PCK SILAT

PCK Silat, or Pukulan Cimande Kombinasi Silat, has a rich history rooted in Indonesian martial arts traditions. The term “Pukulan” refers to fast striking techniques, while “Cimande” is one of the oldest and most influential styles of Silat. “Kombinasi” indicates the combination of various techniques and principles from different Silat styles. PCK Silat emphasizes both striking and grappling techniques, making it a versatile and comprehensive system. Practitioners learn a variety of skills, including hand strikes, kicks, knees, elbows, joint locks, sweeps and throws. The art also incorporates traditional weapons training and focuses on developing physical, mental, and spiritual growth. It combines elements from various Pencak Silat styles, particularly Cimande and Sera Pencak Silat.

CIMANDE SILAT:

Cimande Silat is a traditional Sundanese martial art from West Java, Indonesia. It originated in the 17th century in the village of Babakan Tarikolot, Cimande, in the Caringin district of Bogor. This style of Pencak Silat is known for its rich cultural heritage and its emphasis on self-defense, discipline, and personal development.

Cimande Silat is divided into three main branches:

Cimande Hilir in Karawang, West Java.

Cimande Tengah in Banten Province.

Cimande Girang in Bogor.

The techniques and movements in Cimande Silat are inspired by the natural environment and the daily activities of the people in the region. It is one of the oldest and most influential styles of Pencak Silat.

Cimande is known for its distinctive techniques, which emphasize fluidity, precision, bone crushing strikes and close-quarters combat. 

Here are some key techniques:

Jurus: These are the basic forms or patterns of movement in Cimande Silat. Practitioners learn various jurus to develop their skills in striking, blocking, and evading.

Pukulan: This refers to the striking techniques, which include punches, elbow strikes, and palm strikes. The strikes are often delivered in rapid succession to overwhelm the opponent

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Kuda-Kuda: These are the stances used in Cimande Silat. Proper stances are crucial for maintaining balance and generating power in strikes. Common stances include the horse stance and the cat stance.

Sikap Pasang: These are the ready positions or guard stances. They help practitioners prepare for both offensive and defensive maneuvers.

Tangkap: This involves grappling and locking techniques. Practitioners learn to control and subdue opponents through joint locks and throws.

Kilap: Known as lightning strikes, these are quick, precise strikes aimed at vital points on the opponent’s body. The goal is to incapacitate the opponent swiftly.

Langkah: These are the footwork patterns used to move efficiently and maintain balance during combat. Good footwork is essential for both offense and defense.

Cimande Silat also incorporates breathing techniques and body conditioning exercises to enhance physical and mental resilience.

SERA SILAT:

Pencak Silat Sera also originated from West Java region of Indonesia. It’s part of the broader Sundanese Pencak Silat family, which encompasses various traditional martial arts styles. Sera is ingenious and incredibly sophisticated. Unlike some systems that rely on raw power or speed, Sera emphasizes finesse, physics, body mechanics and knowledge of anatomy. The entire system revolves around maximum destructive output with minimal effort. Imagine a martial art where every move counts!

One of its distinctive features is the use of triangle footwork. This footwork isn’t just about movement; it represents tactics, positioning, sweeps, throws, and kicks. Beyond physical techniques, the triangle also symbolizes phases of life—a deeper layer of meaning.

Sera's Jurus and techniques often bear names from both Arabic and Chinese languages. For instance, you’ll encounter terms like “Alif,” “Be,” “Lokbeh,” and “Wa Lung Wang.”

Sera practitioners not only master striking, stances, footwork, anatomy and physics, but they also understand that energy direction and flow, matters. It’s not just about force; it’s about redirecting energy effectively.

PCK Silat was developed to integrate the best principles, philosophy and techniques from these two traditional styles of Cimande and Sera, creating a comprehensive system that includes striking, strong stances, footwork, fluidity, joint destructions, sweeps, throws, breaks, proper body mechanics, energy redirection, grappling, ground fighting, mental focus, meditation and extensive weapons training, combined with a strategic, methodical and realistic approach to training. 

The goal was to preserve the history and cultural heritage while adapting the techniques for modern self-defense needs in today's increasingly violent world.

Foundations of PCK Silat:

The 3 Assumptions of PCK Silat

1. We assume there will be a minimum of 3 attackers and as many as 12 attackers will be dealt with in the later stages of training.
2. We assume that ALL of the attackers will be armed with weapons.
3.  We assume that we will be attacked by surprise.

The 8 Attributes of PCK Silat

1.  Balance
2.  Stability
3.  Mobility
4.  Sensitivity
5.  Reaction
6.  Speed
7.  Power
8.  Timing

The 5 Ranges of Combat

1.  Kicking
2.  Striking
3.  Trapping
4.  Grappling
5. Ground Fighting

The 5 Gates of Combat

1.  High 
2.  Middle 
3.  Low 
4.  Inside 
5. Outside

The 8 Areas of PCK Silat

1. Jurus Jurus (Upper Body)Includes all standardized upper body forms, movements and drills including: Cimande Jurus 1-33, Kelid Latihan and an Elbow Langkah.
2. Langkah Langkah (Lower Body) Includes all standarized long forms and lower body movements including: Langkah Cimande, Langkah Tiga, Langkah Empat, Langkah Sarang Laba Laba, Langkah Cikalong, Langkah Garis and Langkah Kilap
3. Bela Diri (Self Defense)Includes dynamic self-defense against a variety of attacks both armed and unarmed. Includes multiple opponent defenses, empty hand, strikes, grabs, holds, pushes, punches, kicks, gun, club and knife defenses.
4. Sambutan (Sparring/Fighting) Refers to sparring or fighting in Pencak Silat. In PCK, the student starts with one-on-one sparring/fighting, moves to three-on-one and later up to as many as 12 opponents are dealt with. In PCK we try to emulate extreme realistic combat conditions. For this reason, sparring is taught in a methodical and progressive manner from slow to medium and finally to full contact sparring. WARNING: Protective equipment is NOT used in PCK sparring.
5. Senjata (Weapons) Includes a variety of traditional Indonesian weapons and modern counterparts. Traditional weapons include: the knife, kujang, parang, kerambit and keris. Modern weapons include: pocket knife, pocket stick, machete, kerambit folder, flexible weapons and improvised weapons.
6. Bunga (Flower Dance) - traditional flower dance of Pencak Silat. The movements are taught in a beautiful, fluid, rhythmic manner in the beginning to eventually become an unpredictable combative flow.Also refered to as the Crawl.
7. Internal (Kebatinan/Kejawen) Includes the Sundanese teachings of Kebatinan, Kejawen and Buhun. The primary focus is the study of internal energy, the 4 elements, healing, meditation and the devepopment of rasa (intuition) to enhance your Pencak Silat training and your daily life to achieve the perfect balance of mind, body and spirit.
8. Ilmu Rahasia (Secret Science) Includes advanced internal portions of the art that are only taught to the "Chosen Few" who demonstrate their dedication and devotion to the art and their teacher. Student must have a strong grasp of the Kebatinan/Kejawen training and possess unquestionable character to learn this portion of the art.
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The 8 Principles of PCK Silat

1. Deception: Includes Decoying, Camouflage and Stealth techniques. Making yourself appear to be vulnerable or using baits and feints to entice your opponent into a false sense of confidence. Also includes Off Timing (mental, visual and auditory) "Steal your Opponents Awareness", indirect vision and indirect hitting.
2. Destruction: "Destroy or Get Out" The systematic destruction of your opponents incoming attacks beginning with Joints, Muscles and then finally Nerve Destructions. Hunting the opponents limbs (arms and legs).
3. Penetration: This is the ability to close within striking range of the opponent, (taking their space) and the proper way of striking the opponent so that the target is broken, destroyed or put out of action.
4. Adhesion: Sticking blows, sticking to the opponent. Once you enter the opponent’s space with the principle of penetration, you never give that space back. Includes the use of tarik (pulling) and dorong (pushing) to off-balance and sweep opponent to the ground, sticking to them the entire time, pinning them and finished with multiple strikes.
5. Compacting: Utilizing your body as a weapon by collapsing one blow into another (the secret of kilap and poison hand). Small arcing blows flowing one into another with no wind-up or pulling back.
6. The Thorn: The rose is a beautiful flower but when you go to grab the stem you get stuck by a thorn. The thorns of your body are your knees and elbows. When an opponent throws in a strike they will naturally get impaled by the thorns of our body.
7. Bamboo: Utilizing core awareness and angulation of the body to be flexible like bamboo and help develop “Mad Rooster" and Ricochet Hitting. Bending the body to angle and give with the opponents blows, without backing up or retreating and snapping back immediately with strikes.
8. Body Armor: Positioning your body to protect yourself at all times; also called “Stationing”. Always covering yourself utilizing both arms, both legs and body position in regard to your opponent. If one hand is high, then one is low, etc.