Stage development of the Young Turks!

Graduation Rites

of
LM Bacoor Arnis Club

25 March 2006

by Ana Tuangco

Successful members of Batch 2006

They are the young turks as Manong calls them! They have taken the initial step in following our path. We look forward for their successful attainment of their dream - becoming members of the PHILMAT Generation II. We hope that their enthusiasm may not falter and our commitment and duties will rekindle that enthusiasm to pursue of what we planned for them to achieve.

They are the hope of the next generation. Congratulation young turks and may you have more things to achieve in life!

A word with the CEO

As they grow during their inital stage of development, a continuous guidance is much needed for them to orient and remind them of their duties and repsonsibilities as young turks of the Maharlika. What must be done and accomplish at their is stage, matters a lot for us to gauge their potentials.

This is the most significant and important stage in their lives because it is in this stage that the molding of character and norms begin. "You are like a lump of clay, that it is easier to mold while still soft." Maharlika is an institution like NARAPHIL where we believe that the building of managers and leaders for our nation can take place!

The awarding

Please accept your award for all the efforts you've done. May it serves as a reminder of your hardships you have undergone. It signifies the inital step you have taken in fulfilling your goal. A new chapter in your life!

Our congratulations!!! We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs. Cristy Sarte (school owner of Little Angels Learning School), Engr. Zaldie Franco (primary sponsor) and Rey Postrado (chief instructor).

Thank you for your untiring support for the cause of our arnis promotion!

Showcasing their learned skills

Ladies and gentlemen, parents and teachers! May we introduce you the young turks, of what they have learned for the year of training with us!

This is only the beginning of a stage in their development of their skills.

The masters

They have never failed to showcase their skills in the art neither they have falter in sharing their knowledge to the young turks. Unselfish, dedicated and loving are the only things we can say to them. A true Maharlikans!

We shall follow

So we shall follow as what you have taught us. We shall carry-on the good things you have shown us and share the knowledge we have learned from you. Forgive us for our inequities but we shall be of what you wanted us to be ..............

A true Maharlikans!

"You are a lump of clay easier to mold while still soft!"
by Capt Rick Sarte

Patience is a virtue!

"Maharlikans virtue!"
by Manong

Patience is a virtue that the young turks must possess. Without it everything learned becomes boring and monotonous. They may not know it but it is a challenge setforth for them to realize. It is one of the basic foundation for development of self-discipline and personality. When combined with wisdom .......... it is simply the art of diplomacy.

So young turks, as our great national hero quoted, "The children are the hope of the motherland". Develop that virtue because when you become leader or manager of your own field of endeavor, you will need a lot of diplomacy and strong personality to command respect among your peers. As has been said in NARAPHIL and I shall reiterate it again, "NARAPHIL is an institution where we develop leaders and managers for this nation through ARNIS". So thus the Liping Maharlika for all the years have passed never abandoned nor left her out in her years of hardships and trials. Liping Maharlika is the captain of the ship and NARAPHIL is the ship.

Lucky for you, young turks, to have these guys to serve for you and follow their foot steps! Their success is a product of long years of training and experience they've learned from Maharlika. They offer you a better opportunity way of life - simple and honest. What else do you want and aspire for???

"The Operators"

If we have the team to beat, the combination of these two individuals ................ is known as the operators. Liping Maharlika president (Capt Rick Sarte) and the NARAPHIL Secretary General (Cmdt. Jun Martinada) when combined together are like "a diesel engine" when they are hot everything go well as planned. The longer that engine runs the better is the performance. The secret lies on their years of training patiently plus the experience in their own field of profession and business makes them a tougher and a well-oiled machine. So develop that virtue of patience!

We need these kind of people - committed, dedicated, respectful and loyal, to what they believe is right and just. They help others in finding an honest job or even have sponsored some students to college.

"The team works"

In order for an organization to work, every members must share his/her time for it to accomplish needed plans and programs. They take things responsibly serious as they at work or at their offices and businesses. Because they believe that by doing it, the young turks will do the same when time comes for them to take-over of what has been left. Probably not only a tradition but a legacy!

So keep up the good work Maharlikans! I know you have all the resources to reach the goal you aspire. I wish you good luck and may the Lord bless you and the good deeds you have done to your fellowmen, to God and country!

Patience my lad, patience! Time will come when you will carry-on of what they have handed down unto you!

"Be Strong and Confident"

Every Maharlikans has its own unique talents. They never fail to amuse me - from a doctor to bonsai maker; from karateka to a good chef; from an engineer to piano player; from a teacher to a singer or a housewife to a great arnis performer and others. They are people of so many talents and varied potentials. No wonder they can be successful in any other fields. That's what made them strong and confident to face the challenges of times!

To face that challenges of time? .................. you need a lot of petience!

"Shall we dance"

Life is such a beautiful way to live. We only pass this way once and anything you do reflects of what your future be. So make every efforts meaningful as God has given us that rare opportunity. Teaching arnis is probably our destiny as what has God chosen us to do for our youth. Hence we, Maharlikans, are compelled to do and carry-on what our forebears has handed down unto us. It's like a beautiful dance that we make every efforts meaningful and as lively as the music plays. So shall we dance???

But how can we dance if both of our feet are LEFT FOOT? Again my lad ............. be patient in learning which is your right foot from your left foot. It takes time to perfect it like a dance!

"The gifted pair"

The professor and the chief engineer! What an unusual pair? But both doing a common cause - playing arnis! Four decades of friendship - in hardships and happiness, in despair and in love, the challenges they have hurdled in life. They have been toughened and matured in time. But what is more very unusual of this two ................... they are both gifted in the art of arnis!

They have nurtured that talent through time. How??? They trained patiently like the others everyday, seven times a week for fifty-two weeks for four consecutive years.

"An astonishing form for a lady"

She has won awards worthy for a champion. An honor probably beyond its worth. But that was more than a decade ago. Can she still have that form??? You judge it for yourself! A really astonishing form for a lady like Ana to possess such fete.

What can be the secret behind such success? Well ............... dedication, lots of training and most important of all - PATIENCE! She never trains sloppily as you can see in her spontaneous pictures. She always see to it that training is always done at the utmost performance or competitive level - the PHILMAT way of training.

"The future Jenny or Ana"

Sir, then how can I be like them???

Well, young lady, if you must follow their foot steps .............. learn the virtue of patience. Arnis is a skill that needs a lot of honing. Train patiently with these masters and I can assure you that, you only not equal their talents but possibly go far beyond of what they have achieved. They have opened so many doors for you to choose and its up to you to choose wisely and follow of what your heart yearns.

They can make you a great arnisador while they can also create the leadership potentials in you. I know you can never fail but if ever by any chance did not succeed, I can assure you that you have developed and assimilated the best of who you are - a good person, a Maharlikan!

"The way to do it"

Everything have been written and said ..................... the only way to do it, is start it now! Train daily patiently and religiously ........... two hours a day, seven days a week for fifty-two weeks. Keep your body and spirit as healthy as they should always be. Maintain that equilibria in your life. Learn to carry responsibilities as they come our way.

Train as if you are in the performance or competitive level. In that way, you slowly achieved of what we wanted you to be. A lousy training results in a poor performance and resulting into "sour-graping". Never develop that kind of attitude. You loose because you did not perform well so don't blame others for your inequities ........... that is not the Maharlikan way. Develop that virtue of patience!

"Liping Maharlika is the captain of the ship and NARAPHIL is the ship"
by Capt. Ricardo F. Sarte

How long we have to train???

"A typical busy weekend"

Rizal Park (Luneta), Manila
12 March 2006

(by Manong)

Time is of the essence because it is infinite. Your question, "How long we have to train?" ....... is something that determines one's ability to assimilate of what has been taught. There is a saying that, "Training make things perfect" so inorder to attain such fete one must not see time not just an element of measurement but the quality of how you manage the element of time.

So, the next time you train, do it in the performance level otherwise whatever you do during those period of training is nothing but a garbage of trash!!! This is what made the PHILMAT great. They are not just an ordinary arnisador neither a super hero. They are the product of painstakingly and meticulously trained arnisador to interpret the real practice that they have bound to present from what have been the product of years of research by the mother organization - NARAPHIL.

Yes, this is a typical weekend activity of the Maharlikans. They are a group of dedicated professionals and businessmen who until to this date never cease to amuse me. They are very busy during their week days in their offices and businesses and still find time to share their expertise for the love of the art without any material compensation! So, young turks get whatever knowledge and time you spent with them because I can assure you they are worth knowing it. This is your legacy!!!

I salute you Maharlikans and hope that you can do more for them and country! We are already in another chapter of our lives and I'm very much honored that I'm still a part of that legacy you are promoting. My services is still and will always be available at your disposal though I'm a thousand miles away. I can always walk tall with head high and proud to say .............. I'm a Maharlikan!

Keep on training young turks because these Maharlikans provide their services for free. The truth is you can never pay their professional fees if you wanted it to be. They have a motto, "Every Filipino has the right to learn his arnis for FREE!". They are doing these because ........ this is your legacy!!!

Senior instructor Zaldie Franco is known among his peers as the "helicopter" arnisador. Why?? It is because he can twirl his cane much faster than anyone else and even more exciting is the long pole around his body and anywhere else like a "bastoneer" and hear the sound of the motion like a whistling rotor of the chopper.

A seaman by profession (a Chief Engineer actually), he never cease to come and help his comrades in sharing his skills and knowledge to the young turks. Like Prof. Luz Arroyo, Capt. Sarte, Cmdt. Martinada, Ms. Ana Tuangco, Mike, Rey and Alex dela Cruz they have family to attend to but their dedication is what made a lot of difference. Maharlikans they say ............ truly they are!!!

The span of generation

Patience young turks!!! I say again, "Practice, practice and practice!". Waste not time spent with these masters of the art because they are few like them. There is no substitute in learning skills but constant practice. Monotonous they say??? Well it's only in the mind of a critic but not a dedicated arnisador!

They have a lot more to share if only you develop that virtue of patience and wisdom. Four decades of assimilated knowledge is not just a hundred pages of books or manuscript but volumes to share. They have undergone training on five NARAPHIL Grandmasters some of which have passed away. The greatest knowledge of which they learned probably is how to love the art and live in the way they are taught they should be ............ "the way of arnis"!


As one of my greatest teacher (Anacleto Rous) in arnis would say, "Learn to respect arnis, for it is the legacy we are respecting and the very symbol of which is ........... the stick!" How we treat it .......... reflects our own personality and our nation as well.

Truly I understood now what he meant by it! Most arnisadores doesn't understand the way in giving due respect to our stick. They just pick it up whatever and whenever they want it! Or the worst scenario which I saw even in a video footage .............. they just throw it away like an ordinary thing or even kick it if it gets in their way! What the heck!!!!!!!!!! Is this how they treat our legacy???

"Learn to respect arnis ....... for it is our legacy that we are respecting! The symbol of which is the stick that we play with".
by Prof. Anacleto Rous

LM Birthday Celebrants ........ March!

Maharlikans Celebrants of the Month!

"March"

As years gone by, our camaraderie has gone stronger. There is no doubt ........ it is boundless! Yes! we owe it to Liping Maharlika.

Others says that we are the right people at the right time in the right place bound together with a right common noble cause ............ ARNIS!

Arnis is a way of life, a noble life ............. if only people realize the great importance of what we have achieved for the past three decades in our lives for Liping Maharlika. Our youthful minds and hearts were truly full of love and wisdom to share, so that others may experience and also improved the ways of their lives ............ a noble life!

So on behalf of your fellow brothers and sisters, we would like to honor you for being a friend, ........... a sister or brother, .......... but most of all being a Maharlikan!

"Mennie"
24 March

A very energetic and daring lady. She has the guts to take challenges for the future by traveling abroad alone ......... which she successfully did! Congratulations for your guts Sis!!!


Dedicated to whatever job or assignment given to her. A woman with a big heart .......... never question orders but a lot of wisdom to share! Keep it up Mennie and we are always around for you!


From the bottom of our hearts we celebrate your day of birth with pride and honor! Regards to your family and God bless!

"Ana"
26 March

You have brought honor to yourself by winning the "1st WEKAF Form Championship" ....... but it is also our honor for being a part of the Liping Maharlika. You never cease to amuse us with your talents and beauty .......... no sophistication but as simple as it is. Art is very lucky to have you and no doubt ............ Tenten has really followed your foot steps by winning honor for herself and country, even though on a different field of sports.

This month, we dedicate this page to honor you both for being with us for the past three decades. We know we cannot repay the dedication you have extended with the Liping Maharlika and so all of us ............. but we would like you to know deep from our hearts our affection and care as a Maharlika family!

May your tribe multiply and flourish! Keep it up and .................

Happy Birthday Ladies!!!

May you have more to come .........

from all of us!





"Arnis is a way of life ............. a noble life"
by Liping Maharlika