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Coming up this week we are excited to have Kuya Bon “Berdugo” Bautista of The Yaw-Yan Academy.  Bon Bautista is a Filipino Martial Arts practitioner specializing in the Empty-hand art of Yaw-Yan. Growing up with a boisterous compulsion towards superheroes, combat cartoons, and fighting movies, Bon’s father gifted him his first boxing gloves at the age of 5. Afternoon playtimes are spent spar-playing and punching away rice sacks filled with mixtures of sand and sawdust.At age 9, Bon joined Sikaran under Master Carding Ronquillo. Sikaran is an ancient Philippine art of kick fighting that has a concept identical to Karate with more variety of kicking styles and incorporates Arnis in its training.At age 12, Bon met Master Napoleon Fernandez during a Yaw-Yan demonstration in his school. Yaw-Yan, short for Sayaw ng Kamatayan (Dance of Death) is a modern Filipino Kickboxing art that is based on the striking movements of both soft and hard weapons of Arnis along with Master Nap’s collective knowledge of Filipino