Sword Keris

When the Japanese invade Malaya, do you think is possible for the Silat warrior to fought the Japanese using?

Keris while the Japanese use Samurai. Karate/Akido plus Samurai vs Silat plus Keris. The Samurai sword is way longer and sharper than the keris
To sammy not using guns only use Samurai or keris hand to hand combat

Jedi, ur talking about close quarter combat…and that narrows to the possibility of encounter/confrontation of a Japanese soldier who wields a katana (assumed that he masters the arts of kenjutsu/kendo, > karate or aikido are skills that are not normally associated with the usage of the weapon such as sword- these are distinct combat systems altogether) against a silat practitioner wielding a keris.

Well the possibility remains open….according to verbal accounts from my grandma, some people from her village managed to deter some Japanese soldiers from entering their village during that particular WW2 time.

I believe such isolated incidence could happen here and there in Malaya then. But normally when such things happen it would ensue by a raid to that village by the Imperial Japanese Army. Surely nobody within an army would allow their comrades to be confronted just like that without retribution. In such case of full assault, definitely some people would get killed or captured in the end.

Therefore, generally it is wiser for the people to lie low and let the confrontation to be handled by guerrillas instead. That being the case, such close quarter combat would be very rare indeed. If it does happen, things may go unreported or application of silat against the Japanese Imperial Army may be restricted to strategic thinking level only (silat does not only limit itself to physical combat system per se, but some would teach basic philosopies/strategies of combat).

For example the simple philosophy that “a moving target is a hard to hit target” could be employed during modern confrontation. The same philosophy was employed to teach students to evade (mengelak) from attacks. This same philosophy is currently employed at squad level manouvre and even within the game of paintball. In combat, the weapon itself is not that dangerous, but the wielder of that weapon is. Without the wielder a weapon in itself is docile and harmless.

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