Monday, September 5, 2016

MY CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING. By the magus of Denver.

   No one in the right mind for a teacher of kun tao or silat would ever write as much as I do. I write because I like to write my true feeling in an aspect of a written contend  of clarifying my truth in feeling. The truth always a poison ivy to many who hide their fantasizing behind their smiles by telling big bad jungle book stories to their students who were always misled by teachers who came through Holland to America, and through thumb s****** ideas made up their own martial systems as degrading to me. Me, who am I, a nothing but a well informed history student who always was deeply rooted in my practice of the old school silat, Serak and old hand kun tao.
  At least I knew of the historical martial background of all my brothers, they were for real and also knew of those who also were the real deal for their systems. The background of my brothers Maurice, Paul and Victor were of the uncle John de Vries lineage, the two older brothers really were true students of our uncle John, as I did. I too had many other teachers. As for those others, I knew for sure they had never trained or studied real silat or kun tao in Indonesia. I often question the families of my Hakka kun tao teachers still living in Indonesia if they had heard of those I write about. They heard of them only to have studied by peaking through a window shield into a living room. They just came up with names of teachers who they had ever heard of their names. Several of those masters of my generation and some even older live in the Los Angeles area or in the state of Washington near Seattle. They were stealing from others or had many of their influences from Paul or Maurice and some even by bad imitation of me.
  All can be seen even while they are trying to hide their real secrets by bad mouthing me or through gossip of concerning the de Thouars brothers and me the most. Because I knew all those Hackle berry fins. They claimed more then they ever knew. All are not looking silat but kemposih styled, and adding much of their insinuated would be old practice as a true valued imitation of others with more spice. I watch them all, and care less but know one thing they had slowed down a lot hoping to be on a good receivers end. They not to compare with me who still is full piss and vinegar and in speedy action and more energized. Just my melancholy side to murmur.
  Take for instance the guru besar from the Seattle era, in Washington claimed Willem Loreo his lineage has a hard time understanding to to explain the real teaching of Willem Loreo, who also had trained old school ci mande. The man still around could only show images of some influencing factors of the de Thouars practice with his self made up jurus and coming up with newer styles he like the others came to study from out a window shield into a house room. We all of my generation knew of Willem Loreo, Leon the Carriere, and many others of the old Dutch indo greats. There is no need for anyone to explain to me about Willem Loreo, who also had studied the Mustika Kwitang in Batavia, and Max Lentze was the better practitioner in the art. Willem Loreo was more Ci mande styled.
  The best explained theory of Willem Loreo is explain to me in how he was teaching, and not telling the big time bed story in how he was a master thief and a known pimp in Jakarta. How did he taught and what was his specialty of Willem Lorea just considering him self only a player or poekoelan knowledgeable fighter of the olden days in Jakarta.  I knew those factors of images and also knew Willem Loreo and his martial spectaculars was never mentioned by the guru besar from the Seattle area. If he did would never had gone to learn in how to make up his own jurus from an example by my brother Paul. He always told Paul taught him in how to do seminars was all his own  thumb s****** fantasy world full of himself; because he too did a lot of imitation out my system could never make it work in a real life situation but me, and my trained experts. Why I am always open to fight him in a face to face encounter may come up in all what he got against me. I will clean his clock. And I am open at any time for him to come and combat me. Our way to go at our age.
  The group under the one mistaken general Napoleon out of Reynosa after parting from me, and I am happy to have gotten rid of a pain in the ass came running to the guru besar in Seattle and found their home base only for a par time. They showed their system was all a premature imitation out my system to gain an entrance for trust. Everybody was so full of encouragement that they found a new home, what I already had expected from that bunch of imitators of Reynosa, Mexico as they were only to seek a lineage and to use the name of a martial family like Walter van der Broeke and Roberto Torres. In what they thought to gain with me was for them their own failure to endeavor ended up in getting nothing from me but my on grace by never to acknowledge them for ever having studied under me. After all that they were the garbage I needed to remove from the deck of my ship.
With my caring thought the magus of Denver, and the founding father of kun tao silat Serak de Thouars. Happy labor day weekend everyone.

WHY MY MISTRUST, By the magus of Denver.

                                                         MY MISTRUST.
  People should have stood in my place in order to really be of an understanding nature of me. Why at many times I am also very negative about people in my remarks, my own endorsement for writing my commentaries against many is for a sound reason. Many came, and many were very abusive by slandering my de Thouars name. toke advantage of my good nature in heart, and were actually really exploiting my system without even trying to pay respect to me, my family had known me for many years and had just study under me for some three years. Sure I leashed out against them, and I began to write my issue in beefy stew stories to write on them and also had named them many times.
  These people had no honor, respect to others and their effortless labor, and had taken advantage of many of the situations that gave them an open door to make false business off me, my family and trained instructors for their far distance learning program. They claimed Bill Chang their real teacher, and actually the man in charge was a flawless liking to be finished kempo practitioner, and could show only a karate background also as half studied. He really had butchered up the little he knew of my system, and ended up of me booting him out as garbage that was disorderly exposed on the deck of my ship. I removed this untrustworthy ex student and two hundred others with no regretful feeling in of despair . It just gave me pleasure to  remove those I could consider my throw away garbage for the floating dumpster of Long Island. The man whose name already became  meaningless to me as dumped in the quarter section of a street corner on Wall Street where I use to unleash my urine bladder in the same street corner I dumped him.   What can there be expected of a lower grade brown belt as worthless to me can only exploit my system for the worse in showing.  That was my raw deal of experiencing many of my ex students. They were all pieces of work seeking fame.
  Next also my obvious reason to write was the group in Reynosa, Mexico and was really not disappointed for sensing them for many years. Their leader a dressed up untrue master in many a sense came to me and followed me like a poppy dog, and came to some of my events and had me in for just lesser of the viewer in seminars. Was the most unrewarding payer to me, had paid me only with pocket change and paid sums of money to  advertise himself as my most entrusted student. Expected me to make him a successor over the others who were better trained and also far above him with intelligence and in practice. For sure did just the right thing and made him a false promise on tape for my  psychological testing procedure and failed my expectation, The last time he came to one of my last family gatherings with a senator and some others of his students expected me to announce him as my successor in front of all people, including my family, and for sure not to embarrass him threw a curve ball full of excuses for my sound reasoning. Before this man left also was trying to have me signed a diploma in Spanish making him my successor. For sure I refused.
  Now to his practice that some of my martial associated friends of my age generation and from the former Dutch East Indies our old hand kun tao came from had been watching the tapes from Reynosa and the kun tao of Spain. They both came out the same family resources and only could be noticed by any of us who really are in the old hand kun tao that they try to impress them selves, and only can be noticed as practitioners expediting kempo hand patterns and tae kwon do kicks.  And for sure many of their skills were also an imitation out many other martial tapes that can be bought in the open market. The all wear uniforms so full of sparkle with the many patches that the patches became more meaningful over any of the actual practice. The headmaster of the kun tao Reynosa and bad silat look just like an outstanding general to comment his followers.
  His wife after just a few seminars she learned from one of my own martial associated friends, made herself a master of tai chi. It just astonished me for ever had to deal with ex students like the ones in Reynosa. Tai chi in order to be good in the art need to be trained and studied in a life time of studies.
  These are just a few of the examples I was dealing with as a teacher who expected and thought many of those with greater expectation of my longing was happy for them to have disappointed me for my learning experience.
   Why I always happy to come to my Mexican family under Dr Rainero in Guadalajara, I know always that they are not skimpy when practicing my system. They know all my 40 forms as I had instructed them to follow in many years. There is a big difference between Guadalajara and Reynosa. I came to the city of Gaudalajara already for many years, and also had tested most of the students and instructors. The followers of my system in Guadalajara are fully informed, well studied and well practiced. My kun tao and silat Serak Headquarter is in the best of care under Dr Mario Rainero and instructors. Combat has very little to do with the real practice of my system in what count is comprehensive understanding of my teaching. Although all my followers from Guadalajara to America and around the globe know how to fight is really not important. The onslaught of people killing people is an everyday in occurring with the human race, and not necessary in the martial arts. Martial arts can only make better people in people to live a healthier life.
  In closing I am very happy and lucky to count my blessing for the followers under me NOW, and they had taken the place of the ones I needed to remove for my obvious reason by example I needed to mention of my ex students and the group in Reynosa, in Mexico.  In what became of me for my reactive responses against those individuals thinking I was a p**** and weak in resources.
  WISHING ALL MY FAMILY MEMBERS, ALL MY FOLLOWERS AND THEIR STUDENTS AND FAMILY AND FRIENDS A SAFE AND HAPPY LABOR DAY. LABOR DAY IS ALWAYS A DAY OF NECESSITY FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.
  With my care and love, please be safe and happy eating time in socializing.
By the mangus of Denver, and the founding father of kun tao silat Serak de Thouars.

ALWAYS AN OPEN HEART. By the magus of Denver

  Many where questioning me why I needed to write so much, as I always did. The answer is all plain and simple is to express myself in a free passage of expressing my feeling in a word by word description. Do I have any regretful in feeling for in what I ever had done to people or ex students or any of my martial associated friends I parted from? The answer is my easy description for never to care; since life always surround itself by a constitution that can only be resolved when people see things most clearly that it never came from one side only. Life is never a one sided deal. Why I write a lot more than any martial teacher on earth that writing became my weapon in finding a discipline out of self containment for setting my record straight. It would be dull and boring ever to be a hypocrite a liar a cheat or trying to sell something new in the place of something old.
  Do I needed to terminate hundreds of students --the answer is YES for an answer. It was my prevention for getting in the same raw deal like so many other teachers who interest themselves in the number game for a reality check that things can never be imagined to be as rosy as any imaginative back ward thinking in men. In dealing with people reside always a hidden secret always for having to deal with the human condition, construct one self in  becoming an a****** and create a very productive insinuation. It is better to heal than to get sick.
  For the ones who came in later but also for a longer time in my history, and still with me very loyal and devoted to the practice of the secrets I always held back from the general public --I gave them my best of me caring for all my instructors and their families. I love them dearly, and all I need in life. Why I kept throwing out as much as I could to replace them with the best of people.
  I have no love or dedication for the group in Reynosa located at the Texas border and Mexico --they were serving them selves and also greedy to own systems or characterized them selves thinking to be my successor. They misunderstood me that I was testing them, there are lawyers running their businesses, and also should understand that they were psychologically tested that no teacher in the right mind will ever make them my successor over others who knew my system better as they did. Their self false pride was my cause to remove or terminate them out my legacy where never any equal to others who have been training longer in years. I hope never again to see any of them back again in my life would spoil my days of recovery to find finally my lasting peace. I just got rid of them as a toothache. They know technique after technique through imitating me, and the better trained and end up looking like kempo orientated practitioners and never in the old hand kun tao. Trust me.
  The big difference is with the group under Dr Mario Rainero in Guadalajara, they are the most understanding people to care for my culture, my devotion and my system I had created. In fact they are better trained in form, technique and in combat to really honor the old ways of kun tao and old school silat. I am precisely very prideful of them in Guadalajara for their total comprehension of me, and came there more in years as I ever did in Reynosa.  I love the Mexican people because of my students in Guadalajara, and for their total understanding of me. I tested them, psychologically, taught and trained them on all my forms very much lacking with the folks in Reynosa.  I always come home to Guadalajara, and wish I could live there among those beautiful people. My love for Mexico is larger than ever can be imagined by people.
  Here on my home turf is always a chaotic situation, and issues to deal with. Why I removed so many. And I am happy for the ones in greater numbers I have now. They make my system worthy for me to teach them.
  See all of you in my Sunday morning class for harder training with no measurement of tardiness in training. Training is always for fun in my corner of the world. I thank all my instructors and their students to keep kun tao silat Serak deTthouars to a high esteem. It is better to clean out any waste by disposing bad energy, and through training gain better physical and mental resources in better clean health.
  To all my trained instructors all over, I love and care for you and your families and students.
By the grand pupa as the magus of Denver, and the kahuna of Kun tao silat Serak de Thouars.

Saturday, September 3, 2016

THE SERAK SYMPOSIUM October 22, 23, 2016

THE SERAK SYMPOSIUM October  22, 23, 2016
  Is going to be hold in my Headquarter in Northglenn, Colorado or possibly also in my own back yard.  My Headquarter is located in Northglenn, and home address 141 East 105th ave
                                                                                          Northglenn, Co 80233.
                     For direction or information contact guru Marcelo Rainero at 303-668-411
NOTHING IS FOR FREE, AND THERE WILL BE A CHARGE FEE OF $50,-- for both days.
Schedules for the two days start on Saturday from 10 AM -- 1.PM. One hour lunch.
                                                                           3 PM -   5 PM.
                      Schedule for Sunday is same from    10 AM - 1 PM. One hour lunch
                                                                              3 PM - 5 PM

I WAS NEVER A HYPOCRITE. By the magus of Denver.

Perhaps I am a spoiled individual for more studies in the martial arts than any of my own brothers, and most common as a dominating factor had been underrated, under estimated and looked down upon by mainly Paul and Victor --as they were always claiming to tell their students. A reason we are still apart from each other until Maurice and Paul were passing on. It is sad, and yet, also for me a larger reason to express my feeling in a mindset that does not permit any unity to rise above the horizon. And also by the Dutch Indo community in Los Angels and in Holland is not a hurting for me, bu a rejoice for unlimited expansion. Which I did.
  Victor to me will always be a student of Paul, since the beginning in Holland, and Paul then was just a beginner starting student under uncle John. Paul taught Victor, and occasionally also trained together Kees Boering and my younger brother. Victor will always be treated to any other of Paul's students --why also never in any of my caring to mention him above Paul or Maurice.
  For the many more of studies I had undergone learning old school silat and Serak and Palembang kun tao had often to restrain my self for my opinion when around any of my brothers would actually  be embarrassing to them for having to listen to the truth. Watch them move, and watch me move my distance in a diversity of flavors.
  Why I also decided  to arrange a small family gathering only for my associated martial friends, and most loyal followers who I still train and also still give instructions to in the Bandung Serak, and the Cheribon Serak is especially designated to pay tribute by honoring Uncle John de Vries who taught me the most in structure and format and also several of his combination djurus and langkas for the Serak of his Mas Djoet lineage, and became in a due process above Mas Djoet after uncle John studied the Southern kun tao from two formidable kun tao teachers in Bogor, in West Java. Also especially bring to my memory is glorifying and the most to honor Pak Serak for his Cheribon Serak. Pak Serak died in the early part of the 1900's. The teachers who taught me the Cheribon Serak were also in their 60's in the late 1940's, and guru Egmund was already in his 80's in the 1970's. Like myself was then still full of piss and vinegar. I also honor at the same time Pak Atjo, guru Sardjono from Bandung where I met them, and later in the Bay era of San Francisco met guru Egmund.
                                                  THE SERAK SYMPOSIUM.
  Is going to be hold in my Headquarter in Northglenn, Colorado or possibly also in my own back yard.  My Headquarter is located in Northglenn, and home address 141 East 105th ave
                                                                                          Northglenn, Co 80233.
                     For direction or information contact guru Marcelo Rainero at 303-668-411
NOTHING IS FOR FREE, AND THERE WILL BE A CHARGE FEE OF $50,-- for both days.
Schedules for the two days start on Saturday from 10 AM -- 1.PM. One hour lunch.
                                                                           3 PM -   5 PM.
                      Schedule for Sunday is same from    10 AM - 1 PM. One hour lunch
                                                                              3 PM - 5 PM
There are plenty of motels and hotels in Thornton or Northglenn can be traced through the internet.
Go to motels or hotels and find plenty of telephone numbers and addresses.
We will have a special slametan  or feast gathering at no cost for the attending practitioners in my home.
Look forward of seeing you all, and of you for our this Sunday morning class.
By Pak Willem de Thouars, the magus of Denver and the founding father of kun tao silat Serak de Thouars.

The ones removed had always exploited my system but under my conditioned circumstances just revised my training to the real old ways I never taught them.

It had never impressed me in regardless how many interviewing people did with uncle Paul; like for instance Walter van der Broeke a well known intruder to collect lineages did interviewed my brother under difficult circumstances of my brother who said things as an old man already struggling to control his health., Unfortunate things do happen, and need to be taken with a large grant of salt. In what people are doing effortlessly hiding behind some one's interviewing old masters  should have known better. I made similar mistakes with old ex students and threw them all out and in knowing their human condition to take advantages over situations are now in my right track. Remove the no goods and remove them with the more reliable and more loyal devotees of my system. The ones removed had always exploited my system but under my conditioned circumstances just revised my training to the real old ways I never taught them. Those old ex students who make claims and are on the YOU TUBE against me, are now the lesser to number my better qualified trained practitioners, and that they too are on the YOU TUBE  showing the treasures of my system with my deep appreciation. In what I was seeking to find, I found my treasure through struggle, and struggle is life. Through struggle found my harmony in peace. 

The Magus of  Kuntao & Serak

Uncle Willem de Thouars

Friday, September 2, 2016

MY FINAL RESOLUTION IN PROSPERITY. By the magus of Denver.

As a disciple of history, and a custodian of pentjac silat Serak was quite often in doubt for any of my made attempt to bring unity among the students of Serak, and despite my uncountable effort in years past to bring my two brothers here in America together as a family -- was the most wasted motion for a disposition. The fruits for my intend to achieve the prospective of my thinking became a fruitless endeavor. Napoleon always lead his armies under the same banner in valor, and was a strategical genius as a field hardened artillery leader - commander in the field of battle. He always in a most spectacular way commended: "THAT WHEN IN DOUBT --ATTACK"  Which I changed my course in history by addressing each issue immediately without to restrain me from any further obligation to anyone.
  Sad but true that my younger brother always had remained a student of my older brother Paul. Victor was the youngest brother, and always wanted to be on top over everybody and in what he wished for was able to receive. It often had concern me for brothers to be acting like a broken twig of a tree branch -their fighting was continuous and had gotten me involved as the middle brother. The story on the de Thouars brothers was sad, and on forgiven in many ways. Why I left the family and wend on my own in my own retreat found my lasting peace and never ceased my aggression. The most sorry I felt was for my parents who brought us to America for a better future --we shamed them and smeared mud on our name.   Victor denying his brother Paul as his teacher was the greatest failure for a student, mankind knew the past and will never forget the later history in life. Mar Djoekie was then as I could remember just an eleven year old kid, and was impossible for him to know Serak.  Paul was always Victor's teacher since the beginning in Holland, and forced myself to stand behind Victor just to keep the peace together.
  I always will hold the spirit and names of all my teachers on the palm of my hand. They made me in for what I stand for today. I owe them anything and everything why I am to remain a student of old hand kun tao, a student of old school silat and a custodian of Serak with no titles or any ranking.
 Why I created also my own system based on the foundation of all my teachers who laid my open roads. I thank my last teacher from the Dutch East Indies, the honorable Carl August Samuel Deerns who taught me, here in America and the city where I live for the greatest part of my life in America his lessons he taught me. Not as a raw beginner but a well practiced student of the teachers in Indonesia was taken in by my Dutch-Indo-Chinese teacher and taught me his wisdom, some of his skills and in how to build a projection. Which I did, not without failure to attempt but toke me years to develop.
  Paul and Victor were never my teachers as they liked to claim. I could not take acceptance to that but will only acknowledge uncle John de Vries for teaching me, in Amsterdam in Holland his private sessions with me. No one knew, as uncle John always told me: "SUDAH TOG WILLEM, ZEG NIETS EN VERTEL NIEMAND" I kept my pledge to him, and acted always like I was a nothing and a someone good to be disregarded. Glad I did, while many were underestimating me for my accumulated skills in cross training, in studies and practice created my system based on my years of experience. The road was long, hard, steep and never without struggle finally was able to reach my objective by removing some two hundred ex students like Steve Gartin, Randel Goodwin, George Morin, and the many others whose names are just to important for me to even be mentioning them. They were replace by me with better chosen and more valuable practitioners who are everywhere and anywhere and further more on the planet earth. The old ex students could never even come close to compare themselves with any who was replacing them. As the old ex students kept moving on, I too was moving on and sharpened my training for myself, and started to train my real and true art to those who are now training under me --in old hand kun tao --old school silat and also the two different styles of Serak.
  It would be inconclusive to keep maintaining of steering my ship on the old course in order to land a good shore with an enlargement of a more broader horizon why I finally could unify the better and more cleaner envoys of my system/ I had created. I have now the very best over the best are now under me, and the most loyal. My envoys are all employed and no need for them to make a living out of martial arts. Martial arts to them is like a way of life and a passion of life. Same in how I feel.
  Why i also decided to arrange for the first time my Serak symposium only by invitation only. Mainly to give grace and honor to the founder Pak Serak, and the most distinguished Uncle John de Vries for what he taught me for my further life.
  When socially or morally harmony can never be achieved through all other followers of Serak; than harmony to lasting peace can only be the seeds of only the ones training under me. Through them harmony, peace and tranquility for Serak is hereby achieved only through them as a martial extended family.
   [ AS FOR MARCELINO DE THOUARS, THE SON OF PAUL MY BELATED BROTHER AND FOR HIS OWN GOOD SHOULD NEVER MAKE ANY ATTEMPT OF TEACHING SERAK. HE HAS NOTHING TO OFFER AT THIS POINT TO IMPACT HIS FURTHER PROGRESSION FOR LIKING TO STAND IN HIS FATHER'S SHOES.  HE NEED MORE EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING; BADLY IN NEED OF VERBAL GOOD COMMUNICATION, AND NOT GEAR HS THOUGHT IN PROGRESS ON HIM SELF. BEFORE OTHERS MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE OVER HIM.
  I HAD TRIED TO HELP HIM IN MANY WAYS I COULD AS AN UNCLE BUT  MARCELINO DID THE WORSE OF MISTAKES BY DENYING ME, AND WAS TRYING TO TEACH MY MOST SENIOR INSTRUCTORS HIS SERAK -- WAS THE MOST OF INSULT TO ME AND MY MARTIAL LEGACY. IN SOUND FOLLOWERS. MARCELINO IS IN GREAT NEED OF MATURE GUIDANCE AND NEED BADLY TO TRAIN HARDER IN BUKTI NEGARA OR SERAK. HE NEED TO LEARN IN HOW TO TEACH BY HUMBLING HIMSELF FIRST TO DOWN TO EARTH --FOR HIS LEARNING PROCESS].
  Will announce next week the detail for our Serak symposium for the fort coming week for October 22nd and 23rd for 2016.
  I finally find a relieve to prosper for my years of gone through struggle --that without struggle is no life. My recess from struggle to find my peace in harmony.
  By the magus of Denver, and the founding father of kun tao Serak silat de Thouars.