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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

 

The MDK shop

The edge in combat survival

 
By Perry Gil S. Mallari, Reporter
 
One unwritten but crucial prerequisite to success in business is that you’ve got to love what you’re doing. This is the rule that Edmund Ongsiako, Dan Mercado and Dindo de Jesus followed when they put up Masters in Defense and Knives (MDK), a unique shop catering to the needs of combat survivalists and martial artists. Besides being established businessmen, the common thread among three men is that they are all practitioners of the Israeli combat system of krav maga.

“It all started when we saw the potential of distributing a special kind of watch used by the United States Special Forces,” narrates de Jesus, “Because of MDK the Philippines is now the fifth country in Asia to distribute this kind of watch.

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