The Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) regularly conducts its martial arts proficiency exercise to enhance the Corps’s widely-practiced combat technique particularly useful during close combat battles. This proficiency-based practice was presented last November 23, 2012 by some of the PMC personnel in their combat uniforms. Their simultaneous demonstration performance with one group using long blades and another using knifes on their capabilities was held at BNS Grandstand, Bonifacio Naval Station (BNS), Fort Bonifacio, Tagiug City.
The PMC Martial Arts, also known as Pekiti Tirsia Kali, is a Filipino close quarter fighting system that focuses on edged weapons. It encompasses a wide range of traditional weapons and tactics strategy based on mobility, counterattacking and triangular movement and clearly comes from the era when it was common for Filipino men to carry swords and knives. The Philippine Force Recon Marines have trained US special operations forces and other combat units in close-quarters combat, demonstrating the effectiveness of the system.
http://www.navy.mil.ph/news.php?news_id=772&home=1
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