My friends at Inner Wave and I put on a small silat demo as part of the CU International festival. For a more complete writeup, read my post at Boulder Silat.
Tag Archive: silat
Feb 19
Merantau: a Silat player’s review
After several months of waiting, I finally saw Merantau[1], an Indonesian language, martial arts flick. When watching the trailers it was billed as kind of an Ong Bak, but with Muay Thai swapped for Pencak Silat. Merantau more than delivered on this premise. In terms of story, Merantau does very little to differentiate itself. A …
Nov 26
Silat Demo at CSU
It’s become kind of an annual event for Inner Wave Pencak Silat to do a demonstration at Colorado State University’s World Unity Fair. As with all of our demos, the level of planning is fairly minimal. When I first started learning Silat under Daniel, there were only about 3 students. I learned on the day …