Lapunti Arnis De Abanico International, University of the Philippines, Diliman Training Group (Lapunti UP Diliman Training Group, or simply ‘Lapunti UP’) is first and foremost a community or venue for learning, practice, and advancement in and of the Filipino martial art that is Lapunti Arnis De Abanico.
The club began informally as a small group of Lapunti instructors and students who were looking for a place where they could focus on their training in relative peace and isolation. In December of 2010 they found their old training venue inside the Quezon City Memorial Circle to be too busy and crowded with the coming of the Christmas season’s makeshift market (referred locally as Tiangge). Two of the club’s members who were former students of UP Diliman suggested an alternative venue inside the campus. They scouted the area and found a good place within the grounds of the UP Lagoon. The relative peace and quiet, and close-to-nature ambiance of UP Lagoon proved too ideal that what was supposed to be a temporary alternate venue became a regular meeting place for the group. In January of 2011, the group gained the permission of their mother club in QC Circle and began establishing what was to become the new Lapunti Chapter in UP.
Today the Lapunti UP Diliman Training Group is an officially recognized Chapter, established with the personal blessings of the late Supreme Grandmaster Prudencio ‘Undo’ Caburnay, and exists under the auspices of the LADAI Main Headquarters in Cebu. The training group began accepting new members in 2011 and in 2012 moved their training area to the open park at the base of the UP Carillon Plaza.
The original training group was composed of Master Buboy Ador, Master Nonoy Doncillo, Guro Patrick Marquina, Winston Novo, Mannix Moya and Alvin Penaflor. They were later joined by Ellen Joy Balgos, Alvaro Emil Penaflor, Ric Tariman Jr., and Eujean Penaflor-Tariman, who together formed the founding members of the club.
Club Instructors & Officers
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Danilo "Buboy" Ador, Senior Master (Dalubhasang Guro) |
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Edwin "Nonoy" Doncillo, Senior Master (Dalubhasang Guro) |
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Alvaro "Alvin" Penaflor II, Instructor (Guro) |
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Glenn Reyes |
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Joaquin Kyle Vincent "Waks" Saavedra |
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Jerico Lagdaméo |
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Jesa Lourdes "Ace" Yorobe ASSISTANT SECRETARY |
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Josf "Josef" Yorobe TREASURER |