MarblePlayTV: Kuntaw Ancient Philippine Martial Arts 

Agreed - these movements look like bastardized versions of Sikaran's Baslankas combined with kara-te. The real Kuntawan Silat is completely different and relies on tri-circular motion and elaborate footwork patterns.

Go for it bro, it's really fun.

Kuntao may have been influenced by Shorin Ryu as Okinawa is close to the Philippines. But not mostly based of Shorin Ryu. It is mostly of Karate, Silat, Wing Chun and Filipino mindset of anything goes. It has elements of mysticism of Silat that Shorin Ryu does not have.

@@blakwingz I can tell you after training and teaching this art for over 15 yrs, it is nothing more than modified shorinryu karate.. I had been involved with the kuntaw system illustrated in the video.. In the early 70s when I was training in it, we were named Maharlika Kuntaw Kungfu because we had open hand forms in it.. I left the Philippines to return two years later and it turned out that the open hand forms had been pretty much left in the dust and dropped because from what I was told by my immediate instructor and other senior instructors that they were dropped to make it more competitive like karate. After talking to senior instructors who knew the back ground of the Kuntaw system, it was found out that Lanada had trained at the old Budokan school in Manila and went out on his own. The old Budokan school was shorinryu and several well known instructors were said to have trained there over the years before going on their own paths.

100 defferent marcial in the philippines

halfhausaman, you are right. Carlito Lanada's "Kuntaw" is obviously NOT KunTao and it certainly isn't REAL FMA. It's obviously Okinawan Karate appropriated by Filipinos (namely Lanada) and given Filipino titles. Even the outfits are not Filipino outfits but Karate gis. The whole pull-back-the-fist-to-the-hip is NOT an FMA tactic AT ALL. It' something seen in Karate. But to those who think we're lying...don't take our words for it. Look at video clips of unarmed tactics in REAL Filipino FMA -- Dekiti Tirsia, Pekiti Tirsia, LaCoste-Inosanto, Ilustrisimo, Bahad Zu'bu, Lightning Scienfitic Arnis, Inayan, BahalaNa, Bakbakan......look at the unarmed aspects of ANY of these systems and YOU tell me if they move REMOTELY like these "kuntaw" guys. NO. Now look at video clips of people practicing Goju Ryu, Uechi Ryu and Shorin Ryu (Okinawan Karate) and YOU TELL ME what it looks like. Enough said. I was born in Peru. If you saw me in Lima practicing Tae Kwon Do with a Korean - like Gi and I told you it was the ancient Inca fighting system of Manco Capac that has been passed down through generatios and blah blah blah bullshit...because I had given the system a bunch of crazy Quechua names, that still wouldn't change the fact that I was full of shit. Sure, I could be a great Tae Kwon Do guy but to call it something else would be a scam. I'm sorry, but sometimes the truth is bitter.

Definitely not legitimate FMA. This is actually pretty common in the Philippines, unfortunately; Karate and Taekwondo got their hooks into the MA scene and this is the result. A lot of Filipinos have never even seen authentic fma, and many of the masters are dying of old age. :/

Eric Arroyo, it's a sad state, Brother. People who bark loudest are not always telling the truth.

halfhausaman the best kuntao instructor i ever saw was Chris Derbaum under Liu Seong Kuntao lineage

What you are seeing here -- what Carlito Lanada spread as "Kuntao" or "Kuntaw" is a LIE. It's KARATE with a different name. Look at the rear-fist-on-the-hip structure. Where do you find that? Chinese, Okinawan, Japanese and traditional Korean arts. Where do you NOT find it? In Filipino, Moro, Indonesian and traditional Malay arts. Kuntao is the Chinese-Indo-Malay (and by extension, Chinese-Filipino) set of combatives. Those systems do NOT have the rear fist set on the hip. Look up "Kuntao" on youtube and find some REAL Kuntao -- Chris Derbaum, Willem Reeders, Willem De Thouars, etc. You will NOT see that rear-fist-on-the-hip structure. Seriously, as if the KARATE UNIFORMS with the KARATE BELTS didn't give it away, look at the structure...it's all Karate. This poor dude's been had.

all filipino martial arts are older than karate ..

@@kimmerroque9045 i agree with u totally.all im saying is that is particular has clearly been blended with a heavyy japenese influence. Im not speaking about all fma.

@@fucu41 ohhh ok ok ..sorry .. it's like the karate is modern and cleaner version right?? ..hahahaha btw let's all be happy 😁