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I started training Silat Perisai Diri in June of 1993.Silat Perisai Diri is an Indonesian
martial arts system, foundered by Raden mas Soebandiman Dirdjoatmodjo
(pictured above). He is known as a Pandekar or grand master and spiritual leader.
Silat Perisai Diri was formed in Surabaya in 1955 by pak Dirdjo, and now has
many classes within Indonesia and in countries like Australia, Holland, Usa and
Japan!Pak Dirdjo devoted his life to studying the Indonesian martial arts systems
and Shaolin kung fu to form P.D which is a great system especially for women
and children, because P.D uses "REFLEX REACTION" instead of brute strength!
P.D is a highly evasive martial art which does not use force on force, but rather
a push or sliding motion in defence at the same time evading the attackers strike!
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The Silat legend:-
A malay youth crouched at the edge of a jungle pool over which hung the branches
of a huge flowering tree. One of the tree's blossoms fluttered acrobatically
downward and quietly alighted on the surface of the water near the place where
the lad was located. As he watched, the flower began to move with light, evasive
actions along a strong current caused by water plunging from a waterfall
at one end of the pool. The floating blossom sped with increasing rapidity toward
the powerful vortex being generated by the plunging water. Then, as it neared
the base of the violent cascade, it suddenly swerved away from what appeared
to the youth to be its certain destruction. The spray of the waterfall re-bounding
from the surface of the pool was generating a countercurrent that flowed with
sufficient force away from the vortex to send the flower back out to the main
current. Time and again this process was repeated. The youth watched intently
as the flower moved from a position of safety to one of imminent danger, and then
surely back again to the safety of the mid-pool. His curiosity now fully aroused,
the excited youth scooped the flower from the water and found to his great
surprise that it was totally undamaged. Here indeed, he thought, was a miraculous
natural principle - simple, effective, and worthy of some application in
human life.
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I hope this legend will help you to visualise the art of silat P.D. There are 8 major
stances or "sikaps " in P.D. They are :- Mliwis (water bird), Kuntul (crane),
Harimau (tiger), Garuda (eagle), Naga (dragon), Setria (knight), Pendetta (priest),
Putri (princess). My favourite technique is Menangkabau (water baufflo).Sikap
means "to take the form of "eg sikap Garuda means to take the form of a
golden eagle! In Australia the grading system is as follows :-White belt (3 months),
white/green belt ( at 6 months), green belt (at 9 months), green/blue belt
( at 12 months), blue belt (at 15 months), blue red belt (at 18 months), red
belt (at 21 months).This is the usual amount of time if training twice aweek,
unless you don't grade or fail! After that the P.D student will receive stripes
on the front of their uniform.They go up in the same order as the belt levels
but take much longer to earn. e.g red belt to white stripe is usually one year!
The amount of time rises with each successive stripe gained! After gaining red
stripe, the student receives a red / gold stripe, then a full gold stripe (junior
pandekar), then a full gold badge (pandekar).The highest level we have in Australia
is red stripe held by our head instructor Russel. (He is also the highest
rank in the world outside of Indonesia, to my currant knowledge)!
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