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Tom Meadows began his formal training in the martial arts in 1962 with the study of archery and Kodokan judo in Tokyo, Japan. Twenty-five years later, in 1987, he began his training in the Filipino martial arts under Guro Dan Inosanto. Currently he holds instructor’s ranking under Guro Inosanto in the Filipino Martial Arts and the Jun Fan Martial arts of Bruce Lee. In 1990, he began his study of Doce Pares eskrima as a personal student of Grandmaster Cacoy Canete, who is the current head of the Doce Pares system. He holds a Grandmaster's ranking under Grandmaster Canete in Cacoy Doce Pares. In 1989 as a member of the 21-man United States full contact eskrima team, he went to Cebu City, Philippines and won the superheavyweight world championship title at the First International Championships of eskrima, Arnis, and Kali. In the year 2000, he won the World eskrima Arnis and Kali Federation Master’s Forms championship using the whip and dagger. With the encouragement from his instructors to explore other arts he has also trained in Muay Thai kickboxing, Lucay-Lucay kali, Indonesian silat, traditional wrestling, Brazilian ju-jitsu, and has earned belt ranks in aikido, aiki-jujitsu, judo and savate. As an author, he has published feature magazine articles in Black Belt, Inside Kung Fu, Inside Karate, and Martial Arts Training. In 2005 he published The Filipino Fighting Whip detailing the history of flexible weapons in Doce Pares and other Filipino martial arts systems. Video footage of Tom Meadows’ full contact sparring with the whip, the stick, and the staff can be found on tapes one, two, and six of the “Real Contact Stickfighting” videotape series available through Dog Brother’s productions. Tom Meadows currently lives in Los Osos, California where he teaches the Latigo y Daga whip and dagger system, Cacoy Doce Pares eskrima, and Jun Fan /Jeet Kune Do Concepts.
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