Pamur Pencak Silat | Method B

Exponents of the Pamur style have developed a tactic designed to counter the failure of the tactics described above and to enable the defender to regain his lost advantage. The attempt to throw the knife-wielding assailant has failed, and # 1 shows how the latter has been able to throw the defender to the ground instead. The assailant has reversed the position of his knife, a tactic at which Madurese fighters are highly skilled, and is now about to strike it downward at the apparently prostrate defender. The latter, however, has a tactic at his disposal by means of which he will regain control of the situation: he quickly rams his right foot, sole flat, into the assailant's armpit and at the same time grabs hold with both hands of the assailant's knife-wielding right arm (# 2).

Note in this figure that the knuckles of the defender's left hand face upward and those of his right hand face downward. The pressure, upward with the right hand and downward with the left, with the right foot still jammed into the assailant's arm, will be very painful to him. The defender, however, has further action in mind which requires very careful timing and synchronization. He slides his right hand down the assailant's captured right arm (# 3j and at the same time rolls quickly toward his left with a violent upward thrust of his right foot. His hands snap downward. The assailant attempts to save himself a nasty fall by stretching out his left arm; the knife he is still holding in his captured right arm can, however, only prove a source of danger to him, and he drops the blade as he falls out of fear of cutting himself (8 4). The defender, now that the assailant is unarmed and on the ground, can snatch the blade himself and take whatever steps are necessary to subdue his enemy.