Last post for the Year
So we have arrived at December... The closing time for my office is near, I am looking forward to some time off and for once- we as a family can get together for Christmas and put the work and issues aside. I was actually wondering what I was going to write about. This week, however, one martial artist has gotten a lot of attention from me. Meet Chintya Candranaya! Now- I know I always said that I prefer Kung Fu and Karate, but this lady has just managed to get me sold on Pencak Silat. Where with Taekwondo I often looked and said "That looks so much like Karate..." I have come to see a huge amount of similarities between Kung Fu and Silat. One of the internal exercises that Chintya does in her video on shin conditioning actually looks like an exercise from Shaolin. I don't know about Chintya's healing factor, but she seems to have an adamantium skeleton. She bends blades, roundhouse kicks really hard objects with her shins and strikes metal poles...