| Continued from part 1 The Pentjak Silat styles | | | | most modern Silat schools to teach firearm |
| are the indigenous styles which include cultural | | | | retention and counter-firearm strategies, as well |
| elements. Here is where you will find the wedding | | | | as more traditional weapons (knife, stick, spear). |
| styles, the dance styles, and many of the sport | | | | One noted difference between the Indo arts and |
| styles. There are also quite a few fighting styles in | | | | the nearby Chinese arts is the tendency of the |
| here. The Pentjaks tend to prefer outside over | | | | Indo arts to use already strong structures within |
| inside fighting positions. They tend to go from | | | | the body (as opposed to the Chinese tradition of |
| open defensive postures to closed offensive | | | | conditioning the body). This allowed the old, the |
| postures. They will occasionally have mystical | | | | young, the sick, and the wounded to effectively |
| elements. The Poukilan Silat styles tend to be pure | | | | use these arts. Training: With so many arts, there |
| fighting styles without cultural elements. They | | | | is a great deal of variation in training methods. |
| tend to be direct and to the point. They tend | | | | Some schools teach Silat in a very conceptual |
| towards close fighting (Poukilan means "impact"). | | | | way. Some are similar to classical Chinese or |
| They also tend to prefer outside positions. The | | | | Japanese schools. Some teach it around the |
| Kuntao Silat styles are conglomerates of Indo and | | | | sparring (like kickboxing). Feel sure that there is a |
| Chinese fighting methods. They tend more | | | | Silat school somewhere that matches your |
| towards closed defensive postures that open to | | | | preferred training method. Definitions: Silat - Silat |
| attack. They also tend more toward inside | | | | means something close to "fighting applications". |
| positions when fighting, preferring the availability of | | | | By itself it has little meaning, rather it modifies the |
| soft targets to the safety of outside positions. | | | | word it is with. Pentjak - Literally "forms, |
| The Silats do have animal styles (Harimau (tiger) | | | | postures, and movements". Without Silat, Pentjak |
| and Madi (monkey) being two of the better | | | | is useless, and without Pentjak, there is no Silat. |
| known). They have few if any unarmed styles. | | | | Poukilan - Literally "impact". |
| They tend to adapt rapidly. There is a tendency | | | | Sigung Richard Clear has over 30 years of |
| to throw out whatever becomes obsolete and | | | | experience in Chinese Kun Tao and Indonesian |
| add whatever becomes relevant. This is why | | | | Silat. |