MALAY'S MARTIAL ART

INTRODUCTION

Silat Melayu (Jawi: سيلت ملايو), literally meaning "Malay silat" is a blanket term for silat styles of the Malay people. The term was originally used in reference to the native silat of Riau, but today it is more commonly used for the systems created in peninsular Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei and Vietnam. In modern usage, the term is most often used to differentiate the Malaysian styles from Indonesian pencak silat. English-language writings sometimes mistakenly refer to silat Melayu as bersilat but this is actually a verb form of the noun silat.

HISTORY

The silat tradition has deep roots in Malay culture and can trace its origin to the dawn of Malay civilisation, 2000 years ago.^[1][2][3][4] The first silat to be described as Melayu is that of Riau. A section of the riverbank population took to the sea in small boats and spread across the Malay Archipelago, coming into contact with various neighbouring ethnicities. Their combatives were crude but nevertheless provided the basis of all silat. On the peninsula they mixed with Deutero-Malays and Chamic people in a wave of migration from mainland Asia around 300 B.C.^[5][6] These settlers were rice-farmers from whom modern Malays are directly descended.

TYPES OF SILAT;-

1.SILAT LINCAH

2.SILAT GAYONG

3.SILAT CEKAK

4.SILAT LINTAU

5.SILAT SENDENG

6SILAT TERBANG

7SILAT PANGLIMA ULUNG

8SILAT HARIMAU

9.SILAT SMI

TRIBUTE;