PINAY STRENGTH, COURAGE & POWER ⚔️⚔️⚔️ 🔥⚔️ MALAKAS, MATAPANG, MAKAPANGYARIHAN ⚔️🔥 We challenge the stereotypes We reject the colonized mindsets We excel in COMBAT We have the bloodline of WARRIORS We are determined to WIN🗡️ These powerful athletes showed the world the true definition of a Filipina / Pinay / Filipino Woman and the resilience & fighting spirit within. This is especially significant as Pinays are at the frontlines of every battlefield, every healthcare sector, domestic labor and care work across the globe. Filipina lives were lost the most during covid, while dedicated to saving others. The fighting spirit is what keeps us going. These images speak the roaring battle cries of fierce & victorious warriors. 🗡️ 🥇Hidilyn Diaz from Zamboanga won the first gold medal for the Philippines, breaking the world record and conquering the women’s 55 kilogram weightlifting competition at the Tokyo Olympics. She had an Olympic record lift of 127kg in the clean & jerk, and her total lift of 224kg set a new Olympic record! Beating China’s world record holder Liao Quiyun, this victory is also politically significant as China encroaches on Philippine Seas. 🥈Nesthy Petecio from Davao became the first female amateur boxer to win a silver medal in the Olympics. At just 5-foot-2, Petecio went through taller opponents on her way to the finals. Her only defeat came in the hands of eventual gold medal winner Sena Irie of Japan in a highly contested match. 🥇Lee Kiefer from Kentucky is the first American to win a gold medal in fencing's individual foil discipline. A Filipina-American, she defeated reigning Olympic champion Inna Deriglazova 15-13, all while still in medical school. Overcoming great struggle and adversity, the strength, power, and determination displayed here is an inspiration to all warriors, weightlifters, boxers, fighters and athletes, making Philippines proud. 🇵🇭⚔️✨ Survival Arts is part of a movement redefining what it means to be a Pinay /pilipinx and understanding what it means to be a WARRIOR. 🗡️ ⚔️⚔️⚔️ #NotYourAveragePinay #SurvivalArts #NoSmiling #WarriorWisdom #Philippines #LabanPilipinas https://www.instagram.com/p/CSK-eHBBtgz/?utm_medium=tumblr