Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Understanding the Jurus


Urban Silat - Understanding the Jurus.

In Urban Silat from our Pukulan Cimande side we have 18 standing Jurus, which form the foundation for our Cimande training. These 18 Jurus are divided into Male Odd numbers and Female Even Number Jurus.

At the start, the Jurus offer a solo training format for the student to practise at home and in class to develop correct movement. The student will focus on developing the techniques on both sides of the body, before adding footwork covering the four directions, sometimes knows as Lanka Umpat. The Jurus flow continuously and blend with the footwork. The next stage of training is adding the Low and High gate to the Jurus. This means doing the Jurus in a low posture and high posture, and then adding off timing movements to the flow, through hand slapping, decoying and stomping which helps increase the power of the hit.

As the student advances they begin to add in the animal mannerisms and elements to the Jurus, which all helps the Jurus become fully alive and a perfect unison between student and Jurus. From here the student adds his own flavouring to the Jurus, and begins to add different weapons to the Jurus.

Outside of Solo training the student can practise the Jurus against another student, developing the combat applications, which on Jurus one (The Father Jurus) teaches students the first two blocks as shown in clip, buka a opening move against a punch, and the delivery of punches and elbows. So you can see each Juru has many levels and we havn't even touch the internal aspect. Jurus are like icebergs, what you see is only really the tip, as much more depth lies within the Jurus, just out of sight. If you like the clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NMXAxI_PMs&feature=youtu.be and this small post then please join us at www.facebook.com/urbansilat or share the post.
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