pentjak silat

[wannalift]

anyone else out there study any silat? its indonesian and was developed as a guerilla warfare type of combat system and is the sister art of kali. i am an assistant instructor at the school of the five dragons just outside of pittsburgh pennsylvania. we are also doing online instruction. www.fivedragonssilat.com
cheers,
David

[prenna]

Silat is definitely an art that I want to look into more in the future. I love Kali and Silat is always being connected to it. WE use some Silat in our Jeet Kune Do practice but it is so heavily blended into everything else it's hard at times to know which techniques are from which individual art.

If you don't mind I will post the link to your school's site in my Filipino and Indonesian martial arts community over at Livejournal. If you have any objections to me doing that just let me know, I'll wait for your ok.

[wannalift]

Prenna,
No objections whatsoever. We have put a ton of work into our website and we'll be putting out DVDs very soon. We're trying to make silat a better known art in the states. I have met with blackbelts in other arts who know almost nothing about silat and were hoping to change that. I can talk about southeast asian martial arts all day, glad we now have a forum to do so. cheers.
~david