Kali Majapahit Culture - Martial Arts

Life blade Kali Majapahit / Silat demo by Guro Fred Evrard and his students at the Keris festival (Rangsang Rias Pusaka Bangsa) in Singapore. Schools in Singapore, Tahiti, Moorea, Philippines. www.kali-majapahit.com

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• Kali
• Majapahit
• silat
• FMA
• Filipino
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• Tien
• martial
• arts
• eskrima
• kampilan
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• barong
• sarong
• pencak
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[GaolisVideoLog]

@MrSolitude14 Yeah, no one calls it that way, you can find "Arnis", Escrima"/"Eskrima", "Doce Pares", "Estokada"/"Estukada" and stuff like that. "Kali" is a myth to glorify precolonial Philippine culture. Don't get me wrong, there are proofs of martial arts in the Philippines before the Spaniards, even in written form, but the term "Kali" was never used.

[MrSolitude14]

@GaolisVideoLog yeah, actually I little bit suspicious bout this word ,some say it derived from `kalis` the other word of keris of philippine , other said the pinoy-american who responsible to create this word in USA, cause one writer here Youtube said that even the pinoy-phillipine werent call this MA kali >.<

[GaolisVideoLog]

@MrSolitude14 "Kali" is not Tagalog. The word, and that's the ironic part, comes from California from the 1970s & was coined by Dan Inosanto himself. No document prior Inosanto ever mentioned "Kali" as a name for this style nor was the style used in the Philippines before the 90s. Funny, eh? (I'm a linguist btw)

[GaolisVideoLog]

@MataNusantara Well, The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (LCI), I would describe as the oldest inscription from Luzon. (I know I still stick to the differentiation between Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao.) The LCI was written in Malay Koiné, as it was the lingua franca, in SEA back then. It's a bit sad that that language got lost during the 400 years of colonial times.

[GaolisVideoLog]

@MrSolitude14 Glad we're all on the same road here. So, here my 2 cents: It doesn't say anywhere that the 10 datu brought any particular style of martial arts with them. (Okok, I know they most likely did, but there's no mentioning of A/E/K). Further, the Laguna Copperplate was neither written in Sanskrit nor did it use Devanagari. Additionally, there are still a lot of Sanskrit words in Tagalog & many academics start learning this language to uncover precolonial history.

[MrSolitude14]

@MataNusantara the oldest inscription in indonesia dated to 300 AD, it is YUPA inscription in kutai martapura of borneo, IF some one here are the true kali student, he/she must be familiar with the 10 datus legend, legend that said those 10 datus brought kali (silat) to phillipine from borneo. For the sanskrit, even now days some javanesse people still able to read it in indonesia.

[MataNusantara]

Silat is mostly speed, and there should NOT be a contest between all martial arts

They found Laguna Copperlate the oldest "Philipino" inscriptions 900AD, any Malays in Singapore, Malaysian and Indonesian can understand it well except for the sankrit words. Lankah Silat has 400 variations and most is still unkown to foreigners or anyone outside the Malay Archipelago ( Philiphines, Malaysian, Singapore, Borneo and Indonesia)

MataNusantara

[TheRolex1]

kali form of fighting was used by matt damon in the movie bourne identity he fought with the intruder in his girlfriebds house. very fast hand knife fighting. lightning fast

[MrSolitude14]

@mike2b1 its also make me confuse mike, but nevertheless kali is just another tagalog name for silat

[buddhastrike]

Very nicely demonstrated as a complete fighting system with some of the healing aspects of the art shown !!!! Thxs 4 posting !!!!