Kuntao silat as taught by Luis Amador Oliverez was originated during the late 1930's and was conceived after researching and combining the arts he learned during his childhood. Oliverez's father Jesus was an accomplished Eskrimador who had spent several years in Malaysian. His mother Mei Ling Tiusang was highly skilled in her families southern Kuntao system. During his adult life Luis Oliverez combined many of his familie's methods into his own personal method of fighting and called it Cadena de Mano, or chain of hand. As the name denotes Cadena de Mano is an extremely fast empty hand art.
Every technique is a series of overwhelming attacks directed to various targets of the body.
The art is explosive, no nonsense, devastating, brutal and easy to learn. There are no gaps in its movement no wasted motion. Every part of the body is a potential weapon, knees, head, hips, shoulders, elbows and foot etc. Especially when it comes to Blade Awareness. Sinawale-motion Oliverez taught that the basis of defense can be found in the motions of Sinawale.