This document provides an overview of the basics of Pencak Silat, including its 8 factors, 5 ranges of combat, and 5 gates of combat. It then lists and describes the 8 principles of Pencak Silat, which are: deception, destruction, penetration, adhesion, compacting, the thorn, bamboo, and body armor.
This document provides an overview of the basics of Pencak Silat, including its 8 factors, 5 ranges of combat, and 5 gates of combat. It then lists and describes the 8 principles of Pencak Silat, which are: deception, destruction, penetration, adhesion, compacting, the thorn, bamboo, and body armor.
This document provides an overview of the basics of Pencak Silat, including its 8 factors, 5 ranges of combat, and 5 gates of combat. It then lists and describes the 8 principles of Pencak Silat, which are: deception, destruction, penetration, adhesion, compacting, the thorn, bamboo, and body armor.
This document provides an overview of the basics of Pencak Silat, including its 8 factors, 5 ranges of combat, and 5 gates of combat. It then lists and describes the 8 principles of Pencak Silat, which are: deception, destruction, penetration, adhesion, compacting, the thorn, bamboo, and body armor.
1. Deception: Includes Decoying, Camouflage and Stealth techniques. Making yourself appear to be vulnerable or using baits and feints to entice your opponent into a false sense of confidence. Also includes Off Timing (mental, visual and auditory) "Steal your Opponents Awareness", indirect vision and indirect hitting. 2. Destruction: "Destroy or Get Out" The systematic destruction of your opponents incoming attacks beginning with Joints, Muscles and then finally Nerve Destructions. Hunting the opponents limbs (arms and legs). 3. Penetration: This is the ability to close within striking range of the opponent, (taking their space) and the proper way of striking the opponent so that the target is broken, destroyed or put out of action. 4. Adhesion: Sticking blows, sticking to the opponent. Once you enter the opponent’s space with the principle of penetration, you never give that space back. Includes the use of tarik (pulling) and dorong (pushing) to off-balance and sweep opponent to the ground, sticking to them the entire time, pinning them and finished with multiple strikes. 5. Compacting: Utilizing your body as a weapon by collapsing one blow into another (the secret of kilap and poison hand). Small arcing blows flowing one into another with no wind-up or pulling back. 6. The Thorn: The rose is a beautiful flower but when you go to grab the stem you get stuck by a thorn. The thorns of your body are your knees and elbows. When an opponent throws in a strike they will naturally get impaled by the thorns of our body. 7. Bamboo: Utilizing core awareness and angulation of the body to be flexible like bamboo and help develop “Mad Rooster" and Ricochet Hitting. Bending the body to angle and give with the opponents blows, without backing up or retreating and snapping back immediately with strikes. 8. Body Armor: Positioning your body to protect yourself at all times; also called “Stationing”. Always covering yourself utilizing both arms, both legs and body position in regards to your opponent. If one hand is high, then one is low, etc.