April 19, March 24, March 6, February 11, September 25, March 16, March 4, March 2, April 6, April 4, July 15, February 22, August 26, August 25, August 5, August 4, August 1, May 25, March 11, February 27, Attendees are privy to jaw dropping demonstrations of deadly techniques followed by an engaging lesson in the mechanics of the techniques presented.
Mix in a bit of humor and captivating narratives of Bruneian culture, and you have the recipe for a world-wide martial art phenomenon known as SSBD. Through word of mouth they promoted me to their friends.
They were more interested with fast, effective, self defence techniques rather than traditional training, while other students had part time jobs at cinemas, restaurants, etc on the weekends. I was training security guys the size of rugby players with bisceps the size of my head. A musician from South Africa who lived just a few houses from me approached me on my final year before I completed my studies because he was attacked while he was abroad.
He trained twice a week. I was about to leave for Brunei in few months, so as reference for him when I leave, we recorded a video in the park nearby. I was thinking to delete the videos because it was starting to gain too much attention and the fact that I was being bombarded by emails from people I do not know.
They liked it and Carlo Andries asked me if I was interested to come to Italy again in 2 months, just a few weeks before I was about to leave for Brunei for good, so I said to myself, why not? The seminar attracted people from outside of Italy, and after that I got invited to Germany by Cristian Velici and then everything was like a snowball rolled down a hill. How do you compare your training from when you lived in Brunei to when you moved to the UK?
In Brunei, as a child training, it was more intense. As a child you tend to soak everything up and question nothing; I go to school, go for extra classes, come home, train and sleep, this was my routine in my early years.
Why do this? Why do that? But again I also understand that as a child, I had no responsibilities other than school and my daily chores, but as an adult, you cannot go to work or come home to your family with bruises on your face and your forearm plus juggling everyday life responsibilities.
I have not changed anything in instructing the dedicated members of the closed doors training groups. What are your feelings about sport competition?
Do you encourage your students to test their skills in this manner? There is no competitive mindset in SSBD, its aim is to finish a confrontation as soon as possible efficiently without effort. A sports competitive mindset and traditional training mindset in martial arts training are two totally different things.
Everyone who trains with me either are already skilled in another art or they start from scratch and have different goals and intentions in their training. What they decide to do in the martial arts training not involving SSBD or myself, I usually give them full support. Silat Suffian Bela Diri is a very efficient and deadly art-form, especially when you bring weapons to the table.
How important is gun and knife training to you system? For example, to understand to defend from a good boxer you learn from boxers, to understand to defend from a powerful kick you learn from Muay Thai practitioners. To learn to effectively defend from weapons, it is very important to efficiently understand their use.
In getting to know you through your videos, website and facebook I see that family is very important to you. Is there a strong family tradition of teaching Silat in your heritage? Family is very important to me. You are busy with SSBD workshops and travel all over the world. What is your favorite and least favorite things about traveling? I travel via public transport, what is usually frustrating is when the flight times fly too early or returning too late during the day that there are no public transport services available before or after the specified times, that I have to sleep over — either at airports or airport hotels, which basically are unnecessary expenses and time away from home.
The flight was only 2hrs. There are many people, even experienced martial artists that do not know a lot about Silat. Since I posted my 1st youtube video, it is open for ALL to comment, I do not filter them, I only delete those who promote religious or racial slandering.
I take everything as positive and constructive criticism, these people help keep my feet on the ground, though once in a while there are people who just give negative comment for the sake of commenting and brings no benefit whatsoever to anything. I think that is what makes SSBD unique, I am open for any constructive criticism, it helps keep quality control. What are your future plans regarding your work? In , I travelled about 31 weekends teaching Silat in different parts of the world, from the Americas, different parts of Europe, Asia and Australia.
In , my seminars are booked for 45 weekends throughout different continents of the world. Bear in mind there are 52 weekend in a year. Currently I have practitioners from 14 different countries who studies and physically train directly under me. There are no long distance correspondance course, instruction through videos or video gradings in SSBD. Not that Im saying any other learning methods are wrong, its just that some sublties in some movements can only be felt and not shown.
I teach as how I was taught. Im currently based in Cardiff, Wales in the UK.
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