From what has been stated above, to understand the martial arts of South-East Asia needs to be done one, but rapid exploration of deadly martial arts Indonesian and Malaysian. The term pencak silat, or more generically silat, we classify the arts combat that area from the Malay (which included peninsular Malaysia and the main islands of Indonesia as Sumatra and Java especially) have spread slowly throughout the South - east Asia, involving the Borneo, the southern Philippines, Singapore, Brunei and lately also the South of Vietnam. Similarly Chinese martial arts, silat is expressed in forms and ways so different that sometimes comparing two styles might seem to belong to a different world martial. However, when you begin to penetrate the secrets of traditional arts, recognize the common matrices also apparently far styles between them. Even martial arts Indonesian and Malaysian using both techniques with weapons that bare hand.
The weapons used in silat are:
• the kriss, considered sacred and the weapon equipped among other magical powers (the supernatural powers attributed to arms is a cultural heritage that involves not only many areas of l'Oriente, but also the entire Western tradition);
• the toya, tongkat ali, that the sticks of different sizes, which are handled with great skill and effectiveness;
• the pisau, or knife, which every teacher silat is a super expert;
• parang in the golok, macete the most varied;
• the chaban, or trident known by the Japanese know definition, used singly or in pairs;
• the chemeti, birch, used in some parts of l'Indonesia singly or in pairs, with other weapons or shield;
• all weapons, including bows and arrows, cerbottane, swords and shields and whether there goes to the distant island of Sumba you can still watch the fighting on horseback.
The bare hands reveal, however, depending on the style that takes into account a greater predisposition for the long or short distance, techniques and leverage imbalance or techniques of percussion, and so on. For the sake of truth, we must say, however, that there are also systems that cover adequately all the ways of teaching and then show the students the way most appropriate to its physical and mental resources. In Indonesia there are two trends in practice and in the development of martial: the first one tradition (tradisi), the second that of the competition (competisi) and sport performance (prestasi). The traditional aspect is courageously recovered and preserved by a few organizations, which often cultivate the sporting aspect that allows them to collect more consensus, especially among young people. The traditional silat should not be seen as an intellectual curiosity, but as a terrible and effective form of combat, that in its practical expression is brutal, and ultimately terminal, so that the well-known karate teacher
Nakayama, observing for the first time, defined as one of the most dangerous martial arts exist. However, alongside this very practical function, a traditional art form collects ethics, educational and religious that confers the dignity of a school realization of both physical and psychological. It is used for convenience exposure, speaking styles for subdividing the islands belong, such as styles of Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumba, Celebes, the Moluccas, and so on, until arriving at East, namely all'Irian Jaya. This way of classifying the stylistic characteristics, although useful, no longer reflects the reality completely, as modern allow organizations to better circulate information and the exchange of technical, creating a mixture of styles that when it is done with intelligence and conscience strengthens the content of martial. At any rate, briefly exposing the different skills that are normally developed in working with bare hands, silat:
• Techniques of percussion with his legs. If we analyse the different forms of silat, we discover an incredible variety of stocks, ranging from the most famous - such as football front, lateral move, backward, both in a straight line that circular - to kick flying in various ways . In addition to these more popular, there is also a repertoire of shots that are sferrati foot from positions accucciate or lying on the ground, or kick in the leg takes these positions to be particularly effective in short distance.
Of course, even with a knock knees are included sferrati in different directions and even fly. It may be interesting to note that in times of percussion techniques of foot or knee are not limited only to effectively hit the target but sometimes also aim to squilibrarlo to bring the opponent to the ground.
• The techniques of percussion with the arms. In silat there are different settings for surprise moves, ranging from styles in which the fist is loaded on the side by those with the type pugilistico; others like cimande and cidepok, where the fist part more or less from the center of the chest or near the shoulder, while avvitandosi reaches the target, with the other hand you close open positions within the elbow, ready to intervene to strike, parare, grasp or whatever. The styles of Sumatra prefer to blow handful of the open hand, used as a whip to hit his face (and in particular his eyes), then to grasp the head ol'arto's opponent for the purpose of making a lever articulate or a projection technique. Mostly used are hits with the tip of your finger to reach the vital points, half Punch (known by some practitioners of kung fu as the coup of leopard) and we can not forget the coup palm, particularly effective for forward percussive to the internal organs in order to wrest using their hands to claw. Ovviamene the different attitudes of the hand and fingers offer the opportunity to reach targets accurately otherwise unattainable. In shots with the arms great importance to have a knock elbow and forearm blows with the latter also used to push the opponent in order to sbilanciarlo. The shoulder has its importance: known as "the coup of the buffalo" (karbau), allows to solve efficiently difficult situations, especially the cortissima distance.
• The projection techniques to the ground. The use of sophisticated and projections swept by grasping any part of, has meant that some forms of silat were described by tourist guides and encyclopedias as Indonesian judo. The projections can be performed at different levels of height and even studying how the project opponent while you are on the ground. In projection techniques to the ground are also lifting and overturning's opponent (widely used in Malaysia), as one in which hooks a leg with one arm and with the other hand goes on the elbow on the head or a other point considered effective.
Mauritius Maltese
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