PUKULAN CIMANDE PUSAKA SANDERS KNIFE FIGHTING

Hi Guys,

I would like to show you all a very important aspect of Pukulan Cimande Pusaka Sanders. That is, our use of weapons, specifically knives, in this system.

Below, is an article that Pendekar Sanders wrote a few years ago for COMBAT magazine, and then show you what it looks like on video.

I hope you enjoy it.

The Cimande Knife

Combat - April 2004

It is said that knife attacks outnumber all other weapon attacks combined! Virtually every single martial art that is street combat orientated contains some knife defense techniques. The sad truth, however, is most are worthless! The defenses are usually made up of a few options:

1. Hit the arm out of the way and then attack the opponent or

2. Redirect the arm and then catch it in some fancy lock to remove the knife.

Some arts (like the Filipino styles) look very nice as they flow back and forth but that happens only so long as the opponent knows the drill and is cooperating completely! All knife defenses have a chance of working against a foolish and robotic type attacker, the kind I have never seen in a real situation. Knives are usually used at close-quarters and the opponent slashes back and forth and stabs randomly and erratically.

When I was teaching seminars with my teacher. Pendekar Suryadi Jafri during the 1980's, he'd pick the smallest person at the seminar usually a girl. He'd ask if everyone knew knife defense Everyone would say "Yes!" Then he would give a magic marker to the student he picked out and ask her to try and write her name on the face and body of each person as they performed their knife defenses. I never saw one unmarked person!

So what's the answer!

Let's go back and look at the development of cimande for a moment. The founder of cimande, Embah Kahir began with Sera, which operated on the concepts of misdirection and striking. Sera is a monkey-based art that was found to be ineffective against knife attacks. Next, Embah Kahir invented Pamacan, a tiger style that used nerve strikes, grabs, and taking the opponent to the ground. Again, Pamacan was not very effective against multiple or armed attackers. The art of pinpoint precision striking was developed to a very high degree in the final refinements of Cimande and three of it's Jurus deal with knife defenses while three others deal with knife attacks. The concept is simple but brilliant!

Keep your limbs close to your body to protect your vital organs. Use the Jurus to deliver a first strike to your opponent's limbs that sets him up for a second third and fourth strike to the hand holding the knife. These strikes are performed in a lighting-fast manner and are called 'kilap' (lighting strikes) in some schools.

No other part of the attacker's anatomy is attacked until the knife is gone from his grasp! Once contact has been made, the opponent's arm is stuck to with the principles of adhesion. until the knife is gone. So if he recoils with your first strike then moves forward, keep the blows raining down on his limbs.

A way to learn how to hit with this degree of speed is through playing the drums! -These can help build accurate and fast short strikes that we also call 'poison hand hitting'. We call it that because to the uninitiated, it seems like we have poison on our hands in order to take out the adversary so quickly with almost nothing seen!
But what if you are using a knife to fight with! Well that's where the other three Jurus come into play. The empty hand is replaced with the same quick fast snap cuts and slashes of the knife.

A snap cut is a wrist-action technique in which the edge of the blade cuts across the bone severing tendons and ligaments on the way.
A person using the Cimande on-guard knife position is less likely to be attacked than someone using another ready position! I can honestly say this is the only defense I feel totally confident with. Nothing is guaranteed to work every time but this is the best insurance policy I know of when faced with a knife wielding assailant!

Now to illustrate what Pendekar Sanders was writing about in the above article, Here's a couple of videos of Peterson Menezes, a student of Pukulan Cimande Pusaka's Distance learning program, showing some knife skills.

I hope you enjoy it.









If any of you want to know more about Pencak Silat Pukulan Cimande Pusaka Sanders, and the distance learning program, please go to their web site at www.cimande.com.

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