🧵 FMA and HEMA

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:04:20 UTC No. 144049

Much has been written about the relationship of filipino arts with european arts, ranging from flip nationalists claiming the europeans copied everything from them to european nationalists claiming FMA are basically a time capsule containing renaissance southern european military fencing.

However, what about the unarmed arts? Is Dumog similar to Ringen? Does Dumog have concepts like strong/weak, attacks to vital points (Mordstoss) etc.?

Normally, one would search a connection between Jiu Jitsu and Ringen but since the euro influence on armed FMA is pretty much proven, why did nobody ever research the unarmed part?
Sadly, I don't know too much about FMA so I can't do it myself.