Silat Suffian Bela Diri - Media Coverage in Melbourne, Australia

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Maul Mornie is from the nation of Brunei, located on Malaysias island of Borneo. He imparts the martial arts techniques of Silat Suffian Bela Diri. But its not your typical martial art. This self defense system was created by his family four generations back, as a matter of survival in hostile times.

Today in Melbourne, hes teaching core aspects of the system.

[Maul Mornie, SSBD Master]:
"Basically what I'm teaching everybody is to teach knife defense, knife awareness, and a little bit of cultural side of martial arts."

The knife defense techniques of Silat Suffian Bela Diri have attracted world wide interest since being made public in 2007. Maul welcomes the martial arts academies and law enforcement agencies seeking his personal teachings. But says certain other groups need not apply.

[Maul Mornie, SSBD Master]:
"I'm not looking for violent people or thugs, because what I teach is self defense, not how to fight."Thats not to say his teaching methods lack impact. Or that the term knife awareness is just a mental concept."

[Stuart Holdsworth, Six Harmonies Kung Fu Academy]:
If someone pulls a knife out and goes to attack you straight away, if you hadnt done anything, you might not know how to react. So it could help you in that respect.

The events organizer, John Schieven, first learnt about Maul Mornie, when searching the Internet for instruction in knife self defense.

[John Schieven, Australian SSBD Host]:
Not only general people, but also highly regarded martial artists around the world, see his material and just love what he does, the way he does it, just the ease, the practicality, and thats why hes so popular.

An easygoing nature might have something to do with his popularity as well.

[Davie Allen, Construction Sales Rep.]:
Hes a funny guy, hes a top bloke, yeah hes alright.

[Roy Harding, Company Director]:
I dont know when he rests to be honest, he sort of flies in, takes two days, or gives two days, and then flies out.

And its a good thing he sleeps well in flight, since his schedule for this year, includes 47 international weekend seminars.

Robert Apicella, NTD, Melbourne.

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[amirisanidiot]

@Whyisthat101 they r obviously differnet....mma is a ring or sport martial art while silat is more 2 war n self defence sytems

[amirisanidiot]

do u have classes in malaysia?

[emado4ever]

Salam from Amman-jordan

[ironicdevil666]

@tooosweeet i think they will banned Asians.

[OzVegan]

@tooosweeet Too right. The stupid Australian Government's only response to street violence is to ban the law abiding citizen from defending themselves and if they survive a public relations officer from the police will come around and tell you how they probably won't catch them and if they do they'll get a good behaviour bond. And if he's a footy player, Eddy McGuire will give the poor defendant a TV show.

[WahrerDrache]

Cool I didnt know that NTDTV makes also News Coverage about Martial Arts. I will share on my Facebook Acc :-)

[Run2Success]

@tooosweeet

Hehehe it's funny because it's sadly true, mate.

With all this safety regulations etc. Australia has become a joke regarding to self defence - still, gotta admit Maul is the read deal and I just can't wait for a seminar in Sydney (one day).

[emotionsunderfelt]

congrats maul!! proud of you dude!

[Whyisthat101]

MMA teaches how to fight, this teaches self defence, some say the two are the same, some say they are different.

[conradbui]

Oi, good job mite!