Silencing Pukul Pelaga

Since the late 1970's there had been efforts made by certain silat groups to silence Pukul Pelaga. They have reasons for doing so, and I have identified one main reason.

They desire to hide the fact that they have changed in order to portray themselves as the greatest. Many silat systems have added new techniques taken or copied from other styles, but those responsible simply refuse to admit it.

Methods used include spreading lies or slandering, twisting sequence of events, abusing the authority given to them, and twisting words to achieve their goal.

In 1976 one master from Gayung Malaysia and living in Port Dickson told his students that Pukul Pelaga are Satan worshippers.

In 1993 I was threatened by several members of Gayung Fatani for voicing out about what I know, and giving out my opinion. Several silat exponents from several other styles had told me to shut up.

In 2006 Pukul Pelaga was accused of worshipping the Fallen Angel, resulting in me losing most of my students because they or their parents believe in the slander.

For the time being Pukul Pelaga is still alive and kicking. Whatever, I believe that the true story should be exposed, and all wrong activities should be pointed out.

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.