GRAND MASTER (HOTROD)
GRAND TUHON LEO T. GAJE, JR.
PEKITI-TIRSIA KALI WORLD CONGRESS 1998
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CELEBRATION OF THE PHILIPPINE
CENTENNIAL REVOLUTION
THEME: TO HONOR THE HEROES AND THE KATIPUNEROS OF THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION OF 1898 AND TO RECOGNIZE THEIR INDIVIDUAL MASTERY SKILL USING THE INDIGENOUS ART OF KALI IN DEFENSE OF FREEDOM AND PRESERVATION OF THE TRUE FILIPINO CULTURE.
Leading the Future! Pekiti-Tirsia Fighting Men
1. To recognize the indigenous Fighting art of the Filipinos, the Art of Kali traditionally rich with cultural values to include Philosophy and Methodical Doctrines, Analytical in its martial arts concepts, Realistically effective in the preservation of life, Progressive and unending in its technological developments.
2. To enrich our individual capacity in gaining more technological advancement through mastery training in the indigenous art of Kali, the Dumog and the Pangamut.
3. To gain more experience from the cultural environment in the Philippines, its history, places, people, and personal involvement with the Filipino Fighting art.
4. To solidify the preservation of Kali, its the Traditional methods of training, the Traditional teaching procedures, Traditional discipline in the use of the techniques, and the Traditional belief in the use of the art for the protection of life.
5. To uphold the Tenets of the indigenous art of Kali written in the Manifesto sealed by the signature of each delegate as an official declaration.
6. To be more selective in the propagation of the Kali Technology among the Martial Artists, non-weaponry practitioners, law enforcement personnel.
7. To develop more skill and mastery in almost all the methods that are within the guidelines of the mastery training.
8. To instill full and complete loyalty to the system without mental reservation to myself and to my students and comrades in the martial arts.
9. To be more traditional in the practice of the indigenous art, Kali for bladed weapons, Dumog / Pangamut for non-weaponry.
10. To be more intellectual and knowledgeable in conducting group seminars, teach-ins, individual training, military or law enforcement upgrading training programs.
11. To be more precise in teaching the counter-offensive techniques limiting the possibility of counters which makes the techniques far superior, effective and deadly.
12. To encourage high moral values to each Pekiti-Tirsia practitioners in terms of individual struggle against all odds, with proper installation of the Philosophy and Doctrines of the indigenous fighting art that made the great heroes of the Katipunan to be remembered in this celebration of Philippine Centennial Revolution.