Perisai Diri Pencak Silat

This east Javanese fighting form is the most staccato in rhythm of all pencak-silat styles. Its abrupt movements are made possible by exceptionally upright combative postures which constitute a large part of its wide range of tactics. Perisai Diri is essentially a hand and arm system, which, When combined with its upright combative postures, provides some of the cleverest and most effective defenses known to man. The Perisai Diri fighter does not exclude leg tactics but the ones he chooses have their technical roots deep in Sumatran pencak-silat. Making use of combative postures selected from both human and animal positions, Perisai Diri exponents exhibit a speed of hand and arm movements second to none