Silat Mubai

I have been watching some Silat Mubai videos that I just received. I like most of what I have seen thus far. The killing video disturbs me somewhat about falling in the wrong hands. Many of the techniques are really nothing new but his aggressiveness is. The aggressiveness is really the only Silat characteristic I really saw. He believes in stomping the hell out of the bad guy when he is on the ground of stabbing him multiple times. Thats nice and all but in the states thats called prison and I don't look good shaved down...lol. Anyways...I did really enjoy the kerambit video but hey, I'm a knife guy..big surprise there. The kermabit moves were pretty simple and non complex...always in cuts of three which I like. The other knife video was not bad either (for what i have seen of it) but many of it is knife to knife which probably won't happen too much in real life unless a song for West Side Story breaks out. He was also pretty realistic about disarms which I was happy to see. Disarms just don't happen in real situations and you are a fool to go for them at the start. Beat the snot out of the guy first and then, if needed, take the knife. I am really starting to believe, from my current two teachers, that if you hit the guy enough with the knife that he will not be thinking about stabbing or cutting you but will be thinking about saving his own ass.Back to Silat Mubai...I also enjoyed the Instructor himself...he is very plain spoken and treats his partner with care, even when he is showing multiple ways to break his skull in two.The last video I watched was one of locks. In my past 20 years or so I have always been a fan of such locks but as of late, not so much. I like how Guru Stark puts it in his book "You do not have to apply any Kuncian (locks) EVER. Locks are strictly for control or mercy". I have control over the guy as I beat the snot out of him and he falls down. Where I do see locks being useful is when it is a drunk freind(brother-in-law, father, students...etc...) who attacks or who you need to stop in their actions. An elbow to the face or breaking their knee probably would'nt fly in those situations. So then I can see the use of a lock to help "calm" them down.Overall I like the videos and the system itself. I don't see a lot of silat in there (mostly kali) but I see some good applications and some good fighting theories. I will write more when I notice more.

There is a sample of Silat Mubai on the FIFS website