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Passing the KunTao Silat Lineage
To All KunTao Silat Practitioners of planet Earth, The Creator has richly blessed me over the decades to be in the company of such sterling People and Practitioners. You are all precious to me and I have very much enjoyed my positions and responsibilities over the half-century I have been leading KunTao Silat. Although my […]
Year of the Dragon ~ Family Gathering 2024
This past weekend marked a milestone in KunTao Silat: the 2024 Family Gathering. This event saw Pendekar Steve Gartin present the 3rd Generation of KunTao Silat to the world. Dr. Jonathan Pyndus, Guru and Keeper of the Lineage, brought several of his core students to New Mexico for their first visit to Catron County so […]
The Legacy of KunTao Silat is ready for an update
Sticking hands with Pak Steve and Guru Jon
Testing Resumes
Greetings to everyone in KTS, With Pak Steve’s release this weekend we will be resuming online testing. However, to streamline the online testing process for everyone in the Distance Learning Program and the Guru Certification Course tests will now be conducted via live video conference using FreeConferenceCall.com, FaceTime, or FaceBook Messenger. If you are wanting […]
BIG NEWS: Pak Steve to Return Home and More
Greetings to the KTS community, My apologies on the website having technical issues. While they are far from fixed, you should be able to access this page now. If it says, “critical error,” just refresh your browser. In order to do more complete repairs, we need Pak Steve’s passwords, which he cannot remember unless […]
The Importance of Pukulan
Pukulan (Poekoelan) is a word coming to us from our Pentjak Silat Serak heritage. It refers to the colliding of bodies, and implies one body crashing into (or through) another. Many (or most) of the Asian martial arts predating the “modernization” period of the late 1800s-WW2 (where the fighting arts were being standardized for mass […]
Internal/External Horse Stance: The Root of KunTao Silat
Depending on long you have been in martial arts, or how wide your experience has been with the innumerable traditions available to us now in the 21st Century, you may or may not have noticed that some version of Horse Stance (aka Tiger Stance in Malabar) is found in virtually every system. Even “modern” combat […]
Djurus Satu: One Form to Rule Them All
It does not matter how many years or repetitions I have playing Djurus Satu. There is always so much more combat lore to mine from its depths I truly stand in awe of it. Of the various forms I have studied in 21 years of martial arts, an argument could be made for Djurus Satu […]