This article was originally published in the martial arts/travel blog Milk.Blitz.Street.Bom b in April 2016. Noeryanto has subsequently...

This Milk.Blitz.Street.Bom b article was published in September of 2017 a few years after I had met Kang Rafijen on my first "solo"...

Tragically, Mas Amien passed away shortly after this article was first published in June 2018. He had a fairly large group of students...

The motion of Inti Ombak Pencak Silat (IOPS) is influenced by two major traditions from the islands of Java and Madura. The central...

This article was originally published on the martial arts travel blog Milk.Blitz.Street.Bom b in December 2019 shortly before the...

What is Pencak Silat? This is a difficult question to answer as there are hundreds of different styles that claim the name throughout...

While drilling techniques in my class, a student asked me how we decide to perform one technique over another. I explained that "it...

On the weekend of July 13th-14th, history was made as the first internationally sanctioned national-level tournament for Pencak Silat (Indo

On June 25th, we received a last-minute request from the Indonesian Consulate (KJRI) in NYC to perform for the first-ever East Coast...

On Saturday, March 30th, silat coaches and players assembled at a pencak silat school in Middlebury, VT to take a seminar on sport silat.