Commentary of the Headmaster

        Aside from giving a commentary via dialogue, chief GM Benefredo Mamar Lobrido, headmaster and President of OFTLSFAI used a commentary by means of an example. Such was his comment during our recent visit. He commented on certain demonstrations wherein the performer  was doing injustice to the art that he was representing. In particular in showing espada y daga form or techniques. He recently witnessed a demo on espada y dag which he noticed that it was very far away from the form by the ancients master and those who really practices the form. He commented that such an action of the performer was doing injustice to the art. Such should not be done. He even commented that it was a shame that such an injustice was done to the art. He admonished us who are members of many styles that we should never do a demo in a haphazard way. We should give justice by doing it the traditional way. That is why after admonishing us, Chief Bebing, as we call him, took two sticks and demonstrated to us the way we should do it.
         He said that he might have not shown the ancient way but his performance was near to the traditional way. Practice before doing the demonstration that is what he told us. and his last word was, :Makahuluya, indi amo"

The Last Issue of Rapid Journal

Last Month the last issue of Rapid Journal came out and the Cover page of the last issue was GM Benefredo "Bebing" Mamar Lobrido, the 1st Generation Inheritor and Headmaster of the Original Filipino Tapado Long Stick Fighting Association, Inc.

A foreigner visits GM Bebing Lobrido

Sharing God's Blessing

Imitating God's generosity is one of the Gospel values that we, Filipinos, would like to acquire.
Generosity is the value that the Lobrido family practices in returning to the people what ever financial gains they get from their rice farm produce. This has been a family tradition of theirs. Every third saturday of August or whichever date that falls on saturday from August 18 - 22, the Lobrido family celebrates what they called "returning to the people what God has blessed them during the year".
Last August 22, 2009, Saturday, we were invited to this celebration. There was a mass in honor of San Roque, the patron saint of purok Langka, Barangay Taloc, Bago city. After the Mass, a lunch was served to the people in the purok as they gathered in the house of the Lobrido family. This time the activity was held in the house of GM Bebing Lobrido, the 1st generation inheritor of the Original Filipino Tapado Long Stick Fighting Association, Inc. All the members of the family contributed to the celebration including their children. Brothers Clodualdo and Benefredo, took turns in preparing the food for the people.
We, from Bacolod City, were invited as guest in this celebration. We witnessed the flock of people gathered during lunch time.
After lunch the old Tapadistas shared insights with the new ones. It was a celebration of thanksgiving and camaraderie.