What is "Pencak Silat" ?

Definition of Pencak Silat
Pencak Silat is a standard term used to describe a typical Indonesian martial art. Martial arts itself contains two meanings: Arts and Self-defense (Martial).

• Refers to the beauty of the art motion planning, pattern move, attack-defense, even art in martial arts is more specifically defined as the art of dance show in which the beauty of martial arts movements and steps to the musical accompaniment of drums combined arts (nayaga).
  Art can also be interpreted as a technique; attack techniques, techniques dodge, parry, hit, and so on. Herein lies the difference a martial arts expert with laymen during a fight in which a martial arts master who will face an opponent with a patterned movement and measurable.



• Martial arts is a key element in Pencak Silat, the essence of one's expertise in Pencak Silat is in self-defense against crime.
  Defend himself in the martial arts course using techniques, rules and filososfi in one's own martial arts. Pencak silat martial art born from a sense though, initiative, and inventiveness of our ancestors greatly influenced by elements of the culture and customs, because that is in charge of martial arts principles and philosophies that characterize a very strong indigenous nation.
  As a martial art that is full of typical local wisdom ancestors, every region in Indonesia has its own term to refer Pencak Silat as a martial art.
  In West Java, known as amengan, ulin, or maenpo. In Minang or west Sumatra called Silek, in Batavia called "Main pukul", Central Java and East Java called "Pencak", in Makassar called "Mancak", in east Kalimantan called "Bermancak", and so on.
  To homogenize terms necessary for the international association that is then born of raw title "Pencak Silat".

Organizations are realizing the federation of martial arts in various nation states are "Persekutuan Pencak Silat(PERSILAT)", which was formed by Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam. Pencak Silat is a martial sport that requires a lot of concentration. Usually every region in Indonesia has a typical martial arts school.
For example, the area of ​​West Java is famous and Cikalong Cimande flow, no flow in Central Java, White Dove and no flow in East Java Shield Yourself.

Every four years in Indonesia there is a national level martial arts match in National Sports Week. Martial arts also competed in the SEA Games since 1987. Beyond Indonesia also there are many fans of martial arts such as Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, and America.
At the national level sport through games and sports martial arts into one of the means of unifying the country, even to the name of the nation, and the identity of the nation. Martial arts sport has been contested at the international scale. In Indonesia, a lot of schools in the martial arts, with many streams shows that there is a wealth of culture in Indonesia with the values ​​in it.