The Fighting Footwork of Kuntao & Silat 4 DVD Set by Bob Orlando

One of the most distinctive aspects of the Indonesian martial arts is their amazingly destructive legwork.  While a kuntao or silat practitioner's hands are busy parrying, trapping and striking, his legs are simultaneously applying their own tactics to trap, unbalance and destroy an opponent's lower body.  The result is a coordinated, total-demolition approach to personal combat.  After years of analyzing Indonesian legwork and organizing it into almost a martial science, we now we make this information available to you in this four volume video series. 

Volume 1 (approximately 90 minutes) shares the critical elements of silat, kuntao and hybrid kuntao-silat legwork and teach you the mechanics of trapping and unbalancing an opponent with your legs.  We then show you the first two langkahs (lower-body training drills) of our system and show you how to apply them with all three fighting styles. 

Volume 2 (approximately 65 minutes) explores the mechanics of the third and fourth langkahs in our system and show you the subtleties of their silat, kuntao and kuntao-silat variations.  In the process, you'll see the secrets of the true fighting function of silat's distinctive cross-legged or "twist" stance and how this seemingly vulnerable platform can be used as a powerful combative tool. 

Volume 3 (approximately 75 minutes) builds on the foundation of skill established in the first two volumes, teaching you how to integrate critical skills from langkas 1-4 (what we call the atomic langkas) into the two molecular langkas (5 and 6) of our six langka suite.  Not only is seamless flow from one langka to another the objective in this volume, but also how to relentlessly pursue your attacker in a coordinated barrage of upper- and lower-body techniques – a hallmark of kuntao-silat fighting arts.

Volume 4 (approximately 55 minutes) completes this comprehensive body of work on the combative footwork of kuntao and silat by revealing the secrets of unique leg-strengthening methods and brutally destructive low-line kicking tactics, taking you through muscle-burning exercises and drills (Shell Drill, Rocky Drill, and Three-star) to develop the strength and stamina necessary to employ kuntao-silat footwork.  Through this, we explore the deeper meaning of kuntao-silat legwork by showing you how to adapt the traps, grinds and locks you learned in the first three volumes of the series into a knee-breaking, ankle-popping arsenal of low-line kicks.

Length: 4 hours, 45 min on 4 DVDs.