A big mahalo to Maestro Randy and the students of the Lahaina Maui Branch of Ola'a-nalo Eskrima. I appreciate you bringing myself and Chief Pat over to Maui to give you students a seminar. Congradulations to Chief Patrick and Maestros's Randy and Brian on their promotions and congradulations to the students of the Lahaina Branch for their promotions into the student ranks. Keep practicing, your Eskrima movements are good. I look forward to training with you all again soon.
mahalo, master ron Updated: (07-13-2010)
Ola'a-nalo Eskrima joins WEKAF
Ola'a-nalo Eskrima is now an official member school of WEKAF, (World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation). Our goal in being a member of WEKAF is to support the efforts of WEKAF to promote the Filipino Martial Arts through sanctioned tournaments. Updated: (02-13-2010)
Ola'a-nalo Eskrima on Facebook
I am pleased to announce that we have established a facebook account for Ola'a-nalo Eskrima. I encourage everyone to sign on as a member to support our efforts to spread more information about our school. If you have any suggestions on how we can improve our website or facebook account please let me know.
mahalo,
Master Ron Updated: (11-10-2009)
3rd Annual Maui Open Tournament
On October 24th we held our 3rd Maui Open Filipino Martial Arts Tournament. It was a great success, this year in addition to the padded stick and Caranza portion of the tournament we added Kumite and Kata events. Much mahalo to the members of (HOPE) Hawaii Organization of Pilipino Escrima for running the padded stick fighting and Caranza events and Master Paul Main and his people from Ohana Martial Arts for running the Kata and Kumite events. I want to give a special acknowledgement to Senior Maestro Randy Cabanilla and the Maui students for organizating this great event. A GOOD JOB TO ALL! I also want to congradulate all the competitors for the great sportsmenship demonstrated and a special congradulations to the 2 Cabanilla fighters from the Ola'a-nalo Lahina school for doing such a great job in their first competition. I am already looking forward to the 4th Annual Maui Open Tournament in 2010. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! Updated: (11-10-2009)
5th Year Reunion and Upcoming Activities
We just completed our 5th year reunion. Wow, what fun. There was alot of good training over the 4 day period. The SPKF knife fighting was a blast with Chief Pat and Breaze pretty much coming to a draw. For those of you that could not make the reunion, you missed out! Congradulations to Sr. Maestro Breaze on his promotion to Chief Maestro Instructor, your martial abilities and support of our school is acknowledged in your promotion. Events coming up later this year are the Maui Open Tournament scheduled for October 24th in Maui. We are also planning a December trip to the Big Island of Hawaii to visit the volcano and observe GGM Pedoy's ceremony to honor Madam Pele. This is a once a year tradition that has been going on since the mid 80's. Exact dates for the BI trip will be announced later this year. Remember train hard and train safe and keep it as real as possible. Updated: (07-22-2009)
5th Year Reunion for Ola'a-nalo Eskrima
Ola'a-nalo Eskrima will celebrate a 5th year reunion in Honolulu Hawaii during the dates July 13-19, 2009. Our mainland, Oahu and Maui schools have confirmed they will be attending. More details will be announced as they become available. Make your reservations asap to secure hotel and travel reservations. Updated: (03-06-2009)
new contact email for master ron
Pls note effective march 01 my new email contact is worldwideaq@yahoo.com Updated: (03-02-2009)
S.P.K.F. and 2nd Maui Open Tournament
A big mahalo to everyone that attended or participated in our 2nd Annual Maui Open Tournament. The competition was great in all areas of the tournament. The level of competitition in the Caranza/Forms and (HOPE) padded stick divisions was great with many excellent bouts. The S.P.K.F. was popular with the competitors and the audience had a great time. I think the popularity of S.P.K.F. will grow once the competitors lean how to fight in this type of competition. Most of the fighters tended to wade in and take a lot of hits, while delivering hopefully more hits. The average score for the competitors was 130-150 hits, which is a lot of contact. Where as with those of us that have fought over a 100 rounds tend to have 60 or less hits per 2 rounds. S.P.K.F. is a new competition art form where defensive movements are required in order to win. It will take a little training, but even during the initial bouts of S.P.K.F. we could see some of the competitors starting to take notice of their defense. We thank eveyone for their great sportmanship and willingness to try something new. We plan to hold a S.P.K.F tournament in early 2009 in Waimanalo. If anyone wants to work on their S.P.K.F skills we train on (most) Saturday afternoons at the Old Stadium Park. Check with us for training times. If you come to fight, be sure you bring a foam helmet so we can attach a solid face shield. Aloha, Master Ron.. Updated: (10-31-2008)
Maui Open Tournament, October 25, 2008
Ola'a-nalo Eskrima will be holding it's 2nd Annual Filipino Martial Arts Open Tournament on October 25, 2008. The tournament hours are 9am to 5 pm and will be held at the Binhi At Ani-Maui Filipino Center, 780 Onehee Ave., Kahului, Maui. The following events will be offered: Padded Stick Fighting (light armor),S.P.K.F.(Sure Point Knife Fighting with safety knives) and Caranza/Forms competition, (Note: the Live Stick catgagory has been canceled for this tournament). Check out the events section in this website for more information and you can down load our flyer. For those of you that will needing lodging while on Maui we have made arrangements at the following hotels in Kahului: Maui Beach ($111.00 per night) 808 877-0051, free parking for guests; Maui Seaside ($102.50 per night) 808 877-0730 or 800-560-5552, $5.00 for parking for guests. Both Hotels will HOLD THE ROOMS AT THESE SPECIAL RATES UNTIL OCTOBER 10TH, SO MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS ASAP. When making your reservation mention Ola'a-nalo Eskrima or The Maui Open Filipino Martial Arts tournament for the special rates. If you need more information, you can call 808-259-6564 or use the email contacts listed on this website. Last year was a great success, we anticipate an even larger turn-out this year. See You There! Mahalo. Updated: (10-12-2008)
2008 Summer Olaa-nalo Seminars
Congradulations to the 2 new Maestros of Ola'a-nalo Eskrima: Gary Schroeder-Davenport, Iowa and Dexter James-Walden New York and congradulations to the students in Iowa that were promoted to intermediate and advanced student levels. Thank you to Sensei Doug and the instructors and students of Hoshin Black Belt Acadamey, Walden Yew York, your support and hospitality is greatly appreciated. I look forward to seeing everyone next year, Mahalo.. Updated: (08-28-2008)
