Martial Arts Articles By Vince Palumbo and Students

Master Palumbo commenced training in 1974 as a junior boxing and gymnastics student at the Semaphore Youth Club in Adelaide, and after winning most of his junior boxing bouts, he expanded his interests to judo at the age of 11, at the McNally’s Gym in Light Square, Adelaide. In 1980 he began learning the martial art of Freestyle Karate at the Zen Do Kai Bushido Dojo in Hindley Street, Adelaide. In 1984 Vince received his first Black Belt in Freestyle Karate, and in the same year Vince then also started to train in the art of Tae Kwon Do under Master Chris Nasilowski, then after 4 years of hard training, he earned his Black Belt in 1988 with the Grand Master Choon Bong Lee 9th Dan. Also in 1988, it saw Vince travel to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, and he was to commence training under Master Martin Gardiner who was a Master level instructor of the Korean Tang Soo Do Korean Karate, and the Filipino Doce Pares Eskrima system of Stick and knife fighting. (Biography)

My instructor is an 89 -year old Supreme Grand Master of the 12th Degree Black Belt rank, he lives in the city of Cebu which is in the Philippines, and he’s world famous because of his over 100 No Rules/Death Matches in the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s! He won all of the no-rules stickfights, and didn't kill anyone! There was talk that even the great BRUCE LEE wanted to learn from this Filipino Stickfighting legend! (Read Article)

Vicente Carin later joined the very famous Doce Pares Eskrima Organisation, so he became the student of Grand Master Momoy Canete, and he was taught the Espada y Daga techniques from this great teacher.
 
Vicente Carin was later ranked as a 'Grand Master' in the Doce Pares Eskrima system, and he would do a lot of sparring with the club's 'Juego Todo' champion, the very famous Cacoy Canete!
 
Eventually GM Vicente Carin branched out and created his own style of 'Dalaguete Doce Pares Eskrima', and now his sons teach the style of their father, and they continue his legacy.  (Read Article)

Shiai Magazine: You are Grandmaster Vincent Palumbo of Australia. Grand Master Vincent PALUMBO: Hello, I’m very pleased to meet you, and thank you for this wonderful opportunity to introduce myself to the country of beautiful africa! Shiai Magazine: Tell us how you got into practice of martial arts? (Read Article)

When Chicago-based rapper Lupe Fiasco toured Australia recently, he foun himself mixing with members of the Adelaid martial arts community after witnessing stick-fighting at the Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Lube witnessed one of six demonstrations at the festival by a group of full-contact stick-fighters from the International Combative Martial Arts Academy, led by Grandmaster Vince Palumbo,9th Degree Black-belt in Cacoy Doce Pares Eskrima.
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Master Dominic Lavalle is the founder, director & chief instructor of Reflex Martial Arts Centre. There is over twenty years of Martial Arts experience in my blood and Black Belts in six different styles and disciplines. When the Reflex Centre opened 13 years ago its founder Dominic Lavalle taught day and night while keeping up two other jobs to make ends meet. His unique fully-equipped martial arts centre is now abuzz day and night with 200 enthusiastic punch-packing students - proof his hard work was well worth it. (Read Article)

Fifteen years ago, at the tender age of 27, I met a very incredible Jujitsu Master by the name of Brian Dossett, and I made a decision to learn his practical style of Combat Jujitsu. At the time, I was already a 3rd Dan in Korean Karate and also in the Cacoy Doce Pares Eskrima, but I wanted to learn more about his style of stand up Jujitsu techniques, especially the restraint techniques that are used by law enforcement and security officers. (Read Article)

By Michael Harris
The Australian Team consisted of many players from Adelaide who train at the International Combative Martial Arts Academy at the club in Welland of South Australia. The stickfighters are the following - Master Vince Palumbo-(coach/player), Vlad Mihal, John Moore, Michael Harris, Gary Smith, Barry Jamieson, Joseph Scali, Vickie Simos, Andrea Wheatley and Melissa Lopresti. (Read Article)

By Master Steven Sarkissian
They Were Awesome! The Australian Team consisted of many players from Adelaide who train at the International Combative Martial Arts Academy at the club in  Welland, South Australia, and the players are the following: Grand Master Vince Palumbo - coach/player, Vlad Mihal, John Moore, Michael Harris, Gary Smith, Barry Jamieson, Joseph Scali, Andrea Wheatley, Vickie Simos, Melissa Lopresti
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By Simon Harrison
The I.C.M.A. Academy’s team of 10 sport stickfighters went to give a demonstration of the full contact sport stickfighting at the Clipsal Powerhouse Stadium in front of a capacity crowd at half time during a derby basketball match. The team members fought with and without armour, and they all fought for a very hard for a period of 3x2 minute rounds with a 30 second break in between rounds.
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Boxing is an exciting sport where two superb athletes square off in a boxing ring and battle to the limits of human endurance, with a great deal of conditioning, fitness, skill and lots of techniques. But while boxing is a brutal competitive sport, it is truly an effective method of self defence! Boxers are some of the toughest athletes in the world, and with this type of trained toughness, it helps them to be prepared for the chaotic violence of a street fight. (Read Article)

Filipino Full Contact Stickfighting is an exciting martial art and sport where two superb Eskramadors /Arnisadors square off to battle with one or two rattan sticks in their hands. This type of martial art/sport really tests the individual player physically, mentally and technically, because of the pain factor, the speed of the sticks, and because of the way that the mind must be geared in order to get through one of these enduring encounters. (Read Article)

Circa Cañete, or 'Cacoy' as he is known by his Filipino nickname, was born in August 1919 in San Fernando approximately 30 kilometers south of Cebu City, on Cebu Island, in the Visayas region of The Philippines. He was the youngest of twelve children. At the early age of seven he was initiated into Eskrima, learning from his brother Filemon or "Momoy" who had in turn learned Eskrima from his father Gregorio and uncles Gavino, Pedro (from his fathers family) and Juancho (from his mothers family). Because of his open mindedness and desire for knowledge, he has trained in many different styles of Martial Arts.
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On Saturday April 8th there was a tournament held in Wollongong of New South Wales, and was sanctioned by the World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation representative, Mr. Peter Mc Nalley. The tournament was the 2006 WEKAF Invitational NSW Stickfighting Championships and it had some of the best stickfighters in the country come and compete at the games.
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An unusual name that undoubtedly create’s images in your mind about a group of crazy people that enjoy hitting each other with sticks, but its not quite the way it seems. After watching these guys in their stickfighting armor and in action, it's obvious that they really get off on this stuff, because they go at it pretty hard on each other, and without a doubt they really have to be incredibly fit to do so as well! (Read Article)

The disciplined and dedicated practice of karate can allow a person to achieve amazing feats of human strength, conditioning and skill, and this is why all the old karate masters of Okinawa, Japan and Korea were absolutely incredible. Karate is a martial art developed by the Okinawan peasant farmers, they learned the basic martial art movements from the Chinese, and then the Okinawan’s combined what they had learned, and combined it with their own cultural fighting art called “Te”. (Okinawa Te!) ( Read Article)

By Vikie Simos I was in need of some perspective after a somewhat mundane and routine existence, so I decided to give up my job and head overseas for a training holiday. After being involved in the Martial Arts for almost half my life, I wanted to see what the other Martial Schools were like, and to see if they were teaching martial arts in the same way as how I was taught. And to see if there were there other styles that I wanted to learn as well? (Read Article)

By Jennifer E. Gifford The Filipino Martial Arts is really spreading quite rapidly around the world, and another aspect of the Filipino culture is the various Filipino Fighting Art systems that have spread is still a growing sport here in Australia, and it is called Filipino Full Contact Sport Stickfighting.
Here is a brief report on how the art has been kept alive here in Australia. (Read Article)

By Simon Harrison The Australian team consisted of 24 stickfighters. The 24 stickfighters fought well in the demanding competition at Cacoy Doce Pares Eskrima World Federation's International Stickfighting Tournament which was a full contact stickfighting event held at the Cebu Sports Centre in Cebu City, Philippines over the 24th, 25th and 26th April 2009. (Read Articles)

By Michael Jones Between Friday 13th March and Sunday 15th March 2009, Grand Master Vincent Palumbo (G.M.V.) took time out from his busy schedule at the full time International Combative Martial Arts Academy in the city of Adelaide, (where he’s also training the Australian Full Contact Stickfighting Team for the upcoming World Championships to be held in the Philippine’s) to conduct a workshop.
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By Cyd Keeble Wollongong's Reflex Martial Arts Centre came alive with Grand Master Vince Palumbo's brilliance in two incredible seminars that had students buzzing and begging for more. The great weekend was then topped off with the Grand Master conducting a Cacoy Doce Pare Eskrima Grading for the students! (Read Article)