Part 3: Buno (Grappling) featuring Roberto Torres #KKS03. Learn the principles of balance and manipulating the centerline. Roberto teaches foot directions, Tatsulok Buno (triangle throwing) and Hagis (throwing).
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Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent video and instruction Comment: This is the third volume in Roberto Torres's 4-tape series on Kalasag Kuntau Silat, which is a blend of several styles of Filipino Kuntao and several styles of Indonesian Silat that he learned from different teachers. My comments relate to this volume and also the other three volumes in the set.
This third video in the set covers the weapons, an integral part of Silat and Kuntau. Silat and Kuntau incorporate many different kinds of edged weapons, depending on the style, but some of the more well-known ones are the famous wavy-edged kris, the graceful-leaf shaped barong, the sickle-shaped kerambit, the curved handled golok short sword, and the sabetan and hagidis. I always get these two reversed, but one is similar to the Indian khukri with the forward bending heavy-bellied blade, and the other is more of a short dagger with a bit of a wave like the kris. In this video Guru Torres uses a medium-length barong blade to demonstrate the edged weapons techniques. He also shows a very cool long knife form using this blade.
Applications and explanations of the movements are shown, and Guru Torres has a low-key and personable style of teaching and comes across as a committed and competent instructor in the art. Several of his students also assist with the demonstrations, and they are a credit to their teacher as they move well themselves.
Guro Torres shows literally hundreds of techniques, combinations, drills, and variations in this detailed series. The style would be easily integrable into other systems of Silat or Kuntau such as Sera or Serak, Tjimande, Tjikalong, Bukti-Negara, Suci-Hati, or other similar arts. But Guru Torres's art certainly stands alone as a fine contribution to the art by itself.
Here are the titles for the complete set, which if you can, you'll want to pick up in addition to this volume:
Tape 1: Fundamentals
Tape 2: Sayas (Forms)
Tape 3: Sandatas (Weapons)
Tape 4: Buno (Grappling)
Overall, an excellent set and instructional series from Guru Torres and a fine contribution to the still relatively small but growing number of videos and books on Silat that have appeared over the last 10 to 15 years.
