Although it is beyond the scope of this blog to describe all the possible weapons in detail, an account of some of them is indeed necessary for the exponent of pencak-silat.
- Blade
- Stick and Staff
- Flail
- Projectile
- Composite
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Pencak Silat Implemental Weapons
Unlike orthodox karate-do, pencak-silat makes use of an extremely wide range of implemental weapons of various sorts, as do orthodox Chinese, Korean, and Okinawan combative arts, all of them thus taking on a quality of realism that is lacking in solely empty-hand combative forms.
Although it is beyond the scope of this blog to describe all the possible weapons in detail, an account of some of them is indeed necessary for the exponent of pencak-silat.
Although it is beyond the scope of this blog to describe all the possible weapons in detail, an account of some of them is indeed necessary for the exponent of pencak-silat.
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