Fellow Yaw-Yan

[Yawyan06]

Is there anybody here that has trained in yaw yan?
if there are, tell me because i have alot to ask

[kalari]

check these links ,you can get a lot of info: about yaw-yan

http://www.martialartsplanet.com/for...ad.php?t=34634

http://www.martialartsplanet.com/for...ad.php?t=42816

http://www.fmaforum.org/index.php?sh...162&hl=yaw+yan

http://www.fmaforum.org/index.php?sh...205&hl=yaw+yan

Best regards

[daringdex]

I have trained in yaw yan for 2 - 3 years.. I'll ask each questions the best I can..

[Yawyan06]

salamat brother

where did you practice brother?

anyways, i learned Yaw yan understand Prof. Saladin for 3 months in yaw yan pasay before i went back to US...
did you practice under tagalog terms brother?
if you did, can you please tell me the name of the kicks.....
no need to tell me the advance, the slide, or the two step form of the kicks, but just the names....

i tried to remember as much as i can but sadly school and work got in the way leaving me no time to practice....

i would very much appreciate it brother..
-Mike
Yaw-yan batch 06'

[danjuandesiga]

I was a distant fan of Yaw Yan when I was growing up in the Philippines. I was growing up way up in the North in the Ilocos provinces when I first heard about Yaw Yan and the Yaw Yan temple in Manila. Right around the early 80s, a PI national Martial arts magazine titled "Martial Arts Mag." was new and hanging on the racks(a clothesline, actually. with the 'komiks") and I anticipated every issue for purchase every month. The Yaw Yan style was one of the main features in this magazine. I became fascinated at the photographs and awed at how flexible all the YY players appeared.

It was right around the mid-90s that I met one Filipino guy here in Houston Texas who had trained at the Yaw Yan temple when he was very young. Right then and there my fascination for the art had reawakened so I bugged the hell out of him for some YY Temple stories and for a demonstration on how YY works. He taught me how to throw the YY "scorpion kick" which requires massive flexibility. It appears very flashy, but if you're more tricky than you are flexible, then it's not hard to succeed connecting with it.

[daringdex]

Hi Mike,
Sorry for the late reply. I trained under Sir Henry Kobayashi. he didnt really teach me any names for the kicks but all I can remember is the Yawyan kick or also known as Scorpion kick. because that time grappling was more of a faze when I trained under him and he was teaching striking and grappling. I started under Traditional Yaw-yan then 2 years after Hybrid Yaw-yan was formed. this is a combination of striking and grappling. Which also made a little misunderstanding between yawyan superiors. try to visit http://www.yawyan.com/