Theory and Practice of FMA
Mark V. Wiley set out on a decade’s long mission to write a book on Filipino Martial Arts that would offer a structured comparison of 25 different Filipino systems. To do this, he interviewed hundreds of practitioners and masters, and broke down each art in terms of their training methods and progressions, and their fighting concepts, theories, and strategies.
The fighting arts of the Philippines are so vast and dynamic that few can grasp the true scope and essence of their training methods, techniques and fighting strategies. Mark V. Wiley set out on a decade’s long mission to write a book on Filipino Martial Arts that would offer a structured comparison of 25 different Filipino systems. To do this, he interviewed hundreds of practitioners and masters, and broke down each art in terms of their training methods and progressions, and their fighting concepts, theories, and strategies. In researching this book, Mark traveled to the Philippines nearly two-dozen times to meet and train with the masters and to uncover the secrets of these deadly arts. Profusely illustrated with over 500 photographs, this book reveals the incredible diversity of the martial arts which thrive today in the Philippines. Many of the photographs and much of the information in this book have never been presented to the world at large.
