Saavatilda Eskrima Club

Baraw Sugbo, formerly known as Arnis Diablo, is a Filipino Martial Art specializing in the use of the knife. The art comes down to a few students from the late great Tatay Lorenzo Saavedra. His only student of the knife was a certain Simo, who then taught a select few students. GM Atillo learned the essence of this art from Rene Capangpangan. Our condolences on the passing of Gregorio Ceniza on October 6, 2007 - one of the masters of Baraw Sugbo. You can read more about this art here.

I've been communicating with a Baraw Sugbo representative on Youtube about bringing over the current masters (Noy Cronnie Cabatingan and Noy Boy Ceniza) to the U.S. for a seminar circuit. I will speak to GM Atillo about it. If anyone else or another organization can help with this, please contact me. It would be great to have these masters here to spread this little known art. If this doesn't pan out, I will have to travel to Cebu in 2008 to start my adventure into this art. As this art comes from my teacher's lineage, I think it would be imperative, even only from an historical viewpoint, to learn, preserve and pass it on.

Here's a sample clip here.