Posted By ggm on September 6, 2010
With the approval of the IKF council, I have announced that my Granddaughter will assume all rights and responsibilities as the inheritor of the Kuntaw system in the event that I become unable or incapacitated to fulfill my duties as GGM. If this should happen prior to the successor’s required age qualification, the successor will be guided by the members of the IKF council. Mabuhay ang Kuntaw!
Posted By ggm on September 6, 2010
Congratulations to all members of the IKF and thank you to all members who attended the 50th golden anniversary at Kuntaw Palace in Wilson, NC USA on September 4th, 2010. Thank you for making the event a huge success. The memories created at this event will last us for years to come. Special thanks to members Grandmaster Bill Roy (New Mexico), Grandmaster Marc De Leon (Canada), Grandmaster, Bud Cothern (California), Master Jun Paliangayn (Maryland/DC), Master Rollie Descargar (Canada), Calvin Holmes (Saudi Arabia) and many others in attendance.
Posted By gm on August 19, 2010
G/ GRANDMASTER
ON DESK
AUGUST 12, 2010
NEW CHAIRMAN OF NATIONAL APPROVED TOURNAMENT OFFICIAL
ONE OF THE MOST SENIOR KUNTAW MASTER AND KNOWN BY MY LATE FATHER (TANG IBAN) WHEN HE JOINED KUNTAW , BACK IN 1970’S IN THE PHILIPPINES, ACCEPTED THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE NATIONAL APPROVED TOURNAMENT OFFICIAL ( N.A.T.O.), THAT HAS BEEN UNFILLED FOR TWENTY FOUR (24) YEARS SINCE LAKAN DATU COLONEL BENNY SIERRA, PASSED AWAY.
GRAND MASTER (DAKILANG LAKAN) LOWELL (BUD) COTHERN, THE NEW CHAIRMAN WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL KUNTAW FEDERATION, TO PARTICIPATE ON THE FORTH COMING 2010 AND 2011 INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL ARTS COMPETITION, UNDER THE AUSPICES OF MASTERS HALL OF FAME- USA, (MHF) ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA.
KYUD BUD, GOOD LUCK, MABUHAY!!
G/GM CARLITO A. LANADA, SR.
GREAT GRAND MASTER
DAKILANG APO RAHA
THE BRAIN/ FOUNDER & CHIEF
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – IKF- KNP – MKA
ADDRESS AT:
KUNTAW USA
PO BOX 969
NATIONAL CITY, CA
91951
Posted By gm on August 19, 2010
EXEC. ORDER # 12 / CONFIRMATION OF KUNTAW GRAND MASTERS
G/ GRAND MASTER
ON DESK/ FILE
SECOND PRESS RELEASE
AUGUST 17, 2010
THE CONFIRMATION/ LIST OF FIVE GRAND MASTERS (DAKILANG LAKAN)
OF THE INTERNATIONAL KUNTAW FEDERATION- 2010
NEW GRAND MASTERS / DAKILANG LAKAN:
9TH DEGREE RED BELTER
* GRAND MASTER / DAKILANG LAKAN …GM BEJAMIN ORTIZ >> KSA
* GRAND MASTER / DAKILANG LAKAN …GM LOWELL COTHERN > > USA
* GRAND MASTER / DAKILANG LAKAN …GM WILLIAM ROY >> USA
* GRAND MASTER / DAKILANG LAKAN …GM MARC DE LEON >> CANADA
* GRAND MASTER / DAKILANG LAKAN… GM JON BAIS >> RP
NOTE:
GM/ WILLIAM BILL ROY- TWICE -INDUCTEED IN HALL OF FAME
GM/ LOWELL BUD COTHERN ONCE -INDUCTEE IN HALL OF FAME .
GM/ JON BAIS ONCE -INDUCTEE IN HALL OF FAME
THE NEW SENIOR MASTER / PUNONG LAKAN DATU
8TH DEGREE RED, BLACK, & RED BELT
* SENIOR MASTER / PUNONG LAKAN DATU …….SM VICTOR ANGELES
* SENIOR MASTER / PUNONG LAKAN DATU …….SM ROGER RONCESVALLES
THE NEW MASTERS / LAKAN DATU
7TH DEGREE RED, WHITE & RED BELT………………CONGRATULATION
THE NEW KUNTAW EXPERT / LAKAN GURO
6TH DEGREE RED, WHITE & BLUE BELT …………….CONGRATULATION
SIGND BY:
G/GM CARLITO A. LANADA, SR. ADDRESS AT:
GREAT GRAND MASTER KUNTAW USA
(DAKILANG APO RAHA) PO BOX # 969
THE BRAIN/ FOUNDER & CHIEF NATIONAL CITY, CA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – IKF- KNP- MKA 91951
Posted By gm on August 19, 2010
G/GRAND MASTER
ON DESK/ FILE
SECOND RELEASED
KUNTAW RELATION WITH KUNTAO AND KOONTAO
THE KUNTAW SOMETIMES CALLED KUNTAO/ OR KOONTAO BUT IN REAL SENSE, THE KUNTAO, IS AN INDONESIAN ANCIENT MARTIAL ARTS MODIFIED AND SYNTHESIZED WITH THE SYSTEM OF PENCHAK-SILAT OF MALAYSIAN ART OF SELF-DEFENSE NOW CALLED INDONESIAN PERSILAT/ OR BERSILAT, WHILE HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES LANGKA PENCAK-SILAT ADOPTED BY THE NATIVE FILIPINOS YET ORIGINATED FROM CHINA. LIKEWISE,
THE KOONTAO AN ANCIENT CHINESE FORM OF MARTIAL ARTS WAS ORIGINATED ABOUT 3,500 YEARS AGO IN SOUTHERN COSTAL PROVINCE OF FUKIEN CHINA. IT IS A CHINESE STYLE OF BOXING PRACTICE BY TAOIST PRIEST OF SHAOLIN TEMPLE. THIS WAS BROUGHT AND INTRODUCED BY THE CHINESE TRADERS AND MERCHANTS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE PHILIPPINES, ADOPTED BT THE NATIVE FILIPINOS DURING THE EARLY PARTS OF THE 10TH CENTURY.
IN THE SAME MANNER, THE KUNTAW IS BEING MISINTERPRETED OF MANY. IT IS A FILIPINO NATIVE MARTIAL ARTS BEING PRACTICED BY FILIPINO MUSLIM ESPECIALLY BY THE TAU-SUG OF SULU, JOLO IN MINDANAO. HOWEVER, BEING CLAIMED ITS ORIGINALITY ALSO FROM FUKIEN CHINA SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE INDO-MALAYSIAN COUNTRIES WHEN DURING THAT ERA FILIPINO KUNTAWAN EXPERT MIGRATE TO MALAYSIA TO SEEK FOR EMPLOYMENT WHEREAS LATER ON THEY WERE HIRED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF BRUNEI AS INSTRUCTORS FOR THE SECURITY PERSONNEL OF THE KING.
IN KUNTAW IT EMPHASIZES AN OPEN AND CLOSED -HAND TECHIQUES BASE ON SLY CAT SOFT MOVEMENT CHARACTERIZED FROM DIFFERENT ANIMAL, BIRDS AND SHAPE OF PETAL. IT IS A GRACEFUL ART OF COMBAT FIGHTING YET EFFECTIVE IN INDIVIDUAL PHYSICAL HEALTH..
THE FIGHTING SYSTEM OF KUNTAW EXECUTES COMBINATIONS OF TECHNIQUES THROUGH SOFT AND HARD DANCE TECHNIQUES CALLED SAYAW-AN. IT DIFFERS FROM THE JAPANESE KYUKUSHIN KARATE KNOWN AS THE STRONGEST KARATE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD WITH FORCE TO FORCE SYSTEM WHOM MASTER MASUTATSU OYAMA KILLED A BULL BY HIS BARE HAND KARATE CHOP USING HIS EXTREME STRENGTH.
THE PRINCIPLE OF KUNTAW IS BASED ON LAO-TZU THOUGH. “ THERE IS NOTHING UNDER HEAVEN MORE SOFT AND YIELDING THAN WATER. YET NOTHING CAN EQUAL WATERS STRENGTH. THE WEAK OVERCOME THE STRONG; THE GENTLE OVERCOME THE VIOLENT, HENCE THE HARD AND POWERFUL WILL DISINTEGRATE; THE SOFT AND YIELDING WILL PREVAIL.
FILIPINO KUNTAW DERIVED FROM COMBINATION OF TWO WORDS, KUN CAME FROM “KUNSAGRADO”, MEANS SACRED, AND TAW “HATAW” MEANS STRIKE. THUS THE REAL MEANING OF KUNTAW IS SACRED STRIKE DUE TO THE SYSTEM THAT THIS IS BEING PRACTICED BY THE FOREFATHERS OF THE MUSLIM ROYALTIES (MAHARLIKA) IN PROTECTION OF THEIR OWN TRIBES.
LONG BEFORE IN MARANAO ISLAND, PHILIPPINES THE PRACTICED OF KUNTAW, IS A MUSLIM ANCIENT ART OF EMPTY-HAND AND FOOT FIGHTING WAS CONSIDERED A VERY DANGEROUS MARTIAL ARTS, BECAUSE OF ITS CHARATERISTICS THAT THEIR KUNTAWAN MASTER (LAKAN DATU) WERE USING MYSTICAL POWER BUT LATELY DECLINED UNTIL THE ART BECOME REFINED.
THIS ANCIENT SACRED ART OF SELF DEFENSE WAS POPULARIZED IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE PHILIPPINES WHICH WAS BANNED DURING THE SPANISH REGIME AND PROHIBITEDLY DECLARED THAT ANYBODY CAUGHT INVOLVED IN ITS TRAINING IS PUNISHABLE BY THE SPANISH LAW.
SO THE SECRET TRAINING SITE OF KUNTAW WAS MOVED FROM MINDANAO ISLAND TO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LUZON WHERE THE RE-ALIGNMENT OF THE ARTS WAS INTRODUCED AND PROPAGATED PARTICULARLY IN OLONGAPO CITY WHERE US MILITARY SERVICEMEN ADOPTED ITS TRAINING; DOWN TO TAGALOG AND BICOL REGION WHERE THE ARTS IS AT PRESENT EXTREMELY POPULAR; REFINED ITS ANCIENT ART BY GREAT GRANDMASTER, (DAKILANG APO RAJAH ) CARLITO LANADA,SR.
THERE ARE TWO DISTINCT TYPES OF KUNTAW; THEY ARE BUNO AND SIKARAN. THE BUNO IS A NATIVE FORM OF WRESTLING SOMETIMES CALLED GUMOL/ OR KAPLOBUD IN MARANAO VERSION WHICH LAID ON THE EMPHASIS ON THE USE OF HAND BEING POPULARLY PRACTICED BY FISHERMEN OF COASTAL TOWNS. LONG BEFORE IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES, IN SITANGKAI ISLAND, A REMOTE COASTAL PLACE CALLED LAWAN MEANING ABANDONED BY ALLAH. SITUATED BETWEEN TAWI-TAWI AND BORNEO, WHICH HAD BEEN RESIDED BY A GROUP OF SHY AND GENTILE PEOPLE CALLED TAO-LAUS. ON THIS ISLAND, THE BUNO HAD BEEN THEIR FAVORITES PAST TIME SPORTS. LIKEWISE IN THE ISLE OF LAMINUSA OF CENTRAL OF SULU HEDGING THE SOUTHERN RIM OF SULU SEA LIVES A SENDENTARY GROUP OF MARITINE PEOPLE WHOSE MAIN SOURCE OF LIVELIHOOD IS FISHING, THE KUNTAW-BUNO IS ALSO BEING PRACTICED AS THEIR COMMON SPORT.
WHILE THE SIKARAN/ OR KUNTAW-SIPAAN A FOOT-FIGHTING ART LITERALY TRANSLATED AS KICKING. THE HAND ARE LIMITED TO USE FOR BLOCKING, ALTHOUGH IN REAL COMBAT THEY ALSO USE THEIR HANDS FOR ATTACKS. THIS WAS BEING PRACTICED BY FARMERS BECAUSE THEIR LEGS ARE WELL-TRAINED DUE TO THE NATURE OF THEIR WORK. TODAY FEW ENTHUSIASTS REMEMBER SIKARAN BECAUSE A FOREIGN ARTS MOSTLY BEING PRACTICED BY YOUNG MEN WHICH IS CLOSELY SIMILAR TO THE SYSTEM OF SIKARAN.
SIX YEAR AGO SOMETIMES IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2003, THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR CULTURE AND ARTS (NCCA) LAUNCHED A KUNTAW TRAINING PROGRAM FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SCHOOL OF LIVING TRADITION (SLT) AT MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY (MSU) IN JOLO, SULU AT MSU’S RAJAH BAGINDA HALL. THE NCCA THUS PROVIDED ASSISTANCE FOR THE CREATION OF SLT IN VARIOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINES TO REVIVE THE COUNTRY’S FILIPINO MARTIAL ART CALLED KUNTAW IN ORDER TO KEEP THE ANCIENT TRADITION ALIVE. THAT THE KUNTAW TRAINING PROGRAM BE INTEGRETED WITH THE SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES FOR THE NATION-WIDE PROPAGATION OF THE ARTS.
BY:
TONY CEA VILLAREAL, SR./ JOURNALIST
7TH DEGREE RED, WHITE & RED BELT (LAKAN DATU)
IKF ASST. EXEC. DIRECTOR & ADVISORY COUNCIL
MARTIAL ARTS HISTORIAN (MAH)
NOTE:
FOR ADDITIONAL ISSUES, INTEGRATE THE RECENT ACTIVITIES OF GREAT GRAND MASTER, ( DAKILANG APO RAHA ), GGM LANADA OF INTERNATIONAL KUNTAW FEDERATION DURING HIS TRAVEL HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Contact Address:
KUNTAW USA
P.O. BOX 969
NATIONAL CITY, CA 91951
Posted By gm on August 13, 2010
G/ GRANDMASTER
ON DESK/ FILE
MAY 28,2010
SECOND RELEASED
TO:
THE SCRIPPS MERCY HOSPITAL
435 H STREET, CHULA VISTA, CA
THE WORLD, “INTERNATIONAL KUNTAW FEDERATION OF MARTIAL ARTS OFFICERS AND MEMBERS PARTICULARLY THE LANADA’S FAMILY, WISHES TO EXTEND A MILLIONS OF THANKS AND WARMEST GREETING TO DR STEPHEN SUMMER AND OF HIS STAFF OF SCRIPPS HOSPITAL, CALIFORNIA FOR THEIR SUCCESSFUL SURGERY TREATMENT OPERATION TO OUR GREAT GRAND MASTER LANADA, SR.
PLEASE ACCEPT OUR HEARTFELT THANKS AND BEST WISHES FOR THE SUCCESS OF ALL NEXT PATIENT SURGERY OPERATION OF SCRIPPS HOSPITAL.
AND THANKS TO EVERY ONE WHO PRAYED WITH US FOR THE SURGERY OPERATION OF GREAT GRAND MASTER LANADA. AND AGAIN, MABUHAY !!
FROM,
THE CENTRAL COUNCIL OFFICE
INTERNATIONAL KUNTAW FEDERATION
NATIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA, USA.
Posted By gm on August 13, 2010
G/GRAND MASTER
ON DESK/ FILE
TO:
GEN GEORGE W. CASEY, JR.
CHIEF OF STAFF
UNITED STATE ARMY
U. S. A.
IN BEHALF OF THE WORLD KUNTAW, OF KUNTAW NG PILIPINAS, MAHARLIKA KUNTAW ASSOCIATION, INTERNATIONAL KUNTAW FEDERATION AND THE NATIONAL APPROVED TOURNAMENT OFFICIALS AND THE LANADA’S FAMILY, IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE THAT WE EXTEND OUR WARMEST GREETING AND THANKS TO THE SECRETARY OF THE US-ARMY JOHN M. MC HUGE AND TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF, UNITED STATE ARMY, GEN GEORGE W. CASEY, JR.
FOR GIVING ME THE CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION AND A STAR U.S. ARMY LAPEL PIN, FOR THE OUTSTANDING SUPPORT OF MY SON SPC CARLOS G. LANADA TO THE U. S. ARMY FREEDOM TEAM.
SIR, PLEASE ACCEPT OUR HEARTFELT THANKS AND BEST WISHES FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE US FREEDOM TEAM, I AM SALUTTING AND MABUHAY.
SINCERELY,
G/GM CARLITO A. LANADA, SR.
GREAT GRAND MASTER
DAKILANG APO RAJA
THE BRAIN/ FOUNDER & CHIEF
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/ IKF-KNP-MKA
Posted By gm on August 13, 2010
G/GRAND MASTER
ON DESK/ FILE
JUNE 30,2010
EXECUTIVE ORDER # 011
SECOND RELEASED
IN LINE WITH THE 2011 INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL ARTS COMPETITION TO BE HELD IN LONG BEACH CONVENTION CENTER, LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA USA, SPONSOR BY MASTER HALL OF FAME, ALL KUNTAW BLACKBELTS MUST PREPARE AND PARTICIPATE IN THIS BEGGEST EVENT.
THE TWENTY EIGHT (28) NATIONS MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL KUNTAW FEDERATION ARE OBLIGE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EVENT, INCLUDING SOUTH AFRICA, IRAN AND NORTHEN IRELAND.
SIGNED BY:
G/GM CARLITO A. LANADA, SR.
GREAT GRAND MASTER
DAKILANG APO RAHA
THE BRAIN/ FOUNDER & CHIEF
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/ IKF-KNP-MKA
ADDRESS AT:
KUNTAW USA
PO BOX # 969
NATIONAL CITY, CA
91951
Posted By gm on August 13, 2010
G/GRAND MASTER
ON DESK/ FILE
MAY 19, 2010
G/GM EXECUTIVE ORDER # 010
SECOND RELEASED
THAT EVERY KUNTAW INSTRUCTORS IN-CHARGES AND HEADS OF ANY KUNTAW GROUPS , YOUR HEREBY ORDER, SUBMIT ALL YOUR MEMBERS REGARDLESS OF RANK, POSITIONS FOR RECOGNITION/ OR RECORD FILE PURPOSES,
AND TO THOSE WHO NEED THE CERTIFICATE OF PROMOTION WITH A LETTER OF CERTIFICATE OF DEGREE (TESTIMONIUM DE GRADUS) TO BE OFFICIALLY AND LEGALLY HOLDER OF KUNTAW RANK.
DUE TO THE PAST MOUNT PINATUBO ERUPTION IN OLONGAPO CITY, CENTRAL LUZON, PHILIPPINES SOME OF THE PERTINENT RECORD FILE WERE BEEN DAMAGED, AND DESTROYED.
THIS IS TO INSURE THE NAMES OF YOUR KUNTAW MEMBERS ON RECORD FILE AND TO BE UP- GRADE THEIR RANK PROMOTION, PLEASE SEND IT TO THE CENTRAL COUNCIL OFFICE (CCO)
SIGNED BY:
G/GM CARLITO A. LANADA, SR.
GREAT GRAND MASTER
DAKILANG APO RAHA
THE BRAIN/ FOUNDER & CHIEF
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/ IKF-KNP-MKA
ADDRESS AT:
KUNTAW USA
P.O.BOX # 969
NATIOANAL CITY, CALIFORNIA, USA
91951
Posted By gm on August 13, 2010
G/GRANDMASTER
ON DESK/ FILE
SECOND RELEASED
DUE TO THE FALSE AND MISLEADING INFORMATION REPORTS, GATHERED AND RE-REVIEWED, CONCERNING THE INCLUSION OF KYUD LAKAN DATU (7TH DEGREE RED, WHITE & RED BELT), OSCAR J. YANGCO IN TAMPALASAN RECORD LIST BOOK, THE CENTRAL KUNTAW OFFICE, EXPRESS RE- EXAMINED THE ISSUANCE OF THE INVALID STATEMENT REPORTS.
THE KUNTAW CENTRAL COUNCIL OFFICE LIFTING THE INCLUSION OF LAKAN DATU OSCAR J. YANGCO FROM THE TAMPALASAN LIST BOOK AND SHALL ENJOY ALL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF KUNTAW, EFFECTIVE THIS APRIL 04, 2010.
SIGNED BY:
CARLITO A. LANADA, SR
GREAT GRAND MASTER.
DAKILANG APO RAHA
THE BRAIN/ FOUNDER & CHIEF
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/ IKF-KNP-MKA
ADDRESS AT:
KUNTAW USA
PO BOX # 969
NATIONAL CITY, CA
91951
