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Tuhon Gaje

Interview with Tuhon Gaje 2004

Knife related assaults in the news

PEKITI-TIRSIA KALI OF DALLAS

FILIPINO BLADE FIGHTING SYSTEM   
-EDGED WEAPONS
-IMPACT WEAPONS
-EMPTY HANDS COMBAT
-GUN RETENTION and Close Quarters Use

  
Transferability of techniques-- a characteristic of a system.

System - It all works together to create something greater than the sum of its parts.

 “(Leo Gaje’s) system is built around the knife, and has more street-realism than anything else.”  
February 1981, Inside Kung Fu

“When it comes to strategic knife defenses, Pekiti Tirsia Kali is one of the most progressive, useful, and sophisticated systems I have ever encountered”.
Dan Inosanto

"At close range it is not a shooting contest: it's a fight. Specifically it is a gunfight at knife-fighting range. This means it is not so much a shooting thing as a martial arts thing, and the martial arts is where you have to find the answer.

-- Massad Ayoob
The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery, 5th Edition

Tuhon Gaje was on the very first episode of "Fight Quest" and trained one of the guys in Kali for  a fight with Philipino marines. Tuhon Leo Gaje was on "Human Weapon"

Tuhon Gaje and Tim Waid have tons of footage in the Bonus materials "Survival Kit" on Combatant: Extreme Self Defense DVD. See www.comparestyles.com for more info.

Video of Tuhon Gaje teaching Pekiti Tirsia in online downloadable videos.  See http://www.videotollway.com/tuhongajevideos.htm

"Real Combat usually involves  weapons."

-- Unknown

"There is no such thing as self defense; there is only offense and counter-offense"
--Tuhon Gaje

"Is Your martial art made to build character, improve health, instill discipline, or engage in a fair fight? That is not a martial art, it is a civilized sport and will not help you survive."

-- Jason Baird

Women can defeat larger, 
stronger opponents with the
proper tools, training and mindset

Pekiti-Tirsia Kali is a close-quarter, in-fighting combat system against multiple opponents based on the use of the Blade.   Pekiti-Tirsia is a system of complete strategies and tactics utilizing all close quarters weaponry(sword, knife, baton, empty hand), in all ranges, that provide protection from strikes and attacks, destruction of opponents weapons, and domination of any combat or self defense situation.   

 The Pekiti-Tirsia system of Kali originates from the province of Negros Occidental in the Philippines and was formulated by the Tortal family of Negros and Panay islands. The family patriarch, Conrado B. Tortal, passed this system and its attributes onto his only grandson, and sole heir, GRAND TUHON Leo Tortal Gaje, Jr.  Today, Pekiti-Tirsia is trained and executed in combat and survival by military operators, law enforcement officers, and citizens across the free world.

Maginoo-Mandala Timothy D. Waid is a certified Master Instructor of the Pekiti-Tirsia Kali System.  Guro Waid is a private student of Grand Tuhon Gaje and has extensive experience in the Republic of the Philippines where he currently serves as a Tactical Training Instructor to the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, government agencies and private business.