Being of Filipino heritage, my dad taught me to use Arnis at an early age. He bought me rattan sticks and we would practice stick fighting for hours. He also would teach me knife fighting. I started collecting weapons for fun and for training. My collection includes a butterfly knife, a kris sword, couple of fighting sticks and three telescopic steel batons.

My telescopic steel batons are the crème ala crème of my collection. It is very lightweight weighing close to my rattan stick. It is 29 inches when fully extended and only ten inches in its contracted state. I keep one in the car and one in the house. I can perform all my escrima scrimmages with it.