| Continued from part 1 | | | | teach firearm retention and counter-firearm strategies, |
| The Pentjak Silat styles are the indigenous styles | | | | as well as more traditional weapons (knife, stick, |
| which include cultural elements. Here is where you will | | | | spear). |
| find the wedding styles, the dance styles, and many of | | | | One noted difference between the Indo arts and the |
| the sport styles. There are also quite a few fighting | | | | nearby Chinese arts is the tendency of the Indo arts to |
| styles in here. The Pentjaks tend to prefer outside | | | | use already strong structures within the body (as |
| over inside fighting positions. They tend to go from | | | | opposed to the Chinese tradition of conditioning the |
| open defensive postures to closed offensive postures. | | | | body). This allowed the old, the young, the sick, and the |
| They will occasionally have mystical elements. | | | | wounded to effectively use these arts. |
| The Poukilan Silat styles tend to be pure fighting styles | | | | Training: |
| without cultural elements. They tend to be direct and to | | | | With so many arts, there is a great deal of variation in |
| the point. They tend towards close fighting (Poukilan | | | | training methods. Some schools teach Silat in a very |
| means "impact"). They also tend to prefer outside | | | | conceptual way. Some are similar to classical Chinese |
| positions. | | | | or Japanese schools. Some teach it around the |
| The Kuntao Silat styles are conglomerates of Indo and | | | | sparring (like kickboxing). Feel sure that there is a Silat |
| Chinese fighting methods. They tend more towards | | | | school somewhere that matches your preferred |
| closed defensive postures that open to attack. They | | | | training method. |
| also tend more toward inside positions when fighting, | | | | Definitions: |
| preferring the availability of soft targets to the safety | | | | Silat - Silat means something close to "fighting |
| of outside positions. | | | | applications". By itself it has little meaning, rather it |
| The Silats do have animal styles (Harimau (tiger) and | | | | modifies the word it is with. |
| Madi (monkey) being two of the better known). They | | | | Pentjak - Literally "forms, postures, and movements". |
| have few if any unarmed styles. They tend to adapt | | | | Without Silat, Pentjak is useless, and without Pentjak, |
| rapidly. There is a tendency to throw out whatever | | | | there is no Silat. |
| becomes obsolete and add whatever becomes | | | | Poukilan - Literally "impact". |
| relevant. This is why most modern Silat schools to | | | | |