Seminar with Pamana Tuhon Chris Sayoc
REMINDER: January 31st is the deadline for registration at the discounted rate. Call Guro Sue ASAP to register at the discounted rate! 860-589-7500
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RiSu Martial Arts Academy will be hosting Pamana Tuhon Chris Sayoc for a two-day edged weapons seminar in February.
Do not miss this rare opportunity to train with Tuhon Chris Sayoc, the Founder and Creator of Sayoc Kali!
To register, call Risu Martial Arts Academy: 860-589-7500 with your Visa, Master Card, or Discover.
Click the image below for details or download the full-size flyer (PDF)
Official Sayoc Kali Philippines Page
Tuhon Jimmy Sayoc and Mike Sadiwa
Tuhon Jimmy Sayoc has been visiting in the Philippines to establish the Official Pilipinas Sayoc Kali Training Group. We set up an official page to provide details about the group. Have a look!
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Sayoc Combat Choreograhpy on “NCIS: LA”
Tuhon Rafael Kayanan was onset with Guro Brian Calaustro and LL Cool J(!!), working with the NCIS: LA crew for a fight scene in an upcoming episode. Guro Joey Marana has a nice write-up on Sayoc Combat Choreography on his site, Inland Empire FMA.
More on Sayoc Combat Choreography.
OFFICIAL SAYOC KALI GLOBAL STATEMENT
Regarding the recent announcement from a rogue training group in the Philippines that they are an official “Sayoc Kali” school.
“What they’re most known for is being the first training group to cause division and mar the Sayoc brand.”
Link to original statement on FMAForum.org
Sayoc Kali has tried to work things out privately with certain individuals who have taken it upon themselvesto take advantage of our silence during these matters.
Due to numerous inquiries behind the scenes and on this forum itself, we would like to set the matter straight.
This is not a personal matter, we do not know these names, but a matter of non qualified individuals attempting to hijack the strong reputation that Sayoc Kali Global has established in thirty plus years in the martial arts community.
There is NO doubt in anyone’s mind who trained ALL the high ranks in Sayoc Kali.You can ask any Tuhon in Sayoc Kali who was teaching them, and who established the legacy of Sayoc Kali.
Not who was their friend or who was there at gatherings: WHO TRAINED THEM.
A few of us were already Lakans under Tatang Bo, but Tatang Bo himself told us who to train with.
He knew who we were supposed to build and evolve the system with.
He knew who the future of Sayoc Kali was even back in the eighties.
Tatang Bo’s legacy is not defined by appropriation.
This is not some soap opera or some dramatic reenactment of Tatang Bo’s last days in the Philippines.
Legacy’s are not passed on that way.
They are earned.
This is about facts.
Sayoc Kali’s legacy is defined by the evidence of years of hard work.
The world knows the name of the individual who is forever part of building that legacy.
It is not coming from Sayoc Kali Global, it is not coming from whispers from beyond.
This is fact.
That individual’s students date as far back as you want to research Sayoc Kali’s evolution.
We no longer need here say.
No document copied from logos I myself designed in 1985 need prove this, nor proof that originate from our own mouths.
Under one Sayoc’s guidance they tested theories, shattered myths, created applications and shared the training with the elite levels of the military and martial arts community for the past thirty plus years.
Tatang Bo asked that same individual to weed out and train every Lakan he wished to promote because that individual had taken the family art in his own words, “to the next level. ”
LEGACY
Tatang Bo and Sayoc Kali’s legacy is already honored, evolved and preserved.
There’s no debate on this because deeds can not be erased.
We know who did the work. We know who produced the students. We know who trained all the Tuhons.
We know who developed all the respected instructors for the US military’s very best.
We know who promoted FMA for the past thirty years in countless seminars, into films, tournaments, and training groups all over the world.
That individual was Pamana Tuhon Chris Sayoc, Sr.
We at Sayoc Kali Global know our legacy, we created it, we have the time tested curriculum, We are not only part of the past but the future of Sayoc Kali.
Sayoc Kali is a protected brand both legally and through its protocols.Those who do not comprehend how functional organizations and the modern world work today can only interpret it in the most esoteric terms.
That brand now means quality training in many aspects of combatives developed thru decades of R & D.
That is the legacy future students want to be part of.
That is a legacy that was earned by our collective efforts.
This is how one honors Tatang Bo. One tribe, one family, one brand.
“Sayoc” and “Kali” means “Sayoc Kali”
A shared surname and Kali training is not a legacy. That is a *responsibility to uphold the established legacy* .
This means none of us at Sayoc Kali Global will indulge in any personal attacks at anyone who we have viewed as a brother.
Someone who WITNESSED how those of us who did not share the surname,upheld it and illuminated it for the world.
Sayoc Kali is a collective effort.
It means that all the trial and errors, all the mistakes, all the tough workthese past thirty plus years are not about a surname and having kali training.
It is about passing on the best system that has evolved to what it is today without all the pitfalls, blemishes, and discardeddrills.
Sayoc Kali Global is the personification of Tatang Bo’s legacy.
A legacy requires all of the above. It requires building and acknowledging the work done by those who earned it.
The organization that Tatang Bo was part of WHEN HE WAS ALIVE.
SAYOC KALI TRAINING GROUP / PHILIPPINES
Just stand back and observe what this training group has accomplished so far.
What they’re most known for is being the first training group to cause division and mar the Sayoc brand.
Read the above again.
Worse is that this training group is from the Philippines!
No problems with any from Europe, Canada or the United States.
Many countries represented by training groups.
Many states.
Many systems and styles practiced by all of them.
Not one.
Sayoc Kali Global does not desire a fractured, ill trained group to represent us in our mother land. One that has possibly already splintered and made a mess of the group there in a very short time.
How is that for making Tatang Bo proud?
The first group with the LEAST training, experience, curriculum depth and skill level from all the rest of Sayoc Global to split off.
It is most unfortunate that they are the only training group none of the other Tuhons have met.
We wish they knew more about the curriculum PT Chris Sayoc developed.
They teach it openly from free dvds they were sent.
They show off on youtube.
They didn’t earn that right, only those who we tested as Full Instructors have earned that.
We teach life and death techniques, serious matters and they dance on youtube without any idea of what they are doing.
Lakans in SFS are considered Level one ASSOCIATE INSTRUCTORS in Sayoc Kali.
If they truly understood legacy and honor; Then they may respect ALL their elders in the system then, not pick and choose who will coddle them most in their quest for empty prominence.
The first thing someone does when they receive power is abuse it.
Sayoc Kali Global will commit to developing another training group from scratch, one fully committed to the legacy the world already knows.
In contrast to Sayoc Kali Global’s thirty plus years of promoting our system and sharing the limelight with FMA masters from Garimot, Dekiti, Modern Arnis, Doce Pares, Pananandata, Floro Foighting, Vee Arnis, etc., thus far this training group’s legacy is false humility, force teaming and hubris that have defined this training group’s legacy.
Signed,
The Council of Tuhons of Sayoc Kali
Tuhon Felix Cortes
Tuhon Rafael Kayanan
Tuhon Ricardo Kayanan
Tuhon Ray Dionaldo
Tuhon Thomas Kier
All the Full Instructors in Sayoc Kali
New Historical Timeline of Sayoc Kali
There is a new historical reference article that discusses the the evolution of the Sayoc Kali system under Pamana Tuhon Chris Sayoc. At the end of the article there is comprehensive timeline of important events in the history of Sayoc Kali from 1959 – 2011!
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