Honor Roll of Active and Certified Professor and Guros of the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™

To set the record straight:

Grandmaster Ben T. Largusa and Tuhan Mel Lopez have dedicated this web site to the loyal and active members of the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™. The honor roll of certified professors and guros listed on this web site have displayed true loyalty and dedication in teaching, promoting and supporting the system of our late great Grandmaster Floro Villabrille in accordance with the wishes, rules, regulations and standards set by Grandmaster Villabrille and his most loyal student Grandmaster Ben T. Largusa in the by-laws of the Kali Association of American ™.

There is no certified instructor, professor or guro, in the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™ who can personally promote his or her students to the rank of guro. If any professor or guro has promoted a student to guro on his own initiative then he is in violation of the express wishes of Grandmasters Villabrille and Largusa. No one is above what has been granted to us by Grandmaster Villabrille and Grandmaster Largusa. If Grandmaster Villabrille and Grandmaster Largusa had seen fit not to bring this system to the public then there would be no Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™. Remember this, Grandmaster Villabrille stated he did not need the one thousand students. All he needed was that one student, well trained and well versed in all the aspects of his system, the physical, the philosophical and the spiritual to carry his system on into the future.

There is no one out there who can claim to have had exclusive training with either Grandmaster Ben T. Largusa or Tuhan Mel Lopez. All students of the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™ and the Kali Association of America ™ have been trained equally.  Anyone claiming otherwise is making false claims.

As set forth by Grandmaster Villabrille and Grandmaster Largusa in the by-laws of the Kali Association of America ™. To be promoted and recognized as a Certified Guro of the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™ a student must:

1 – Face a review board consisting of three certified guros of the system not involved with the school the candidate is training under and pass the required test set by Grandmaster Villabrille and Grandmaster Largusa.

2 – When a student passes the required test, 70% is required to pass, he or she is then welcomed into the system through the rite of the Blood Ceremony, performed by the standing Grandmaster and Tuhan of the system and witnessed by family, friends and the general membership of the KAA.

3 – The student is then blessed by the Grandmaster and Tuhan and is presented a certificate signed by the Grandmaster and Tuhan certifying him a guro of the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™.

As set forth by Grandmaster Villabrille and Grandmaster Largusa in the by-laws of the Kali Association of America ™. A guro of the system is only allowed to open a school of his own when he or she reaches the rank of guro, lakang doha, and is presented with a teaching certificate signed by the standing Tuhan. This is to insure the integrity of the system.

Any person or persons claiming to be a guro of the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™ should be able to produce a certificate signed by Grandmaster Ben T. Largusa and Tuhan Mel Lopez. 

Any person or persons claiming to be guros, teaching the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™ should be able to produce the Teaching Certificate signed by Tuhan Mel Lopez or his successor.

Any person or persons certified by the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™ and presented with a signed teaching certificate but not listed on the Honor Roll of Active Certified Professors and Guros of the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™ has been declared inactive or in violation of the By-Laws of the Kali Association of America ™, the operating arm of the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™.

In 1981, Grandmaster Floro Villabrille presented to Ben T. Largusa the conveyance of life interest, a legal document, giving him and his successors the sole right and authority to use the Villabrille name in accordance with the established rules, regulations and standards set forth by Grandmasters Villabrille and Largusa and their eventual successors. No other persons have been accorded that right. The widow of Grandmaster Villabrille, Mrs. Trinidad Villabrille, has directed the standing Grandmaster and Tuhan to protect her good name and that of her family from those who would taint the name Villabrille, by using the name fraudulently and for their own personal gains. The names Villabrille and Largusa are two of the most widely recognized and respected names in the Filipino Martial Arts.

There are so called guros out there who have nothing better to do then to criticize the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™ on the web for whatever reasons. We don’t respond to cowards who hide behind words on the web. We consider them insignificant.

The Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™ and The Kali Association of America ™ and its By-Laws have been Trademarked and registered with the United States Government. Anyone using the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™ name without the expressed written consent of either Grandmaster Ben T. Largusa or Tuhan Mel Lopez is in violation of the Trademark Laws of the United States and can have legal action brought against them.

Our wish is not to threaten anyone or to prevent anyone from learning or teaching another Filipino martial art system. We will however, do what is legally necessary to protect the integrity of The Villabrille-Largusa Kali System ™ and the By-Laws of The Kali Association of America ™.

Grandmaster Ben T. Largusa

Tuhan Mel Lopez