Training the Grassroots

"Going to the Grassroots Level"

Graduation Rites

"Metro-Manila Barangay Tanod
Arnis Trainers Course"
17 February 1981

NARAPHIL launched a massive training of "Arnis Trainers Program" in 1976 in anticipation of the demand for arnis instructors in the future. The first part of that program was the upgrading and retraining of the 46 existing instructors of the defunct Maharlika Arnis Sikaran Association and other groups into a fully able and qualified instructors.

The second part of NARAPHIL Arnis Trainer's Program was the training of the P.E. Teachers to help the organization in its grassroots level program especially in the school level.

And the third part of their program was geared towards the out-of-school youth and community level where the Kabataang Barangay and Barangay Tanod came into play.

The annual "P.E. Teachers Summer Arnis Training Course" was initiated in 1974 by the Maharlika Arnis Sikaran Association in cooperation with the SPODEPHIL Foundation of "Ka Doroy" Valencia (a notably well-known editor of the Philippine newspaper - Manila Bulletin). NARAPHIL pursued on this worhtwhile program and provided a strong backbone of qualified instructors of that project especially to present day arnis practitioners.

All of that NARAPHIL undertakings were usually done in cooperation with other government and private agencies such as the Ministry of Education and Culture, Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Ministry of Local Government, Ministry of National Defense, Rotary and Jaycees.

With the advent of the "Siglakas Project" in 1978, the NARAPHIL was able to pursue and continue again their grassroots program nationwide that started in 1976.