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