This is to Guru Ron Richardson. First off, my condolensces in the passing of Guru Bob Orlando. I just recently learned of his passing. I was very saddened, Guru Orlando left us too early in life. He had so much to teach.
For all the critics of Mr Orlando's videos, these are drills. You ADAPT to the fighting environment you're in and use what you can, again depending on fighting environment. Just my opinion with 35 years of training various arts.
Sky Eagle, Bob taught Dutch-IndoChinese(Pukulan Pentjak Silat and Chinese Kuntao) In addition to training with Uncle Bill he also trained with Ron Carlson, Al Dacascos, and John Cochran. He developed a system that focused on the practical that incorporated elements from all his teacher. After I took over the school I unofficially call his flavor of Kuntao “Orlandokuntao”. Thank you for your interest, Ron
What a bout the rear hand?!! Look, there are a lot of great things about Indonesian arts and Fillipino arts, but for empty hands, boxing crushes them. Now dealing with a blade, perhaps this blocking/checking is ok, but you still have to deal with the other hand. However even then, when blade sparring starts all those beautiful drills go out the window and the "tag" starts. Even the filipino world championship knife fighting is all slash and avoid type fighting. People revert to reality in real sparring or combat. Excessive blocks and checking goes out the window in real fighting. The best empty hand Asian art probably is Filipino Panatukan since it is essentially boxing with blades, and the structure is boxing with shoulder rolls and covers with boxing strikes, so it maintains the efficiency of boxing , but adds some protections for blade fighting. Don't learn Asian arts for empty hand fighting. That's going backwards. Simplicity and efficiency wins the day. For empty hands learn to box. Kicking and punching learn Muy thai , savate, or perhaps a good karate style. For grappling, Wrestling, Catch wrestling, Jujitsu. For the street add some foul tactics. For Stick and blade, Filipino and Indonesian arts.
Guru Ron Richardson, thank you for posting this! Although I bought this video on VHS, just last year. I regret not getting it, or the accompanying book, years ago!!! My query to you is this, you say that Guru Orlando, learned from Guru Besar Willem De Thouars. One of my other teachers in Silat, Tuhon Guro Roberto Torres, trained from Bapak Willem De Thouars. Over the years, I learned that Guru De Thouars taught and advocated the Silat systems of 'Hakka & Malabar'. What kind of Kuntao Silat did Guru Orlando teach?!
He instructed in such a fundamentals first sort of way. His form, or style of this art seems so removed from the ancestor Chinese styles it is supposed to come from: a mash of movements presupposed from primitive dogmatic ideologies, thus leaving only some practical elements by law of averages. What Mr. Orlando seemed to have taught is a system stripped from ideology, at least from what I can tell, leaving only foundational gross motor movements to begin your defense then counter offense from seemingly any position. This teaching style would seem to allow for a shorter learning curve and thus greater skill competency and advancement over shorter times. I hope to study at this school in the future. Thank you for this video.
Hi there Mr,Bob Orlando. My name is Juan Rivera from Puerto Rico, I love your work hope to learn more about your teaching. Iam in my 50,and iam not getting younger,so i just want to learn from you, please let me Know what to do ,i realy want to learn from you.Thank,s you by now.
You can't block forever because there's still vector force going through those blocks and sooner or later a shot will break through and put a person down or wear the person out. Football players have all of that padding and still get their heads knocked off from a good spear. Great video!
Thanks for posting , i have the book but watching the video makes it "come alive " looking forward to part 2.............. are there any other good books on Silat that you could recommend ? ...........
Master Orlando,may i asking you??what style of kuntao you learn???kuntao Betawi or kuntao Dayak Borneo???because i think your kuntao movement ia like combination of both of that style kuntao
@@mercurykuntao what???ooh,i'm so sorry to hear that🙏🙏🙏i think master Orlando ia great silat kuntao master...i hope he is rest in peace,he got my respect as Dayaknese Borneo...he is the one who learn our martial art culture very best and so greater...by the way,who take over to train his student/murid now??
Right said, Sir, Two handed blocks are more efficient then single handed ones. Late YOsihimi also maintained it. You are also right in saying that can´t olock for ever! But, with all respect to you, Sir, a beginner can never do it. He or she, after a successful block should try to throw a towel on the attacker´s hand and get him out of balance, and, run away ASAP. Advanced applications fwork only for advanced practitioners. Best regards. Pal 68, admirer of Pentjak Silat
This is fake silat, not really fake but more like a street fight style silat You're right, but you said you're area? Than you living in the bottom grave of newyork, living in America is a curse
@@shawn6669 he is, kuntao is silat from indonesian, and this is more like modern silat, and for boxing purposes maybe. But yeah it's good, but I just don't really see the art of Indonesian silat in here
@@citic101 yeah I Know a bit, this silat in the video, is kuntao, the silat form from Borneo more likely kalimantan. I just learn a lot after 2 months and now I think Orlando silat isn't bad at all
Everything what works in dojo, wont ever work in a real life situation. Only works against untrained without fighting skills. This includes all martial arts.😢
When I studied with Bob, he taught these sequences in blocking form first, then a few months later introduced a version of the sequence that was more strike oriented, reaching out more, or as he says in this video, "extended". Then again, that was 25 years ago, so quite possibly his thinking may have changed after I left.
