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Old 01-26-2008, 02:05 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Unhappy Expectations...

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Originally Posted by jeff5 View Post
Well my hopes were dashed. It started off well with Dadang showing some good stuff, but then regressed to watered down, bad kickboxing with equally bad choreographed weapns stuff. No doubt both Dadang and Rita are extremely skilled, but they showed little actual Silat, or at least not the Silat I've learned.
I must admit with all due respect that I was also disappointed with the silat I saw on this episode.

The training was intense enough but the ART looked like glorified TKD.

So much for sport silat...
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