American KunTao Silat System
American KunTao Silat was born in Marin County California in 2000. Steve Gartin had been teaching KunTao Silat for over two decades, a system he founded with Chas Clements in 1978 comprised mostly from Indonesian silat and Chinese KunTao learned from the de Thouars Brothers. This was a very difficult system for Americans to learn due to the very low stances and brutal training. American KunTao Silat maintains the first three levels of KunTao Silat as a foundation and builds upon that base with internal KunTao as taught to Steve by Great GrandMaster U. Un Surya (Bill Chang) finishing off the American KunTao Silat combat arsenal. Thus American KunTao Silat maintains the combat effectiveness KunTao Silat is renowned for by adding the Internal power mechanics of Chang Style KunTao to the phenomenal Dutch/Indonesian silat foundation while providing a systematic approach to learning characterized by Steve’s Constant Training philosophy.
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