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Old 12-14-2003, 11:46 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by krys
Yes I was meaning stand up fighting.... Actually the filipinos I spoke too told me Serak is more on stand up fighting and that is a kind of Kuntao....
What weapons are taught in this system


Most of the Javanese silat I saw has a lot of groundfighting (especially Setia Hati Terate), in some filipino silat systems it is 80% groundfighting.....

Ah the world of silat is small, yes I am the same krys... welcome pesilat-sikal.
Serak is a "Pukulan" (word primarily used by Dutch/Indonesians) system - which means it's heavy on striking. Most of the Silat that I've seen was Javanese. Mande Muda is a composite system that draws from a lot of Silat systems - most of them are Javanese. Many of them have a lot of stand up material - or, at least, the components I saw of them in Mande Muda were stand up. Most of the groundwork in the Mande Muda I saw was drawn from Harimau.

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