Hello Again!
Its been far to long since we last
spoke (almost a year now)
and its with a sad heart that I’m writing
my last public blog on the subject of Pencak Silat!
This may come as a shock to many of
you who have supported my work for long time now, but after some deep thought,
self reflection... and some huge changes in my personal life
I’ve decided that I will no longer pen
my thoughts aloud on the subject of Silat.
In my time I`ve trained with some
amazingly skilled persilats and Gurus... and some shit ones (You know who I
mean), made some awesome friendships... and some shit ones and have gotten ....very disheartened to say
the least at the state of Pencak Silat as its portrayed and taught publicly
here in the UK. Religion, politics, ego, money, lineage, internal backstabbing
and in-fighting all these things ruin the arts that I love and I want no more
part of that. A lot of gurus out there with the fat bellies and fatter wallets
to match need to really think long and hard about what there “Teaching” and what
there charging their students for. How some of them sleep at night with the
shit they pass of as Silat amazes me, students paying over-inflated fees for
something that frankly would get them killed outside of the matted dojo!
With the exception of my brothers Alvin and
Johnny, and friends Chris P, Kim, Vinnie, Eddie, Max, Chris C and VERY few others, UK public Silat is a joke!
and it breaks my heart to write it but its true. Most students are living in a
land of “make believe” playing pirates or something.
Plus with the state of things in the
world today and the continued "War on Privacy" I foresee a time where
it will be illegal to even study fighting arts here in the UK of any worth. Anyone
who can fight his way out of a paper bag will be rounded up and taken away! The
State and the “darkness” behind already know enough of what I study.
I`ve had articles censored and taken
down, Haters but mostly knobs and I’m now a little more careful about the
information I put out there and who see's it.
I will still continue to study REAL Pencak
Silat and always will, but I will now also put more time and energy into other
"Tribal arts" free of the dogma and bullshit Silat in UK is quite
frankly drowning in!
I will be continuing to blog on Google
+ in a very closed circle and my students (What few I have left) will be there
too.
Anyone who as liked my ramblings and
insights and expressions of REAL Silat over the years and who still wants to
stay in touch can email me personally at paranormal.simpson@gmail.com and I'll
add them to the Google + circle or come find me on Facebook.
Another half decent Silat player /
Guru left with no other option than to melt away into the background, for fear
of drowning in the bollocks of "Pulut Silat"
Terima Kasih
Sion-marc Simpson
