- [Instructor] (foreign language)
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- Guys, right again, right.
So I'm just on White Beach.
What's this beach called anyways?
- Ah - White Beach Dumalaun.
- White and Green.
- Yeah okay so get it mixed up anyways.
So this is Dylan from the US. - Yeah, hi.
- I stumbled, just walking down the beach,
I stumbled across this martial art class
in action at this resort right here.
And Dylan came over now Dylan's training here right now.
He's got a stick and a knife.
- Yeah it's not even (mumbles).
- So watch this guy, right if something happens.
Just make sure you get the memory stick out.
Anyways so tell me a bit about this sport,
where it originated from and
why is it here in the Philippines?
- Alright, so what you see behind us going on is,
well in front of us I guess is the
martial art of Filipino martial arts
is the grand overall term for a
collection of martial arts including
Arnis, Escrima, Kalis, different
indigenous martial arts and European martial arts,
European influenced martial arts
that came from the Philippines
and are still practised today.
They consist of sticks, swords, daggers, empty hands.
And it provides weaponry and there's
probably just as many different Filipino martial arts
as there are martial arts all over the world.
There's so many different family styles
and so many different groupings.
So it's really cool when you have something like this event,
which is called Russian House in the Philippines,
where we collect a lot of different material under one roof,
and we share it and it's really awesome and a lot of fun.
- So what does Russian House mean?
- I believe it's because the guy that runs it
is and amazing teacher named Alexander Retuinskin,
who is from Russia, he's from Yekaterinburg in Russia.
And he's trained under all these
different martial arts masters,
and I think he probably originally just brought some
Russians to the Philippines to train.
But now it's international, now it's everybody.
- For the people coming to the Philippines for a holiday,
where can they find this?
- Your best bet is to really look online.
You've got a couple of options.
You've got on Facebook if you look
at Russia House in the Philippines,
if you look up the hashtage #russianhousecamp,
you'll find the most information about it.
There's no one place that we train,
because every time Alexander puts one of his trips together,
we go all over the Philippines.
- Cool, so basically before you come here
check them out online, see where they're based,
and then try and organise it with your travel schedule.
Probably the easiest way.
It's cool though, it looks cool though,
it looks cool, it looks awesome.
So everyone's at the moment now I've taken Dylan,
Dylan actually ran over to me,
he's in class at the moment, he's meant to be training.
Everyone has a stick and a knife,
right, so it's pretty cool.
But if you, I don't know, if you're looking at doing
something different as opposed
to just sitting on the beach all day,
why not give it a shot, how much is it?
- The trip varies on whether you pre-register
or whether you're coming in late.
It's anywhere between 1,500 to 3,000 USD.
- That much?
- Yeah well we train for two weeks.
- Okay. - And get shipped around and
that's food and. - To train for two weeks.
- Yeah, food and travel included.
- Food and travel I like that. - Not aeroplane to get here.
- Oh (mumbles). - Once your in the islands.
- I get it. - All the boats, all the vans.
- Makes sense, alright so that's everything included?
- Yeah. - And you train everyday?
- Uh yeah!
- And how many hours a day are we training?
- Anywhere between six to eight.
- Fuck! - Yeah.
- I don't think that many people...
Can they just do one class? - No, uh yeah, nonono,
it's your vacation, you can train as much as you want.
- Yeah okay, so a lot of people are not going to come here
just to do this thing that I know, okay cool.
- It's a vacation if you want,
it's a traincation if you want.
Me, I'm a professional stunt performer
in the film and television industry.
So I'm coming out here to sharpen my skills.
- Show me your injuries? - Literally.
- Oi, fucking almost poked me in the eye.
- Injuries are more internalised that way.
- Alright guys that is it I'll show you
some footage of this place and
the guys training here as well.
So check it out.
- Yeah. - Thanks Dylan.
- Thanks guys. - Cheers mate.
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