Kirtana Acharya, Prasanna Bendre and Princess Thomas, who stood at the top podium ranking following their gold medal triumphs ...

Such strange styles as Pencak Silat, Trap fighting and hand-to-hand in all their oddity were covered in a previous article on the subject. However, what about after MMA fighters started to become ...

But the Welsh-born director is fighting just as hard to bring the world's attention to the Indonesian art of pencak silat, a martial art influenced by both Indian and Chinese forms of fighting.

The Singaporean said: "The style of fighting of silat athletes in the US is interesting. They are less intricate and their fighting stances were also different to what we are used to facing.

Silat, Malaysia: This fighting style purely focuses on violence. There are various styles such as bersilat, langkah silat, kuntao silat and kali silat, which use techniques varying from using body ...