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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Message from Ibu Rose

Hello, Dr. Jon here.  The following is a message from Ibu Rose which she asked me to share with the KunTao Silat community on her behalf:   “I speak from with-in my heart a moral outrage, lost words changed meanings,Freedom, pride, patriot, all criminal words in this day and time. My life, country, home have […]

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An Update from Pak Steve

“Well, I want make a brief statement to my friends out there in Catron County and my students all over the world and the veryfew special people that really are concerned about me and what’s going on. I’m now 115 days in jail.I wanted to go over with you what they have on me, what […]

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Greetings to Everyone in KunTao Silat

Hello KTS Community, As I’m sure most of you have seen, last month Pak Steve Gartin made the surprise announcement that he wants me to carry on his KunTao Silat legacy as Keeper of the Lineage.  This means that I will be carrying the banner for Pak Steve’s Malabar and American KunTao Silat disciplines, as […]

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