Years ago in going back to 1965 when I started to teach in Colorado,
and Paul just started to prosper in venturing teaching Serak; I began
to make plans while others where all busy to promote their martial
addictive sports, and was introduced to perhaps the very best of martial
experts in Denver. Denver so far as I am concern can be equaled to any
city in America. I found them all remarkable interesting by comparing my
newly founded martial associates with those of the Dutch Indo greater
maestros who all came in like flog of Canadian Gees and slapping their
chest as widely. Nothing against my own race, and found most were
unpredictable in their story telling. Why I am also be continuous with
my writing out my experience with them, and begun to flourish my deeper
research concerning their backgrounds. They failed most of the reality
checks. But is non of my business as ever to care, background and
history is.
Some where even funnier then others in what they told yesterday
suddenly found a miracle of changes in the next day. Most of them had
never ever really trained the old school silat in Indonesia, learned
something as unpredictable used name of teachers for the land of a blind
kingdom,and students were led to believe that in what they were
learning could never have been a true Indonesian silat art. Because in
what I saw of them, and their student core, and in what they were
practicing was highly influenced by Kempo, tae kwon do, aidkido, judo
and other of the similar styles in martial practice. They had taken from
each other and to face facts in unlimited resources were expanding upon
and created a big booming reputation for them self. To me is very okay
since I care less --except why not tell the whole story that you never
had really trained silat or kun tao and invented your own martial
practice with many influences of others. I know with the Dutch
Indonesians in the Los Angeles area were many of them influenced with
the practice of Paul at the beginning. Later on as I was viewing them
all could consider Los Angeles and especially the state of Washington
and their grand visioned images better to be ignored. Any bad soap opera
performance is bad for the viewing and remain to be bad. Then came
them and some of their claiming of me, and my system found influences
from them and their poekoelan arts. I met some of them when they were
still training with Paul, found them pieces of work . Sorry I really had
studied and trained East Javanese, Central Javanese and West Javanese
silat, and especially old hand kun tao and in Indonesia. I accumulated
many skills of each region, and also with a great lineage in kun tao.
Later on in America found my teacher in Carl Samuel Deerns, and guru
Egmund to finish my Dutch Indo martial education. I do have great
relationship with gurus in East Java and Madura. I kept training while
others kept bragging and were stuck to the only one thing . My pudding
is in my pie, my system is also far more progressing in most recent
years unlike before. And I assembled systems together and created my own
art out of many substances. I never needed any other of those guru
besars, ma ha gurus or pendekars to teach me anything --I really was
bored watching them, and their students very external home based.
My futuristic planning was to throw out as many students in a slow
down process to replace them with the more functional, more intelligent
and better orientated when it comes to loyalty and devotion to practice.
I achieved in what I needed to achieve for my accomplishment. Some of
those old ex students still try to hang on to me like leeches hoping to
gain an entrance back into my martial environment. They are on the YOU
TUBE like Steve Gartin still trying to be boosting that he was once my
best student. I feel sorry for him with no directive for the real silat
or kun tao in practice is just like all the others. After all never the
less for any of any expectation what can ever be expected out of a low
brown belt under me for an ex student already booted out long time ago.
He is going nowhere but is stuck to his own illusion for his own on
prediction to believe. There is good martial history or bad martial
history have both in my record keeping. Why I write so much to share my
experience, share martial history and be sincere and honest. I care
less for the liking of people.
I wrote several articles on the fake of a guru besar of Washington
was to make an example out of him for also the others like him with the
same image for liking to be the real experts in silat or kun tao were
untrue practitioners but gained a great reputation as pioneers. They
lived their martial lives with illusion and remain to me the bad images
for the real old schooled silat. Let them be give me a chance to
expedite my historical writing. Why I don't like many of them not for
their fighting capabilities but their wild fantasy thumb s****** ideas.
And in what did happened to the real practice of Serak became a day
dreams illusion for a reality check. In Holland the Serak sucks, and in
America under the current situation remain on boot hill of a dreamers
fantasy.
What kind of Serak silat is that uncle Jelle really like to proclaim
for his knowledge of knowing Serak? What a shame he never had put his
real training in the art and was taught Serak by a blind master (now
long gone) who could only lead a blind colony. They give each other
certifications in Holland just to gain numbers in greatness. I hope
never to be given a testimonial acknowledgement of the silat union in
Holland. Walter van der Broeke a great member for them to boot. My wall is full of wallpaper on
display. Sorry Holland, I only like your cheese, your judo, gebakjes and
really you need to go back to your windmills and wooden shoes and old
ways --than "o" than I may considering coming back to Holland for :"Bij
Ons In De Jordaan" and not for your silat and find a visit of splendor.
With your silat where everyone is kissing up to each other is out my
commendation in words. Sorry from an old poekoelan player, for you to
hate me even more. This came all out of "Lieve Java" a land of a
foreign continent. And don't forget to also include your bad jungle book
stories of New Guinea and the DETA boys suppose to be so dangerous.
Your Dutch Indo Tarzan stories was a man also out New Guinea from Java.
Except there was never enough rope for this Tarzan to swing from one
tree to another. Our Johnny was still the best of all Tarzan's, and
sorry the bad experience Maureen O' Sullivan had with their chimp always
liking to bite people. He was actually not a good monkey was with bad
behaviorism like the ones in the silat community in Holland and in
America. I am the humanistic chimp always liking to bite. I am just the
old poekoelan player, old wine maker me.
In grace and in peace,
bapak Willem de Thouars, founding father kun tao silat Serak de thouars
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