Bhakti Negara Pencak Silat

Efficient fighting forms are the keynote of this style of combat, and all its exponents are skilled technicians, at home in an upright position or on the ground. Evasive action is covered by clever arm and hand tactics using both the open and the closed hand. Bhakti Negara fighters are also masters of cunning. Should an unsuspecting enemy grasp an arm that seemed to be inadvertently offered, he will be slapped-not to loosen the grip but rather to distract him long enough so that he will be unaware that the real countermeasure is already being applied.