Mustika Kwitang Pencak Silat | Method A

The Mustika Kwitang style also offers unarmed defense against a knife-bearing (pisau belati) enemy. Two different methods of defense are illustrated here; both begin with # 1, where the defender (on the left side) is confronted by an assailant holding a knife in his right hand. The first method of defense is shown in # 2 to # 4. In the first of these, the assailant has lunged deeply forward in an attempt to thrust his knife into the belly of the defender, who has evaded the thrust by adroitly shifting his body to the outside of the knife-wielding arm. Simultaneously, his right hand catches hold of the attacking wrist, his palm covering the back of the hand, his thumb pointing downward. He then pulls the captured arm across his right thigh toward his hip, rotating the arm to bring it elbow upward. The knife-wielding arm is now securely wedged between the defender's thigh and upper body. At the same time, the defender strikes the assailant's captured elbow with a hard downward blow of his left wrist-forearm; the force must break or otherwise severely injure the joint. With the attacking arm now rendered useless, the defender, while keeping it pinned against thigh and body, releases his right hand to deliver a hard upright fist directly into his assailant's face or side of head, and with his left hand he grips the enemy's hair (# 3). Twisting his body to the left and using his left hand to pull his assailant's head, the defender wheels the assailant over onto his back and then completes the subduing action by striking his knife-edged right hand against the throat of the enemy (# 4).