4/30/2023 0 Comments Aliran pencak silat![]() Pencak Silat is now also growing in non-Asia countries like America and Europe. The national martial arts organizations then were founded such as Indonesia Pencak Silat Associotion (IPSI) in Indonesia, National Silat Alliance (PESAKA) in Malaysia, etc. After colonial era, silat is developed into formal martial art. Silat is developed in Indonesia and Malaysia (including Brunei and Singapore) and have the same historical roots as a tool of resistance against foreign occupiers. For example Cimande’s style pencak silat ,people believed that this style was invented by a woman who witnessed the fight between the tiger and the monkey and she modeled the movement of animals fighting. Most of martial art history was originated from folklore that vary from one region to another. Therefore, the written records about the origins of martial arts are hard to find. Silat traditions were inherited traditionally mostly by oral stories, being taught from teacher to student and so on. This martial art is widely known in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore (South East Asia) but can also be found with different style and techniques variations in several Asian countries where Melayu ethnics have been spreading and living for hundreds of years, as in the southern Philippines and southern Thailand. ![]() ![]() ![]() The History of Pencak Silat Pencak Silat or Silat (self defense techniques) is a martial art which is originally rooted from Asian Melayu culture. ![]()
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