Sikaran has two main systems that I know of today. One still bases in the Philippine Islands (PI) and one based in the U.S.A. There are several systems that teach Sikaran with Arnis but I will not disscuss them here.
I study the U.S.based system based on the teachings of Grandmaster Lois Lagarejos. This system will be celebrating its fifty years of teaching in the U.S. this Aug.
Like many styles of fighting arts in the PI there is no written history that I know of. Sikaran was taught in many of the villages for as long as anyone could remember. Its origins have truly been lost (no matter what some may say).Durring the Spanish rule and even later Sikaran was practiced as a game (much like the Chiness others used dance). There are two main strikes in the system Pangahilo (paraliseing) and Pamatory (killing), the feet are the main weapon but the hands deffenately are used as weopons also. In truth there is no block all moves are strikes.
I will not disscuss the System taught by Milton Geronimo other than to say that if you read the articles written about it and quotes from Geronimo you will find many things that do not seem to ring true.As far as that systems fighting it is mostly footwork and much is stil played within the circle. I will say if you read Wiley's Filipino Martial Culture you will notice that Geronimo seems to claim to have taught the koreans the spinning back kick (I doubt this very much)
I will not FLAME geronimo or his system unless asked direct questions. I will say he did not nor did his grand father discover/create Sikaran
If any of you study a Sikaran Based system I would love to here about it As I said there is much I do not know
Shadow
I study the U.S.based system based on the teachings of Grandmaster Lois Lagarejos. This system will be celebrating its fifty years of teaching in the U.S. this Aug.
Like many styles of fighting arts in the PI there is no written history that I know of. Sikaran was taught in many of the villages for as long as anyone could remember. Its origins have truly been lost (no matter what some may say).Durring the Spanish rule and even later Sikaran was practiced as a game (much like the Chiness others used dance). There are two main strikes in the system Pangahilo (paraliseing) and Pamatory (killing), the feet are the main weapon but the hands deffenately are used as weopons also. In truth there is no block all moves are strikes.
I will not disscuss the System taught by Milton Geronimo other than to say that if you read the articles written about it and quotes from Geronimo you will find many things that do not seem to ring true.As far as that systems fighting it is mostly footwork and much is stil played within the circle. I will say if you read Wiley's Filipino Martial Culture you will notice that Geronimo seems to claim to have taught the koreans the spinning back kick (I doubt this very much)
I will not FLAME geronimo or his system unless asked direct questions. I will say he did not nor did his grand father discover/create Sikaran
If any of you study a Sikaran Based system I would love to here about it As I said there is much I do not know
Shadow