User:Hybrid Yaw-Yan

Hybrid Yaw-Yan is a Filipino Martial Art founded and developed by Sir Henry Yap Kobayashi in 1998 and officially introduced to the public in year 2000.

Hybrid Yaw-Yan is an all-out martial art that uses the whole body as a weapon. It combines Striking, Grappling, and Wrestling Techniques. Hybrid Yaw-Yan practitioner can easily adapt to the fighting style of it’s opponent and can fight in any given martial art rules. It can compete in Pure Striking, Pure Wrestling, Grappling ( with Gi or No Gi) or even in Amateur or Professional Mixed Martial Arts.

To keep up with the changing world of martial arts, a modern, holistic style based on the traditional Yaw-Yan (contraction of Sayaw ng Kamatayan, Dance of Death) of the 1970s was developed by Sir Henry Kobayashi. This is what is now known in the martial arts community as Hybrid Yaw-Yan, representing a step up of what is dubbed “the Philippines Deadliest Martial Art”.

Their Students did not memorize moves or kata and are instead being taught of actual fighting skills that mimic real life situations. In place of blocking, non-resistant techniques are employed to subdue even much bigger and stronger attackers. Hybrid Yaw-Yan’s ground fighting techniques come from our very own Dumog (Filipino Grappling) and Buno (Filipino Wrestling). There’s also the Arnis (Stick Fighting)-inspired Bolo Punches and Multi-Directional Kicks. It did not follow the Belt System, so it’s member can learn advance techniques even they are new in the gym.

Hybrid Yaw-Yan is as effective in the ring as it is on the streets as evidenced by the many champions it has produced over the years—champions who facilitate learning for every student of the art who comes through our doors. Here trainees get the benefit of more than learning self-defense; they build confidence, discipline, self-control and over-all a winning attitude.

Hybrid Yaw-Yan is proudly Filipino