Hello Tjang,
What I understand by Kuntao is chinese martial arts developped in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines.....
For example in the southern Philippines chinese traders brought a long time ago their chinese martial arts..... in the same area silat systems existed already, the chinese systems changed through fights and exchanges with silat practitioners and became quite different from their original form....
The silat masters I met seemed also to make a difference between "pure" silat systems and silat systems with strong chinese influence (they put these in the kuntao familly: silat kuntaw, mustika kweetang silat, kuntao matjan)....
I asked you the question because I saw during my travels through Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines some of these Kuntao systems and found them extremely effective, the sino-malay masters seemed also more willing to teach to westerners than in China....
All the best,
krys.
What I understand by Kuntao is chinese martial arts developped in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines.....
For example in the southern Philippines chinese traders brought a long time ago their chinese martial arts..... in the same area silat systems existed already, the chinese systems changed through fights and exchanges with silat practitioners and became quite different from their original form....
The silat masters I met seemed also to make a difference between "pure" silat systems and silat systems with strong chinese influence (they put these in the kuntao familly: silat kuntaw, mustika kweetang silat, kuntao matjan)....
I asked you the question because I saw during my travels through Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines some of these Kuntao systems and found them extremely effective, the sino-malay masters seemed also more willing to teach to westerners than in China....
All the best,
krys.
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