Labour weekend 2008 marked a historical event in New Zealand’s martial arts history. Christchurch played host to the first full contact sport stick fighting tournament ever to be held in New Zealand. Up until 2007, New Zealand had a spread of individual instructors of the Philippine martial arts. During 2007, the first seeds of unity […]
Supreme Grand Master Ciriaco ‘Cacoy’ Canete opened and hosted the International Mixed Martial Arts Seminar held in Cebu City, Philippines from 7th – 9th March 2008. Martial artists from a dozen countries including, Australia, USA, Germany, England, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland and Guro Leigh Jenkins representing New Zealand, gathered to cross sticks at the seminar […]
For the first time, New Zealand Doce Pares sent a team to participate in the Cacoy Doce Pares World Federation Sport Stickfighting Championships. This year the Championships were held in Jakarta in early September with participants from all around the world, including Australia, Philippines, USA, Poland, England and Indonesia; a total of approximately 150 international […]
An exciting new direction for the Filipino Martial Arts in New Zealand began on Saturday 12 May 2007 with the inaugural seminar of the South Island Filipino Martial Art schools. Principal Instructor Leigh Jenkins (Vice Chairman of the NZCKEAI) hosted the event at his school, the New Zealand Cacoy Doce Pares Eskrima Headquarters in Christchurch. […]
Master Vince Palumbo, 8th Degree Black Belt, visited Christchurch based NZ Doce Pares Eskrima over the weekend of the 14th October 2006. Sifu Jenkins, founder of NZ Doce Pares Eskrima, has been travelling overseas and training under the guidance of Master Palumbo for over 10 years and currently holds the rank of 2nd Degree Black […]
In February 2005, the world’s greatest Grandmaster of Wing Chun Kung Fu visited New Zealand for the first time. Grandmaster Chu Shong Tin needs no introduction to students of Wing Chun. For those unfamiliar with Wing Chun Lineage, Grandmaster Chu was a student of Yip Man (the legendary instructor of Bruce Lee). Many years ago […]