Kuciang Lia knife demo Pauh Pencak Silat

Between two people, one who has trained like this and another who hasn't, who is going to have the advantage?

Add to that the effect of training and fighting in the dark, when you can't always see the blade and need to go by instinct and feel.

What percentage of advantage would the trained person have, assuming everything else equal? My bet is a lot.

nicely said man!

If i"m not mistaken, one of the Lian silat ( i think Lia is called in sumatera and Lian in Malaysia ) grading finale or penamat is blindfolded, put both in sarongs and knife.. the fight, whoever been slashed/wound is fail..

so i think it's aswer your words dude :)

What advantage would he have trained in an effective system like Silat as illustrated above? As you mention, quite a lot of an advantage.

My comment was a response to someone else who was claiming for some bizarre reason that this kind of training didn't confer an advantage in knife fighting, or something like that.

If you had read the extra text about this clip, you would know that this Silek is from Padang, Sumatra.

Religion is not important for performing martial arts. You study and practice martial arts with your heart.

this is not muslim martial art.this is malay,javanese,sundanese,balin ese,buginese,acehnese,martial art.Silat does not come from islam?

I think it's a basic drill that helps a student deal with initial trapping and also overcome the fear of a blade coming at you. True, that it doesn't reflect what would happen in a blade fight, but then again, it appears as a beginners level and the practiitoners are white belts.

Master take a look at this one.