Pencak Silat Training Exercise 13

This is another Perisai Diri exercise designed to develop the evasive skills described at the beginning of Training Exercise 12, but completing that maneuver with more severe measures.

METHOD A. At any appropriate time, as you complete the jumping tactic described in Training Exercise 12 (# 4), hook your left hand in beak hand fashion (see # 1 and Fig. 6) around the left side of your partner's neck, at the same time lifting your right leg (# 2). Step to your right and swing your partner circularly to your left rear as you put your right foot onto the ground. After he falls, finish him with a knife-edge hand strike to his neck or to the side of his head (# 3).

METHOD B. As preparation for the toppling action, put your left hand to his face and with a tiger claw hand simulate a gouging action to the eyes and soft tissues of his face (# 4).

METHOD C. Again, using the tiger claw hand, grasp your partner's head with both hands and swing him backward to the ground; simulate twisting his neck with a sharp wrenching action (# 1-# 3). # 4illustrates the Harimau pencak-silat equivalent.