Pencak Silat Pertempuran - Combat Silat

Pencak Silat is a grouping of martial arts found within the countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, and the Southern Philippines. That is to say, that the preceding countries could be considered source countries for the indigenous martial art known as pencak silat.

Pencak silat is nothing more than a blanket term for those indigenous martial arts. There are many different styles of pencak silat and many different emphases within those styles running the full gamut of ground fighting to locking to takedowns. Almost all of which is based heavily on the use of the knife or blade.

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