My blog is All About Pencak-Silat

Since pencak-silat was intended for instantaneous use in the emergencies of daily life, the costume used is simply that ,normally worn, and this remains true today of many of the
styles. Others, however, perhaps through reasons of economy as much as anything else, have developed a special training suit. There is no overall standard; each style that has designed a special suit has incorporated in it certain unique features. The reader may decide, following the photographs in this blog, to make his own training suit, but the matter is of little practical importance; any costume, such as that used forjudo or karate-& exercises, will be found satisfactory.

The spirit of combat, of actual fighting-in other words, silat-must underlie all orthodox pencak-silat training. Any other attitude negates the meaning of the art. For that reason, trainees practicing together are called "enemies," not mere opponents, and each should regard the other as someone who is trying to take his life. If you train alone, you train against an imaginary enemy orenemies; if you train with a partner, you must always think of him as an enemy.