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JAM With Bryan Sloyer This Friday For A Special Balintawak Cuentada Seminar!

Read the weekly Hit List enough and you’ll see at least one name mentioned time and again, and that is of independent filmmaker, actor and stuntman Bryan Sloyer. He’s gotten continually sharp in his methods when it comes to his resumé of experimental concepts for action choreography and storytelling in short form, and hopefully the momentum will play a larger role in many of his upcoming gigs both on and off set. That said, this Friday at the Reseda-based freerunning and martial arts gym, Joining All Movement, Sloyer will be hosting a special Balintawak Cuentada seminar for Escrima enthusiasts. An experienced martial artist since the age of fifteen, Sloyer himself has been a purveyor of Filipino martial arts dabbling in many styles of Escrima with Cuentada serving as the flexible medium of his tutelage and growing wealth of knowledge by his teacher, Jeff Soriano under Grandmaster Bobby Taboada. “…The concepts […]

Filipino Martial Arts Takes The Spotlight In The New Shortfilm Trailer, BALINTAWAK

Lee B. Golden III

If you favor learning more about Filipino martial arts and if you look in the right places, you’re bound to come across things you might not have ever known about this particular fighting system. I especially found myself in such a position when inquiring a little more about stuntman, Eskrimador and independent filmmaker Bryan Sloyer‘s brand new trailer for the upcoming FMA training reel, Balintawak, which, in and of itself, is more than just a title. “Balintawak is a specific style of Escrima…” he says. “…There are many many styles of Balintawak alone and Escrima itself holds too many to count. Many of the forms and styles are passed down father to son and so not all are known outside the Philippines.”. Based on a concept Sloyer presented roughly in his previous action short, Bahad, back in March, Balintawak will set the stage for a more evolved treatment of that […]