silat
Also known as Pencak, Silat Melayu, Silek
thumb|right|A demonstration of the Minangkabau people|Minangkabau style of silat.
Key facts
- Martial art.image
- Silat (vietnamese).jpg
- Martial art.imagecaption
- A Vietnamese pesilat armed with golok
- Martial art.name
- Silat
- Martial art.focus
- Self-defense
- Martial art.hardness
- Full-contact, semi-contact, light-contact
- Martial art.country
- Brunei, Indonesia (as Pencak Silat), Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand, southern Philippines, and southern Vietnam
- Martial art.olympic
- No
- Intangible heritage.ICH
- Silat
- Intangible heritage.State Party
- Malaysia
- Intangible heritage.ID
- 01504
- Intangible heritage.Region
- APA
- Intangible heritage.Year
Article
26 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Origins
- Legend
- History
- Weapons
- Training
- Initiation
- Salutation
- Stances and footwork
- Forms
- Sparring
- Competition
- Energy
- Terms of address
- Music
- In popular culture
- Film
- Television
- Literature
- Comics
- Radio
- Aviation
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|A demonstration of the Minangkabau people|Minangkabau style of silat.
Silat is the collective term for a class of martial arts from the Nusantara and surrounding geocultural areas of Southeast Asia. It is traditionally practised in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand, southern Philippines and southern Vietnam. There are hundreds of different styles (aliran) and schools (perguruan) which tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, weaponry, or some combination thereof.