Pukulan Pentjak Silat Tongkat | Pentjak Silat Bledek

Pentjak Silat Serak originates from the Indonesian island of Java, in the Gunung Kendang mountains on the western portion of the island. The art is named after it’s founder, Pak Serak. Pak Serak studied nine distinct martial arts and became highly proficient in three before creating his own. He had a unique need to develop his own art because he had one short arm and one club foot. His limited mobility drove him to develop an art based on closing quickly with an opponent and, using levers and torque, controlling him to eliminate his mobility and gain an edge in the fight. His philosophy permeates Serak and it’s daughter arts.

Serak is the original art from which the kombinasi of Tongkat and the kombinasi of Bledek are derived. It was brought to the United States from Indonesia by the deThouars brothers in the 1960s. The deThouars brothers can trace their inheritance of the art back to Pak Serak through family lines. Maha Guru Muda Bob Vanatta is Maha Guru Victor deThouars’ designated legacy heir to the art of Serak should the time come to pass on the art to a new Maha Guru (master teacher).