Boulder Inner Wave Pencak Silat

Awesome to see kids learning knife awareness with a bit of pressure testing. Note to self: get a set of safety goggles for sparring classes.

My kids class doing combat sport knife sparring. If you’ve got an issue with this, you’re taking things waaaay too seriously. This is paintball. This is jiujitsu. This is wrestling. This is horseplay. This is jousting. Kids need to compete in a healthy environment where they get to fail and succeed under guidance. As adults, we tend to lose this sense of being okay with losing games…and going again and again for a chance to win! In my adult seminars and classes, we play and we compete with one another in the most fun and healthy ways! If you’ve been to one, you know what I mean. Play is the superhighway to learning and kids are the fastest drivers!

The Pencak Silat world lost a legend and its first global ambassador on 24 October 2024.

RIP, ikut berduka cita Mbah Doel Wahab. It was an honor getting to meet and train with you.

Here is an article from year's past that describes his legacy not only for silat but also for barongsai (Chinese lion dancing) in Indonesia.

Recalling childhood memories of Doel Wahab - Wed, January 29, 2020 - The Jakarta Post Finished products: A woman passes between two barongsai lion heads hung by Doel in front of his workshop

Excited to tear into this book and delve deeper into the healing side of Pencak Silat.

T5 Warrior Herbal Remedies: Family Traditions of Pencak Silat The methods and various recipes presented in this book are an accumulation of generations of anecdotal traditional medicine passed generation to generation within the Inti Ombak Pencak Silat / Lakutama family systems. These methods and recipes have not been evaluated by the United States Food and...