Yaw Yan

Yaw-Yan comes from a Filipino syllable Sayaw ng Kamatayan or Dance of Death .

 It is a Filipino martial art that was founded by Grand Master Napoleon Fernandez (1972) it sounds like Chinese and its form looks like Muay Thai but in reality its a Filipino art.  It has many variation of Kicks and punches (bolo punches), unlike other art Yaw Yan dont have a Kata  or form that needs to be memorize, the variation of kicks and punches can be combine freely does when its practitioner combines all this movement it seems that they are dancing. In yaw yan we develop our hand and feet as a weapon instead of using a stick in arnis ( a Filipino Stick Fighting art). One of the unique quality of Yaw Yan is that we dont have belts to distinguish ranks but instead we  value seniority and we consider our fellow member as our brother and sister and we consider our master as our father.