Tags: #🧩 #📜 References: [[Silat]] Quellen: [[SSBD]] --- Silat has a strong cultural fundament, which is represented by the way of moving in a fight. Without that cultural (and ethnical) knowledge you will not train Silat. Your art may be effective, but it is not Silat without the whole package. You may use some techniques for self defense, but you will not fully understand the beauty of it and never immerse in the culture. You are fighting with the basic principles of your individual body and have to understand and master this first. The misconception of many people is that there is no weapons in traditional Silat. When people that are ignorant about culture see SSBD for the first time many claim what I share is FMA. I know how to use different kinds of weapons, because of that people think I know different systems. Those who trains SSBD knows we only have 3 hand groupings of movements and 1 fundamental footwork, once understood, its concepts and principles are used in everything we do. For those who knows, whether I use weapons or empty hands, my movements are the same. For those who lack knowledge in our art they see 1000 techniques to remember, and would say we copy techniques from other arts. Historically before the spanish and the british came, major parts of the Phillipines and whole northern part of borneo were Brunei. Modern borders now divide these territorries into the Philipines, Malaysia, Indonesia and 2 small parts became Brunei. Those who trains SSBD are keepers of a legacy. I dont worry myself with the modern petty arguments "it wont work on the streets"; "it wont work in the ring"; I teach the Bruneian Martial Culture, not people's opinion on what is real or what a system should look like I remember when I first introduced the Kuntau (empty hands striking) aspects of SSBD, in the 2nd year of teaching this art to the public, many of those who has never been exposed to other buah pukul (striking arts) of the Malays says I move like a robot, too up right, to robotic. Some on youtube who claims to teach silat with his limited knowledge made fun of me, and there were some at the beginning said the art didnt look dynamic, why dont I add muay thai or panantukan into it? They were used to what they saw in kung fu movies. The only silat striking art westerners were exposed to was the pukulan system of Silat Serak and people thought it was the only striking system in Silat, because there were books and vhs tapes on it. With all their suggestion what I should add in SSBD, none of them can touch me when I asked them to touch me. Now people are more exposed to the once "secretive" buah pukul styles of the malay martial arts, everyone want to learn it. The actual "secret" is like all martial arts, is correct instructions and hard constant training, that when you do a technique it looks like natural movement, efficient and effortless but powerful.