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• Individual sports are athletic activities where competitors perform alone, focusing on their personal skills and endurance rather than teamwork
• Individual sports have roots in ancient competitions, where personal skill and prowess were celebrated
• Examples of individual sports include: Golf, Bowling, Archery, Track and Field events, and Cycling
• Dual sports require two players on each side and can take different forms
• In one form of dual sports, a single athlete competes against another single athlete in a one-on-one match
• Dual sports can also involve two athletes on the same team competing with two athletes of the opposite team, known as two on two
• Examples of dual sports include: Chess, Table Tennis, Beach Volley, Lawn tennis, and Billiards
• Arnis is the national martial art sport of the Philippines, also known as Eskrima and Kali
• Arnis emphasizes weapon-based fighting using knives, bladed weapons, sticks, and various improvised weapons
• The primary weapon used in Arnis is a cane or a baton, which varies in sizes but the original length is 28 inches
• Two types of Arnis sports:

  • Anyo or Form: a demonstration of artistic, choreographed, pre-arranged sets of movements, offensive and defensive techniques using a stick or replica weapon
  • Laban: full contact sparring using full gear protection and a padded stick to strike and gain points
• Key points in Arnis Labanan Scoring:

  • The contest consists of three rounds of one minute each, with thirty seconds of rest in between rounds
  • Striking or target points are any part of the body above the knee except the groin and neck
  • Hitting the back of the body is allowed only when competitors are facing each other
  • Hitting the back of the head is not allowed due to insufficient padding on the back of the helmet
• RA. 9850 Arnis as the National Sport of the Philippines
• Athletics, wrestling, archery are part of religious or cultural festivals
• Arnis is concidered scared by Arnisadores practitioners
• the cane is hit on the hand or forearm
• Anyo or Form is a demonstration of artistic, choreographed, pre-arranged sets of movements, offensive and defensive techniques using stick
• Labanan or Labanan full contact sparring in Arnis uses full gear protection from head to legs and a padded stick to strike and gain a point