Silat Suffian Bela Diri - Joint Dislocations & Takedowns

Even though their training methods are absolutely not my cup go tee, as it is too compliant were anything is possible since it lacks oppositional training, many of their videos have a lot of interesting things to offer, I like what I see but don’t like how it’s done.

This has tremendous value depending on how you look at it, I have chosen to get inspiration and use it as another view as many of their techniques are similar to what I teach, but as I teach with 90% opposition and 10% specific technical training, so all I need to do is train the techniques and then see if it can be done in oppositional training and sparring.

One huge misconception in some clubs is that some techniques do not work as they have tested it in sparring, but I know a HEMA (European medieval combat) club that use that as a yardstick to chose what is efficient or not, the head instructor has only had 3 nights of training 4,5 hours total before instituting himself as an expert in European medieval combat by reading old books, that would be the equivalent to have trained any system 3 times and after reading books from an age where the structuring of the text to pass on information was IMO very lousy, and name yourself as an expert of that style of combat. There are depictions from medieval times but not in sequence, you have to read and in some cases guess how they reached from start to end as there is only one drawing for the technique.

The problem is when amateurs who appoint themselves as experts, it is most likely that the reason why they cant execute certain techniques is because they have not reached a high enough skill level or have not trained it properly and failed. The easiest way to blame the errors is by choosing that it’s the techniques inadequacy and not their own lack of skill and training, and use it for deciding what the high% techniques are.