The Pillars

Chief Training Director Eric Olavides supervising training in Cebu City	Ruel Tubang, Eric Olavides and Tinni Macachor

Romy Paradero - Senior Training Director, Ozamiz	Ruel "El Tigre" Tubang, Training Director, Dumaguete City

Celestino "Tinni' Macachor, Senior Trainer Cebu and Lapulapu Chapters

Romy Paradero was born in San Fernando, Cebu. He settled down in Molave, Zamboanga del Sur having found the place quiet and and the soil rich, fertile and very ideal for farming. He once studied Balintawak Eskrima and won the Juniors Championship in 1982 during a WEKAF tournament held in Ozamiz City in honor of GM Jose D. Caballero.

Romy is very well-respected in the neighborhood for "taking care" of trouble makers and pacifying potentially lethal confrontations. He also trains eskrima and hand-to-hand combat to CAFGU militias in Molave.

"El Tigre" as he was once notoriously known in his old neighborhood in Zamboanga City, Ruel Tubang found inner peace and harmony when he underwent extensive training under Prof. Eric Olavides in Ozamiz City. Ruel has been embroiled and survived 17 live blade encounters. He once foiled a robbery attempt at the Gonzales pawnshop in Ozamiz City by disarming a gunwielding robber and beating him up until the authorities took hold of the suspect. Fearing expulsion from his De Campo apprenticeship, Ruel immediately reported the incident to his mentor Prof. Eric Olavides who gave his approval to the use of reasonable force by Ruel in the robbery attempt. Ruel now lives in Dumaguete City near his hometown in Bacong, Negros Oriental.

Mr. Macachor, teaches Eskrima de Campo JDC-IO to a few select students in Lapulapu City while at the same time writes articles on the hypothesis on the origins of eskrima through the Rapid Journal magazine.