190 | Culture Ways of Life and Wisdom
The result of the play is based on the frequency the
player overthrow or wrestle until the opponent can no longer
fight. But there are prohibitions not to stab eyes, strangle, or
punch like a boxing with fist, bump with knees, and kick the
lower part of legs.
Silat is characterized by individual talents ranging from
dance moves, fighting stances, the courage promotion for
expression, decision-making, to self-confidence. In addition,
they are also trained to be tolerance to the pain and fatigue.
The player must use his ability and intelligence to plan the fight,
as well as solve problems in different situations, by using the
tactics of defensive and offensive moves they learned. Therefore,
Silat is full of self-defense art and science as it is regarded as
a sport combined martial arts in motion with the esteemed
hands-free tactics.
“ By using a dagger or ‘Silat dagger’ in the
fight, both players will hold one dagger
each and perform choreography of
dodging, kicking, threshing, resisting and
destroying the opponent’s power by
trying to make the dagger fallen off
from his hand. .”
“Silat is a martial art accompanied with music
for the fight as well as Muay Thai. The most
often used instruments are Khue-Nae
(a double-sided barrel drum), Gong and a Suna
(a double-reed woodwind instrument). ”
• Choreography of fighting with bare
hands and weapon (Kolok)