What is Pencak Silat?
Pencak Silat is the collective name given to the ethnic fighting arts of South East Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Pencak Silat is not a sport, nor is it what most people consider a typical Martial Art. Pencak Silat is a “Warrior Way of Life” used for survival. It's an art form that teaches and guides you on the path of becoming a Silat Warrior. A way of life, that will develop you Physically, Internally and Spiritually
Raja Naga Academy
is dedicated to bringing you the finest and most sophisticated instruction in the ancient traditions of the Indonesian Warrior.
Our teaching is the perfect confluence of ancient and traditional Indonesian combatives combined with modern innovation and technology. The result is one of the most fluid, beautiful and deadly self-defense systems on the planet. With the Physical portions of the art you will be given the tools to effectively defend yourself in any situation, under any circumstances. In the same light, the Internal aspects will open the door for you to be able to deal with any situation in your personal life that may arise, without ever losing your inner balance. The ability to walk through your day in peace, in such a way that nothing can even leave a scratch.
PCK SILAT
- Learn to fight multiple attackers from day 1
- Sword , Knife , Stick as well as other traditional weapons are taught with real combative effectiveness
- Defend yourself against any weapon
- Counter any lock or hold
- Use any element in your environment as a potential weapon, your keys , a pen, a t-shirt or a book
- Incapacitate any attacker with devastating sriking and breaking techniques
- Be aware of your surroundings and use them to your advantage
- Empty Hand , Stick, Knife, Kerambit, Sword as well as other traditional weapons
- Harimau Ground Fighting
- Defend yourself under any circumstances
- Classes focus on things you can take onto the streets immediately.
- Multiple Opponents
- Hightened Awareness and Sensitivity in Combat and in your daily life
No competitions just flat out real world street ready techniques. Traditional Healing, Meditation and Tenaga Dallam or internal energy training are also incorpoated to create the perfect balance of peace and power that differentiates atheletes from warriors.
8 Areas of PCK Silat
1) Jurus Jurus (Upper Body) - includes all standardized upper body forms and movements including: Cimande Jurus 1-30, Pukulan Jurus 1-18, Kelid Jurus 1-10, Tawekan Jurus, Sera Jurus 1-5 and Pamacan Jurus 1-5.
2) Lankah Lankah (Lower Body) - includes all standarized long forms and lower body movements including: Lankah Cimande, Lankah Cikalong, Lankah Garis, Lankah Kilap, Cimande Elbow Lankah, Lankah Empat and Lankah Tiga.
3) Bela Diri (Self Defense) - includes dynamic self defense against a variety of attacks both armed and unarmed. Includes multiple opponent defenses, empty hand, gun, club and knife defenses.
4) Kembangan (Flower Dance) - traditional flower dance of Pencak Silat. The movements are taught in a beautiful, fluid, rythmic manner in the beginning to eventually become an unpredictable twisting tornado of moving destruction.
5) Sambutan (Sparring/Fighting) - refers to sparring or fighting in Pencak Silat. In PCK we try to emulate extreme realistic combat conditions. For this reason, sparring is taught in a methodical and progressive manner form slow to medium and finally to full contact sparring. WARNING: Protective equipment is NOT used in PCK sparring.
6) Senjata (Weapons) - includes a variety of traditional Indonesian weapons and modern counterparts. Traditional weapons include: the keris, kujang, pedang, cabang, kerambit, golok, rencong, clurit, pisau, sarong, halu stick and kancing stick. Modern weapons include: pocket knife, pocket stick, machete, kerambit folder, flexible weapons and improvised weapons.
7) Kebatinan (Spirituality) - includes the Sundanese teachings of "Buhun" and "Wiwitan". The primary focus is the use of the Tri Tangtu (Trinity) of Sekala, Niskala and Gusti to enhance you Pencak Silat training and your daily life, the use of the 4 elements is also very important, tenaga dalam (internal energy) development is used for both fighting and healing, Samadhi (deep meditation to purify the spirit) is taught to achieve 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 training and possess unquestionable character to learn this portion of the art.
Mission Statement
The mission of PCK International and its Board of Directors is to provide the highest quality instruction and certification of the Indonesian combat arts to students and teachers both nationally and internationally through personal instruction, distant learning programs, workshops and seminars. To this end, we accomplish our mission by following the philosophy, practice and curriculum of Guru Besar Jerry Jacobs, the Grandmaster of Pukulan Cimande Kombinasi Pencak Silat and the founder of PCK International.
Vision Statement
Our VISION, quite simply, is to be "THE MOST INNOVATIVE AND PREMIER INDONESIAN MARTIAL ARTS ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD, OFFERING ONLY THE BEST INSTRUCTION, SERVICES AND PRODUCTS TO PEOPLE AROUND THE GLOBE." This vision is supported by our core values, also known as “the code of morality”.
Core Values
Also known as the “Code of Morality” include:
-Courage
-Honor
-Integrity
-Humility
-Loyalty
-Respect
-Responsibility
- Having the Courage or bravery to do what’s right, even in the presence of fear, anger, pain or uncertainty.
- Maintain the code of Honor, distinguished by the Cimande oath, the ancestors "adat and hormat" (customs and traditions) and our martial arts organization.
- Always act with Integrity and consistency of good character in mind.
- Be humble, polite and act with Humility at all times.
- Have Loyalty and faith in your art and in your teachers.
- Respect all living things, beginning with yourself.
- Take Responsibility for your own actions and maintain moral obligations in all situations.
Weapons Taught at Raja Naga Academy
-Parang - sword
-Pisau - knife
-Kerambit - tiger claw
-Golok - chopping knife
-Kujang - cimande knife
-Cabang/Siku-Siku - trident/ sai
-Rencong - toe knife
-Kancing Stick - lightning bolt stick
-Halu Stick- short staff
-Kris - sacred dagger
Traditional Indonesian Meditation
Meditation, Healing and Tenaga Dallam or Internal Energy studies. Ancient breathing techniques and Indonesian Yoga, relaxation meditation and healing techniques, Guided Meditation and Chakra awareness, to help keep yourself at the highest levels of mental and physical health
Tenaga Dallam is a term we use to refer to internal energy, Prana or Chi. Tenaga Dallam is not just electricity or bio-energy. It is energy with intelligence. Every move you make, every thought and every second of your life you are working with and giving and recieving this energy at all times. It is my goal to make you aware of these energies so that you may fulfill your god given right to be in conscious control of all aspects of your existence so that you may live a full, enriched life that brings a lightness and sense of peace to your spirit and benifits all you come into contact with.
We have four general categories of Meditation excersizes but as you progress the lines tend to blur. Below is a very brief introduction into each aspect:
(1) Dynamic Tenaga Dallam Excersizes: These are moving, dynamic excersizes, designed to awaken and begin to give you an awareness of the energies of the body and how to manipulate them. These practices are not very difficult and help to build energy and are very beneficial for your health.
(2) Seated Tenaga Dallam Excersizes: Excersizes for accumulating, redirecting, and conserving Tenaga Dallam, and awareness and control of the Coiling Center in the lower abdomen. More attention to details are emphisized here. Some excersizes are even done on the purely mental plane. These practices focus mostly on holding on to the energy collected and using it consciously.
(3) Expanding Awareness and Sensitivity: Excersizes ranging from physical and energy sensitivity to fighting awareness. Some Shamanic excersizes and Trance-like states are used to help you to have a deeper connection to the subconscious, and a greater level of awareness in all aspects of your life, however our main focus is put into fighting, healing, and knowing and feeling the connection between ourselves and our environment.
(4) Samadi: These excersizes are simple ways to experience a glimpse of Samadhi or Meditative Absorbtion. These excersizes may have a more spiritual feel yet they do not involve or require the practice of any one Religion. For those interested in making themeself a better person by establishing a deeper sense of well being and sense of equilibrium that is unconditional.
What will you learn
Pencak Silat Training covers all areas of combat including:
Striking
Grappling
Ground fighting
Locking
Trapping
Multiple Opponents
Weapons training
Pisau (Knife)
Pedang (Sword)
Kerambit (Tiger Claw)
Clurit/Arit (Indonesian Sickle)
Trumbu (Halu Stick)
Kancing Stick (Pocket Stick)
Kujang (Traditional Indonesian Training Weapon)
Cabang (Traditional Indonesian Training Weapon)
Keris (Traditional Indonesian Training Weapon)
...and even how to use your clothes as weapons in Sarong Training!
Internal Training Tenaga Dalam (Inner Power)
Power Postures (Yoga Like postures)
Elemental Breathing (using the various Elements of Earth, Water, Fire and Air)
Animal Mannerisms (using the various mannerisms of the Tiger, Monkey, Snake, Crane)
Bunga (Soft flowing movements which develop calmness of mind and spirit)This type of training will not only provide you with the ability to defend yourself, but will also dramatically increase your Fitness, Speed, Power, Co-ordination, Flexibility, Health, and Vitality. It will also help you to relieve Stress and Relax! This is a Warrior Art that truly links Mind, Body, and Spirit into an ultimate fighting force.
2. Lankah Lankah (Lower Body)
3. Bela Diri (Self Defense)
4. Kembangan (Flower Dance)
5. Sambutan (Sparring/Fighting)
6. Senjata (Weapons)
7. Ilmu Rahasia (Secret Science)
8. Kebatinan (Spirituality)
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 regards to your opponent. If one hand is high, then one is low, etc.
Overview
Pukulan Cimande Kombinasi(PCK) is a style of Indonesian Pencak Silat developed and taught by Guru Besar Jerry Jacobs. Pencak Silat is a general term used to describe martial arts that come from the island nation of Indonesia."Pukulan" denotes "hitting" or "striking". "Cimande" is a well known style of Pencak Silat in Western Java[1]. "Kombinasi" can be translated as "combination".Pukulan Cimande Kombinasi is a full-range martial art. It includes the use of several edged and impact weapons, fighting while in a grounded position, grappling and multiple opponents training. The style of fighting is distinguished by free flowing, writhing movements, off-timing, integrated footwork and draw stance strategies. It is also characterized by a close fighting position and fast continuous hitting. The strategy is to close with the opponent such that it is possible to sweep them to the ground in a violent way, then follow this attack with some kind of finishing technique.There is heavy emphasis on attacking the limbs of the opponent, and delivering fast disorienting strikes to the face, followed by more substantial strikes to the head and body.
Style Content
The style is organized around the use of five primary animal techniques- monkey, tiger, snake, crane and dragon.The monkey (Monyet, Kera) portion of the style uses slaps, grabs, punches and elbows, changing position from high to low.The tiger (Pamacan) utilizes a very low stance, and seeks to smash the opponents limbs and drag him down to continue the fight on the ground. The tiger also fights in a full supine (Harimau) position where the practitioner is lying fully on the ground.The snake (Ular) style comes in two varieties, cobra (Sendok) and python (Sawa). The cobra style uses half-fists to deliver fast strikes to the eyes and soft body tissues, and the python attempts to strike then wrap the opponent's limbs and body to break, strangle and throw them.The crane (Blekok) style uses high stances and leaps, together with open hand strikes.And Lastly, the dragon (Raja Naga) is a synthesis of the other four animals, together with a strategy of deployment which emphasizes internal techniques and highly deceptive movements.The movements of the art are also taught according to a secret method which leads to an increase in 'tenaga dalam'(energy)in the body.
Pukulan Cimande Kombinasi also has a system of meditation and metaphysical development which includes meditations designed to draw the four elements (water, earth, fire, air) into the body for various combative and spiritual purposes, and the practice of animal spirit possession, in order to aid fighting skill. Mantras and magic circles are used, along with a highly developed system of visualization and breathing.
Pukulan Cimande Kombinasi (PCK) can be roughly translated as:
- "Pukulan" denotes "hitting" or "striking".
- "Cimande" is a well known style of Pencak Silat in Western Java.
- "Kombinasi" can be translated as "combination".
Pukulan Cimande Kombinasi is a full-range martial art. It includes the use of several edged and impact weapons, fighting while in a grounded position, grappling and multiple opponents training. The style of fighting is distinguished by free flowing, writhing movements, off-timing, integrated footwork and draw stance strategies. It is also characterized by a close fighting position and fast continuous hitting. The strategy is to close with the opponent such that it is possible to sweep them to the ground in a violent way, then follow this attack with a barrage of continuous flowing strikes or some kind of finishing technique. There is heavy emphasis on attacking the limbs of the opponent, and delivering fast disorienting strikes to the face, followed by more substantial strikes to the head and body.
Pukulan Cimande Kombinasi also has a system of meditation and metaphysical development which includes meditations designed to draw the four elements (water, earth, fire, air) into the body for various combative and spiritual purposes, and the practice of animal spirit possession, in order to aid fighting skill. Mantras, mudras and magic circles are used, along with a highly developed system of visualization and breathing.
Main influences
Pukulan Cimande Kombinasi is based on Guru Besar Jerry Jacobs extensive training over the past 20+ years with various teachers of the Indonesian Martial Arts and the combination of these sources:
Silat Panglipur - This Style is taught by Kang Cecep Arif Rahman and is a combination of West Javanese/ Sundanese Silat systems including but not limited to Cimande, Sera, Cikalong. Sabandar, Pamacan, Pamonyet. Kang Cecep has helped us reconnect to our roots in Cimande and Sera with his extensive knowledge and direct Lineage.
Poekoelan Tjiminde - This is the style of Pencak Silat propagated by Willy Wetzel, a Dutch-Indonesian Master who brought the art to the United States. A handful of schools in the United States teach variations of 'Poekoelan' as it is also known. This is where our 4 animal systems come from (monkey, tiger, snake and crane) with the culmination of the Dragon or Raja Naga. Guru Jim Wetzel (Willy Wetzel's son) still teaches his father's art at his school in Pennsylvania. I feel honored and privledged to have learned some of the fundamentals of Poekoelan Tjiminde directly from Guru Jim Wetzel.
Pukulan Cimande Pusaka - This is the style of Pencak Silat propagated by Pendekar William Sanders as passed down from his teachers, Guru John Malter (student of Willy Wetzel) and Pendekar Eddie Jafri. This is the Sera, Cimande, Cikalong, Sabandar influence from the Man Jud Lineage.
Cimande Tarik Kolot - Cimande Pusaka, Sera and Pamacan as taught in the village of Tarik Kolot by Pendekar Mama Sukarma, who traces a direct lineage to Embah Kahir. I recieved the title of "Guru" in Cimande Tarik Kolot from Pendekar Sukarma in traditional Cimande Pusaka, Sera and Pamacan.
Sera Kombinasi - This is a style created by Mas Jud in the twentieth century, based upon traditional Sera, Cimande, Cikalong, the five animal silat styles, and other sources. It is currently taught by Mas Jud's descendants living on Java in the town of Cilisung. This is the original river source of Willy Wetzel's art of Poekoelan Tjiminde and ultimately the original river source of Pukulan Cimande Kombinasi.
Ilmu Surapati - Pendekar Sartono claims inheritance of a lineage of Ilmu (mystical science) which traces its origin to Untung Surapati. This is where the Master Key of our system, the Circle of Creation comes from as passed down to Pendekar Sanders and then to me.
