I feel the same way about Michael Williams in regards to Baringin Sakti. Really smooth, skilled, knowledgeable, and always the student. -wes...
Wes Tasker Somerville, MA I study and teach the following systems of Pentjak Silat- Kendang Petjut Kilat Sera Tjimande along with Quan Chu...
Ditto what Trent said. -wes tasker
Mr. Ash and Mr. Northstrom operate two different schools / training groups at the beach. Their contact information can be found at...
Brad- I believe that Tuhon Bill has not been to Myrtle Beach in a couple of years. I travel to Myrtle to work with Chris Northstrom and his...
Go to www.fwape.com which is headed up by Daniel Marks (coachpit on the aformentioned mma.tv thread...). They have a DVD available called "Show &...
Brad- That's mostly true. It's just the six I talked about earlier that one can purchase without being a member of PTI and having been...
Tuhon Roberto Torres lives in Florida now. -wes tasker
It would be more accurate to say that Visitacion Kuntao is "one" of the bases of Talio Silat. Tuhon/Tuan Roberto Torres has studied under many...
What Danny said... I was going to say pretty much the same thing. The tapes offered by PTI are meant as "review" tapes and not as exhaustive...
There are six DVD's that you can purchase from Tuhon Bill / PTI without having attended the seminar and/or being taught it by an instructor. They...
My Pekiti Tirsia instructor (a NY court officer) has a colleague who would answer the door to meet any potential sutor with his gun clearly...
In Pekiti Tirsia (as taught by Tuhon Bill McGrath) Empty Hand vs. Knife is covered early on in the curriculum. The offensive / counter-offensive...
Todd- I guess humor is a word for it. I'm not naive enough to think I have "the real" anything.... I just try to do my best to teach what he...
Todd- I don't know what Bapak has taught to other people. The only person I've had contact with who "was" an instructor under him was Guru...
I have been particularly lucky in being a student of Bapak Willem de Thouars for 12 years now. I'm even luckier still in that he teaches me the...
Maybe it should read "The Greek Hoplite - Influential in Westarn Martial Arts Strategy". I would also say that the Macedonian or Roman has its...
We do alot of "ranging" footwork to get out of the way and hit the hand. What's important, to me anyway, is that the footwork gets you out of the...
Mr. Randall- My pleasure on the book recomendations. Victor Davis Hanson's newest book is on the Peloponnesian War called "A War Like No...
Two books that might be of interest on this subject are: "The Western Way of War" - Victor Davis Hanson "Soldiers and Ghosts" - J.E. Lendon -wes
If I may, this is not entirely true. Some styles of Pentjak Silat have regular forms with footwork etc. called djurus. Your explanation is more...
There are actually more than one expression of Bapak de Thouars' art(s). He, and several of his students, do teach it as a Kuntao Silat system,...
Ms. Kaur- May Williams teaches a kid's class that is a mixture of Pentjak Silat and Filipino Martial Arts. She's great with kids. Did you...
Thanks for the kind words. I've been doing Pekiti Tirsia for almost six years now. I have a friend who did some Sayoc Kali and I've been to two...
I trained with him roughly from 1994 - 1997. He started by teaching both Kalasag Kuntao Silat Orihinal (Kalasag Orihinal Kuntao Kali) and Kuntao...
I did, but when I was training Talio Silat (the name anyway...) didn't exist yet. -wes
I don't know..... They are messing with a sacred thing as it is.... I can't help but feel a little Eor-ish about the whole thing. Why mess with...
Mine is a gua from the Yi Jing called "Da Guo" which can translate as the "Great Exceeding". The poem that goes along with this gua is: With...
Cirdan- Thanks for that... One question - is your "junzuki dachi" the same as a "zenkutsu dachi" or front stance in other systems, or is it...
Cirdan- We could actually turn this into an interesting exercise if you would care to list the tachi / kamae used in your school's version of...
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