Comments on: Silat Suffian Bela Diri – Kerambit – counters & takedowns

By: solnegrolunaroja

solnegrolunaroja — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:27:38 +0000

Just for the readers of this comments, please don’t take ofense, this master is very good but a little humor is not harmful. I practiced Iaido some time, so you can take revenge doing jokes about my hakama !!
Thanks!

By: flancka

flancka — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:10:25 +0000

@solnegrolunaroja
no disrespect meant, happy you could see that. This stuff irocks

By: solnegrolunaroja

solnegrolunaroja — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:33:50 +0000

Hi!. The problem with Tai Chi is that the art is very difficult, so only an advance student is able to use it fully. And the most popular styles are focused in medicine, so there remain little skilled instructors in combat aplications. I don’t think is bullshit, but there are simpler forms to learn faster to the average human being. The creator of the first style was general Chen, at his time the military took an exam to promote ranks; so, to be a general you had to be a Great Master!.

By: flancka

flancka — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:32:49 +0000

I don’t buy into all that folklore magical thinking self promoting secret manual stuff about tai chi. It is limited & will not work . I have known some 40 year practitoners of the art and one was an ex koumontang general from taiwan who practised as a sparring partner with chen manching.Ever see the international fah jing/ push hands competitions? exhibitions of strength. Any body saying tai chi works has previously lots of fighting experience in another practical art layered under the tai-chi

By: solnegrolunaroja

solnegrolunaroja — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:19:22 +0000

I meant Chen Wanting, the very creator of the first style, Chen, in the XVI century, that doesn’t apply to modern military. And of course is limited. I agree with you about that folkloric things, don’t buy it too. I wouldn’t use it, it’s not fit to my natural mechanics. And trying to learn the real use of Chi is too dificult to apply. It is sane to be skeptical, there are many guys trying to sell something

By: solnegrolunaroja

solnegrolunaroja — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:50:24 +0000

By the way, I was thinking about what jokes could you make about my hakama!

By: flancka

flancka — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:49:21 +0000

the hakana actually looks pretty cool. Growing up watching samurai flicks i got use to seeing iit. Even a sarong by itself is cool. But having pants underneath that short fabric makes it seem either like an after-thought as in -oh, maybe I better introduce some cultual dress to this style. I was attempting to be light hearted since there is just so much ritual and dogma out there that interferes with real shit.

By: solnegrolunaroja

solnegrolunaroja — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:00:43 +0000

Too many. I like classic martial arts, but sometimes we forget all this was meant for war. Even the very classic styles we practice had a practical meaning in everything, they were born because some warrior thought there was a more practical way to do things, but, as time goes by, some people begins to do things just because the elders did, they don’t understand what are they doing. Many martial arts have suffered this situation, specially modern interpretations of ancient war techniques.

By: G6600

G6600 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:25:16 +0000

Silat is cool, I like it. It has very same principles as Wing Chun. Both are very usefull.

By: tyreseburn

tyreseburn — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:47:02 +0000

fck silat is insane