GRAND MASTER DACAYANA ALBERTO SR. WAS BEGAN LEARNING MARTIAL ARTS AT THE AGE OF 7 YEARS OLD WHEN HIS FATHER THOUGHT HIM A BOXING BECAUSE HIS FATHER WAS GROUNDER BOXER.

WE BACK 1940, AT THE AGE OF 10, GRAND MASTER DACAYANA LEARNED THE X SYSTEM OF ESCRIMA FROM A CLOSE FRIEND OF HIS FATHER IN THE NAME OF MAX CANETE A COURSIM OF GRAND MASTER FILEMON MOMOY CANETE.

AFTER LEARNING THE X SYSTEM OF ESCRIMA FOR 3 YEARS FROM MASTER MAX CANETE, THAT MASTER MAX BROUGHT THE YOUNG DAX TO GRAND MASTER MOMOY TO LEARNED MORE EXPERTISE ABOUT X SYSTEM SAN MIGUEL ESKRIMA.

IN THIS MOMENT HIS CLASSMATE WERE GRAND MASTER BEN CULANAG, DIONG KAMBON TYODILLO, TONY PARAY AND MANY CELEBRITEES ON THAT TIME.

IN 1959 YOUNG DAX ENTER IN THE SEMINARY OF SAN CARLOS FOR STUDYING FOR PREISTHOAT(SACERDOTE) THERE INSIDE THE SEMINARY GRAND MASTER MOMOY AND HIS BROTHER YOLING CANETE CONTINUED TO TEACH TO YOUNG DAX ABOUT SPADA Y DAGA, DAGA Y DAGA, BANKAW, COMBAT JUDO, SAGUIDAS, BARAW.

1964 INSIDE THE SEMINARY GRAND MASTER MOMOY CANETE REVELATED TO DAX THAT THERE WAS A CERTAIN REV. FR. MIGUEL ORTEGA WHO WAS PRACTICING THE SAN MIGUEL DUBLI X SYSTEM, IT WAS NOT HIS STUDENTS AND TAUGHT TO ANOTHER GROUP LIVING IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF CEBU. (TALAGA) THIS FR. MIGUEL ORTEGA PRINTED TWO BOOKS IN THE 1957 AND 1965 ABOUT ESCRIMA SAN MIGUEL DUBLI X SYSTEM.

IN THIS MOMENT GRAND MASTER MOMOY CANETE GOT IN SECURITY SO DECIDED TO TEACH THE YOUNG DAX THE WHOLE SYSTEM OF ESCRIMA SAN MIGUEL, NOT ONLY THE X SYSTEM SAN MIGUEL ESKRIMA BUT THE WAY OF ESCRIMA SAN MIGUEL, ESTOCADA IN ORDER TO WIN  THE X SYSTEM OF ESCRIMA SAN MIGUEL THAT MOMOY TAUGHT IN THE OTHER CLUBS TO CEBU.

SO IN THIS MOMENT GRAND MASTER MOMOY CANETE THOUGHT YOUNG DAX THE REAL TRADITIONAL ESCRIMA SAN MIGUEL COMPLETE THE WAY AND THE TECHNIQUE (FLYWHEEL, ARCO, VERTICAL FLYWHEEL, PLANSA, TOTSADA, SUNKIT, AND 34 WAYS OF TAPI TAPI, SAN MIGUEL ESKRIMA FORMS)AND AFTER LEARNING THIS WHOLE SYSTEM, GRAND MASTER MOMOY CANETE TOLD TO YOUNG DAX NOT TO TEACH THIS SYSTEM IN THE OUTSIDE THE SEMINARY, BECAUSE IT WAS A GIFT BY HIM AND OTHERS 3 SEMINARIANS IN THAT TIME.

DURING THAT PERIOD OF LEARNING SAN MIGUEL ESKRIMA, THE YOUNG DAX

COMES TO KNOW BY A HIS FRIEND SEMINARIST, THAT IN A CITY NEAR CEBU EXISTED A FORMIDABLE FIGHTER AND EFFECTIVE ESKRIMADOR, NOT LESS THAN MOMOY AND THAT WAS AMAZING IN THE CLOSE FIGHT, SO DAX DECIDES ,EVERY SUNDAY, WENT TO NAGA IN ORDER TO LEARN BY THIS FORMIDABLE ESKRIMADOR WHO LIVED IN THE MOUNTAINS. HIS NAME IS SANTOS “NOY” DINAMPO. THIS ESKRIMADOR WAS FAMOUS FOR KILLING 8 BOLOS ATTACKERS IN A CRASH AT THE NAGA MARKET. NOY SANTOS WAS A PRIVATE COP WHO WORKED IN THAT CITY. HE HAD BEEN STUDENT OF ELDER LORENZO “ANCIONG” SAAVEDRA AND VENANCIO “ANCIONG “BACON, IN THE PERIOD BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF BALINTAWAK ESKRIMA. ONE OF HIS STUDENTS OF THAT TIME, FOR A SHORT PERIOD, WAS TEOFILO VELEZ.

TUESDAY AND THURSDAY DAX LEARNED FROM MOMOY CANETE AND SUNDAY HE WENT TO NAGA TO LEARN THE SHORT RANGE STYLE FROM “NOY” SANTOS DINAMPO. TODAY THIS STYLE IS PRESERVED AND TAUGHT BY TWO OF ITS STUDENTS IN THE WORLD: M. BRANCY OSADARE(OSADARE SELF DEFENSE) & M. CLAUDIO MAURELLI(SAN MIGUEL ESKRIMADORS). THE STYLE OF NOY SANTOS DINAMPO IS TAUGHT IN THE LAST DEGREES OF THE GM DACAYANA SYSTEM, AS IT IS ABLE TO ANTICIPATE ANY OPPOSING MOVEMENT IN THE BUD. GM DAX LIKES DEFINES IT AS “THE TRAITOR’S STYLE”, THE FIGHTING METHOD TO BE USED IF SOMEONE HAD BETRAYED THE CLUB BY OPENING COURSES WITHOUT THE LEAST AUTHORIZATION FROM GM.

IN 1966 THE YOUNG DAX DECIDED NOT CONTINUED HIS STUDYING IN PRIEST HOAT TO INTEND HE CONTINUED HIS STUDY LAW IN ORDER TO BECAME A LAWYER. IN 1968 – 1981 MASTER DAX FINISHED HIS BACHELOT OF CRIMINOLOGY, L.L.B.(LAW), AND MASTER OF MARTIAL ARTS OF SAN MIGUEL

AT THE SAME TIME FROM 1969 GRAND MASTER DAX DECIDE TO LEARNING FROM GRAND MASTER AND FOUNDER OF ABANICO SYSTEM, FILEMON CABURNAY, AND HE WILL BE UNDER GRAND MASTER CABURNAY UNTIL 1981.

GRAND MASTER DAX IN THE 1982 FOUNDED THE FIRST SYSTEM CALLED MIG(MIGUEL) SUNE(SAN) DO(THE WAY), IN WHICH TEACHED THE BASES OF SAN MIGUEL ESKRIMA AND OPEN THE FIRST CLUB WITH MORE STYLES OF ESKRIMA IN CEBU CITY (MAMBALIN STREET) WITH GM ONDO CABURNAY (LAPUNTI ARNIS DE ABANIKO) AND GM IDRING CASIO (SAN MIGUEL ESKRIMA X SYSTEM) WHERE TEACH FOR A FEW YEARS THE PHILIPPINES TO GO TO LOS ANGELES (AMERICA) AFTER A FEW YEAR FROM POLICE TO CEBU CITY, TO TRANSFER TO ITALY (ROME) IN 1998 UNTIL 2014.

IN 1998 GM DAX FOUNDED A NEW CLUB CALLED PINOY KENDO, IN MEMORY OF THE GM KOBAYASHI MEETED BY GM DAX IN THE AMERICAN YEARS. GM KOBAYASHI WAS A VERY TRADITIONAL KENDO MASTER AND RETREADED TO DAX FOR HIS TEACHINGS OF JAPANESE CULTURE.

2004 GM DAX DECIDE TO TEACH ALL SYSTEMS HE LEARNED BY FILEMON CANETE, FILEMON CABURNAY & SANTOS DINAMPO. HE FOUNDED ESCRIMA DAX INTERNATIONAL AND BETWEEN THE MANY STUDENTS OF THOSE YEARS, HE PROCLAIM HEAD INSTRUCTORS OF HIS SYSTEM M. CLAUDIO MAURELLI & M. BRANCY OSADARE, WHO LIVED WITH HIM IN THOSE YEARS AND TODAY CONTINUE THE WORK OF TEACHING REPRESENTING AND PROMOTIONG ITS SYSTEM IN THE WORLD.

 “DEDICATED THIS HIS BELONG GRAND MASTER FILEMON “MOMOY” CANETE , GRAND MASTER “NOY” SANTOS DINAMPO AND GRAND MASTER FILEMON “MONIE” CABURNAY TO HIS SUCCESS IN THIS FIELD OF MARTIAL ARTS” 

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