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To continue our discussion on different martial arts I've experienced, here is a nice demonstration of silat, one of many Southeast Asian martial arts. This first video is a demonstration of both Filipino kali and silat, influenced by Dan Inosanto. He teaches the blended Maphilindo style of silat, but it's not too different from the purely Indonesian style I learned. You don't have to understand the commentators to appreciate this demonstration. If you understand Italian, then great!
This second video is more of what I trained in called pencak silat mande muda. This is part of a seminar taught by Pendekar Suwanda (pendekar means instructor). It was incredibly fun to learn since I was able to tie up my partner into a pretzel in myriad ways. This style helped catapult me to a greater understanding of contact flow and combative movement. No, it doesn't have any superficial connection to contact flow, but we'll go over some of the moves in class to help you see the shared principles.
And one more video: once again, look for the similarities in combative movement. Can you see hubud movement in there? Are you able to pick out what's effective and what's just dance-like? Do you think this can work in high speed? Do you think this can work with a sociopath coming after you?
March 14, 2008
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i really liked th first vid, i cant wait to learn how to take on multiple attackers, second vid i couldnt really hear wat th guy was saying but still good and the third vid idk if some of those moves u can use in real life, and if u were able to do it very fast, u must hav very good acuracy and balance but other wise i dont think u can pull tht off
ReplyDeleteThe First vid was pretty impresive, those guys i thought were amazing, the second vid showed some pretty tight moves, i liked the last one he showed, and the 3rd video was ok was it the second move he did hubud, the little dancey thingys after each move arent really nessacary and the strechted out arms on some moves, not sure if it would really work in real life espacailly the 3rd move he does.
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