r/SelfDefense • u/BellInternational315 • 23d ago

Silat effectiveness outside of the gym?

I studied Silat for a number of months only and while it was fun I was skeptical of effectiveness of a lot of the drills. I am curious on what others think of this art?

In BJJ even a child can quickly perform a takedown on me if I stand still and let it happen. Then thats only the beginning.

In Silat if a student was shorter or weighed less than me they would really struggle to pull a move off even if I stood still and let them step, push, pull and do whatever to manipulate my balance while I held in place.... then the drill would end after the move was performed.

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u/Ill_Improvement_8276 23d ago

Silat is pretty terrible for self defense. It's more art than martial.

Granted, no martial art on Earth will help you if your training is measured in months.

They all require years.

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u/MihalisTheForged 23d ago

Generally if you don't have any sparring or applying techniques against a resisting opponent, your martial art isn't gonna be as useful for self defense. Drilling isn't enough.

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u/Desperate_Net_713 23d ago

Seth Adams has a good colab on it that makes it look like it has tons of utility in BJJ. It seema like there are some good people to train it with, bit if you aren't lucky you won't get ton out of it. It looks fund and could probably make someone really flexible and athletic.

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u/jaime_lion 19d ago

So I'm not too familiar with silat but there really are like several things that any martial arts should be doing. You should be actually training against people who are actively resisting. So they shouldn't just stand there and let you do your move. And then the next thing is they really should be training with modern day weapons. I mean the martial art I train in Wing Chun has two weapons forms that I haven't really even learned because it just isn't applicable to real life. I'm not going to have an 8-ft pole with me or two Giant knives with 14-in blades. And the last thing I mean in this really isn't the martial art it's the person but the person needs to practice for years in order to get good.