SILAT CONCEPTS FORM AND FUNCTION

Jurus 1-6 and Their Combat Applications

See how the original fighting spirit and combat focus of the Indonesian tribal arts has evolved with this remarkable training manual. Silat Concepts – an easily learned program of self-defense that breathes new life into the brutally effective fighting techniques of pencak silat – was created by renowned martial artist Joseph Simonet after years of studying the Indonesian arts.

Simonet realized that the versatile, highly effective moves of pencak silat could only be used to their devastating full potential if they were liberated from the rigid interpretations that had frozen this art in place. He also knew that the secret to doing this was not in the specific combinations of movement but in the concept and method behind the movement.

Here he shows you how to harness the fierce power and fluid motion of the first six of the 18 jurus (upper-body forms) of Silat Concepts and demonstrates how to apply them in 50 fight-stopping close-combat techniques.

With simple text and hundreds of step-by-step photos, you will learn the mechanics of the jurus as solo forms and how to use them to destroy any attacker. 11 x 8 1/2, softcover, 576 photos, 120 pp.

Joseph Simonet began his study of the Indonesian martial arts after more than 20 years of experience and training in other martial arts systems. After earning a second-degree black belt and instructor’s credentials in Pentjak Silat Tongkat and studying that art’s parent style of serah, he developed Silat Concepts, a combat-focused expression of the principles and movements of traditional silat geared toward modern self-defense applications. Simonet has been featured in numerous videos, including Silat Concepts and Advanced Silat Concepts, but this is his first book.

Michael Janich is a lifelong student of the martial arts with instructor’s credentials in the American Self-Protection (ASP) system, Filipino Serrada Eskrima, and the Natural Spirit system of Arnis. He is also the founder of the Martial Blade Concepts (MBC) and Counter-Blade Concepts (CBC) systems of edged-weapon self-defense. Although Janich does not consider himself a silat practitioner, he has conducted extensive analysis of various silat systems and incorporated many aspects of silat into his self-defense system and his personal practice of the arts.

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