Why Silat?

[infinite beginner]

many if not too many misunderstand the jurus , so the jurus

exist in a responding with ten thousand answers for every physical

question viscously postulated, like the alphabetical symbols provides

endless word possibilities , but in time the letters are

thrown to the curb for the words , its the same thing, for

the jurus, you throw the jurus away for the motions , like

the plane once in flight no longer needs the runway , below

but if it takes off without reaching speed, it always hits the

farmhouse , and if its not navigated right it goes off the

wrong way and has to circle all the way back , to get where

it was , so when

you are ready to leave the jurus you have become the jurus

you have engraved those same precise motions , into the

deepest fibers of being, and you can not lift a finger ,

without instinctively subconsciously automatically

attaching to it, some specific precise jurus , motion ,

reference, and then do you ever just scratch your head no,

never, thats in the jurus , do you raise your arm and

point the obnoxious drunk out down the road no, jurus

nine, and two or do you just scratch that back rash all day

no its all in the jurus , so when you expect the art to work

for you you gotta work twice as hard for the art , you can't

master more than one silat system because you can't have

more than one set of jurus reflexes, now the good thing about

that is

you can build techniques from the ground up so if you see an

appalachian sucker punch or a judaka ear throw your jurus can

break it down and add it it to your repertoire at will ,its when you

can't stop doing your jurus , then its time to drop them , sitting

there having some jello hell no your shifting through four jurus

blocking multiple strikes with your elbow as you level the spoon

 

[infinite beginner]

teachers are a thing of the past man, we got video now

we can learn virtually endless techniques, what do we need

teachers for, anymore, then we can be mail order gurus

and make disks and streams ourselves to help others

learn to make ,video courses too, then they can teach

what they learned watching us making theres ,so with

new video courses always being offered we can know

as many techniques as any teacher , out there

if we play our cards right we can be gurus in

no less than nine systems a year , we will know

over five hundred ways to twist an ankle ,

sure it might set us back a few grand a month

but its an enterprise, we can turn over , profits

soon as we release our own first video course series

of course we can take our nine and combine them

into one super art, this is the recommended route

for those who are masters of many systems ,

and so much easier just to do the techniques home

in our room without all the having to endure always

having someone to point out and nit pick all our little

mistakes as we are learning, up the material ,

thats all having a teachers really good for, so

you learn how to spot some mistakes , thats all obsolete in

in making your video course series , a success, besides

being told what you're doing wrong, doesn't even guarantee

you will ever do it right , with out allot of perfect practice

and even if you were to take your guitar to santana

play his songs and let him be pointing out wherever you go wrong

and then when you have all the smallest mistakes correct you

would still be lucky to be just half as good ,and what music did you compose

thats as any where near as good as he is at his worst, who had

santana as a guitar teacher again, thats right, no one we've all heard of

you can explain technique but teachers can't teach their skill only develop

and guide the potential for whatever skills a student possesses

 

[ballen0351]

This is the best thread ever

 

[infinite beginner]

This is the best thread ever

 

[infinite beginner]

teachers are a thing of the past man, we got video now

we can learn virtually endless techniques, what do we need

teachers for, anymore, then we can be mail order gurus

and make disks and streams ourselves to help others

learn to make ,video courses too, then they can teach

what they learned watching us making theres ,so with

new video courses always being offered we can know

as many techniques as any teacher , out there

if we play our cards right we can be gurus in

no less than nine systems a year , we will know

over five hundred ways to twist an ankle ,

sure it might set us back a few grand a month

but its an enterprise, we can turn over , profits

soon as we release our own first video course series

of course we can take our nine and combine them

into one super art, this is the recommended route

for those who are masters of many systems ,

and so much easier just to do the techniques home

in our room without all the having to endure always

having someone to point out and nit pick all our little

mistakes as we are learning, up the material ,

thats all having a teachers really good for, so

you learn how to spot some mistakes , thats all obsolete in

in making your video course series , a success, besides

being told what you're doing wrong, doesn't even guarantee

you will ever do it right , with out allot of perfect practice

and even if you were to take your guitar to santana

play his songs and let him be pointing out wherever you go wrong

and then when you have all the smallest mistakes correct you

would still be lucky to be just half as good ,and what music did you compose

thats as any where near as good as he is at his worst, who had

santana as a guitar teacher again, thats right, no one we've all heard of

you can explain technique but teachers can't teach their skill only develop

and guide the potential for whatever skills a student possesses

 

[infinite beginner]

silat is an honorable art , letting the other make the first move

is what makes the art work best , on so many levels , for one you have

karmic right on your side , this doesn't mean waiting for their strike or thinking to

intercept it even , too late , its like if if you were too light a news

paper end soaked in gasoline on the ground , if you wait one moment

you have a fire ,but if you step on it immediately it goes out ,

so there,s three phases just standing there ,then there is motion

then comes the strike , its the motion that matters most,

we might wish we had time to wait to deflect their strike

but what if they are one of those fools who can produce five

or more strikes in a seconds time, we are hit four times before

we know it , so we have the smallest window that opens up

all our opportunity , and hope that they send a good telegraph

we can catch before not as their strike goes out , the hand is so fast

the hit might be a quarter of the way out anyway that is okay no real power

as yet so if its deflected at the point just where it bursts into acceleration

you own that force , and from that you take control over the rest of

their motion , their motion becomes your flow , silat is getting inside

of their motion , we go where they go first, then they go where ever we

want them to, so they want to hit us, at ninety miles an hour we want

them to miss us, going two hundred and ten miles an hour , its as simple

as that , silat is usually shown exchanging strikes in elongated often exotic

looking combinations , that go on and on, mostly with music, but thats

all like only showing the sheath the outer part that holds the blade ,

like a race car with the hood welded closed , the understanding is sealed

say if you can take a saucer and cup full of hot tea put it on your head

and try to stand up , and walk around the room without scalding yourself ,

then you have an internal understanding of controlling your own balance ,

its ten times harder to understand controlling the balance of another,

If you move high or low and your balance is taken in time you can't fight,

until you get it back , in fact you won't even know your name, or think to

take a breath, let alone realize how many hrs you have trained, in what and all you

knew from it , the truth is ninety nine percent of the art rides on that

first millisecond ,that is the key that opens the art , like they are that race

car we don't know whats under the hood , but as soon as it moves

we jump through window and take the wheel , striking of course

so its an art that takes years to learn, and forever to master,

to go to someone not set on moving in, means we are about to

find out what they know , to do with our force, and we might

find them stepping back or wrapped around our ankle , or dropping

to low sweep etc , and now we are caught having to play catch up in their

game, cause we went to them when they can go anywhere ,and do anything

taking and controlling their balance is the art within the art , and that's the physics

of it ,

 

[infinite beginner]

thats why many silat schools will just face off

so many times throwing punches after punch

in ready stance back and forth followed by a

short technique ,the heart of the art is in the

reading of the opponents motion just before the

first strike, timing the entry by what subtleties

you see this is why its not un common for each

to fall and get back up way over ten times in a

minutes passing , not allot of time for allot of thinking

about perfecting different techniques, that's for the

slow motion training ,

you hit the mat more in silat than you do in judo , going over

a hundred falls an hour , in harder training , the more times

in a class the better ,whats funny is the defenders relaxed using

all the tricks and no effort while the one striking is getting their

spine twisted to the ground at the speed of gravity so I'm wondering

here how many falls are their in a silat minute and the only

way is to know now is to walk over to my mat ,and throw a strike

and imagine the worst happens then throw myself to the mat like

I'd been swept or thrown of course imagine some counters on the

way down ,but yeah the mat is no stranger in silat, theres some tangling

on the ground but not too much in the event their friends feet

doing a hat dance on you while you grappling, so you bounce up

soon as possible ,and by the end of a good class everyone feels

like they've been in a collective car accident, except for the one

teaching , they're fine, after a night of bouncing students around

 

[infinite beginner]

so we know the old time tested traditional arts are proved to

work or they wouldn't still be around ,like wheels can't be modified

by adding more curves the foundations and structures are sacred

to the core of the form, can you add a line to an F and call it an E,

or an I to an A and label it a triangle , each art is like that letter in

the alphabet ,

sure it can be calligraphically drawn into endless designs , but you

still always must know an F from an E, and recognize their symbolic

signatures , so some think they are adding fire when its really hot water

dilution to their respective system , in silat it all was handed down

through the language of the jurus motions and meanings


so whatever we see, relative to our jurus we can understand

it becomes ours, if it wasn't already , the jurus are objective

learning tools , formulas for understanding any and all motion

you can't know a style until internalizing their forms and having

their meanings passed down to you, but no one can own a motion

and there are only so many efficient paths to move and be moved,


so motions all over lap , and connect at certain points , silat is a

learning process there are those holding great vocabulary but

does any say they know all combinations of letters words , does

any claim they know all variations of motions ,

but we have access to high technology to train our

selves physically in ways impossible before this

time, that's how to improve our art, without changing it

 

[infinite beginner]

Any martial arts can teach the student how to hit hard,

yet the best systems focus on teaching how to be hard

to be hit , this is the real skill , and since, no one is

impossible, to hit , which is why hand work with out

foot work is nothing, like a race car ,with four flat tires ,

how when and where one steps, is an art all of its own,

the steps are more combative than, the strikes coming in

and ten times as advanced, how cool would it be to be

behind anyone who swings on you , then counter from

there ,how easy would self defense be, ever do jurus

in back of you or fire a jab cross over your shoulder ,

its not easy, without turning around, no there might

be taught a dozen ways of countering strikes behind

your back as opposed to the countless thousands of

ways to counter going forwards , but that's where

someone with excellent foot work will be , the back is

one big target, now, who has the best punch who can

hit the hardest , who wants to ever stand in front of

anyone anyway , its just poor logic

yet most of what you see styles training is just that, mostly

because its almost just about as tough to get behind someone, as

it is to never be hit, by anyone, see everyone wants to block

and parry all the time when foot work does the same thing and

more , when it becomes the focus of training , its not who hits

hardest and fastest but who has the better hit , so , to get

behind the strikes they must first somehow go around us,


like a good bullfighter has to know just when to step clear

where a really bad one might try to tackle him by the horns

and then when you think you have fully mastered footwork, you

can tie your hands behind your back, and wander into a local

boxing gym, to easily impress everyone, around the world, on

you tube,

 

[infinite beginner]

So someone , wrote in, a while back , on some minor binge of banter

asking who, am I, writing to here anyway, well how should I know

why should they care, I just write go away , a mth or 2

come back and wtf like a thousand more hits have appeared

which always surprises me but never really should, if you know

what I mean, but of course you haven't a clue , the level from

which this is coming down from, or not to imply I am some high level

only by good fortune of a fair amount of quality exposure , which is neither

here nor there, but what distinguishes the martial from other arts other

than its destruction

is its intangibility , in the sense that it is perpetual , you

can't put it in a museum or capsulate it into this or that

so its just a puzzle , and you get a formless, ball of confusion,

in your face wondering just how many ways can one fall ? just that

its ten times better to have the other, trip over them selves, and

tangle them selves all up, as much as possible, trying to get to you, then

going and trying to make them make all their mistakes for them ,

to do this you need legs like a sidewinder , and geographical

strategy , or in other words, put simply, how to seem here

but be there , and then when they go there, to be some

wheres else , and all you basically gotta do, is let their strikes

go off in one direction and their step or balance tilt in another ,

so its like they mistake a guillotine for a portal , you have

to provide your opponent happy healthy choices, they feel good

about making, and seem like a very fantastic idea to them, at that time,

like blocking outwards or punching across their own torso to hit you, kinda

like a fish looks at a shiny sparkling lure never seeing the hooks attached ,

or the way a sucker eagerly jumps into a contract before reading

the fine print, that is silat , in other words, fancy hands are for

novices , but fancy feet ,now you're talking mad skills , what's it

matter what they know, if you are not there, and can give them

nothing, that looks like, everything, for so to be a good opponent,

one must be very deceitful and extremely misleading, so they must

think they are buying into a resort, but all that's being sold is swamp

land, but hey wait ,whats up with all that fancy dancy hands motions then , its

almost as if in silat they want you see and be looking what their hands

are doing , could this all be a bunch of mumbo jumbo to take your mind

off the direction their feet are going , it better be ,

 

[infinite beginner]

why martial arts , number one reason, I imagine

they are fun to learn and practice , gives the body

something challenging to do , either by getting better


or busy healing, and there's the comforting feeling of becoming

more of a bad *** and the always striving for perfection, settling

for precision, its the control you get that is, in the accuracy

of the motion , and in practice cant tell you how many

elbows heard zooming under my ear as I'm falling and full


power chops just glancing off throat , as I'm standing but

how many words can't we spell with 26 symbols ? in counting

the new ones to come its safe to say endless , the ABC's are a small


skeleton key for referencing a million things , that's how the jurus are conceived

combined they should compile a million motions, you should look

at all martial arts motions and say yeah we have that just like looking

at all english words and then saying yeah a to z that covers it ,


or extend the arena watching any athlete move and saying we

have an understanding of the mechanics behind and inside

their motion , motion is motion , forms are a concept of motion


at the same time jurus are languages , that each style speaks

their own of, all have elbows punches and blocking , deflections

but were composed according to the level of understanding

of its creator, like different countries have different dialects


some may contain more letters or words than others

some may say use it only the way it is in combination

which is like having an entire alphabet that spells only one word


so it better be a good one, others might break it down into every

phonetic variation , stressing certain vowel sounds more than others

but the idea is to make a skeleton key that opens as many doors as

possible , the alphabet is not there to limit the amount of words we can


know, , the alpha what, when was the last time we needed to reference

that to form a word , we don't have to think about letters when we got words

why is that, all words are combinations with no regard for sequence ,


so there are allot of reasons to hold interest in martial arts , from the

purist to the dabbler , everyone composes their own puzzle of it

 

[infinite beginner]

Well, I've just been Sapu'd , Like never before by the least

likely suspect no less , you would only think he was there

to help you , but too turn out to be so two faced , there

only to soothe injury, not break your neck, when you least

expect it, Its Sunday, Farmers Market Day , slept too late

they sell out , all I could think of .need more of those great strawberries

every morning first thing , I eat a couple, and throw a

couple of smashed ones in my big thermos of green tea

and honey , a few hours later the whole thing taste like

strawberries, a big basket cost like five bucks ,but can last

through the week , these berries are solid you have to

chew them . Looking at the clock , throwing on the first

clothes in sight . The room was half dark, bolting for the

door, less than a quarter second later found myself flat

on the wood floor ,so fast my right foot was out, and my

left arm down to break the fall , flashing back allot of

mat smashing memories. Luckily there was an orange

on the floor and my left hand caught a piece of it , or I

might have broke a wrist, In my head, I'm thinking holysht !

that was no ordinary slip. Now for those any of you who are

curious what it might feel like to to really be Sapu'd , and I've

been perhaps by some of the best, All you need , that is, the best

Sapu simulator, Ive' recently stumbled upon and would most

recommend , something very low to the ground with about

six wooden wheels, Should have thrown that deathtrap

away soon as

it snapped off the little cart ,it was originally a part of

that held twelve wheels but no, it fit in my back pocket ,

might be good to keep for when my bad shoulder is acting

up , I think I threw the rest of it out when it broke , keeping

only one of the axles , what a mistake that was . the bumpy

wheels provide soothing relief on tight muscles s

Turns out that thing is lethal, and belongs secured to the wall

along with swords and throwing stars , and other dangerous

training equipment So I got up, WTFlying F was that, as my eyes

traced the dimly lit the floor had to look no further, there it

was, about four feet away , Now I remember it was in the small

drawer I threw all my socks on the floor scrambling to find a quick

match , in the flurry , and with them the roller cart,

The funny thing I'm not kidding , its a great training tool

too find and feel what its like to have the foot leg go out fat

and slow on a perfect angle, A good Sapu takes you by total

surprise and their is no counter but to go with it, that's what it is,

a game of ,Hey look what my hands are doing draw high go low

its in all the arts the That was the problem my foot didn't just

go straight up like slipping on a banana peel , so happens it was

there positioned to slide out at about a forty five angle or more ,

that's what really leveled me out in a flat heartbeat ,

 

[infinite beginner]

funny thing, someone goes to martial arts to learn many things they

may not know they are going to learn, Like, millions of people badly injure

themselves, each year , by falling ,how many times has everyone accidentally

fallen far more times then they ever had to defend themselves you'd guess

But it would be my guess that many of the more injured fallers were not martial

artists , and that they probably fall much less than average, the fact is a fall might

be more ten times more likely to happen than any form of physical conflict

so we practice martial art so we don't get hurt as badly like everyone else falling

slipping slamming tripping stumbling banging and bumping over and under and into

something all the time , On the flip side silat is learning to fall in a hard way,

and when one has fallen countless thousands more than those who never learned

too much of a good thing can backfire in a big way , and with silat the sweeps

allot of the falling is more a straight down compression drop, Seems the more

advanced the art , or artist the more vertical the falling is , which is why

motions are learned big then they get so small they all but disappear

 

[infinite beginner]

So, 60,000 over a twentieth of a million

now I gotta think up something to write


Find some common theme again and

roll with it, was going to come on the

other day when I thought I'd something

to say , But now I don't recall, One cannot

have a lazy mind in silat , It is an art of great

imagination, Techniques are like jokes, Heard

Seinfeld do a bit, in an interview, how when

when he once got distracted fell off his timing

told the same joke, to the same crowd

twice without realizing it, First time they were

just hysterical, second, not so much, Its the rule of

element of surprise , He's thinking why aren't

they laughing at my great witty clever insightful

humor , Even the top comedians can't get away with that


Once was reading some funny lines in an acting class

monologue, they were all laughing then I forgot

about half way through went blank momentary

stage fright whatever ,the teacher say okay go

back start from the beginning , I remember

now doing all the funny material, and there

was one guy that still laughed , But he's not going

to be the one who tries to sucker punch us in a dark alley


Its the same if not worse with techniques , F techniques

for self defensen Would any would be offender to be expected

to try the exact same combination of moves twice, in a row


But look at most any schools window driving by that's what you see

so its like acting ,with one trying to pretend knowing its not coming

as they perfect the move going back and forth, dismissing the crucial

element of surprise , Like two comedians testing their material back

and forth , If someone walks up talks to a stranger , do they know

for certain at all what they will say next , How many words begin

ABC not many, Yet the three letters are used in thousands of words


How many are as good as billy jack , who kindly outlines the details

of a forthcoming attack, Not that many , So is the instructor supposed

to provide hundreds of responses to hundreds of possibilities in each

session, Yes, but most would be out of material by the end of the week

and even if they were able , How is the student supposed to absorb

all the material So practically speaking Its more a teaching of a mindset ,

instilled based on the fact ultimately the student is on their own

when they walk out that dojo door, after having someone alow

them to go through the motions of a few techniques for a couple hours


Take away the surprise element through programing rote repetition

and its all false skills and pseudo confidence, that's instilled, loaded

with ready reactions , How many moves are there in a chess game

its like that, its not until you take control that you can begin to predict

the opponents next move , Its the moves we don't see that lose the game

when we walk into a setup that's when things fall apart, Say the opponents

gotta five move combo fresh from class up their sleave, will we want to counter

on the fifth or first move, which is safer to train for, The class should be one

says to the other now I'm going to do a 5 move technique on you , and the other says

no you aren't, cause when you move I'm doing something unexpected, and

changing whatever you were thinking about doing next, But no one would

ever master the techniques , exactly , techniques are all sold separately

that's to say they have a cash value at the school , they make lots more

selling word sentences than teaching the ABC's , and now online gurus

pushing whole systems through the monkey see and do method ,

when you gotta have correction and you need to feel the truth of

the material , its like you buy the mike tyson how to box set

as opposed to standing in front of him, Your lucky to learn

much that will make you think you're more than half of twice

as good as you are from any video, say, in words what exactly

does it feel like to have ones balance destroyed and ones foot

lifted in directions it can not step whilst being compressed

faster than gravity will alow , directly into the floor, Just so

they know what they are buying online is entertainment 90%

and Silat Training 10 % ,if they are lucky , sure its fun stuff

and fun even to even think you learned something real


Silat is traditionally a precision practice made up of the

smallest groups , who devoted most of their time to learning it

as handed down , And oh while the stuff might work splendidly on

Rodger Dwaine Ted and Maria etc down at the school The drunk

Thai boxer after five red bulls , might supply a little different energy

and remember "He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day"

Maxwell Smart,


The value of a school is you can graduate to multiple opponents , to as

soon as you can deal with one, start to deal with two, which is much different

then maybe always deal with at least two, it can only make dealing with one easier

 

[infinite beginner]

Cause once one of them gets a hold of your legs

you may find yourself grappling with both which

aint easy The great gracie's don't even do that from

what I've seen, because wrestling two is practically

impossible , Ground arts teach everything you

shouldn't do for more than one, they aren't

programed to block the outside stomps from

the side that follow during their famous dives

and the big ground and pound mount pretty much

all their positions leaves them a sitting duck , for

anyone to practice their soccer kicks at will, maybe

most any two amateur kick boxers could take out

most any expert ground fighter cause their best stuff

puts them in the worst danger, A boxer would fair ten

times as well as a grappler against two opponents

that kind of thing we hear about happening all the time

where so fast he knocks em both out on their feet

but many will still argue its good to know ground

grappling techniques just in case there's only one ,

 

[infinite beginner]

Isn't it just stupid to criticize peoples styles of martial arts ,

publicly . Well at least by name, to say anything at all

other than right there on their mat is as ridiculous as

it is meaningless, So I'm just watching this Kun Tao,

over on the You Tube , doing one handed techniques

and at first glance it looked pretty cool , deflecting

a quick one two followed by a clothesline type take down

all swift and easy, Then the next time I noticed some thing

the feeder, I guess to make it more fair, would drop his first

arm to his side dangling , no where near where it needs to

be to counter Now they probably work this kind of a stuff

back and forth till they are blue in the face, and they are so

overly focused on their turn getting to be the one armed finisher ,

that they are too busy trying to remember to have their arm down,

they don't know to bring it up ,not even to really counter but just

to have it in the vicinity , should their mock eye poke be too close or

whatever reason , when someone grabs your arm in class and sweeps

you accordingly to learn the technique its their turn to do the move ,

Physically the one who is the throw dummy , fall guy , is just there for

the ride waiting their turn , but in their mind this their time to think

about all the counters , This is when the imagination kicks in, from the

time you feel your strike affected concentrating what you can do to counter

everything moment to moment , Then its funny how so many depend on

one momentum to rush in for the throw down , no martial arts reinvented

the wheel and there's only so many basic ways to throw a guy , any throw

is a big motion when done with one move , can usually be countered with

one simple move and all the steven segal etc

Small circle wrist tweaker's that only work once you get to hold the strikers

hand , Can you imagine to see that in ufc , or tournaments Heavyweight

throws a fast jab jab slip cross and wait no he's airborne doing a 360 ,

and continues to be helplessly flipped around by his wrist till he submits

defeat , never see it , out of movies and controlled settings , its still a great

spectator art , to keep in a museum, it still has a lifetime wealth of study within it

So a more educated or realer system practitioner can watch any such style

frame by frame and add in the missing moves where possible , So its still refreshing

watching systems doing what they do, even if the practitioner looks ridiculous

beyond correction ,can still aptly exploit all the possibilities of countering,

but what distinguishes styles who use the same throws is the set ups used to help the

moves flow more efficiently and in the hardest way to counter, some forget punches

retract and don't pause even that half instant to be grabbed or manipulated into any

preconceived practiced technique no matter how clever, Silat has their own aikido,

its just that it's more towards back of the art

 

[infinite beginner]

Yet seems in any situation or event, where the wrist

does, present itself , or rather happens, to be captured,

in the flow, Then all that Aikido know how is

suddenly pure gold . But the nice thing is you don't

have to be an aikido locking expert to expertly

counter one, Its not practical to practice countering locks

themselves only their precursors . If you wait till the

mortar is dry its hard to knock a wall down

 

[infinite beginner]

Its not the best martial arts that train in a bubble

that whatever the opponent knows, is our problem

not theirs to deal with, the thing about silat I seen

since its relatively new and obscure, to the public eye

compared to most, allot come in bringing solid

backgrounds from other martial arts, and see that

silat is all about countering motion itself , any motion

its not about a system you never step out of, silat

is not whirling around like a tiger on fire waiting to

get ambushed by whats up the sleeve a seasoned boxer

no, if its fit to be a superior art, it has to be above the

other arts looking down always wondering WTF they are

up to, the mind is focused on silat but the eyes and ears

are on whats out there to expect , can't tell you how many

black belts have been in classes , one new student after easily

rag dolling him around half the class with silat ,mentions his

black belt in aikido, we were just going easy bt its just one

example, how silat is superior to all arts If a teacher knows

and studies the principles

and inner workings of every martial art out there, then no matter what he calls his art

or school , the style will have that much more value, it takes a few years to get most

black belts with silat it may take most a few years just to ingrain basic footwork for

one how you going to learn it in its pure form ? most incorporate it into their kickboxing

curriculum, its a magical art they in add moves out of thin air who's gonna know , its very

hard to verify what goes back a century disappears back into the jungles , its a mysterious

art alright , but you tube shines allot of light, and allot of shadow, but the cream rises to the top

at the end of the day it the last art standing , more important what teacher than what art

if all the teachers were to perish today tomorrow there would be no art or so little of it

like a puzzle with a few pieces remaining, the students would become the teachers who

guess and get it all wrong , and pass it on a half *** art , there is allot of bad silat out there

more bad silat than bad karate cause at least most know what that's supposed to look like

where different silat comes from hundreds of different villages that allot of it now looks like

bad karate or has been reduced down to sport kickboxing , there really is no such thing as a

good style without a good stylist to back it up , its funny was watching some belt testing clips

and it was easy to see the yellow belts bound for black belts some just gave it everything plus

any added natural abilities they were already way beyond the others , but its like hypothetically

speaking if every student is a car you can only soup up a v w bus so much if in top fitness and

naturally athletic physique , you're starting the race with a stock Ferrari already oddly enough,

allot of the ma instructors also look like natural athletes , some are naturally quick no matter

how much the naturally slow practices if the naturally quick practices same they never get close

some are just stronger come from a lineage of muscle, its not that impressive to see guys that

look like big hells angels leading a martial arts class , but then seeing the old natural ninety

pound weakling leading the group you know that its the art doing all the heavy lifting,

 

[infinite beginner]

was gonna say editing timed out

but then seeing the old natural ninety

pound weakling leading the group that look

like big hells angels you know that its the

art doing all the heavy lifting,

 

[infinite beginner]

Yeah so watching a seemingly impressive silat seminar

old master stands there fast strike comes zooming into

the masters a bent elbow throw, fantastic , or is it ?

lets see if the feed was not in violation , you cannot do an

A grade technique with a B grade feed , its like having the

the soft ball pitcher from the team the bar put together

or standing at bat before a major league pitcher, no different

so I put it to slow motion the first technique , then magnified

the screen so all I could see were their lower half , and I watched

only the feet of the attacking student soon as their step started

I looked up okay hand has not began to extend , D , so back to the

feet step half way there ,back up arms up still hasn't thrown the hit

Fail , whats he going to do next wave a flag here I come , by the time he

throws the fast hard punch , he's sent a telegraph around the world

in silat its taught you never telegraph what you are really doing

it looked like he really pushed off his back foot it was a powerful

A grade lunge , but it didn't mean anything cause there was nothing

inside it , it wasn't delivering anything but a mile wide warning

yet looked high powered and full speed , and his teacher didn't

even let him in on this very basic rule , maybe not to make his task

anymore challenging , he was almost in range before deciding to strike

that is the master saw their whole mass moving at them in front of

the punch , so that negates the impressiveness of the magnificent

counter down to near nothing , yet everyone cheers on, from now on

anytime there's a fast spectacular technique it stands to be scrutinized

in such manner, frame by frame , only seen them so that first move

curious now about the rest passing the telegraph test , I'm sure they

know hundreds of next moves to do , but thats like knowing all

the territory on the other side of the big mote , if you can't get across

what use is it , there is no martial arts without, everything beyond the

entry depends on the entry there is no everything after the entry

maybe even no anything the rest is all wishful hallucination because

the entry, first move, is everything ,