Sunday, June 20, 2010

Mustika Kwitang Pencak Silat Combat Situation

Situation I. Your enemy is simultaneously aiming a right lunge punch at your midsection and is advancing his right leg around and behind your own right leg (# 1). Reference: Training Exercise 15.
Action: As the enemy lunges forward, shift your weight onto your left leg, raising your left arm high and keeping your right arm low (# 2). Before he has time to land his punch, you must kick your free right leg back and out against the side of his advancing right leg; at the same time, chop your left arm downward, knife edge against the inner side of his attacking forearm, while your right hand, also knife-edged, swings to deliver a blow to his neck or head (# 3). Shift to the left and wheel him to the ground, finishing him with a hard knife edge of one or both hands to his solar plexus (# 4 # 5).

Situation 2. The enemy is lunging forward with a right knife edge blow (not shown) to your head or neck; you meet his attack from a left stance (figure on the left) (# I). Action: Before the enemy has time to land his knife-edge attack, counterattack from your left stance with a right- hand punch to his midsection, covering the left side of your head with your left hand, held open (# 2). This latter action successfully blocks the enemy's knife-edge attack to the left side of your head, while he, for his part, also successfully blocks your punch to his midsection with his left hand held open (# 3). Break the stalemate by flinging both arms upward and high overhead, an action designed to throw both of his arms outward; shift your weight to your left leg, and using it as a platform, deliver a hard forward snap kick to the enemy's groin (# 4-# 5)

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