

The Doce Pares system. This is only understandable because while the system is a conglomeration of various styles as introduced by the founding masters in 1932, there are many instructors and masters today who only teach a specific style of any one of the original masters. All the founding masters had their own set of followers and the students who chose not to study and cross-train in other styles naturally learned only the particular style of his own teacher.

Doce Pares was a virtual supermarket of Eskrima styles, hence, there's the Larga Mano of Eulogio Cañete; the Espada y Daga of Felimon Cañete and Jesus Cui; the Corto Linear of Teodoro Saavedra and later on of Venancio Bacon, Delfin Lopez and Timoteo Maranga; the Corto Orihinal and Media Largo of Felimon and Iluminado Cañete; the Hirada and Retirada of Vicente Carin and Ponciano Ybañez;
the Mano-Mano and Baraw of Maximo Cañete and
Jesus Cui; the Corto Kurbada and Abaniko of Ciriaco
and Felimon Cañete respectively.

Thus there are many masters today who only teach and promote one particular style and yet can validly claim to belong to Doce Pares family.

It was in early 1970 when Diony was commissioned by
his father Eulogio Cañete, the President of Doce Pares
to study, prepare and formulate a program of instruction that would cover and comprehend all the component styles. The specific objective was to come up with a training curriculum that would give equal treatment and prominence to all the original styles and by all means to afford due honors and recognition to all the founding advocates. Hence the birth of the "Multi-Style" system which very much set well with Grandmaster Diony as he and his three elder brothers were among the very few who were fortunate to have learned all the original styles as brought into and introduced by the founding masters when Doce Pares was formed in 1932

The components styles of the "Multi-Style" are:
All the three styles of Corto (Close Range); to wit; Corto Linear (the traditional linear striking or a blade oriented type of striking) Corto Kurbada (the wrist-twisting or snap-wrist, curving strike) Corto Orihinal (featuring low, deep bent knee and wide stance which highly characterized the original Doce Pares close range style)

Media Largo (Medium Range)
Larga Mano (Long Range)
Espada y Daga (Short & Long Stick or Stick Dagger)
Baraw (Knife Fighting Techniques)
Mano-Mano (Open Hand Fighting)

a. Sumbag-Patid (Punch and Kick)
b. Lubag-Torsi (Locks and Immobilization)
c. Layog-Dumog (Takedown and Grappling)
d. Doble Olisi (Double Stick)

Specialized Subjects:
a. Eskrido
b. Sinawali
c. Tapi-Tapi (Alive Hand)
d. Sayaw/Karanza (Forms)

All the above subjects are incorporated under the comprehensive 5-year training curriculum of the Doce Pares "Multi-Style" system. The program is taught only in schools authorized by Doce Pares International, the original Doce Pares organization
and only one recognized by the government of the
Republic of the Philippines, duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as DOCE PARES INCORPORATED under Registration Certificate No. 1373.

ALL DPI SCHOOLS CAN READILY BE IDENTIFIED
THROUGH THE SEAL AND LOGO WHICH BEAR THE ORIGINAL SIGN OF DOCE PARES BUT MORE SIGNIFICANT IS THEIR 5-YEAR "MULTI-STYLE" PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION.

ONLY THROUGH THE DPI SCHOOLS CAN ONE LEARN ALL THE ORIGINAL STYLES OF THE FOUNDING MASTERS OF DOCE PARES.

Doce Pares multi system of Filipino Martial arts

Doce pares is multi style Kali Eskrima Arnis Martial Arts the curriculum is brought together by Head instructor Master. Sardara Singh Khalsa has gained a solid reputation over the years as a committed instructor/coach to the individuals that trains at Doce Pares Academy Birmingham, along with a passion for the martial arts that covers 35 years expeareance. Master Sardara Singh Khalsa, has and continues to expand his martial art training and teaching abilities by seeking out instruction from first generation students and there students, Masters and gurus from the Filipino, Indonesian martial arts. Here are some of the individuals that have contributed to Stephens extensive martial arts knowledge

First generation Doce Pares Instructors:
GRANDMASTER Dionisio "Diony" Cañete

Second genration Doce Pares
GRANDMASTER Danny Guba
GRANDMASTER Master Percival "Val" Pableo

Other VERIOUS styles of Kali Eskrima,Arnis instructors:
Grandmaster Dan inosanto
Sifu, Dave John carnell
Sifu Cass Magda