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Serak is without a doubt embedded in Satu and other areas of AKTS – including Dua; and by marriage Langka Tiga. It is just *different.* It is this ‘different’ that makes what we do so special.
Learning the Serak djuru’s in the beginning of or mid-stride the curriculum seems…. out of place for this branch of Silat.
I agree with Joe.
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Sometimes I forget that I Started with the 8 Djurus of Serak. Perk used them as a white 2 black belt program there at his United Combat Arts school in Sherwood Arkansas (along with some Korean stuff to fill the gaps).
We would perform Satu on occasion, jump around like a monkey on others; but the core was the 8 Djurus as he learned them from Chas. I have no idea what he does now, but that is how it started then.
When I moved to Atlanta and struck out own my own under Pak Steve, I relied Heavily on those crashing Djurus when live People (experienced artists at that) started responding to my online queries for bodies. If it were not for those mechanics I would never have been able to pull off those practice groups at the beginning of the LDP ~ at least not with an upper hand that is required to draw them back to the next class. As Pak has stated many times for many years, the folks who come to KTS are usually experienced; this puts a lot of pressure on the practice leader to buck up or get out of dodge.
It is possible that a few of the Serak Djurus in the beginning could help bridge this gap (as they did for me); however at my initiation I had not been introduced to the Kendang Silat Djurus, Monkey Feet, Sticking Hands, Stances – essentially all the elements from Pak’s side of the fence; these elements were not (I have no idea of the current state of) highlighted in the Betawi way of doing things (which is essentially what I was doing before the change).
I suppose the conclusion I am coming to is that I personally would not have hit the ground running without the 2 years of Betawi training, but – and -or is the elements included in Pak’s way of doing things a viable substitution for practice leaders to get a ‘leg up’ right out of the gate?
Another thought on the subject: when I started training with Perk – it was very physical. I had the hard ‘displante’ down in a short period of time, that’s just how we did it. How do we get this element into a practice leader as fast as possible from a distance? There is the real challenge. When folks come to see one of us who has been doing this for a long time, upon the first entry they ‘know’ we are doing something very cool. You can’t get that from the video – or can you?
Interesting
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