Estalilla Bansuelo Kabaroan is both a stick art and blade art. It also includes the use of the bankaw, the sibat, the knife...etc.
First and foremost we are taught that the baston is representative of the sword, the second knuckles aligning with the edge of the weapon. Likewise, there are some techniques that work great with baston that don't work so great with a sword and vice versa, I'm sure.
"Kabaroan" has many translations, one of them being a "newer" style versus "cadaanan" being the "older style. I have seen "kabaroan" spelled with both a "C" and a "K" and both are correct. Kabaroan tended to be longer heavier stick arts, Cadaanan tended to be shorter, faster stick arts of the Philippines. There was an article in Black Belt magazine where GM Leo Giron and GM Estalilla were featured that described the above. GM Estallilla referred to Kabaroan and Cadaanan as two sides of the same coin.