Super Combat- The Reveal

Starting with Tapak Gayong continued with Seni Gayong is a terms of understanding total philosophy of Gayong. In those two terms there are techniques name as Serangan Maut or Serangan Harimau and also known as combat. This movement of techniques taught the student on speed and time to react upon been attack and not to forget the timing and distance. After mastering those techniques they are brought over to a technique terms as Super Combat.

What is Super Combat? 

Super Combat is an art of striking which shows a high level of striking techniques. Why the definition does state such a remarks? The striking in Super Combat is advance techniques concentrate on agility, accuracy and destroy. It teaches agility in movement, agility in striking, agility in countering and agility in escaping. It strikes accurately to a vulnerable point to the body with a single blow. Those combinations will destroy the aggressor as quick as it can between 2 to 4 seconds.

As told to me the beginning stages the students are exposed to what it terms as combat. In the syllabubs of Silat Seni Gayong the techniques are taught in the category of Tapak Gayong. Why does the arrangement are in that manner? It is to prepare the student for an advance movement. With familiarisation of the application hoping that it will become easy when exposed the art of Super Combat which are in the category of Seni Gayong.

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Most of the techniques taught in combat are just shown how to do a striking and are not explained where the striking should take place. For example in Combat one “Patah Dayong Nasi Hangit”, most of the time we view a strike to the back of the body and some time to the back of the neck and the moves continued. In Super Combat the strike should be point to a sinew situated near the ear leaf or in Malay it terms as “urat gila”. With a strike to this point in a single blow the aggressor will fainted. In Super Combat the time to end the aggression are important especially when countering with many numbers. With an experience and full knowledge the striking some time does not come with a strong blow but enough with a soft touch with a hand that has been lethal.

Another example in the art “Tarian Kuda Gila” , normally we just kick to the body and assumed that the blow is strong and it will stop the aggressor. Do we ever think if the aggressor is as tough as a Spanish Bull.? I remembered the late Dato  Meor mentioned, quote, “the bigger the better”. What does this mean? It means if we have the knowledge in striking or locking, application of the techniques doesn’t count the size. The kick should be to the west north about a quarter from the left of the rib on the chest. A blow to the point wills takedown the aggressor no matter how big is the size.

I would recommend for those who are really has the high enthusiastic of obtaining the art of Gayong seek and dig until the bowl of the knowledge is fill as per in the emblem assemble a picture of a Malay vase. What I share is through my experience during my time learning the knowledge of Gayong and the explanation and guidance by my beloved teacher and gladly to be shared here for the love of the art.

Semoga kita semua diberkati.

Ilmu Hikmah Keris Gayong

Berbicara tentang keilmuan keris , bukan hanya sekadar mengetahui kaedah permainan,permulihan,penjagaan malah ia juga merangkumi ilmu hikmah keris. Jarang sekali dan mungkin kita alpa atau terlupa tentangnya. Sambil merenung pengalaman silam terlintas dalam minda aku akan ilmu hikmah ini. Salah satu ilmu hikmah yang berada dalam Silat Seni Gayong.

Sungguh banyak sekali ilmu hikmah Gayong ini sehingga kekadang terlepas pandang.Salah seorang guru yang aku ketahui mempunyai pengalaman ilmu hikmah ini adalah Allahyarham Cikgu Aziz Shariff, yang menjadi tonggak kepimpinan Gayong di Negeri Pahang suatu ketika dahulu. Sebelum itu memang sudah diketahui tentang ilmu hikmah ini semasa aku berkunjung ke Taiping.

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Ilmu hikmah keris atau amalan keris ini disusuli dengan doa tertentu sambil menyapu kemenyan pada mata keris tersebut. Doa yang dizahirkan dari AlQuran dan menyatakan kepada yang Haq .Atas IZINNYA tuhan semesta alam, kesannya semirip ilmu kipas nandong, pancung tak bertanya dan ilmu Melayu yang lain.Kalau terbaca atau mendengar kisah bagaimana Arwah Dato Meor membelah pokok pinang begitu jugalah dengan ilmu hikmah keris ini. Cuma kesan serangannya boleh dilihat pada garisan merah atau jalur merah pada sasarannya .

Ini salah satu lagi ilmu hikmah Gayong kuno yang aku teringat untuk berkongsi  sesama anak-anak Gayong semoga menjadi pedoman untuk mengali khazanahnya agar tidak luput suatu masa nanti.Apabila berbicara tentangnya teringat pula pesanan Almarhum Dato Meor yang berbunyi dalam ringkasnya, ilmu Gayong ini berada merata dan berbeza dari setiap individu maka diarahkan kita mencarinya.Mungkin masih ada guru yang mengetahuinya tetapi mungkin terlupa atau menyimpan sebagai panduan dirinya sendiri,  juga mungkin kerana jarang sekali berbicara tentangnya maka lupa ia untuk menyatakannya. Apapun diharap dengan pembukaan tentang ilmu ini semoga ia menjadi pemangkin akan pengumpulan ilmu-ilmu Gayong yang amat jarang sekali diperdebatkan maupun kedengaran.

Semoga kita semua diberkati dan faham akan Gayong ini

Semar Alam Tunggal

As written in Malay Saga a quote from the legendary Malay Malacca warrior Hang Tuah when asked about what techniques he applied when defeating the Majapahit warrior, he said,”Datuk gunakan langkahan ibu Gayong sendi gedang tunggal,semar alam tunggal,belah bumi kipas nandong,kipas nandong dalam nandong.” The word with high poetic Malay meaning usually used when explaining something during that era.

What are its meaning and are that kind of techniques still exit or have been extinction. That is for us the modern and newly Malay breed to find out. I am bringing out one of the poetic terms for a discussion and point to ponder. Those quotes are, “semar alam tunggal’.

Semar alam tunggal meaning god is the creator of the whole universe and one of the creation is human. In the philosophy of Gayong it is already introduced from the beginning where all the practitioners are directed to recite AlIkhlas and it is recommended to complete the reciting for 70000 times. The concept and teaching of the said versus are beginning of understanding of the total knowledge before feeding for more.

Starting from been accepting as a Gayong practitioner or student, where how important the adat perlimau are, before and after finishing a training session where how important our way of life are, in a training session show how our life and nature of a human should be, completing by ourselves the said versus for inner training, and the training continue. What has been written here are just an opening and guide for Gayong practitioner on searching for this knowledge? In simple Malay word, “tulisan keterangan ini adalah kiasan yang perlu difikirkan untuk memecahkan ruyungnya”.

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Maybe it doesn’t drop in our mind and maybe we don’t have a time for all this, where we shouldn’t have this kind of attitude if we are really seeking for Gayong. Maybe it is a bit complicated to understand for someone but insyaAllah if there is a will there will be a way. Let take some phrase from ilmu Gayong, as an example in the words reciting in a bath, quote, “Allah hu ma kata suci.suci badan ku dalam nur cahaya Muhammad, suci bumi lembaga adam........” and the phrase continued. Another “amalan”, quote, “ kun kata Allah, fayakun kata Muhammad...................nun awan putih melindungi aku, Allah hu Akbar..” Some “amalan” continued for example the phrase, quote, “ la tud riku ab soru wala tud riko......” with AlMighty all those example of “amalan” for the strength of the body, being at a place without been noticed etc. Even it also stated in the poem, quote, “Gayong bercantum bersatu padu....and more , quote, “dengan bismillah mula dikata...”. Those are the steps of understanding the whole package of the knowledge, but the most and most important knowledge to be expressed here is the true understanding of semar alam tunggal. 

Gayong is myself,over there Gayong,here Gayong...”Gayong adalah diri aku sendiri, disana Gayong, disini Gayong...” If we really dig deeply this knowledge all the commotion among us in Gayong could be avoided and the true meaning of Gayong could be applied and belief we will reach the knowledge of the quote, semar alam tunggal. If not, then maybe it will be a daydream where most of us do.

May we have all the barakah and hidayah

Ambil Tapak

Questioner           :   Siapa nama kamu?

Answerer             :  Nama aku ......

Questioner           :   Apa hajat kamu ?

Answerer             :   Aku memohon izin untuk ........

Representative     :   Aku mewakili .......mengizinkan kamu......terimalah amanatku ini.

Answerer             :  Aku terima dengan berkat syafaat Baginda Rasulullah saw.

The above conversation is a request for performing a tradition and custom event in Silat Seni Gayong. It show the discipline,respect,humble,loyalty,adap and adat in the art. This event are commonly apply when starting an event such as demonstration, a khatam , a coronation etc. It can be summarise as an act of adat istiadat in Silat Seni Gayong asking permission of approval before and after an event.

The said custom discipline is made to a higher shoulder belt holder seeking an approval for an event. It is very important to understand the ranking well in order not to make mistake. A higher shoulder belt is forbidden to seek permission from the lower rank. If this is happening an event of adat of coronation should be conducted again for those who make the mistake. It meant the ranking that they being holding had fallen or forfeited.

The application for permission is not only based on the ranking of the shoulder belt but it is also accountable from the position of the person. A King is the highest position, follow by the late founder, the Imam Khalifah Agong and each rank. If it happen the permission seek through a King, a 7 steps should be taken and both hand are on the head showing respect and the conversation will be a bit different. As an example the conversation should start by the seeker with, “Ampun Tuanku” and follow by introducing himself before a permission to enter asking for the blessing approval.

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But this is seldom happen due to a very high protocol incurred. A practitioner of Seni Gayong must have this knowledge because an event can’t be predicted. Normally for seeking a permission of this kind will be done by a higher rank such as Imam Khalifah Agong or Khalifah Besar seeking permission from the King.

If we can notice the seeking of permission are done by the section of the Kegurulatihan. For those on the section of adat administration their job is only to administrate the adat istiadat of Silat Seni Gayong. If they wearing the Waris Beradat or Ketua Beradat shoulder belt they are forbidden to take charge of the event. And the people who are seeking permission are forbidden to seek approval from those shoulder belt holders. If this happen it means that the adat of Silat Seni Gayong has been abused or wrongly conducted. 

There are too many to understand on the adat istiadat of Silat Seni Gayong. It was arranged with full of secret behind the scene and each student of Gayong must seek the knowledge accordingly. Do not simply do things that we don’t have the knowledge because it will mislead and damage the custom. Seek the people who really have the adat istiadat knowledge and learn from them. The preserved of adat istiadat in Silat Seni Gayong is compulsory due to the secret in it.

May we all be bless.

Gayong - An Introduction On Healing

All the while we only have been introduced on the art of the martial. It is not completed if we don’t know the art of healing in Silat Seni Gayong. As healing in various methods, curing a blade cut, healing a dislocated joint, many more and sometimes maybe related with some spiritual aspect.

I had an experienced once in a training session a student of mine is possessed and turning himself acting like an animal. With the knowledge, we manage to overcome the situation. Must bear in mind, it is very important to be discipline when to start a training session and closing, should be done focus and reciting of AlIkhlas with full concentration. While doing so, ignore any disturbance until we really had completed the session. It is part of a method to avoid any spiritual in order inside and outside the training compound.

When training goes on, it is normal to get cut while using any sharp blade. If this happen a used of the saliva are common to stop the blood and to sore the cut. This applies on small cut maybe from the slice of a knife. The healing method is inclusive of ease the poison, to stop the blood and eases the pain of the cut.

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As usual Gayong methods are always with the combination of petua and ilmu. On the paragraph above, saliva act as a petua while the ilmu is “bismillah Allah Hu.....” .The saliva was taken from the sky of the mouth and using mother finger. With the ilmu it was apply to the cut section. If the cut is bigger for an example in a war where the wound is greater Gayong method of healing is to expose the body to dew and a special kind of ilmu were apply in the healing. It was told that the person with the wound would recover and return back to the war zone. The way of doing it is reciting the ilmu while stroking to the wound section gently while rubbing the dew.

It is normal to get swelling in any situation, maybe from a strike in training. As a qualified instructor and knowledgeable to refrain the swelling an amal was apply by reciting “bismllah..mumazakallah hu.....”, and rubbing at the section gently.

As we view it every steps of Gayong there is always petua and ilmu. What usually done when performing boiling oil is massaging the oil to the body? Do we ever think that if the boiling oil really burns our hand when we dip into it? It happened once in Ampang during performing the event in the old days. Water was used with a special recite of a doa to recover the blister. It is very important when preparing the boiling oil one must have the full knowledge and a very high adap and discipline of the whole process.

The healing method in Gayong is a part of first aid that was generated from generation and always gets a medical assistance if things did happen. The combination of petua and ilmu of the old method with the modern medication should go in line depending on the case.

I hope with this small sharing will unbuckle our enthusiastic spirit to seek more knowledge of Silat Seni Gayong, not only on the martial side but also on the healing way of it.

May all of us be bless.