"The [Warrior] Art [of Abir] was absolutely hidden. Their family were protectors of the different kings and courts of the middle east for many generations... Spain was another place where Abir was preserved for hundreds of years. You see this by the teachers of Kali. Kali is a Filipin@ Martial Art. The teachers of Kali, which by the way comes from our Hebrew word for "vessel" [singular: "Kli": כלי; plural: "Keilim": כלים]: which is our quintessential symbolic weapon in Abir — The Reed Stick/The Nabuta. They'll tell you that this is a martial art that was taught by the Jews of Spain — the Jews that fled from [Inquisitorial] Spain. This was their art. We're talking about Filipin@ trainers — Filipin@s that [mastered] this art — who are the bearers of a tradition of a unique fighting art among the Jews of Spain from five hundred years ago."
— Mori [Gurong Hudyo] Michael Shelomo Bar-Ron
