ESKABO DAAN: A JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME: STICKTOBONE, KNIFE TO FLESH FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS

Eskabo Daan: Journey of a Lifetime is, at its heart, two stories joined into one purposeful whole: the life story of Robert Castro and the unfolding of the martial art he spent decades shaping. On one level, it follows a Filipino American life formed by migration, music, struggle, friendship, discipline, and spiritual search. On another, it introduces a system of blocking, trapping, footwork, disarms, locks, timing, and flow grounded in Filipino martial traditions and refined through lived experience.What binds those strands together is a larger belief: learning an art and learning how to live are not separate pursuits. In Castro’s world, technique is inseparable from character, discipline from expression, and mastery from humility. The same lessons echo whether he is speaking about performance, friendship, teaching, or martial movement: pay attention, remain honest, and keep moving forward.The book is also a record of lineage and community. Mentors, students, friends, and collaborators help give Eskabo Daan its depth, warmth, and continuity. Taken together, these pages preserve more than a method of combat. They preserve a life, a philosophy, and a legacy meant to be carried forward with integrity.The pages that follow invite the reader to encounter Eskabo Daan not as a manual for domination, but as a disciplined path toward understanding.“Eskabo, in essence, is an art—not a manual for fighting, but a guide for learning how not to fight.” Read more