There has been some recent interest in ARNIS LANADA in the US and also in the PHILIPPINES. Many of the 'old masters' and senior practiioners of all kinds of arnis and eskrima systems and other Filipino Martial Arts have passed away and the newer practitioners have strived to trace and establish their roots as best they can despite much misinformation and distortion and also the growing 'commercialism' that often is most prevalent in some quarters.
Be that as it may, a good amount of information and analysis of tactics, methods, systems and styles, and the like is being done and this s deserves our fullest attention.
Video presentations show the strngths and the weaknesses inherent in the various methods and styles and tactics and often indicate the lack of real training, experience, and practice, as well as a few other things involved in things that are constantly changing over time and on different levels and scales.
Everyone in martial arts, no matter the national origins of such, alter and change these arts and end up with 'improvements' usually based on their personal and physical-mental-emotional bases, that is, their own 'essences' and 'predispositions' and 'abilities and understanding(s) of all this.
Still, a common core of things usually emerge when each system, style and art are analyzed and examined and worked out by those who desire to learn anything they can if they can.
Few can assimilate all that is possible to see and learn of these magnificent arts, which will change and adapt as society and culture change and national concerns impede upon these arts as well as the GLOBAL RESPONSES to these arts, which see an increase.
With FILIPINOS working and living in nearly every country on earth and in ar eas they had hardly dreamt of, this GLOBALIZATION OF ARNIS and related arts seems inevitable.
