Punong Guro Henry Espera

           " The only way you can show your love to the Filipino Combative Arts are through informing and helping other's to learn fighting skills, discipline, and how to implement and propagate those material's. If you did it then you have done your share to the world of FMA and Martial Arts in general. " -- Henry Espera

             Henry Espera, Punong Guro at Nagtatag ( Chief/Master instructor and Founder ) of  Rapido Realismo was born in Barrio Tagdon, Sorsogon, Bicol Region, Philippines on December 1, 1953. The fourth of  thirteen children to the couple Ramon Espera and Encarnacion Evasco.

               Henry Espera is a Master of his own fighting system. An Innovator, Leader, and a Humble teacher. He was known as loving and caring person not only to his student, friends, and family but as well as to other. He doesn't belong to any known organization, he was not a famous like most FMA's master in western country. He was a non commercial  low profile teacher who love to teach and share his knowledge and wisdom to anyone who like his system of martial arts.

                In Filipino culture, the only way you can proclaim that you are a master of FMA's are by letting other master proclaim your title through your skills, knowlegde, and wisdom. An ordinary, traditional, old master doesn't held any Ranking system but rather they rely on skills and knowledge progression through training and actual match. He was fortunate that he belongs to those system of ranking and method of imparting knowledge and appointing. he was recognized as master not only by his three mentor but also with other FMA master, considered as an expert both in weaponry and empty hand.

                 Master Espera owe his filipino martial arts background from his three great mentor are: GM Antonio Ilustrisimo of Kali ilustrisimo, Master Andrew " Andy " Abrian of Orabes heneral Eskrima, and Master Juan ( sorry that master espera forgot the last name of this maestro ) of Automatic Arnis. He based his weaponry system from the best of these system.

                  he complement's his fighting system by researching and formulating his own method of hand to hand fighting. He gathered principles and theory, then created his technique arsenal which is too much unique to him because of his unique method of execution. Integrating Kali/Arnis empty hand movement's, Boxing (Suntukan), Trapping (Tapik-Patibungan), Kicking (Sipaan), Grappling and Wrestling (Buno) system which he either formulated or based from other existing martial arts system.