International Arnis Koredas Obra Mano Federation

Light Red

It symbolize life, heat and generation but also the destruction.
Light red is vital force, wealth and love.
It symbolize in an universal way the vital principe, his force, his power and his brightness.
It's the color of the fire, of the blood, it's brilliant, centrifugal, diurnal, manly, tonic, it incline to be active and spread his light and his power to all like the sun.
The red incite to action, it symbolize ardour and beauty, it's like an impulsive force, generous, of the youth, the health and the wealth.

At psychologic point of vue, color red means life's joy, optimism, vigour, fighting instinct, harmony and passion.

Circle

It represent a finished whole, complete and perfect, autonomous, and yet surrounded by his own limit.
It contains his own space, it's a container and a contents.

It symbolize the perfection, the absolute, the infinity...

Dragon

Dragon symbolize immortality, perseverance and success.
His eyes are always opened, he never sleep, proving his attachment to the most important thing : the present moment, the only one taking to awakening... besides, his wings prove how present moment could easily fly away..

The dragon is the symbol of intense activity, day and night.

Stick

The beginning of martial art evolution start with stick in Arnis Koredas Obra mano...
It's used to teach all the differents distances of fight and get student closer to reality..
The stick is used as a weapon and as a pedagogic means.
It give to eskrimadors the necessary basic skills to have in a fight...

Knife

It represent the perfect weapon to master and counter...
His safely working require a very good skills level but remind you also, humbly, how long is the way of the Eskrimador...