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Although the word silat is widely known throughout much of Southeast Asia, the term pencak silat is used mainly in Indonesia. "Pencak silat" was chosen in 1948 as a unifying term for the Indonesian fighting styles. It was a compound of the two most commonly used words for martial arts in Indonesia.
Verdi Phefferkorn von Offenbach (26 February 1922 – 1 January 2021), better known as Paatje Phefferkorn, was an Indo practitioner of the Indonesian martial art Pencak Silat in the Netherlands. As one of its best known teachers he has played an important role in increasing the popularity of this Martial Art in the Netherlands and Europe.
The term pencak silat has been adopted globally in reference to professional competitive silat for sport, similar to the Chinese word wushu. Regional dialect names include penca ( West Java ), dika or padik (Thailand), silek (the Minangkabau pronunciation of silat), main-po or maen po (in the lower speech of Sundanese ), and gayong or gayung ...
Yuda is a Minangkabau from West Sumatra and an expert in silat. As part of the merantau (journeying) tradition, he leaves his home to seek a career outside his hometown. He plans to teach silat to the children in Jakarta. On his bus journey, he meets Eric, another silat expert.
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Yayan Ruhian (born 19 October 1968) is an Indonesian martial artist and actor. He is known for co-starring in Gareth Evans' films The Raid (2011) as Mad Dog, The Raid 2 (2014) as Prakoso, Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as Tasu Leech, [2] and Beyond Skyline (2017) as the police chief. [3]
Fictional Pencak Silat practitioners (4 P) M. Mixed martial artists utilizing silat (7 P) Pages in category "Silat practitioners"
The santri of PPTQM Pakan Sinayan in Agam Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia doing the Tapak Suci exercise. Tapak Suci Putera Muhammadiyah (lit. ' Sacred Palm, Sons of Muhammadiyah '), shortened as Tapak Suci, is an autonomous pencak silat martial arts organization of Muhammadiyah, the modernist, second largest Muslim organization in Indonesia.