DVDs
of KunTao Silat by ThunderRock Media Productions
KunTao Silat Thouars is the Dutch Indonesian art based on the combining of Silat, the fighting art of Indonesia, the Chinese fighting arts, and the arts of India and Arabia. These videos show the background, specialty skills, techniques, applications and practice methods of this exotic and unknown, very direct and brutal art.
Made over a period of twenty five years, the information in these tapes will never be available again. These are tapes made by martial artists, for martial artists. The production values may not be as good as some others, but the information is what you would hope to have in any martial arts tape.
Willem de Thouars is one of the worlds' finest fighting men. For over sixty years, he has studied with some of the foremost teachers of some eighty martial art styles; Pentjak Silat, the Chinese KunTao on Java, the Five Majors of Shaolin and the Three Crowns of Chinese art in China, Western Boxing, European weapons arts and so on. He has produced fine students for over forty years, teaching in the privacy of his own home to students accepted by invitation only. For the first time anywhere, Uncle Bill makes his art accessible to the public by way of these videotapes of his work. They give us an insight into the practice of a martial artist unparralled in his intention and dedication to honoring his teachers and their gifts.
Backyard Productions is Steve Gartin. He has
been shooting video of the de Thouars Brothers teaching and performing KunTao &
Pentjak Silat for many years in seminars, classes, demonstrations, and in backyards.
He bought the gear, learned to edit and produce and has been making videos of KunTao
Silat for use by inner circle students for many years.
These are videos made by a martial artist for martial
artists. He shows the good stuff and doesn't waste
your time. The videos are made to be used and studied for years to come. They
are produced on the highest quality tape with the idea that you will stop and start,
repeat and pause.
Malabar KunTao Silat is the name given to our art by the
as an American Dutch-IndoChinese martial art. Guru Steve Gartin is a Cigar Dalem (Inner Circle) practitioner
for over twenty-five years and lineage founder in the grace of Willem De Thouars, Paul De
Thouars, Victor De Thouars and Maurice De Thouars.
Much of the material was videoed where and when it happened with available light and sound over a fifteen-year period. Special footage and commentary is done to expound and explain the archival footage.
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Malabar's flavor is distinctively "Indonesian" but draws its tools, training methods and tactics from many sources. Monkey style KunTao is found in all levels and most applications of Malabar. Preying Mantis KunTao hitting tools provide the Malabar practitioner with unusual attacks from unusual angles.
Tiger style KunTao permeates the Entry and Controlling aspects with a startling ferocity that establishes immediate superiority and total control of an assailant.
The tornado-like circularity of the Ancient Chinese PaKua as practiced in Indonesia lends an overwhelming barrage of hitting, tearing, twisting and mangling techniques to Malabar defenses.
Internal principles of Chinese Tai Chi and I Hsing ie are focused on combat, rather than health, although the basic health principles are applied in Daily Training.
The footwork, triangulation, and unique close-quarter hitting tools and the devastating bladework of Poekulan Pentjak Petjut Kilat Silat have been integrated into virtually all of the Technical Applications we present to you in this video. Combined, these elements have evolved into a fighting system designed to protect its Practitioner from skilled fighters, with or without weapons.
Each of the Systems and Styles from which Malabar has derived technique, training method, principle, or tool is honored by the Forms (Choreographed movements designed to ingrain "muscle memory" and skeletal alignment into a Practitioner's consciousness), which retain the ancient teachings of the Bapak Willem de Thouars lineage of the Dutch Indo/Chinese Family System of KunTao Silat de Thouars
The hand stylings of Malabar KunTao Silat are generally taught separate to the legwork and to the footwork patterns. That allows the hand positioning to be keyed to any leg position and to any footwork pattern.
In olden days, the handwork patterns (called djurus) were taught while seated. That required the practitioner to find a belly support for any movement, and to compensate through the hips for movements of the arm.
This shows a number of forms and variations of practice, applications of the hand techniques and it’s translation to weapons usage.
Djurus Satu is the seminal form of KunTao Silat. It can be practiced as an entire martial art; percussion, grappling, grasping, throws, weapons. It is a wonderful base on which to learn and practice any skill or any application.
Djurus Satu is the form from which most demonstrations of application are made. Much of it is derived from PPS Serak, some Arabian sources, India and Chinese. The flow of the form melds one with the other seamlessly, and virtually any application can find it’s practice mechanism in Djurus Satu.
This video stands completely alone from the #2 Uncle Bill’s Backyard (archive set), and they are complementary without unduly repeating the same information. There are additional corrections, methods and styles of doing the forma, including a weapon in practice and the two tapes represent a good overview of the Djurus Satu.
Heartless Monkey Knife takes it’s name from Willem’s description of the Ape Form; he is ‘wide-open, heartless and inviting’.
You are shown various sorts of knives and their characteristics discussed; sheathes and carry systems, grip styles, blade presentations, and practice methods.
There is a long section on wounds, first aid and body trauma by an EMT persilat; Steve Rollert.
There are lots of applications, footwork, hand positioning, body angulation and torquing. There are discussions of the combat mind-set, tactical considerations, and mental preparation.
Special price for set of all four DVD titles: LegWork, HandWork, Djuru Satu & Heartless Monkey Knife - Save $50.00
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Specialty DVDs
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Special police training against knife attack by Pak Victor de Thouars
Special seminars by Pak Victor de Thouars, Maha Guru Maurice de Thouars, Pendekar Paul de Thouars and Bapak Willem de Thouars. All four de Thouars Brothers on one two hour DVD.
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