Friday, September 7, 2012

Beauty wrap in Destruction

A picture can speak a thousand words. One of our silat kids returning to class last night after the summer break draw this for her silat guru's. Makes it so worthwhile.

Interesting thou is that the rose flower, is one of the symbols our art  of Urban Silat, linking in from the Cimande side. The Rose is beautiful to look at, but is surrounded by thorns to protect itself. Much in the same way silat is a beautiful art to look at, but don't let that deceived or fool you, because it flows or is graceful. You find very quickly that these movement hides much danger, through the use of impaling elbows and Knees techniques, the student can not only use body armour / shielding that protect himself from incoming strikes, but also in re countering, using sharp impact parts of his body to cause high intensity pain and destruction to the attacker body. Beauty and Danger are common interactive partners in Urban Silat.

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