Review : Silat Kibau Spring

Silat Kibau Spring was a silat style mainly originated from Kalimantan, Indonesia. This silat style was brought to Sarawak around in the year 1940'. Kibau spring was more focused on fighting skills, movements and attacks and considered as one of the powerful and dangerous aliran if misused. With only one strike, the practitioner of this aliran can paralyse or kill an opponent. Therefore, before taking up the aliran, the practitioner has to take an oath. After that, the practitioner is forbidden to get involved in a fight except for self-defence, drink alcohol or indulge in any kind of immoral activities. If they break the rules, they will be cursed (disumpah) and something bad will happen to them. They may become paralysed or die mysteriously. The practitioners should be more sincere and honest and not use martial arts for the wrong purpose. Silat kibau spring had existed in Sarawak before the arrival of James Brooke. That time, the British soldiers were scared of the kibau spring exponents and considered them dangerous. Therefore, they banned the aliran. If they found out you were a practitioner of this aliran, they would put you in the jail for six months without a trial. The practice of the silat kibau spring aliran is now allowed freely. To achieve a higher level, the practitioners had to pass five stages of tests - each stage is divided into a thousand kinds of fighting skills (jurus). Normally, to learn one kind of buah, practitioners take one to three years. It depends on their ability to finish it … whether fast or slow.