Manny Pacquiao and Martial Arts

[hitorbehit]

Does anyone know if Pacquiao trains in FMA(filipino martial arts)? , from what i know about those arts they would compliment boxing a great deal. I know that Pacquiao is a fan of Bruce Lee and i also know that the martial arts called Kali and Escrima are very popular in the Phillipines, and with Panantukan being a part of Escrima and a type of boxing it seems like a possibility that he trains in martial arts other than western boxing but I have not been able to find any solid indication as to what other martial arts if any that Pacquiao has incorporated into his training. Also the double ear slap used against clottey seems like it may have been an aspect of those arts although pacman said it was just a joke, i am well aware that such a technique disrupts an opponents equilibrium and therefore his balance. So does he use FMA or what, anybody have any info?

[Junito-Rulez]

No Pacquiao did boxing all is life, he had a pretty long amateur career too. He fought early on for the Philippines amateur team, as a teenager. When he was a kid he was a hardcore boxing fan and used to rent videos of fighters like Foreman, Holmes or Frazier.
He fought 64 amateur fights before he turned pro at 16. He didn't have that much time left outside of training.

[boxasmash]

He did some Muay Thai early in his career.

[boxasmash]

[Fearless]

Elements of Escrima were implement in his training I thinking, they beat him slightly with a stick to enhance his pain tolerance. There's a clip on Youtube.

[boxasmash]

Elements of Escrima were implement in his training I thinking, they beat him slightly with a stick to enhance his pain tolerance. There's a clip on Youtube.

[Aperion]

I want to start doing that, lol.

BTW, Cool avatar, I want to see that fight.

[austinlarg]

Elements of Escrima were implement in his training I thinking, they beat him slightly with a stick to enhance his pain tolerance. There's a clip on Youtube.

That's not part of Escrima. That's just something that they found to be useful for their training.

No he didn't take Kali or Escrima but Yes it can be very helpful. My dad taught me all the footwork at an early age and all the inside pivoting is an advantage when boxing.

Google my last name with the word kali. My grandfather, Ben Largusa, is the grandmaster of Kali. Believe me, I know what I'm talking about. Here's the website so you can read about it

http://www.villabrillelargusakali.com/largusa.html

[austinlarg]

And here's a picture with both my grandfather and my dad

http://www.villabrillelargusakali.com/gallery/earlyyears/slides/007.html

My grandfather in the middle and my dad kneeling right in front of him

[Don Flamenco]

A video of explaining how Pinoy boxers from the early 1900s revouloutionized boxing stances can be found here... If someone knows how to embed it, thanks in advance.

http://www.mybarong2.com/great-pinoy-boxing-high-bandwidth-version-art-1082.html?osCsid=9478fb87148acf30e24d04433aad0196

And an article here about Flash Elorde

http://islandwarrior.com/?p=102

Float Like an Ali-********, Sting Like a Bubuyug?
The Philippines have produced many famous boxers, such as Kid Moro and Pancho Villa, but without question, the greatest fighter ever to come out of the islands was the late “Flash” Ellorde, former world lightweight champion. Ellorde was the first to use the “dancing” style of footwork later made famous by Muhammad Ali.
“I can’t say for certain whether Flash taught Muhammad his footwork,” says Ellorde’s sister, Jacinta Perez. “I know they were close and when Muhammad came to the Philippines he stayed with my brother. What I do know is that that particular style of footwork is from escrima, and it originated with Flash.
So he either taught it to Muhammad, or Muhammad picked it up after others started imitating Flash’s style.”
Ellorde came from an impoverished childhood in the Visayan Islands region of the Philippines. His schooling was neglected, so he had to start school later in life. Because he was older than the other children. they made fun of him, and he soon dropped out of school.
“Flash was very self-conscious about his illiteracy,” according to Jacinta. `lie knew that he had absolutely no chance m this world unless he made it as a boxer. So from a very early age, he was determined to make is as a boxer.
“He practiced night and day, and became very good. However, our father had been the escrima champion of Cebu, and he refused to teach Flash. In the Phillippines, fathers usually didn’t pass the art on to their sons.
“One day I said to Flash. `If you want to learn from dad, give him a couple of glasses of wine and get him happy. Then tease him; push him around a little. You’ll learn what he knows.
“So Flash would sit and talk with our father and serve him wine then he’d start teasing him. Our father would get up and defend himself and come at Flash using his escrima, and Flash noticed his intricate footwork, the way he’d angle his body’ how he’d seem to just float gently, then explode with power.
`This was the style Flash used in the ring. Quite often, other fighters couldn’t lay a glove on him. Of course, all of the great fighters came to watch each other fight, and pretty soon others were using Flash’s footwork. But no one was better at it than Muhammad Ali.”
Therefore, East truly did meet West in one of the most unlikely places, the boxing ring. It just might be that even today, when Holyfleld lays a challenger flat, whether or not he knows it, most of his technical skill originated in the rice fields of the Philippines.