Roland Beauregard

Editor and Contributor

Roland is the creator of this blog and a student of Coach Freedman
since 2001. He has a black belt in Aikido and finds that Coach Freedman’s
teaching fit in well with the Aikido philosophy. He is committed to
spreading the word about Coach Freedman’s teaching through this blog.

Peter Freedman

Director and Contributor

Coach/Sensei/Guro Peter Freedman was born and raised in the South End of Boston. He grew up facing difficulties that are not uncommon to many inner-city kids. He has committed his life to the study of martial arts. Peter influences were his professional boxer father and his own experience in the streets. During the
course of his life he constantly searched for more information on various systems of martial arts. Included in his studies were Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, Aikido, Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Savate, Muay Thai, Fu Jow Pai/ Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Arnis, and his main discipline of Ketsugo Jujutsu.

As the former owner of the renowned all-natural Pete’s Power Gym in South Boston, Sensei Freedman taught nutrition, anatomy, body building, power lifting, and body toning. Peter trained over 35 national bodybuilding champions and served as an inspirational role model and mentor for over 4,000 underprivileged urban youths who were at one time consumed by lives ridden with violence, drug abuse, and peer pressure.

Peter has been written up by numerous local newspapers and has been featured in martial art magazines such as Secrets of the Masters, Inside Karate, Secret Fighting Techniques, Inside Tae Kwon Do, Masters & Styles, Inside Martial Arts, and MA Training.

Peter is the Sensei of Freedman’s Method Ketsugo Jujutsu and the Guro director for the Boston Arnis Club.

Philip Duldulao

Contributor and Videographer

Born in Davao City, Philippines, Philip was exposed to Arnis at an early age. His Great Grandfather Claudio “Adiong” Gildore was a skilled

Eskrimador and utilized this method of stick fighting in combat to defend himself and his family from violent encounters against rogue Bilaan tribes in the rugged island of Mindanao. Philip moved to NH  in the early 1980′s and studied Ed Parker’s Kenpo system. Searching for an Arnis teacher he discovered  Coach Freedman in 2005 and has been with him ever since.

Philip has taken on the task of preserving Coach Freedman’s teaching in short videos mostly shot during his classes in Weare, NH.

Here is how Phil describes his video productions.

There are a few key factors involved in creating and producing the short films for Peter. One is familiarity and knowledge of the material and two is shooting lots of short video snippets during class.

There is an ancient Chinese proverb that says, “To attain knowledge add something every day, to attain wisdom remove something every day”… I apply the same mantra to the videos, I don’t flood the viewer with hundreds of techniques and the intricacies of each move, instead I present them only the essence and concepts that Peter is sharing with his audience.

One thing about our videos, they are not rehearsed, It is spontaneous and shot during the moment, thus, we jokingly refer to it as “1 take Philms Productions“. I also realize that the videos that I have produced are a work in progress. The lighting or audio may not be up to par with a professional production but I think we make up for that with the knowledge and content of the material.