The Pekiti Tirsia System of Kali is a highly effective, close quarters, in-fighting system of combat from the Philippines. Based on tactics and strategies derived from edged weapons, Pekiti Tirsia is a complete system incorporating both weapons and empty hands methods. Designed for both single and multiple attackers, Pekiti Tirsia is both ancient and modern. Pekiti Tirsia is proven effective in combat and indispensable for today’s heroes of the law enforcement and military community.

Officially founded in 1897 by Grand Master Conrado Tortal, Pekiti Tirsia Kali is an indigenous method of combat from the Visayan region of the Philippines. Pekiti Tirsia was reserved in secret as a family system to defend the Tortal land until it was brought to the U.S. in 1972 by Grand Master Leo Tortal Gaje Jr., the grandson of Conrado Tortal and heir to the Pekiti Tirsia System. Since then, Pekiti Tirsia Kali has expanded worldwide to exclusive groups under the Pekiti Tirsia Global Organization.