A big thanks to all who turn up for the Silat Groundfighting / Knife Seminar. Students from as far away as Cork and Antrim, made there way to Dublin, where there were joined by other students from various clubs in the Dublin area.
The seminar started with various take downs from the grounded, seated and Raja Harimau postures against punches and kicks. Students learnt how to move, lock, counterlock, throws and defences from the ground. Towards the end of this sections students work on being able to defend against two attackers.
After a short break students work on entries from a standing postures, training in the female triangles footwork, guntangs (limb destruction's) blending in elbow and knee strikes to the attacker body. The final section of the day went to Knife entries, and student experiences the speed and angles of blade attacks.
A big clap on the back goes out to all the students who passed their gradings on the self defence and crane mannerisms section of Pukulan Cimande Combat. A big thanks to all the Gurus who put in alot of time getting students ready. Well done.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Upcoming Gradings Sunday 26th July 3.40pm
Good luck to all the students taking part in Sunday gradings after the Groundfighting workshop. You all have done the work, put in the time and learnt the techniques. I'm proud to have you as students and to see the art being passed to a new generation. Big thanks to Guru Dan and Guru Jon, along with Guru Baharu Tony and Guru Baharu David for the excellent job, in helping me get students ready.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Jurus of Pukulan Cimande Combat
18 Standing Cimande Jurus
The Jurus are the foundation or base work of Pukulan Cimande they are the master keys. Once mastered they can be broken down and used for defensive applications.
Jurus #1 and Jurus #2 are know as the male and female Jurus of the system. The #1 Jurus starts all the odd numbers and Juru #2 all the even numbers. This is important to remember when you start practicing and learning the Jurus. All the Jurus are learned on both the right and left sides. Starting from the Simba postion a cat stance with a shaolin hand position, left hand covering the right fist, or as in number 2 where the forearm is held even with the floor and two fingers on the wrist.
The Jurus all begin with a stomping motion of the feet. To assimilate the stepping or stomping of the opponent's feet, to pin, punch or break? The Jurus can be trained with a fluid motion, or a slow training motion with snapping on each motion or as an aggressive attitude all out! Using speed, snap, timing, and power, along with a mental key word to start your aggressive approach to the Jurus. In the break downs of the Jurus the keys to defences in Silat. "Thought" We don't just block we punch or break, to destroy whatever comes.
Jurus Attitudes - what they train!
In the attitude of Jurus #1 it is a destruction jurus, teaching to hit, enter and destroy.
In the attitude of Jurus #2 it is to hit, catch, and break using an upward hitting motion.
In the attitude of Jurus #3 it is the use of circular motion to catch to parry, and the application of the long range uppercut (sangsot)
In the attitude of Jurus #4 it is the development of the inner gate jurus (dalam) working on the inside of a punch with parrys to elbow (sikut)
In the attitude of Jurus #5 this is another elbow jurus, to develop throwing it after blocking across body.
In the Attitude of Jurus #6 it is the development of ricochet hitting off of your own body to hit back to the opponent. Using forearm, shoulder, thigh.
In the attitude of Jurus #7 in teaches the dropping into a lower level and destruction of upward attacks and the outside ot inside wing type blocks.
The attitude of Jurus #8 it teaches the first combining of jurus. It teaches the flowing from one into the other using a combination of juru #1- #6-#3
The attitude of Jurus #9 this is the application of the first simultaneous parry and sweep motion (sapu)
The attitude of Jurus #10 this juru is a revolving jurus in that it teaches, to move into two different directions front to back, then back to the front again. Pivoting on the heels of the feet.
The attitude of Jurus #11 In this jurus again you develop a lead leg sweep (sapu) to the outside of the body followed with a elbow (sikut).
The attitude of Jurus #12 is to learn to defend against low/Middle kicks, with parries to change levels to strike lower vital targets.
The attitude of Jurus #13 in this jurus you develop the method of multi-angle hitting (pukul)
The attitude of Jurus #14 this jurus you develop the method of moving forward and using circular motions to block/parry and counter simultaneously.
The attitude of Jurus #15 this again is a combination jurus which includes #14- #6- #3 and the attributes of the these jurus combine. Circular motion, with Ricochet hit and follow up with in long range uppercut (sangsot)
The attitude of Jurus #16 this jurus, develops the application or motion required to open up, the center line, to catch kicks, and enter to apply leg sweeps and follow ups.
The attiude of Jurus #17 a multiple attack jurus, you develop moving from two directions forward and behind, and develop changing from a high line to a low line, back to a high line. using elbows and spear hands.
The attitude of Jurus #18 In this juru syou are learning the principle of bamboo, to take a blow or punch and recover into a counter attack follow up.
The Jurus are the foundation or base work of Pukulan Cimande they are the master keys. Once mastered they can be broken down and used for defensive applications.
Jurus #1 and Jurus #2 are know as the male and female Jurus of the system. The #1 Jurus starts all the odd numbers and Juru #2 all the even numbers. This is important to remember when you start practicing and learning the Jurus. All the Jurus are learned on both the right and left sides. Starting from the Simba postion a cat stance with a shaolin hand position, left hand covering the right fist, or as in number 2 where the forearm is held even with the floor and two fingers on the wrist.
The Jurus all begin with a stomping motion of the feet. To assimilate the stepping or stomping of the opponent's feet, to pin, punch or break? The Jurus can be trained with a fluid motion, or a slow training motion with snapping on each motion or as an aggressive attitude all out! Using speed, snap, timing, and power, along with a mental key word to start your aggressive approach to the Jurus. In the break downs of the Jurus the keys to defences in Silat. "Thought" We don't just block we punch or break, to destroy whatever comes.
Jurus Attitudes - what they train!
In the attitude of Jurus #1 it is a destruction jurus, teaching to hit, enter and destroy.
In the attitude of Jurus #2 it is to hit, catch, and break using an upward hitting motion.
In the attitude of Jurus #3 it is the use of circular motion to catch to parry, and the application of the long range uppercut (sangsot)
In the attitude of Jurus #4 it is the development of the inner gate jurus (dalam) working on the inside of a punch with parrys to elbow (sikut)
In the attitude of Jurus #5 this is another elbow jurus, to develop throwing it after blocking across body.
In the Attitude of Jurus #6 it is the development of ricochet hitting off of your own body to hit back to the opponent. Using forearm, shoulder, thigh.
In the attitude of Jurus #7 in teaches the dropping into a lower level and destruction of upward attacks and the outside ot inside wing type blocks.
The attitude of Jurus #8 it teaches the first combining of jurus. It teaches the flowing from one into the other using a combination of juru #1- #6-#3
The attitude of Jurus #9 this is the application of the first simultaneous parry and sweep motion (sapu)
The attitude of Jurus #10 this juru is a revolving jurus in that it teaches, to move into two different directions front to back, then back to the front again. Pivoting on the heels of the feet.
The attitude of Jurus #11 In this jurus again you develop a lead leg sweep (sapu) to the outside of the body followed with a elbow (sikut).
The attitude of Jurus #12 is to learn to defend against low/Middle kicks, with parries to change levels to strike lower vital targets.
The attitude of Jurus #13 in this jurus you develop the method of multi-angle hitting (pukul)
The attitude of Jurus #14 this jurus you develop the method of moving forward and using circular motions to block/parry and counter simultaneously.
The attitude of Jurus #15 this again is a combination jurus which includes #14- #6- #3 and the attributes of the these jurus combine. Circular motion, with Ricochet hit and follow up with in long range uppercut (sangsot)
The attitude of Jurus #16 this jurus, develops the application or motion required to open up, the center line, to catch kicks, and enter to apply leg sweeps and follow ups.
The attiude of Jurus #17 a multiple attack jurus, you develop moving from two directions forward and behind, and develop changing from a high line to a low line, back to a high line. using elbows and spear hands.
The attitude of Jurus #18 In this juru syou are learning the principle of bamboo, to take a blow or punch and recover into a counter attack follow up.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Elements
In Pukulan Cimande Combat, we have 5 Elemental Powers that we train in Fire, Air, Water, Earth and Life. In much the same way we train by watching learning and understanding the mannerisms of animals in combat, we use the attributes of the Elements to develop and increase our warrior skills.
Each of the Elements is linked to to primary mannerism (thou not solely) Fire = Snake, Air = Crane. Earth = Tiger, Water = Monkey and Life = Naga. When a students begins training in the element, he studies the attributes of that element and what it's primary mannerism its linked to
Earth is linked to the ground fighting attributes of the Tiger. In this element we work on strength, power, stances, physical movements, determination, body armouring, from the mannerism we get ground fighting, grappling, locking, tearing and ripping techniques.
Air is linked to the mobility of the crane with its jumping triangular footwork, fast powerful kicks and off timing impaling movements, along with the ability to close distance quickly.
Water is primary the understanding of flow ! The ability to go with the energy of a stronger opponent and use it against him, the movements of the student should mirror water, in the way water flows into the cracks between rock, the student should feel any weakness or openings in his / her attacker and expose it, and then be able to delivered fast, smooth powerful devastating blows, which are generated by allowing the energy to flow around the body, and into the striking parts of your body. The monkey mannerisms are flowing, loose, decoying and evasive.
Fire is link to quick explosive movements, like in lighting, instant, strong, fast and extreme ferocity, these are used in the snake mannerism with half fist strikes, and toe points kicks which generate lots of power (even in close range ) from short snapping, whipping movements. Much in the same lighting streaks across the sky, the movements of the snake are fast, darting and instant. Whereever these strikes land on the attackers body, it should cause instant pain and damage, these are sometimes refered to in Cimande as Poison Hand Blows, as often the attacker wouldn't even see the strike, and would feel like his body was damage by other means.
When a student has experience all the above elements and mannerism, he then uses his / her body as a vessel for these energies and powers to accumulate, develop and merge. He gives these energy "Life" and this process is call Naga the finish product of his Pukulan Cimande Training. Each student will uniquely be different as no two people are the same, than no to fighters will be the same. Yes they have a common thread (known as the 12th principle - more of that in another article) which unites all Cimande player, but each student will have they own attributes and if develop properly by a good teacher will mean that person will fight at 100% of their own natural combat abilities dependent on age, sex, skill and talent. This final process allows all the elements to work together in our body, the water is the fluid systems of our body i.e blood, lymph, water etc.., air is the oxygen we need for our bodies to work, earth is the physical body which we need to move around in and for us to exist and Fire is the Chi / Dalam. When a student understands and feels how his body works, and how he can use the natural energy of the body to work for him in combat, to increase his speed, awareness, timing, strength etc... than he becomes a much better fighter a Cimande Warrior
Each of the Elements is linked to to primary mannerism (thou not solely) Fire = Snake, Air = Crane. Earth = Tiger, Water = Monkey and Life = Naga. When a students begins training in the element, he studies the attributes of that element and what it's primary mannerism its linked to
Earth is linked to the ground fighting attributes of the Tiger. In this element we work on strength, power, stances, physical movements, determination, body armouring, from the mannerism we get ground fighting, grappling, locking, tearing and ripping techniques.
Air is linked to the mobility of the crane with its jumping triangular footwork, fast powerful kicks and off timing impaling movements, along with the ability to close distance quickly.
Water is primary the understanding of flow ! The ability to go with the energy of a stronger opponent and use it against him, the movements of the student should mirror water, in the way water flows into the cracks between rock, the student should feel any weakness or openings in his / her attacker and expose it, and then be able to delivered fast, smooth powerful devastating blows, which are generated by allowing the energy to flow around the body, and into the striking parts of your body. The monkey mannerisms are flowing, loose, decoying and evasive.
Fire is link to quick explosive movements, like in lighting, instant, strong, fast and extreme ferocity, these are used in the snake mannerism with half fist strikes, and toe points kicks which generate lots of power (even in close range ) from short snapping, whipping movements. Much in the same lighting streaks across the sky, the movements of the snake are fast, darting and instant. Whereever these strikes land on the attackers body, it should cause instant pain and damage, these are sometimes refered to in Cimande as Poison Hand Blows, as often the attacker wouldn't even see the strike, and would feel like his body was damage by other means.
When a student has experience all the above elements and mannerism, he then uses his / her body as a vessel for these energies and powers to accumulate, develop and merge. He gives these energy "Life" and this process is call Naga the finish product of his Pukulan Cimande Training. Each student will uniquely be different as no two people are the same, than no to fighters will be the same. Yes they have a common thread (known as the 12th principle - more of that in another article) which unites all Cimande player, but each student will have they own attributes and if develop properly by a good teacher will mean that person will fight at 100% of their own natural combat abilities dependent on age, sex, skill and talent. This final process allows all the elements to work together in our body, the water is the fluid systems of our body i.e blood, lymph, water etc.., air is the oxygen we need for our bodies to work, earth is the physical body which we need to move around in and for us to exist and Fire is the Chi / Dalam. When a student understands and feels how his body works, and how he can use the natural energy of the body to work for him in combat, to increase his speed, awareness, timing, strength etc... than he becomes a much better fighter a Cimande Warrior
Friday, July 10, 2009
SILAT GROUNDFIGHTING/EXPLOSIVE KNIFE DEFENCEWORKSHOP
Guru Besar Liam McDonald
Sun 26th July 12pm – 3.30pm
VENUE: St. ANNE’S GAA SPORTS CENTER
Bohernabreena, Tallaght. Dublin 24
Cost Advance Booking €40 / On the Day €50
An introduction to Silat Ground fighting covering the two basic styles of Cimande Ground fighting – Harimau and Matjan, along with this training you get to experience Silat Knife training that will bring your awareness of knife defence to a new level. This is a fantastic opportunity to experience grappling, Knife and ground fighting in a complete combat system
Training Will Cover
►Tiger Mannerism Techniques for Grading
►Locks / Throws/ Takedown/ Counters
►Striking / Grappling, Trapping and Ground Fighting
►Combat Application
►Weapons Defence Training (Disarms, Counters, Evasion)
►And lot’s more !!!
To book a place at this unique Workshop Contact Liam McDonald
Tel 087 9956569 /014629828
email guruliam@hotmail.com or
check http://www.silateurope.com/ or http://www.guruliam.blogspot.com/
– Only 35 places Available. Online Booking now available through Paypal
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Time
After a series of emails from one student, explaining that thou he really really wanted to train he couldn't train because he didn't have enough hours in the day. I thought I would talk about this. You see the cool thing about time is, that no matter where we live in the world, no matter what the colour of our skin, or our belief system, or how much money we have or earn, the one thing we all share in common is the following - There are 60 minutes in every hour, 24 hours in every day and 7 days in every week etc... no one has less of these than someone else !
So how come some people feel they don't have enough time? The bottom line is people make choices, these choices have the ability to fill up your day. There is a saying" a man get a face he deserves at 40", but the same can be said that " we end up getting the life we deserve by making the choices we choose" These choices we take in life will affect the time we have to be with our family, or allowing us to follow something we love doing. Alot of people jump into every promotion they can find, because of the feeling of power or more money, and while this gives us a high for a while, it may end us taking us away from something we love doing. Where we born just to work? When we look at a child we can see how time is spent in playing and enjoying life, but somewhere down the road of life we begin to lose this ability and tied ourselves up with all the wrappings of titles. We control our playful emotions by saying we indispensable and wrap ourselves with the latest gadgets to make us feel even more self importance. Don't get me wrong if this is your goal go for it, but if you feel, that part of you should be doing something else you enjoy, than you do have the power to make that happen. When you say to someone" I just don't have the time," what you are actually saying is "I really don't feel this in important enough to do as I would have to give something else up" is this is really the case? Men defined themselves by their work, when you out anywhere very quickly in the conservation you will be asked, what do you do? What we do as a hobby, a skill we learn or an interests we pursue is way down the list of how men tried to defined each other, and if someone steps outside of this mould, there are treated as weird. Why is this? Why do we reject following our hearts and doing something that will make us feel good about ourselves and bring fun? How can some people find the time to train and others don't. The answer is "Choices" and you have the power to make them!
There are other choices, like do I stay in watch the latest soap show on tv, or stay on the Internet an extra hour, or go to the pub.... all choices. So you see we have the same time and how we fill it is up to you and what you feel is important. I leave you with this thought ! Does anyone end up at the last moment in their life thinking.."I wish I spent more time at work" Remember you have the ability to do whatever you want,and if one of them is learning Silat, and that is something you really, really want to do, than you will find a way.
So how come some people feel they don't have enough time? The bottom line is people make choices, these choices have the ability to fill up your day. There is a saying" a man get a face he deserves at 40", but the same can be said that " we end up getting the life we deserve by making the choices we choose" These choices we take in life will affect the time we have to be with our family, or allowing us to follow something we love doing. Alot of people jump into every promotion they can find, because of the feeling of power or more money, and while this gives us a high for a while, it may end us taking us away from something we love doing. Where we born just to work? When we look at a child we can see how time is spent in playing and enjoying life, but somewhere down the road of life we begin to lose this ability and tied ourselves up with all the wrappings of titles. We control our playful emotions by saying we indispensable and wrap ourselves with the latest gadgets to make us feel even more self importance. Don't get me wrong if this is your goal go for it, but if you feel, that part of you should be doing something else you enjoy, than you do have the power to make that happen. When you say to someone" I just don't have the time," what you are actually saying is "I really don't feel this in important enough to do as I would have to give something else up" is this is really the case? Men defined themselves by their work, when you out anywhere very quickly in the conservation you will be asked, what do you do? What we do as a hobby, a skill we learn or an interests we pursue is way down the list of how men tried to defined each other, and if someone steps outside of this mould, there are treated as weird. Why is this? Why do we reject following our hearts and doing something that will make us feel good about ourselves and bring fun? How can some people find the time to train and others don't. The answer is "Choices" and you have the power to make them!
There are other choices, like do I stay in watch the latest soap show on tv, or stay on the Internet an extra hour, or go to the pub.... all choices. So you see we have the same time and how we fill it is up to you and what you feel is important. I leave you with this thought ! Does anyone end up at the last moment in their life thinking.."I wish I spent more time at work" Remember you have the ability to do whatever you want,and if one of them is learning Silat, and that is something you really, really want to do, than you will find a way.
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