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Punong Guro at Tagapagmana
Chief Instructor and Inheritor

Steven K. Dowd
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    Punong Guro at Tagapagmana Steven Dowd commenced his training in the martial arts in 1971. He was appointed by the Aguillon family upon their fathers passing away on January 8, 1991 to represent the family art known as Aguillon Arnis. In 1998 in talking with the son and daughters of Pundador Aguillon it was proposed and accepted that the family art would use the name of Arnis Balite their fathers nickname while he was a Champion Boxer before the war with Japan, which was Kid Balite.
    Pundador Manuel M. Aguillon was very selective in his teachings and often refused to teach individuals who did not have the attitude, discipline, or the spirit to represent his family's art.
     Being his senior student Punong Guro Dowd wishes to carry on his beliefs and the art as he would have done so himself. In Arnis Balite, Pundador Aguillon did not have a belt ranking system, but had levels and then steps. If you were to put Pundador's ranking system into a colored belt definition it would be as explained below.