Wednesday, November 14, 2007

What Did I Do Wrong?

Last night I tried to register at a martial arts website which is supposed to accept those active in martial arts.  Initially my application was accepted.  When I woke up this morning (Malaysian time) an email waited for me.  My membership was cancelled.

I was not given any explanation.  This led to me making assumptions, which may or may not be true.
1) The email address used had been hijacked by spammers because I was away for some time.  The fact is I received three spam emails supposedly from me to my own email address.
2) There are people who are not happy with me.  I used the same nickname as the one for askme.com (shut down in November 2005) where I was consistently in the top 10 on the Martial Arts page.
3) Someone or a group of people unrelated to (2) had sabotaged and sullied my name.

Maybe someone out there can give a better explanation.  The site I tried to register is martialartsplanet.com.  Giving out the name does not mean I am angry.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Introduction

Pukul Pelaga is a Malay martial art.  Initially this system is not well known due to certain reasons.  Now it is not widely spread because there are martial artists from other silat styles slandering and preventing people from joining it.

Basically Pukul Pelaga means anything a fighter does to win a fight.  The name gives a hint of what Pukul Pelaga has to offer.  It contains various fighting styles and methods.  The fact is I wrote a book titled '400 Fighting Styles in Pukul Pelaga'.  This book is not meant to be published so it is not available in the market.  There are other books written but most of them were stolen by practitioners from a well-known silat school in Malaysia.  Among the things I wrote was on how to develop advanced techniques from the basics.

Silat in Malaysia used to rely on what their practitioners call spiritual practices.  Reliance on supernatural powers led to silat schools having limited techniques.  Pukul Pelaga (PP)  changed that because it has no so-called spiritual practices.  As a result the basic techniques in PP are meant to be developed by the individual to suit their own tastes and capabilities.  This resulted in various techniques.   For example most people watching PP practitioners training would probably say PP has no kicking techniques.  In reality there are more than 160 kicking techniques available to PP practitioners.  A copy of the book I wrote and illustrated had been stolen.  It is only within the last 10 years many silat schools began increasing the number of techniques in their syllabus.