Arnis family tree
Click Here For: Black Belt Graduates (Family Tree) ... Family_Tree_%28Black_Belts%29.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0
Click Here For: FKKA Home Page ...Welcome.htmlWelcome.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0
 
Niko Flauta July 22, 2023
Eshan Arora July 20, 2013
Jenifer A. Velazquez Dec. 14, 2013
Joel Simental Dec. 14, 2013
 
Our Arnis (Filipino Stick Fighting) Black Belt practitioners are excellent members of our “brotherhood” or “sisterhood.” It gives the Grandmaster great joy to place their names on our family tree. The so named black belts or degrees of Black Belt come highly recommended, and they are proficient in knife, stick, and sword fighting.
For Certified “Arnis” black belts - Scroll Down
Brotherhood of Arnis FAMILY TREE
ARNIS/KARATE PROMOTER Senior Grandmaster - Randall K. Flaherty 10th Degree Black Belt (F.K.K.A.)
2nd Degree Black Belts Instructors
Gabrielle Hattori Sept. 15, 2018
William Emigdio January 14, 2023
1st Degree Black Belts Associate Instructors
Barbara Griggs Nov. 19, 2011
Terrance Chansilaphet July 19, 2014
Junior Black Belts Under Age: 16
Noelle Palacios Nov. 19, 2011
Gaby Hattori June 23, 2012
Wisher Tobacco July 20, 2013
Gabrielle Hattori July 30, 2016
Joel Simental July 8, 2017
Nevaeh Doss July 14, 2021
FOUNDER Great Grandmaster - Dan Ancheta 12th Degree Black Belt (Arnis)
To read the Grandmaster’s Arnis Story: SCROLL DOWN - (Bottom of the page)
Gino Simental Dec. 14, 2013
Jordan Ota July 29, 2014
Jamail Tarin Dec. 13, 2014
Grandmaster Dan Ancheta (Left: Founder) Grandmaster Randall Flaherty (F.K.K.A. Creator & Developer (Right)
~ Grandmaster’s Arnis Story ~ Grandmaster Randall Flaherty began “Arnis” training at the age of 20, after two years of unsuccessful attempts to learn. Getting the Brotherhood founder, Dan Ancheta, to teach him wasn’t an easy task for Flaherty. He started his pursuit of stick training at the age of 18, but Ancheta kept saying “NO”. Flaherty asked Ancheta countless times why he couldn’t be taught, and each time he heard the same answer: “You are an outsider.” (The Brotherhood is taught only to insiders – to family members only.) It took time, but over many, many, many days and months, adding up to years, Dan Ancheta finally decided to accept young Flaherty into the Brotherhood of Arnis, and in 1984 Flaherty was introduced into the Ancheta family as a brother. Flaherty practiced Arnis often with Dan Ancheta until 1986, when life separated them. Flaherty moved from California to North Carolina for approximately 2 years. In 1988, Flaherty moved back to California as the Top / Chief Instructor of the International Martial Arts Academy. In 1989 Flaherty became the owner of an International Martial Arts business under a new name, Seneca Martial Arts. For several years as his businesses changed names from Seneca Martial Arts to Champion Martial Arts Training Center to Flaherty’s Kenpo Karate Academy, Flaherty had no contact with the Ancheta family. In 1995, however, the Ancheta family and Flaherty became reunited as friends, and Arnis brothers. (To this day Clara Stone, Dan Ancheta’s sister, addresses Randall Flaherty as “brother”.) It was this closeness that led to a new “Brotherhood of Arnis.” In 1999, Dan Ancheta walked into the Martial Arts School to talk with Randall Flaherty. In a private meeting behind closed office doors, Ancheta told Flaherty, on behalf of the other four Ancheta brothers, that the family had decided to expand Arnis training, and wanted Flaherty to carry out their wish. “Are you now willing to allow everyone to become insiders?” The answer was: “Yes.” Dan Ancheta asked Flaherty to take the Brotherhood of Arnis to everyone, to give everybody the opportunity to study as insiders. Randall Flaherty humbly agreed, and in 1999 formed the new Brotherhood of Arnis. Arnis Grandmaster Dan Ancheta and Grandmaster Randall Flaherty reunited on December 24, 2013
Aleen Phimpha Dec. 12, 2015
Kiva Sinclair Dec. 12, 2015
Mae Kyla O. Barrera Dec. 10, 2016
Alexia Zambrano Dec. 10, 2016
Andrea Perez June 10, 2017
Randall Flaherty
Dan Ancheta
San Jose Chamber of Commerce Member
Year: 1991
Lance Taganas July 19, 2014
William Emigdio July 14, 2021
Ian Church July 30, 2022
Sandra Perez June 10, 2017
Ian Church July 24, 2021
Patrick Prinze July 24, 2021
Anthony Luna Dec. 10, 2016