What is Balintawak?
A Combat System
Built for Survival
Balintawak is a Filipino martial art developed by Great Grandmaster Venancio 'Anciong' Bacon in the late 1940s, named after a small street in Cebu City, Philippines, where the first Balintawak Club was organized at the watch shop of his student Eduardo Baculi.
It is a combat system that enhances the physical and psychological attributes of an individual by immersing them in real-time combat situations. The stick is just a training tool — its purpose is to develop the attributes required to defend against any threat without thought. What we call Zero Mind.