"Sepak Juring" Or Side Kick - The Training Concept

            In Silat Seni Gayong the pupil are taught various kind of kicking techniques. The kicking method are such as “sepak juring”, “ tolak lintang” , “sepak Rajang”, “ sepak layang”, “lambung kemudi” and many more. Most of the movement in kicking are synonym to it terminologies. In Silat Seni Gayong there are kicking techniques just to stabilise the stances of the practitioners and there are kicking for defensive and weaken the opponent. Over here I am not going too emphasized on all of the kicking techniques.    What I am going to share here is on “sepak juring” or side kick.

Lifting The Leg

          Silat seni Gayong disciple are taught to train their “sepak juring” or side kick by stretching their legs 180 degrees and the same level as the body waist. In the concept of Silat Seni Gayong this position and style of kicking could generate energy to the movement. The concepts should generate 100 percent of the kicking energy. In order to get the accurate kicking method the pupil were asked to lift the leg up and the same time perform the “sepak juring” or side kick. If the application should be perform correctly the techniques could be apply to a short distance while avoiding. It will work as fast as a hand. If a combination of feet and hand the result is much more impressive.

Sepak Juring or Side Kick

The Combinations - Hand and Feet

           How the training should be to get to this correctly. Firstly the students were taught to stabilise their position or stances in a count of five foot movement. The foot were pivot to the separate side in a motion foot moves with a count of five steps. After having the correct stances the pupil will be asked to up lift their feet and standing on one foot, bending their body to either side and perform the kick using the soles and heels. The techniques should be repeated until the kicks are perfected. While perform the kicking the pupil must making sure the foot that make the standing been pivot in order to get the correct position. The students should repeat on both side of the leg. When stretching makes sure that the leg were push out. The concept of “sepak juring” or side kick must be accurate with the point of kicking to the opponent body. Combinations of all these techniques will bring about result that cannot be described. Improved your skill and enjoy your training. “ Hidup Silat Seni Gayong”.

Broaden The Knowledge

            Explaining the knowledge does not stop on the composition in syllabus. We take a chance broaden the understanding, how simple a Gayong method can be apply in a simple way. As normal the training was conducted like others days but the different this time we slot in about an hour extra for a simple techniques that should be applied if comes across personal safety. The simple techniques are more emphasized on defense for ladies. It was an introductory for the lady practitioners especially the newly join for the training, how to escape or defending themselves if comes to the situation.

Single Hand Held

Double Hand Held

            Firstly we show them how to escape from a hand held. Escaping from a hand held needed a basic movement using the wrist joint of the forearm. By turning a bit of the wrist and using the elbow joint to fold the person should be able to escape from a single hand held. This method is simple and can be done quickly. The elaboration goes further as many questions come from the student on many aspect of situation. After elaborating the single handed hand held, the questions arise if it was been grab by both hand to the wrist, what should the necessary action taken to escape. As the basic of the single hand held, always remembered to use your elbow joint and been assist by the other hand. In that situation fold the elbow joint and with help from the other hand pulled the hand towards our body. All the students smile as would have never imagined how easy this method.

Holding The Shirts

Hug From Behind

Been Lock From Behind.

           The morning session goes into adrenalin, as such many are eager more to feed on the knowledge that they could be easily understand and applied. It goes into escaping from hug from behind, from the front, been hold by two person on both hand and many more. Overall the most important things here are that whenever anyone comes across the situation do not panic because panic can make things worse. When a person panics they can’t think properly and straight. If the person having the situation he or she won’t be able to escape from the conditions. And must remembered the natural weapons we possess used it,  the elbow, the knee, the knuckle, the finger the head and many more to escape from the situation. The information and simple techniques session has open the mind of the students in addressing such problems. Cheers.

Gayong Concept - Significant Of A Toe

            Perfection in training will makes practitioners mastering the art. In order to become an expert or master one have to understand the concept precisely. It’s not easy to come to that level, you need as much sacrifice as you can deliver. Time, money, family, friends, all are accountable during your period of training. I would like to share some of the techniques that we train in the first level of dodge in Silat Seni Gayong. Sometimes we lose sight when we perform the techniques. I take this level one dodge because in training most of the students makes mistakes and did not intend to bother and just for the sake of doing. 

Going For The Strike

            In the level one dodge techniques and number seven from the composition in Silat Seni Gayong Malaysia. The techniques will be made as such. In training when the attack had been made the awaiting opponent avoiding the attack by moving the right leg to the left and moving it forward. While doing this he holds his leg straight up and standing on the back of the knee joint of the person who attack. The opponent or attacker leg will be folded and automatically knelling down. The action was ended with the person who countering the attack standing on the back of the knee joint.

Kneeling Down

            But how can we get the person to kneel down? If we side kick to the back of the knee the result might be different .The person might not knelling down. In order to do this the leg must be kick a slight above from the joint and slide down. With this techniques how strong your leg muscle are definitely you will kneel to the ground. Always remember the position of the body played a bigger role of getting this position accurate. 

Kicking The  Back Joint

           Then come to the next part of making the person to stay at that position. Normally when we putting  our  feet, we always miss our toe position. The toe must be put to the ground and a touch must be done. What significant if the toe is touching the ground? We never thought that, by touching the toe to the ground the person who is knelling could not stand up if comparing with an opposite side. That’s how significant a toe can be in perfecting the techniques. It doesn’t have to be press hard, it just a matter to touch it to the ground .It works like a magnet and in science we can say it as the hold of the gravity that makes the knee been holding down. If we got it right for the next movement whether it for grappling or striking the person whom is attacking is like been stick to the ground and trapped in that position. All the explanation above must result with a continuous training, and a guide from a qualified master would be strengthening our training. ‘Hidup Silat Seni Gayong”.

Initiation- A Brief Story

           After many training we decided to carry out the initiation ceremony for the students. For the new students they have to initiate in “perlimau tapak” and for the students whom had carry out the initiation before they have to be ‘perlimau seni”. In Silat Seni Gayong every students had to undergo this ceremony to be ascertained as Gayong practitioners. “Perlimau tapak” for the men and “perlimau seni” for the women as we call it, is a ceremony accepting officially students to the Silat Seni Gayong disciple. In these traditional ceremony, the provided equipment such as lime,flower,salt,tamarind,sintuk,bananas,needle and  many more. All the equipment is symbolic of the ceremony.

Flower For Alternative Theraphy

Lime and Sintuk For Cleansing and Needle for Sharpness of Knowledge

          The initiation ceremony had been practised hundreds of years ago and was passed to generation of Silat Seni Gayong.I still remember the story by the late founder Dato Meor Abdul Rahman on this initiation. It’s a story of a female tiger given birth to tiger cubs. For the female tiger after giving birth she would move away a bit from the birth ground. This habit was conducted to identify which of the cubs are male and female. Who ever got the first feeding is the female cubs and for the male cubs it always the last to get feed, after all the female cubs is full. The story of this female tiger is a symbolic for the new Silat Seni Gayong practitioners where a special privilege was given to women students in the initiation ceremony. They do not have to carry out the “perlimau tapak “ like the men ,they automatically eligible for the “perlimau seni”,which are the next level of the initiation ceremony.

Explaining The Symbolic of The Lime

Explanation on The Initiation Ceremony

           In Silat Seni Gayong basically the techniques are hitting and locking. In the initiation ceremony symbolically the techniques of locking or grappling are in the stage of “perlimau tapak”and the techniques of hitting are in the “perlimau seni”.Revered back to the story of the female tiger, she will teach the tiger cubs on catching and slapping for the coming 21 days  where symbolically in Silat Seni Gayong  grappling and hitting. On these occasion of the story in Silat seni Gayong there are 21 techniques of grappling or locking and 21 techniques of hitting or combat as we terms it. 

          The initiation was done in a full traditional ethics and after the accepting ceremony the students had to bath using the water that has been blessed. Officially the students are disciple of Silat Seni Gayong after the initiation.Silat Seni Gayong is an art of both martial and custom. “Hidup Silat  Seni Gayong.

The City of Cork

            Cork is an old city, one of the oldest of all Irish cities. Indeed it is older than many more famous European cities, for instance Berlin. Cork a busy port during the middle age for exporting animal hides and woollen cloth and importing wine for the aristocrats. During the dark era in Europe, Cork was the main port for emigrants from Ireland to USA and other countries fled escaping from poverty. Located on Ireland’s south coast, is the Republic of Ireland’s second largest city and the third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative center of County Cork which earned the nicknamed of “the Rebel County”.

Cork, The River Lee

Cork Streets

Cork Market

Cork Coloured Apartment

           The city is built on the River Lee which divides into two channels at the western end of the city. At the eastern end of the city centre they converge, and the River Lee flows around Lough Mahon to Cork Harbour, one of the world largest natural harbours. Cork is one of the twenty-six traditional countries of the Republic of Ireland and one of the thirty-two traditional countries in the island of Ireland. To the north and north-west, borders with Limerick and Kerry and Tipperary and Waterford to the east. Circulated by a large range of mountains and added to the habitats found in the county include imported habitats in the uplands include blanket hog,heath,glacial lakes and upland grasslands. Also can be found a diversity of flora and fauna, sightings of rare birds, sightings of fin whales, basking sharks, pilot whales, and other species. With an outstanding natural beauty and heritage attractions such as Fota Wildlife Park, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork Butter Museum and many more make Cock as an Ireland most premier tourism region. A visit to the county is not a things to miss out.Cheers.