How many countries?

[The Boss]

How many countries have a Modern Arnis presence?

[arnisador]

Let's see...the U.S. and Canada, Germany, and the Philippines, of course! Those are the big ones.

The WMAA has groups in Sweden and Denmark. Is there still a WMAA presence in Japan (John Lehmann's group)? I believe there is someone in Spain, but I can't recall where I heard this. Mr. Delaney lists a school in England, and the IMAF-Schea group lists a school in Hong Kong.

[Boar Man]

Let's see...the U.S. and Canada, Germany, and the Philippines, of course! Those are the big ones.

The WMAA has groups in Sweden and Denmark. Is there still a WMAA presence in Japan (John Lehmann's group)? I believe there is someone in Spain, but I can't recall where I heard this. Mr. Delaney lists a school in England, and the IMAF-Schea group lists a school in Hong Kong.

Actually IMAF -Schea also has a presence in Germany with Gabbi and there is the DAV Germany with Dieter. These are two seperate organizations in Germany but both with Modern Arnis.

[kruzada]

The International Modern Arnis Federation Philippines (IMAFP) has chapters in the following countries aside from the U.S.:

Switzerland
Italy
Hong Kong
Saudi Arabia
Mexico

They also have IMAFP certified instructors in the following countries as well:

Indonesia
Vietnam
Japan
Australia
Canada
Germany
England

http://www.imafp.com/Chapters/international.html
http://www.imafp.com/misc/contact.html

-Rich Acosta

[grimfang]

There is at least one school in the Czech Republic, run by a man named Ivo Schovanec. http://modernarnis.cz/indexmodern.html

[Datu Dieter]

The Czech Modern Arnis group is part of the DAV. Out president is teaching there.

There is Modern Arnis in the following countries due to seminars of myself or other instructors of the DAV:

Denmark (started in 1984), Switzerland (1984), Sweden (1985), Norway (1986, may be not an active Modern Arnis group any more), France (1998), Austria (1999), Hungary (2000), Russia (2005), Czech Republic (2005).
At the moment there are activities going on in Poland and Italy.

I have taught Modern Arnis in the following countries, without having established a Modern Arnis group there: Holland, England, Spain and of coourse in countries with well estabished Modern Arnis groups like USA and Australia.
Another student of mine has taught Modern Arnis in Sri Lanka and in Thailand.

There may have been othere countries as well, that I might have forgotten.

Regards


Dieter Knüttel
Datu of Modern Arnis