According to the linked article's last two paragraphs, in a loosely controlled experiment involving a curious middle-aged grappler, who didn't know any better, and a kid with fast reflexes and a kamagong stick in hand ...
One morning, nearly a decade ago, I challenged my fifth-grade son, Mikael Fedor, to test the arnis skills he learned in PE class. With his dark brown kamagong stick in hand, I’ll try to subdue him with my bare hands. By then, I had been practicing and teaching grappling for almost two decades, but mainly as a sport and so much less as a form of self-defense outside the mat. Unlike some of my friends who belong to the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) community, I was neither into self-defense against weapons nor disarming.
To read how it ended in the second and last paragraph, check out the short article from February issue of The Archipelago Press here: This Arnis Hub in UP Diliman Keeps the Precolonial Sport Alive.
