Exerpts from writings by Guru Penglima


"You dont have to be as fast or as strong as your opponent if you know how to strike, when and where to throw it and how to make it invisible."

"It is my goal to train you for a fight that pushes you to the limits mentally, physically and spiritually, and therefore requires any and all advantages we can take to make sure that we or our families are safe."

"Straight out of the jungles of Indonesia, our art is as beautiful as it is deadly. It is truly a fascinating gift from the mystical land of the Sundanese."

"To walk the path of a warrior only to train for the handful of physical confrontations you may encounter in your lifetime, while ignoring the other 99 percent of your life is to waste the gift that the ancestors of your art have given you."

"Sensitivity is the ability to always have your awareness everywhere at once. Even when one part of your body is in use, still to have sensitivity everywhere."

"At all times during your movement even during a strike or juru, that movement can be transformed and redirected into another strike or motion at will if you are relaxed untill the moment of impact."

"This type of movement keeps you in a constant state of potential attack. This fluid movement is the Pencak aspect of Pencak Silat that when combined with its more destructive counterpart creates a balance of relentlessness and the ability to get that destuctiveness to where it needs to be in an efficient and sophisticated manner."

"We use the evasiveness of the footwork, destructive and relentless fluid striking with every possible weapon on the body( hands, feet, fingers, wrists, elbows, forearms, etc.), decoying and the sensitivity to know when to employ these things to be able to create a situation where an opponent becomes immediately overwhelmed and disorented."