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Filipino martial art enjoys revival
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UNION CITY -- The Filipino martial art of stick fighting, Cacoy
Doce Pares, is hard to defend against. And for centuries, it was
even harder to learn.
The Spanish colonialists killed Filipinos they saw practicing it
and even after they were driven from power, the technique was mostly
handed down from father to son in the privacy of Filipino homes and
American garages.
That began to change 40 years ago when Richard Bustillo -- who
studied under Bruce Lee, a pioneer in blending different martial
arts -- set upon the task of learning the fighting traditions of his
ancestral land.
In 1967, he ...
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