History of Multi-Style
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 For
many years and even up to the present people are still
confused about the real Doce Pares system. This is only
understandable because while the system is a
conglomeration of various styles as introduced by the
founding masters in 1932, there are many instructors and
masters today who only teach a specific style of any one
of the original masters. All the founding masters had
their own set of followers and the students who chose not
to study and cross-train in other styles naturally learned
only the particular style of his own teacher.
Doce
Pares was a virtual supermarket of Eskrima styles, hence,
there's the Larga Mano of Eulogio Cañete; the Espada y
Daga of Felimon Cañete and Jesus Cui; the Corto Linear of
Teodoro Saavedra and later on of Venancio Bacon, Delfin
Lopez and Timoteo Maranga; the Corto Orihinal and Media
Largo of Felimon and Iluminado Cañete; the Hirada and
Retirada of Vicente Carin and Ponciano Ybañez; the
Mano-Mano and Baraw of Maximo Cañete and Jesus Cui; the
Corto Kurbada and Abaniko of Ciriaco and Felimon Cañete
respectively.
Thus
there are many masters today who only teach and promote
one particular style and yet can validly claim to belong
to Doce Pares family.
It
was in early 1970 when Diony was commissioned by his
father Eulogio Cañete, the President of Doce Pares to
study, prepare and formulate a program of instruction that
would cover and comprehend all the component styles. The
specific objective was to come up with a training curriculum
that would give equal treatment and prominence to all the
original styles and by all means to afford due honors and
recognition to all the founding advocates. Hence the birth
of the "Multi-Style" system which very much set
well with Grandmaster Diony as he and his three elder
brothers were among the very few who were fortunate to
have learned all the original styles as brought
into and introduced by the founding masters when Doce
Pares was formed in 1932.
The
components of the "Multi-Style" system.
The
components styles of the "Multi-Style" are: All
the three styles of Corto (Close Range); to
wit; Corto Linear (the traditional linear striking or a
blade oriented type of striking) Corto
Kurbada (the wrist-twisting or snap-wrist, curving strike)
Corto Orihinal (featuring low, deep
bent knee and wide stance which highly characterized the
original Doce Pares close range style)
Media
Largo (Medium Range)
Larga
Mano (Long Range)
Espada
y Daga (Short & Long Stick or Stick Dagger)
Baraw
(Knife Fighting Techniques)
Mano-Mano
(Open Hand Fighting)
a.
Sumbag-Patid (Punch and Kick)
b.
Lubag-Torsi (Locks and Immobilization)
c.
Layog-Dumog (Takedown and Grappling)
d.
Doble Olisi (Double Stick)
Specialized
Subjects:
a.
Eskrido
b.
Sinawali
c.
Tapi-Tapi (Alive Hand)
d.
Sayaw/Karanza (Forms)
All
the above subjects are incorporated under the
comprehensive 5-year training curriculum of the
Doce Pares "Multi-Style" system. The program is
taught only in schools authorized by Doce Pares
International, the original Doce Pares organization and
only one recognized by the government of the Republic of
the Philippines, duly registered with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as DOCE PARES INCORPORATED under
Registration Certificate No. 1373.
 ALL
DPI SCHOOLS CAN READILY BE IDENTIFIED THROUGH THE SEAL AND
LOGO WHICH BEAR THE ORIGINAL SIGN OF DOCE PARES BUT MORE
SIGNIFICANT IS THEIR 5-YEAR "MULTI-STYLE"
PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION.
ONLY
THROUGH THE DPI SCHOOLS CAN ONE LEARN ALL THE ORIGINAL
STYLES OF THE FOUNDING MASTERS OF DOCE PARES.
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