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Guru Felix Valencia

A few words from Guru Felix Valencia, one of the World top Martial Artist.

What students said after training with Guru Felix evening class in Lucan last night. So can you afford not to go?? Don't miss out on the weekend of the year !

Felix valencia is a real nice down to earth guy with amazing stick and knife skills...Loved the training and cant wait for more this weekend...Respect... Anto

Awesome!!!... Just had one of the most amazing nights training Guru Felix Valencia is a legend.....Mick

An absolute gentleman as well, looking forward to the weekend... Harry

OOOOWWWWWHHHH... Dan (If you were there you're understand)

See you all on the weekend, have loads off fun

Guru Jak

A short clip of Guru Jak who is a true Warrior teacher of Silat. Guru Jak was the reason I started doing silat and I have many very fond memories off him. I will always appreciate what he show me and the gift of silat he give me. Thanks Guru Jak...

Training Tip 4 - Understanding the Animals Mannerisms

"What is the purpose of the animal mannerism systems?" Is a question that is ask by a lot by beginners. In Pukulan Cimande Silat there is 4 main systems, Monjet, Ular, Blekok and Harimau now thou each of these systems is a animal name, for the moment I want you to look at it from a different viewpoint!

Each of these animal represents a range of combat for e.g. Harimau is the groundfighting range, which in this area students would learn how to fight and defend on the ground, they would learn how to lock, counter, wrestle etc.. either against an opponent who on the ground, or against a attacker who still standing. If you go to Blakok the complete opposite to Harimau, than you working in the Kicking range or the longest distance range of combat. Here footwork and striking that involves a lot of kicking and punching, which is design to either to keep the attacker at bay, or allowing you to crash into an attacker by closing the distance. It's important when closing the distance we move into Monjet (trapping range) which is Elbow and Knee range then to Ular which is very close range where you learn how to use your body to develop maximum striking power with extremely little distance (another training tip).

Each animal system is therefore name after a range of combat! But we need to aware as in Combat very few fights stay in one range, therefore for students to be successful he/she needs to learn to master how to fight in all ranges and to be able to blend all ranges together when needed. Pukulan Cimande is not when completed 4 different systems or ranges, its is one unlimited complete combat system! This system even has its own name "Raja Naga" A system which is completely your own personal system which uses your natural talents and abilities to the maximum and strengthens your weakness. This type of learning how to fight has been brought to forefront first with JKD, than Cross training and now with the rise of MMA who have been credit with given birth to this line of thought in Martial Arts, even though its been a silat concept for centuries ! Kinda like reinventing the wheel.

So next time your teacher mention a animal name, link that to the range of combat, and work on the techniques you can use in that range of combat and what you can do to make you a more complete fighter.

Class Test - July 2010

We going to be having a Buah Test last week in July for all students who have completed their first two Bela Diri Levels. The test will comprise of the following

1) Grappling Buah's 1 - 10
2) Striking Buah's 1 - 8

So over the next two months we will focus on these Buahs, so make sure you turn up for class, as I won't be going over material that I have already taught in a previous week.

New Training Class on Mondays

Over the summer months we going to make the Monday night our big cardio night with padwork and Buahs follow by Sparring / Pressure Testing. Each Monday night students will get the opportunity to pressure test their skills. Each week we pick a area so we could be doing knife sparring, stick sparring, Wrestling, Groundfighting or could be working on striking aspects. So if you want to take part than come along on Mondays and experience the "Burn" Please note only students training at least twice a week will be for health and safety reasons can take part in the sparring.