PEKAF Visayas

PEKAF Executive Officials led by Executive Vice President GM Gerald O. Cañete together with Central Visayas VP GM Wilfredo Bacalso met with Mayor Lheslen Enad for the 1st Cebu Zubiri Cup - SGM Dionisio Cañete Memorial Tournament-

1st Cebu Zubiri Cup
- SGM Dionisio Cañete Memorial Tournament-
June 5 - 7, 2026
Minglanilla, Cebu

My most heartfelt Thanks and Gratitude to the Men and Women behind the 38th SAC - SMB Cebu Sports Awards, most especially to SAC President and Cebu City Sports Commission Chairman Mr. John Pages and to SAC Vice President and Freeman Sports Chief Mr. Emmanuel Blanco Villaruel for the great honor in receiving this award and for recognizing the remarkable contribution of my late Father Supreme Grand Master Dionisio A. Cañete, for his selfless pursuit to promote and promulgate Filipino Martial Art that led to his ultimate achievement in making Eskrima/ Arnis into an accepted International Sport that greatly contributed to fast growth and popularity of Eskrima/ Arnis all over the World.
In behalf of my Father SGM Dionisio A. Cañete, Cañete Family and Doce Pares all over the World, our most sincere Thanks and Gratitude to SAC and Cebu City for this Great Honor. 🙏
Mabuhay and more power to SAC!! ❤️🇵🇭

PEKAF Visayas Qualifying Tournament 2022 🇵🇭

Our deepest thanks to our PEKAF President Sen. Juan Miguel Zubir, a COVID-19 survivor for his selfless and humanitarian act of donating his own plasma to help Doctor, patients and medical experts in the fight against the virus.

COVID-19 survivor Sen. Zubiri donates plasma at PGH MANILA, Philippines — Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, who recently recovered from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), donated his blood plasma at the Philippine General

Maraming Salamat po!

Pugay po!

I have to say...this weekend's 1st PEKAF World Invitational has been the most well-run tournament I've ever been to. The best and most professional officiating I've ever seen. And the tournament ran like clockwork, and like a bullet train, never missing a beat. The time between matches in many cases was less than a minute! Referees were very watchful and firm with the rules on pushing and holding in the live stick matches. In the padded stick point-sparring, points were judged instantly, the action barely stopping for a split-second. Wow. Great job!

Much credit to PEKAF Vice President and the Tournament Director, Master Gerald Canete from Doce Pares HQ. I got a chance to speak with him over a cup of coffee during the lunch break (which happened at precisely the time it was scheduled to) and he shared his vision of PEKAF as a world-class organization with world-class officiating and organization. It's safe to say that his vision was on full display this weekend, and that PEKAF is in capable hands and already living up to its mission to be the nation's premier Arnis federation.

PEKAF's mission of fairness, inclusiveness, and good sportsmanship was also on full display. You could really feel the happy mood in the air at Sky Hall. The players were all excited to be there, all smiles before, during and after the matches, and the spectators were joyously cheering on their teams, lots of fun team chants. There wasn't a hint of rivalry in the air. It was a beautiful thing! I leave the tournament with a great sense of optimism for the sport of Arnis, for its popularity in its home country of the Philippines, and the sense of national unity and pride it is inspiring.

And I think that may be the best, last word for my review of this, the 1st PEKAF World Invitational: inspiring.

Mabuhay!