Mustika Kwitang Pencak Silat

Also to be found in west Java, but centering around the metropolitan Jakarta area, this dynamic method of fighting is an extremely powerful system that is not content with mere evasive actions, no matter how clever they may be. It dedicates all the forces of the body to the fury of a counterattack, and from its dramatic combative postures derives the explosive force that, when fully released, will subdue most enemies. This system of pencak-silat achieves a good balance between arm and leg tactics; although it may perhaps favor the former, it is realistic enough to prepare for an enemy who fights primarily with his feet, and it can, retaliate in the same manner. By working at the task of toughening both hands and feet, the Mustika Kwitang exponent can generate enough power to smash a coconut with one blow-and he can apply a similar force with great accuracy against his enemy's vital regions.

Cimande Pencak Silat

Though developed in the wet lowlands, this fighting form is now confined almost exclusively to the Sundanese people of west Java, a rural, mountainous region. Cimande postures are less upright than those of other Javanese pencak-silat systems, and movements are made cautiously, as though the fighter were trying to avoid wet and slippery spots on the ground. The flexibility that Cimande combative postures permit is ideally suited to meet an enemy who rushes in hard to the attack. Through clever use of hand and arm parrying actions, the Cimande fighter meets the initial attack, then neutralizes it by further covering action, and finally-and virtually simultaneously delivers his counterattack.