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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Sufi Martial Arts



Khalid Habib Khan is a Sifat Kilat instructor in Southern California.  Sifat Kilat (Sifat is nature, and Kilat means noor—light—in Malay) is where self-realization, meditation, and self-defense meet.  In this martial arts technique you learn to deal with attackers in a close combat situation.  Khalid Khan (Khalid H. Khan) told me he left California’s Silicon Valley in the 90s to learn martial arts in South East Asia.  Khan landed in Southern Philippines where he learned Serrada.  Later, he spent several years in Indonesia and Malaysia learning martial art techniques passed on by the Sufis.

An hour worth of exercises—mainly tapi-tapi (with and without knife)—Khalid Khan taught me, gave me confidence in my capabilities to defend myself in a street fight scenario.

4 Comments:

At Fri Mar 01, 07:44:00 PM PST, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pangulong Guro Khalid; Fighting-arts of South-Central Philippines and Indonesia/Malaysia; Seni Serrada; Eskrimaclass@yahoo

 
At Mon Mar 11, 04:34:00 AM PDT, Blogger Glenn Jacob said...

Thanks for posting meaning of Sifat Kilat.
Nice Blog! I am a regular visitor of your blog!
Martial Arts Sydney

 
At Mon Sep 07, 08:19:00 PM PDT, Anonymous Khalid Habib Khan said...

Join guro Khalid's Filipino Serrada Stickfighting group to study different technical subjects:
SERRADA ESKRIMA TECHNICAL AND NEWS: (thank you for your comments about our meeting that evening, I have not forgotten you and your honesty):

https://m.facebook.com/groups/serradaeskrimatechnicalandnews

 
At Mon Sep 07, 08:27:00 PM PDT, Anonymous Khalid Habib Khan said...

WATCH SERRADA ESKRIMA STICKFIGHTING TECHNICAL TRAINING/ DRILLS VIDEOS on YouTube
by guro Khalid : click on below to get entire list: or in YouTube search box write: "serrada structure:" put colon : after the word structure.
CLICK ON YOUTUBE LINK BELOW:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=serrada+structure%3A

 

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