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roninroshi
10-01-2006, 10:51 AM
These guy's are serious...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-259589424681990912&q=Silat
Hmm. Interesting. First off, they'd never let me train, as I am an atheist thru and thru.
Anyhow ...
Silat is a well-documented system, coming out of Indonesia, and there IS a large Muslim population there, so a Muslim version isn't a real stretch.
cg
roninroshi
10-01-2006, 02:13 PM
I've been reasearching it for a while,some interesting reading in "Asian Fighting Arts" by Don Dreager.
They did some real damage to the invading Dutch and Japanese army's in Indonesia...
JessePasley
10-17-2006, 04:46 AM
Wow, those demonstrations were awful. I would recommend he train in real islasmic martial arts like baji or tantui.
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