Orang Jawa
21-Mar-2006, 12:58 PM
Good morning everyone,
I've been around a long enough to see what happening with Silat activities and its applications be it in Indonesia or in the west, how the silat players demo their applications. Some silat players are very impresive and some are a jokes to say the least. IMHO sambut menyambut practice is a very important part of Silat, it gave a student better understanding the risks management, it gave them the advantages to learn speed, timing, power, balance, position, and save distance. However, this "part" is not practice regularly. Some of the silat players does not practice sambut menyambut enough or they never did. For example: Ippon kumite or one puch defense is a good starter to learn the art of fighting. Most of the players are still doing the same thing, they never move on to the next phase. I have seen in some of silat videos where the so called " whatever" demo a silat technique, the attacker attack with one punch then stop and the "whatever" apply more than five or more counter-attack/self-defense technique. Sometime its so obvious that the attacker can easily knock out this so called "whatever" in his second punch. Why this is happening? Honestly I don't know why?
Remember if you want to kick the tiger ass, beware of his fangs.
This is how we practice sambut menyambut.
We learn one technique at a time.
1. Agaisnt one punch, alternate left or right strikes.
2. Against two punches, silmutaneusly, alternate left or right first.
3. Against three punches, silmutaneusly, alternate left or right first.
4. Against three punches and silmutaneously follow by kicks, alternate front kick, side kick, roundhouse kick, back kick, sapu and bessets.
Last but not least a control freefighting.
Started with student must stay in a 4'x4' ring size. They must be able to reach their target. The attacker learn to how to apply the offensive techniques and the defender to learn the defensive techniques (this is the common mistakes, most attacker willingly to be defeated, results the defender did not properly applied his techniques). Most of all, the silat teacher and student adding to many technques before they were able to apply the first technique properly. They are forgot about the common saying: Quality not quantity. The above SOP is only for one technique.
If you do this routinely, say five times on each steps, it will take about fifteen minutes for one technique. Pak Lek said: The difference between basic technique and advance technique, advanced technique is the basic technique being practiced for million times."
Now lets go back to train, talk is cheap, keyboard warriors is dime a dozen.
And I could be wrong too, :bang:
Tristan
I've been around a long enough to see what happening with Silat activities and its applications be it in Indonesia or in the west, how the silat players demo their applications. Some silat players are very impresive and some are a jokes to say the least. IMHO sambut menyambut practice is a very important part of Silat, it gave a student better understanding the risks management, it gave them the advantages to learn speed, timing, power, balance, position, and save distance. However, this "part" is not practice regularly. Some of the silat players does not practice sambut menyambut enough or they never did. For example: Ippon kumite or one puch defense is a good starter to learn the art of fighting. Most of the players are still doing the same thing, they never move on to the next phase. I have seen in some of silat videos where the so called " whatever" demo a silat technique, the attacker attack with one punch then stop and the "whatever" apply more than five or more counter-attack/self-defense technique. Sometime its so obvious that the attacker can easily knock out this so called "whatever" in his second punch. Why this is happening? Honestly I don't know why?
Remember if you want to kick the tiger ass, beware of his fangs.
This is how we practice sambut menyambut.
We learn one technique at a time.
1. Agaisnt one punch, alternate left or right strikes.
2. Against two punches, silmutaneusly, alternate left or right first.
3. Against three punches, silmutaneusly, alternate left or right first.
4. Against three punches and silmutaneously follow by kicks, alternate front kick, side kick, roundhouse kick, back kick, sapu and bessets.
Last but not least a control freefighting.
Started with student must stay in a 4'x4' ring size. They must be able to reach their target. The attacker learn to how to apply the offensive techniques and the defender to learn the defensive techniques (this is the common mistakes, most attacker willingly to be defeated, results the defender did not properly applied his techniques). Most of all, the silat teacher and student adding to many technques before they were able to apply the first technique properly. They are forgot about the common saying: Quality not quantity. The above SOP is only for one technique.
If you do this routinely, say five times on each steps, it will take about fifteen minutes for one technique. Pak Lek said: The difference between basic technique and advance technique, advanced technique is the basic technique being practiced for million times."
Now lets go back to train, talk is cheap, keyboard warriors is dime a dozen.
And I could be wrong too, :bang:
Tristan