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Maybe you should define what you mean by center line, because if you are discussing the Wing Chun-esque conception of centerline theory, I don't see it. As I see it, Silat has more in common with Kali, than Wing Chun. In any case, I have no problem with Jujutsu, or the idea that Simonet could be taken out by a Jujutsu advocate. I would love to study some of the OLDE style Jujutsu.
But that said, You may have misunderstood the point I was making to someone else.
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@KnightsofTrueNorth To some point I would agree with you that some forms of silat "stress" a center line however at the very heart of Silat are the "head-to-head" forms. I witnessed an Indonesian man (who studied Amerindo Silat for decades) take out Joseph Simonet in seconds. Why? Because he abandoned his Silat teaching and employed JuJutsu after only studying it for a few months. Unfortunately there are very few places left to learn JuJutsu anymore, at least not in America.
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@KnightsofTrueNorth Hmmm... then why is almost every example in this video stressing the center line? I took Pentjak Silat Serak for three years and then went on to take JuJutsu in the only place in America that still teaches the old ways... Silat was hardly effective. None of it even worked on the yellow belts in the dojo. Check out chikaraken (dot) com and read the pdf on KoRyu or even the pdf about what JuJutsu is.
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SOME forms of silat stress a center line, but MOST do not. You are perhaps thinking of Wing Chun Kung Fu from China.
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Pentjak Silat CAN be Muslim, but it isn't always. I have more often seen Silat from Animistic belief systems. I have even seen CHRISTIAN Silat in its country of origin.
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@zaq4810 No. Everytime a martial arts go competitive, it ends up destroying the art form, because of the restrictions you HAVE to apply to competitive combat.
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BUCKETHEAD!!
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Great techniques here. If only there was a website where full streaming video could be posted to present these techniques in motion, rather than photographs. Oh wait.
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PENCHAK SILAT IS MUSLIM MARTIAL ART !! <3
KRAV MAGA ISAELI JEWS IS SELF DEFENSE !!!!!!
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silat should go olimpic !!!!!
of course. All the martial arts with the rules are stupid, just for competition on TV or whatever..Silat is for real life fights, because when someone on the street attacks you all of the sudden, dumb shit like boxing or brazilian jujitsu isnt gonna help, silat teaches you EVERYTHING u need, from basic defense against punches and chokes, to how to disarm a gun pointed at ur head, to dealing with more than one person attackin you! and fuck it! i mean on the street, there are no rules!
orduni90 2 years ago 17
Silat is dirty, but i belive its basically as long as it works, it don't matter?
stealthboy50 2 years ago 5