Thursday, June 25, 2009

Pukulan Cimande Combat:New Online Learning Experience


Over the past year I've been working on a project to help students who are on our long distance program who want to learn silat. We get an average of 12 to 15 emails a week from students who want to learn silat, but have no access to a teacher. Up to now the only way for students was to buy dvd's and try to learn from them.

On Monday 7th Sept we will be launching our new Online Long Distance Cimande Silat Training Programme. This will be the first of its kind, and students who are on the programme will get access to a weekly online lesson which will follow whats been taught in my regular weekly classes. This means if you live in Spain, UK, Russia, Brazil, Australia, America .... you be able to follow along what everyone else is learning that week, and become part of the Pukulan Cimande Combat Network.

This will even benefit students who can't make class some week, maybe due to work or illness, they have the opportunity to catch up. Students will also have the opportunity to email me directly with questions, on the lesson and if there areas of the art that they having difficulties we can plan to do extended lessons on this area. Along with this we plan to offer some of our workshops and classes on web cam, so you can follow along the classes / workshop live and if you have a training partner at the same all the more fun !
All this will run alongside our new Pukulan Cimande Combat Grading Dvd Productions will give you the most complete online training experience ever. Even though we know this doesn't replace having a teacher in the real class environment, it will be the next best thing

We plan to limited this to the first 250 to apply on line. If you like to pre-register your interest and be the first to received info on this new unique online training experience. Send me a email to guruliam@hotmail.com
I've have set this up primary, as I want to spread the beautiful art of silat and especially Pukulan Cimande my main art. I understand there are so few teachers, and that students may live to far away from a teacher they want to learn from, and I want to be able to offer in someway a opportunity for you to experience this art and to see its unique combat effectiveness steep in beautiful traditional culture of Indonesia. This programme is open to anyone who comes along and wants to experience this in a respectful manner.
"Knowledge is only wisdom when it's shared"


More details to follow

Monday, June 22, 2009

seminar / grading date change

Due to events outside of our control the Seminar - Grading that was plannned for Sunday 5th July has been postpone to Sunday 26th July 2009 more details to follow shortly on this.

New syllabus dvds


We will begin filming in late August early Sept syllabus dvds that will support the syllabus booklet which is now available. This will mean students will find all the material they required for that grading on a single dvd. We hope by end of the year all the dvds will be ready. The first two dvds will cover the Harimau portion of the Art and the Bela Diri Grades and will be available in Sept.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

5000th New Visitor

Today we reached our 5000th Visitor to our Silat Blog. We have current followers from over 76 countries and a expanding network of long distance students across the globe. Our blog now has over 600 new visitors a month and I like to thank all of you who have sent great emails of encouragement and help for our cause to help promote Cimande. We look forward to developing, new modes of teaching, learning and developing Pukulan Cimande, so students no matter where they may be living, will have access to the best teaching possible and be able to access knowledge, advice and guidance so even thou distance may be great, they will get an opportunity to develop in this beautiful art ! More info to follow soon.... Best Wishes and Good Training