Basically all forms of Silat come from Serrah. It is an anceint and indepth, complete system, a life long study like Kung Fu. If you are even allowed to see it or study it at all! It has been secrete from outsiders till it’s expossure in the past fifteen to twenty years, mostly thanks to Dan Inosanto seminars and the Masters he has made famous through these seminars. Just as he did for Philippine Martial Arts and Masters for the last thirty years! It’s all common in JKD circles today! Several sources are teaching it now but it would be hard to find still. It is hard to explain how Indonesian Pentjak Silat is different from Judo and Jui Jitsu (Jui Jitsu as I learned back then it was not just ground grappling, it had chops, and three finger take downs and off balancing). There are so many simularities, principles and motion concepts in common with Filipino Martial Arts that it is hard to draw a line and say were one ends and the other begins. Filipino Bursilat has Silat principles in it, hence the name. It was perhaps the fore runner and a major influence in the creation of Filipino Martial Arts. It is unique in it’s sneaky off balancing techniques. You can not break fall or just roll out of these throws to avoid injury. You will land on end or an angle on your jionts that will break your jionts or your neck or something. You will not be able to continue fighting. All your parts will not be working and pain free. It’s in the angulation of body and movement used and use of levers as we call. A few touches and taps and you go right through the attacker. It is uniquely different from all others. It’s use of the sacred Kriss, push dagers, foot dagges, the surong, (worn like a skirt or on the shoulder but used as weapon or to trap) are incredable to see, deceiving and dangerous to those not familuar to these tactics. Like the Filipinos any thing on or around you can be used effectivly to fight and defend.

Dahms Academy classes include; Pentjak Silat Bukti Negara

Indonesian Pentjak Silat Founder Pendekar Paul deThouars
(level 1) Indonesian Martial Arts in many ways both in weaponry and empty hands very similar to Filipino Martial Arts but there is an emphasis on entry to off balancing your opponent in ways that you can not break fall. From the stances and entry techniques to the way the angels are used to attach and manipulate the opponent and the concept of what's know as levers is uniquely Silat. A Silat man defends against the attacker attacks standing, crouching, and kneeling or sitting on the ground and does so with seemingly effortless movement into and right through the opponents as they attack!

Mande Muda / Harimau Silat

Indonesian Pentcak Silat of Pendekar Herman Suwanda.
(level 1)

Arnis Defense Silat

Filipino / Indonesian Pentjak Silat of Guro Freddie Fernadez

(level 1)