SAYOC class will be held this Friday, June 25th at 8pm. Location is the same as last week.
Class Update
•06.16.2010 • Leave a CommentSayoc students be advised:
Next class will be held this Friday evening at 8pm, at Secondary Site Location. There will be NO class on Saturday.
City of Claremont Summer Session of Filipino Martial Arts began last night. Welcome to new and returning students!
City of Claremont Filipino Martial Arts
•06.01.2010 • Leave a CommentCongratulations to students who completed the inaugural session of Filipino Martial Arts through the City of Claremont. Each of you have come a long way. Thank you for your dedication and commitment. See you in two weeks for the Summer session.
June Schedule
•05.31.2010 • Leave a CommentIEFMA Sayoc Kali
Saturday, June 5th at 0900: Mallows Park in Claremont
Saturday, June 12th at 0900: Mallows Park in Claremont
Saturday, June 19th: tentative Secondary Site Location at 2000
IEFMA Filipino Martial Arts through the City of Claremont
Tuesday, June 1st at 2000: Alexander Hughes Center in Claremont – Last class for Spring Session
Tuesday, June 8th: NO CLASS
Tuesday, June 15th at 2000: Alexander Hughes Center in Claremont – First class for Summer Session
Please visit http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1nphe/ClaremontActivityGui/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ci.claremont.ca.us%2Fadmin%2Fpage.cfm%3Ft and see page 21 for more information.
Site Updates
Training Sites Page Created
Sayoc Kali Class Notes Updated
Filipino Martial Arts Class Notes Updated
IEFMA students please email Guro Joe at jmarana@iefma.com. This will be the primary email address where IEFMA related information will be sent from, so please email or send your email address so that you may be included in email notifications.
Lt. Colonel Laureño Maraña
•05.31.2010 • 2 CommentsToday we remember the brave individuals who gave their lives for their friends, family and country. IEFMA wishes to honor the memory of Lt. Colonel Laureño Maraña.
In 1954, Lt. Col. Laureño Maraña, the former head of Force X of the 16th PC Company, assumed command of the 7th BCT, which had become one of the most mobile striking forces of the Philippine ground forces against the Huks, from Colonel Valeriano. Force X employed psychological warfare through combat intelligence and infiltration that relied on secrecy in planning, training, and execution of attack. The lessons learned from Force X and Nenita were combined in the 7th BCT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukbalahap
In a variation on the countergangs of the Kenyan insurgency, a pilot countergang was set up in 1948 by the Sixteenth Philippine Constabulary Company, designated “Force X”: “The basic idea was to make this specially trained force into a realistic pseudo-Huk unit that could, in enemy guise, infiltrate deep into enemy territory.” The forty-seven initial members of Force X were dressed and equipped like Huks. They were taught in a remote rain forest base to talk and act like Huks by four captured guerrillas who had been “tested, screened, and reindoctrinated to our side and brought to the training base to serve as instructors. ” The principal aim was to enable government forces to get close enough to guerrilla forces to eliminate selected targets.
http://www.statecraft.org/chapter4.html
“Force X”
Shortly after the Secretary of National Defense reorganized the constabulary, the government authorized the one truly successful anti-insurgent operation during the first phase of the insurrection — “Force X.” This special force was envisaged to operate deep within enemy territory under the guise of being a Huk unit itself. As such, the force would be valuable in obtaining intelligence and carrying out small unit operations such as kidnappings of Huk leaders and ambuscades. “Force X” was created to take advantage of a period when Huks operated freely in central Luzon but when their command organization was loose and inexperienced.
Philippine Army Colonel Napoleon Valeriano, commander of the Nenita Unit, a special constabulary force that operated in the area of Mount Arayat from 1946 until 1949, selected the 16th Police Constabulary company, under the command of Lieutenant Marana to become “Force X”. Secretly screening his unit for the most devoted and aggressive men, Marana selected three officers and forty-four enlisted men who departed their barracks under the cover of darkness and moved to a secret training camp in the nearby jungle. The camp’s location and purpose were known only to the president, the Army Chief of Staff, Col. Valeriano, and three of the president’s closest staff officers. At the camp, the unit was stripped of issued clothing and equipment, and given captured weapons and old civilian clothes. Using three captured guerrillas as instructors, “Force X” received training in Huk customs, practices, and tactics to help them pass as the enemy.
Each man assumed an alias as well as a nickname, a technique favored by the Huks, and began to live life as a guerrilla.
After four weeks of intensive training and a careful reconnaissance into the area where “Force X” would initially venture, the unit was almost ready to go. To complete the scenario, Colonel Valeriano recruited two walking-wounded from an Army hospital in Manila and secretly transported them to the training camp. At 1700 hrs, 14 April 1948, “Force X” fought a sham battle with two police companies and withdrew with their “wounded” into Huk country. Four hours later they were met by Huk troops, interrogated as to who they were and where they had come from, and were taken into Candaba Swamp where they met Squadrons 5 and 17. Marana convinced the commander of his authenticity (a story based on the death of a genuine Huk leader) and was promised that he and his forces would be taken to Taruc. The cover was working better than expected.62
“Force X” spent two days at the base-camp learning a great deal about local officials, mayors, and police chiefs who were Huk sympathizers and about informants within the constabulary. As they awaited their appointment with Taruc, they were joined by two other squadrons, one of which was an “enforcement squadron” whose members specialized in assassination and kidnapping. On the sixth day in camp, Marana became suspicious of Huk attitudes and ordered his men to prepare to attack the assemblage. Quietly removing heavy weapons (including four 60mm mortars, two light machine-guns, 200 grenades, and a radio) from hidden compartments in their packs, “Force X” attacked the unsuspecting squadrons.
In a thirty-minute firefight, “Force X” killed eighty-two Huks, one local mayor, and captured three squadron commanders.
After radioing for reinforcements to secure the area, “Force X” took off on a two week long search and destroy mission, accompanied this time by two infantry companies. During seven engagements, government troops killed another twenty-one guerrillas, wounded and captured seven, and identified seventeen Huks in local villages. “Force X’s” success did not stop when it withdrew at the end of the operation. Three weeks after the incident at the Huk base-camp, two squadrons stumbled onto each other and, each assuming that the other unit was “Force X,” opened fire. The panic and mistrust that “Force X” put into Huk ranks cost the insurgents eleven more dead from this chance encounter.
Protecting Family
•05.26.2010 • 1 CommentGuro Teja Van Winklen, a Sayoc instructor and founder of Devi Protective Offense (www.deviprotectiveoffense.com) sent this story out in her email updates:
Here is a link to video, or read the story below. (Link may be time sensitive since it is on ABC.)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/boy-saves-sister-from-kidnap-attempt-10676971
EIGHT-YEAR-OLD WHITEHALL BOY SAVES LITTLE SISTER FROM ABDUCTION ATTEMPT
By Chris Togneri
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, May 17, 2010
Nathan Kuhns will have an amazing story to share during his school’s next show-and-tell session.
During a family vacation Friday, the 8-year-old Whitehall boy fought off a middle-aged man who was trying to kidnap his little sister on a sidewalk in Myrtle Beach, S.C., according to the Kuhns family and Myrtle Beach police.
Nathan charged the man – who had his 4-year-old sister, Josie, by the arm and was dragging her to a car – then kicked, clawed and bit him until he let her go and fled, police and the family said.
“He told me, ‘Mom, I did everything I could,’ ” Erin Kuhns, 33, said Sunday night as she and her family drove through North Carolina on their way home. “He was in shock. His eyes were bulging out of his head. He just kept saying, ‘I did the best I could. I got her away from him. I wouldn’t let him take her.’ ”
The attacker was about 6 feet tall with a medium build, Myrtle Beach police said.
Nathan, a first-grader at McAnnulty Elementary School, stands 3 feet 10 and weighs less than 80 pounds.
“He had no idea what he had done,” Erin Kuhns said. “All he knew was that someone was trying to take his baby sister, and he wasn’t going to let it happen.”
The Kuhnses were staying at the Dunes Village Resort on their first family vacation, she said.
On Friday, Kuhns took her three kids – Nathan, Josie and T.J., 6 – to lunch while her husband, John, 33, slept in their hotel room. John Kuhns had been up late the night before with Nathan, who had to be hospitalized briefly after a severe asthma attack, Erin Kuhns said.
As the family walked back to the hotel, T.J. “threw a tantrum” and sat down on the sidewalk after learning that he had missed a magic show, she said.
Josie then ran toward a beach access area “because she wanted to see if the ice cream truck was there,” Erin Kuhns said.
She sent Nathan after his sister, who had rounded a corner and gone out of view, as she tried to calm T.J.
Seconds later, Erin Kuhns heard Nathan shrieking. “It was a sound no mother should ever hear coming out of her child’s mouth,” she said. She scooped T.J. off the ground and ran toward her other son.
“I got over there, and a dark-colored car was whizzing by,” she said. “I turned and looked – Nathan and Josie were arm-in-arm on the ground. He was on top of her, hugging her. I went over and tried to pick up Nathan to see what had happened, and he wouldn’t let go. He said, ‘I’m not going to let him take her.’ ”
The kidnapping attempt occurred at 12:45 p.m. at a beach access area on 53rd Avenue, according to a Myrtle Beach police report.
The man grabbed Josie by her left arm and tried to pull her to a car when Nathan “tried to pull his sister away (and) then kicked the man and scratched him on the left arm, at which point the suspect let her go and got into his car and drove off,” the police report states.
A hotel manager called police. While an investigator questioned witnesses, Nathan calmly informed the officer that he had the suspect’s DNA under his fingernails, Erin Kuhns said.
“He said, ‘I watch NCIS,’ ” she said. “The police officer started laughing.” The officer clipped some of Nathan’s fingernails for evidence, the police report states.
Erin and John Kuhns said they need a vacation from their vacation. If police catch the man who tried to kidnap Josie, they will return to Myrtle Beach to testify against him.
Josie said her brother’s actions were “awesome because he saved my life.” She added: “But sometimes he can be mean to me.”
As for Nathan, he doesn’t understand all the fuss. “You know, I’ve told this story a lot, and I’m starting to get tired of it,” he said.
Then he relented and shared his heroic tale yet again.
Special thanks to Guro Teja for letting me share this. Please visit http://www.deviprotectiveoffense.com for the finest in tactial solutions to violence against women.
Update
•05.24.2010 • 1 Comment
Guro Brian Calaustro Visits IEFMA
IEFMA Sayoc students be advised:
Next class Saturday EVENING, May 29 at 8pm. Training to be held at Secondary Site Location. Please contact Guro Joe privately for information.
Guro Brian Calaustro Instructing Tomorrow
•05.21.2010 • Leave a CommentIEFMA Sayoc students be advised:
Guro Brian Calaustro will be guest instructing class tomorrow morning. Time and location to remain the same, at JH Mallows Park in Claremont, on the Northeast corner of the intersection. Guro Brian is a Level 5 Full Instructor in the Sayoc system, and recently presented his sharpened stick material at last year’s Sama Sama.
Gentlemen it is a privilege to have Guro Brian come through. Let’s represent properly for the Inland Empire.
SCHEDULE CHANGE
•05.18.2010 • Leave a CommentIEFMA Sayoc students be advised:
Class this weekend will be on SATURDAY, MAY 22 instead of the aforementioned Sunday.
Time & location remain the same:
JH Mallows Park in Claremont, CA 91711 off Indian Hill Blvd between Fourth and Sixth Streets, just North of the Claremont Village.
Please contact Guro Joe by Friday if you will be attending.
May Schedule
•05.12.2010 • 1 CommentUpdated Training Schedule for IEFMA Sayoc Students
Sunday, May 16 at 0900 at Mallows Park in Claremont
Sunday, May 23 at 0900 at Mallows Park in Claremont
NO Class the last weekend in May
Again I apologize for the lack of updates. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments or concerns at jmarana@iefma.com or 909.319.1991. Class schedule change requests will be considered if there is enough interest.
Inland Empire Filipino Martial Arts 