In Honor of

- Timothy Charles Gacer - June 9, 1952 - April 21, 2025. Nephew/student of Dentoy Revillar® and the top student/closest friend of Max Sarmiento. 

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- Lester Bond - October 27, 1943 - August 14, 2024. Student of of Dentoy Revillar® and one of the top coaches, educators and athletes in track and field. 

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Activities / Events 

Members' Reunion is planned for Summer 2025 in Stockton CA!  Any Member(s) who haven't been to class lately, and couldn't attend Spring 2025 meeting, contact Micheal R. Lohmeier for Summer Reunion info.

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The Living Legacy of Dentoy Revillar®

As a family, we are alive and well—stronger than ever. We speak, text, and connect daily. We meet regularly and come together for special occasions. Our bond is lifelong, generational, and deeply rooted. It’s in our blood - a Dentoy Revillar® infused DNA that lives within each of us.

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The legacy of Dentoy Revillar® is not merely a style, a name, or a set of techniques, it's a way of thinking. It’s his strategic mindset, his spirit of sharing, and the disciplined philosophy that shaped his depth of teachings and life. As a master practitioner, teacher, and cultural steward, he built a tradition founded on Filipino martial heritage, moral conviction, and lifelong growth. Today, his family, his students, carry that legacy forward under his honored name Dentoy Revillar®.

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Like the guilds of old, we gather weekly to train, collaborate, and carry on his life’s work. Just like his backyard trainings, these are not just classes - they are living gatherings for playtime, storytelling, technique analysis, and the deep refinement of philosophy and strategy. Beyond those sessions, we connect almost daily to reflect on his principles and the “Dentoy-isms” that shape our lives. ​

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Dentoy Revillar®'s training methods can be viewed as historic and modern day/science-based.  Dentoy Revillar® possessed an extraordinary understanding of training methods that were far ahead of his time, beginning in the 1950s apart from Eskrima. Though he did not hold formal academic credentials in the sciences, his self-taught, instinctive approach to performance training closely mirrored the same principles now championed by modern experts in fields like kinesiology, biomechanics, neuroscience, and sports psychology. As someone who had the privilege of studying a few of these modern disciplines myself (and having close friends working in these professions), I, Micheal Lohmeier, (along with my close friends) would often compare the current scientific models to Dentoy Revillar®'s methods, as well as with him.  Time and again, they matched precisely.  His mastery was not born from just academic textbooks, but from natural insight, relentless experimentation, and a lifetime of performing activities exceptionally well (e.g., dance, singing, bowling, Eskrima) as well as teaching others to perform exceptionally well (not only Eskrima). 

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Dentoy Revillar®'s ability to synthesize historic Filipino martial principles and practices with what we now understand as science-based performance coaching was nothing short of brilliant. He instinctively understood techniques that align with today's best practices. The methods were foundational to the top athletes, yet Dentoy Revillar® employed them decades earlier into his training, and his students, particularly in how he developed rhythm, sensitivity (flow), and internalization in Eskrima.

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During his travels across the Philippines, Dentoy Revillar® found that many of his training methods were echoed by masters in remote provinces and old-style systems. This confirmed that his natural methods were not only effective, they were rooted in authentic Filipino tradition, refined by a lifetime of observation, adaptation, and service to the art.  He also discovered additional old-style methods of training that continued to provided efficient and effective means of performance in Eskrima (as well as in the styles of Arnis and Kali).

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​​Filming was a practice Dentoy Revillar® began himself, and he used with students of his, for example Micheal Lohmeier, to assist his learning process and progress, as well as to document teachings and techniques. Today, that practice continues as well as staying grounded in the core internal values of humility, discipline and respect. 

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Dentoy Revillar® was far more than a teacher, he was a visionary thinker whose intuitive brilliance continues to shape how Eskrima is taught, practiced, and passed on. Our training is not just a reflection of his legacy in name, it is a living tribute expressed through our effort, our unity, and our unwavering fidelity to his methods and mindset. By continuing to explore his way of thinking, striving each day to reach the standard he set, and perhaps, one day, to reach the skills he once held - and perhaps even to sharpen his art, we honor not only the the art of Eskrima, but the man himself.

 

Dentoy Revillar®
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