About

  • Preserving a Rare Filipino Martial Art and Empowering the Next Generation of practitioners.
  • VSCK Global: Filipino Martial Arts representing Movement, Culture, and Precision.

Visayan Style Corto Kadena Largo Mano Eskrima (VSCK / VSCKLME)

Visayan Style honors all the different elders/ ancestors, systems, and styles developed in the region of the Visayas in the Philippines

Corto Kadena means “short chain,” referring to the art’s close-range precision, flowing transitions, and highly developed sensitivity in motion.

Largo Mano means and honors the Medium and  Long range component of the art, covering all ranges from short to long, giving the practitioner a set of skills applicable in various ranges of the fight game

VSCK or VSCKLME is known for:

  • Close-quarter striking and defense
  • Medium and long-range awareness and skills
  • Advanced blade and impact weapon understanding and mastery
  • Body angling, alignment, and evasive footwork
  • Timing, rhythm, pace, deception, and controlled response
  • Precision and Accuracy before Speed and Power
  • Adaptability and coherence between empty hand and weapons

Unlike systems built only around force, VSCK emphasizes intelligence, economy, and precision.

is a longtime practitioner, educator, and direct student within the lineage of Maestro Sonny Umpad.

Beyond martial arts, he has spent decades working in community development and empowerment, youth leadership, restorative justice, education, multi-media production, health advocacy, and environmental awareness in the Bay Area.

His teaching integrates:

  • traditional Filipino martial principles
  • Movement and fight intelligence
  • cultural understanding
  • leadership development
  • disciplined creativity

Through VSCK Global, Guro Jay is committed to making this rare art accessible while protecting its depth and integrity.

VSCK Global is a martial arts academy dedicated to preserving, teaching, and evolving the art of Visayan Style Corto Kadena (VSCK)

VSCK Global offers training that develops timing, structure, rhythm, awareness, footwork, weapons understanding and proficiency, and practical self-defense while honoring the cultural depth, indigenous strategy, contemporary application, and personal development.

This is not only martial arts training.
It is the study of timing, spatial awareness, responsibility, and human refinement through movement.

In today’s world, martial arts must offer more than techniques.

VSCK Global teaches practitioners how to develop:

  • Strategic Thinking
  • Refined Movement
  • Calm under pressure
  • Rooted in Resilience
  • Ethical use of Skill
  • Honoring culture with a modern lens on tradition
    • Training is a way to sharpen both body and mind.

Our Core Values

  • Kahusayan (Skillfulness) — Pursuing technical excellence
  • Katatagan (Resilience) — Building strength through disciplined practice
  • Katarungan (Justice) — Carrying skill with responsibility
  • Kapwa/ PakikipagKAPWA (Shared Humanity/ Allyship) — Respecting community and relationship