Convince Me That Silat Doesn't Suck Completely

**hadoken** · Posted On: 12/03/2009 11:24pm

What Silat I did as part of my Jeet Kune Do years, was akin to BJJ but more standup, fig 4 armlock takedown. to a set of breaks/chokes and even some sprawling/RNC. I'm not sure if it was Silat but that's what It was labelled as.

**Hesperus** · Posted On: 12/03/2009 11:36pm

Originally Posted by hadoken

BJJ but more standup

Hahahahahahaha.

The rest of your post was equally hilarious, but this was just great.

Hahahahahahaha.

**Lindz** · Posted On: 12/03/2009 11:39pm

Originally Posted by hadoken

BJJ but more standup,

Judo?

**Just Guess** · Posted On: 12/03/2009 11:47pm

Originally Posted by Lindz

Judo?

Judo actually works though.

**hadoken** · Posted On: 12/03/2009 11:53pm

Originally Posted by Hesperus

Hahahahahahaha.

The rest of your post was equally hilarious, but this was just great.

Hahahahahahaha.

I'm here all week, try the fish.

I was meaning compared to to the striking and stick fighting I did it was the most akin to grappling that I experienced before training in BJJ. I do have a big problem looking back at the JKD and I worry I wasted my time learning 80% LARP.

**Sinister-6000** · Posted On: 12/04/2009 3:11am

Originally Posted by SantaDog

That is what I got from this poster.

Eh. Silat is effective because authentic silat works off really great body mechanics, just like you would find at a great BJJ school. When i say authentic silat there is a more old-school, brutal form of martial art in comparison to the more modern malaysian sport derivatives which look like tkd or karate. Anyways, ive used some basic silat techniques in a confrontation before and they worked very quickly. Ive done a puter kepala on a guy sparring at medium effort as well as a kenjet. It really wasnt anything impossibly hard by any means.

**Chili Pepper** · Posted On: 12/04/2009 8:14am

Originally Posted by Sinister-6000

Eh. Silat is effective because authentic silat works off really great body mechanics, just like you would find at a great BJJ school. When i say authentic silat there is a more old-school, brutal form of martial art in comparison to the more modern malaysian sport derivatives which look like tkd or karate.

As TheMightyMcClaw commented a page or two back, talk is cheap. The worldwide conspiracy to hide all video of "authentic silat" being used against resisting opponents is getting old.

**selfcritical** · Posted On: 12/04/2009 8:23am

Ron balicki's fighting sarong, and his filipino boxing tapes both had silat stuff being pulled off in sparring. I think the art's been mostly eating itself since world war II, so while I enjoyed myself while training it, and still use plenty of silat techniques while stick sparring and occasionally wrestling, I think it's mostly gonna get worse. The "too deadly" bit is just eating it alive. Everyone I've ever met who I could point to as a good example is cross-trained.

**Sinister-6000** · Posted On: 12/04/2009 9:35am

hey guys sorry for my additional replies which just extended this thread which has no video. Ive been thinking now I wanna see that too. Hopefully there will be someone in the silat community soon who wants to pressure test on video. If i can even find a friend or someone at some point i will try to put together a clip myself which shows at least some kind of moderate resistance or pressure testing.