Lameco Eskrima
A Filipino system of stick and knife fighting based on three ranges: largo, medio and corto. Edgar Sulite built it from training under several eskrima masters.
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About Lameco Eskrima
Lameco Eskrima is a Filipino system of stick and knife fighting put together by Edgar Sulite, born 25 September 1957 in Tacloban and died 10 April 1997. The name comes from combining three fighting ranges: largo, meaning long, medio, medium, and corto, close. That idea is what defines the system — the technique is dictated by the range at which the fight is currently being fought, and transitions between ranges are practised as carefully as the strikes themselves. Sulite did not derive the system from a single school. He trained under Leo Gaje in pekiti-tirsia kali, under José Caballero in de campo uno-dos-tres, under Jesús Abella in modern largos, and under Antonio Ilustrisimo; according to sources, he drew together five major and six minor eskrima systems into it. It is practised with one or two sticks, with one or two knives, with a combination of stick and knife, with a sword, a long staff, a scarf, and empty-handed. The year the system was founded could not be documented, so that field is left empty: the figure 1981, which the catalogue previously gave, is the year Sulite moved to Manila to train under Ilustrisimo, not the year the school was founded. Sulite left for the United States on 30 June 1989 and continued teaching there; among his students sources name Dan Inosanto, Larry Hartsell, Ron Balicki, and the group Dog Brothers.
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