PAST WORKSHOP

TOPICS: Short history, The design of the blade, Fighting function and utility function, Combat Techniques, How many of the training techniques have similarity to many hand techniques, How fighting concepts taught are designed to work with or without the blade

Sigung Alferos has been in the arts for 45 years, his first teacher was his father Guru Ben Alferos. The system “Cinco Tero” (five strike style) Serrada (close range). Guru Ben hones his skills of fighting out of pure survival during WWII after both his parents were killed by the Japanese invading forces during a raid on his village. He was forced as a young boy to join the freedom fighter in the mountains. The skills his father developed during those years has been shared with Sigung Alferos and as a tribute to Guru Ben and the art that allows him to be alive today, Sigung passes the art on to others.