Canadian silat training inquiry

Hi Y'all,
Im interested in training in Silat of some sort. I live in Calgary, Alberta.
If there are any silat practitioners that have any info on training opps please let me know.
sincerely,
Gordon

 

Peace to all,

Dear chenstyle44,

I hope this help;

PERKASA c/o:
Paatje Richard Kudding
248 Silver Creek Way N.W.
Calgary, Alberta.
T3B 4H5 Canada.
Email: rkudding@shaw.ca

peace

 

This looks like an old tread. Are there any new Silat instructors in Calgary? I am currently looking to continue my Silat training in Calgary.

Thanks,

 

No, but I know a really fantastic JKD instructor..........

 

Richard Kudding is a great instructor I believe. Although it's officially Kuntao Macan he does and not Silat. I used to train kuntao (they call it kempo over here) from the same branch.

 

Does he still teach? Does he run a school in Calgary?

 

Hi nightspeace, i saw this video:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrveWsXYFgM"]Paatje Richard Kudding 1988 - YouTube[/ame]

There a calgary school was mentioned, but this video is old, so don't know if it's still there.

 

LOL, my Sifu is Patje Kudding's son-in-law. Does this mean you'll take me seriously in Silat discussions now?

 

As far as I can tell the school has closed - certainly none of my contacts have heard of it recently.

Anyway, about those JKD classes............

 

I take everyone seriously. well...almost everyone Just kidding.

So you train Kuntao? The kuntao of Richard Kudding is very silat like. I witnessed a demonstration a couple of years back by Philip Davies, one of his main students. It was a nice demo.

 

I would suggest it's more Indo flavoured than it used to be. These days I practice CLF, but I still practice the forms that Patje Kudding learned from Hoang Nam, and a lot of the self defence orientated stuff that my Sifu first taught me came from Patje Kidding.

 

Paatje Kudding's initial knowledge is based on a kuntao/pukulan style from Pak Faulhaber. I know he also trained with the teacher you mentioned but that came later once he migrated from Holland to Canada. Actually looking for the roots of this system got me into pukulan

Paatje Kudding is an indo, as well as Pak Faulhaber was, actually 90% of the knowledge in Holland on Silat and Kuntao comes from indo's.

I never really gotten into the pure chinese styles even though i was fascinated by the stories behind it.