The second in a series of remarkable instructional seminars in the brutal art of Indonesian Pencak Silat with Pendekar Steven Benitez and Guru Alvin Guinanao, this DVD focuses on four animal-based groundfighting styles: Kucing (cat style), Harimau (tiger style), Buaya (crocodile style) and Kura-Kura (turtle style). First, Guru Guinanao presents a series of essential conditioning exercises in each of the four animal styles. These exercises are designed to help you develop the strength and stamina necessary to fight from the ground as long as you need to. Then, Pendekar Benitez presents six jurus (solo hand forms) that demonstrate the correct use of the animal styles and show the natural flow of motion from one animal posture to the next. He also shows how combat applications from each of the four animal styles are drawn from the jurus. practice and extensive background interviews round out the content of this amazing DVD production.

Exceptional production quality, multiple camera angles and interactive menus make this series of DVDs one of the most informative and valuable silat training tools available today.

A student of edged weapons since 1979 Steve Tarani trained extensively throughout the 1980′s in the Filipino weapons arts under the likes of Guro Ted Lucalucay and Grandmaster Giron resulting in his achievement of graduate instructor status in 1989 directly under Grandmaster Leovigildo Miguel Giron. Further research, training and investigation into various Japanese, Chinese, Burmese, Korean and other edged weapons systems led him to the masters of the Karambit hailing from the Indonesian Archipelago. About this same time Steve began formal training in the Malaysian and Indonesian weapon systems with his first Malaysian instructor Cibku Sulaimen Sharif.