Been A Really Long Time..

.. Since I last updated this blog. What can I say, either I am a chronic habitual procrastinator, or I don't have much to say lately. However, since I just came back from training and learnt something new tonight, I felt much obliged to share.

Earlier tonight, Guru Jak shared with us some new techniques. Locking Buahs not from the Harimau Berantai system, instead, he taught us the Buahs from the Gayong Harimau system.

1. Kilik Senapang, which depicts how a hunter carries around an unloaded rifle
2. Lipat Mayat, which literally means Folding A Corpse
3. Cengkam Harimau, translated is, Tiger Choke
4. Kacip Sirih, I do not know how to translate this, but sirih is betel leaf

Man, they were painful I tell you. I used to tap out when I started learning Silat but nowadays, I don't tap anymore. If it gets too painful, I would just scream and my Guru would let go. Hehe.

I just found out that a great Silat master had passed away earlier this month. He was known affectionately as Pak Mat Kedidi and I had the privileage to meet him during a Silat documentary shoot. In that documentary, he was selected give his views on Tekpi as a Silat weapon. One thing I heard about him was, in his younger days, he was a Tomoi fighter known as the Black Beatle because when he kicks, they would buzz. Yeah, scary I would imagine. Al-Fatihah.