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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 […]

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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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The Physics of Entering Stance

Stances are a key component of KunTao Silat, as they are in any system.  Integral to our Family Art is the Entering Stance, as it is from this position that much of the ingress and body to body contact with the enemy is conducted. If we look at the structure of Entering Stance we see […]

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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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