Basic Pencak Silat Techniques Overview
📌 The lesson covers fundamental Pencak Silat techniques, including stances, footwork, hand attacks, leg attacks, blocks/defenses, and takedowns/throws.
🥋 The foundational elements are essential for later combining them into complex fighting sequences and routines.
🥋 The speaker emphasizes that mastering these basics allows practitioners to develop advanced movements in intermediate and advanced Pencak Silat.

Stances and Guards (Sikap dan Sikap Pasang)
🧍 Basic stances begin with a respect/salutation stance, followed by various preparatory defensive/offensive guards (Sikap Pasang).
🧘 Examples of guards include: *Sikap Pasang 1* (hands open, ready to attack/defend) and *Sikap Pasang 6* (arms crossed).
🦶 The tutorial details numerous weight-bearing stances (*Kuda-kuda*), such as front stance, parallel stance (low/middle), side stance, and crossed stance.

Movement and Defense Techniques
🚶 Basic footwork (*Pola Langkah*) includes advancing, retreating, closing in, moving away, jumping, and shuffling steps (forward and backward).
✋ Defensive techniques (*Tangkisan*) cover blocking high, low, crossing blocks (inside/outside), and using the leg (*Tangkisan Tungkai*).
🤸 Evasion techniques (*Hindaran* and *Elakan*) involve moving backward, sideways, and executing upper/lower evasions.

Attack Techniques
👊 Hand attacks include various strikes such as poking (to soft targets like the eye), straight punches (open or closed fist), slaps, chops, hooks, upward/downward elbows (*sikutan*), and front/side/rear elbow strikes.
🦵 Leg attacks listed are straight kicks, sickle kicks (curving), side kicks using the outer edge of the foot, and "Garuda kick" (a two-legged technique).
🦶 Sweeps (*Sapuan*) include sweeping low front and high sweeps targeting the waist or upper body.

Takedowns and Throws (Tanggapan/Bantingan)
🤼 Takedowns involve techniques like *Tanggapan 1* (pulling the opponent's leg and dropping them) and *Tanggapan 2* (a rotational takedown from the outside).
🔄 Techniques utilize rotational force (*memutar*) around the supporting foot to unbalance the opponent before executing the drop/throw.
💥 Specific throws include lifting and dropping techniques (*Bantingan Angkatan*) and techniques utilizing grips on the leg or back to control the fall.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Mastery of the seven fundamental categories (stances, footwork, hand attacks, leg attacks, blocks, evasions, throws) forms the complete foundation of Pencak Silat practice.
➡️ Advanced practitioners chain these basic movements together to create complex, flowing martial sequences.
➡️ Correct execution of footwork and weight distribution (Kuda-Kuda) is critical as it underpins the power and stability for all attacks and defenses.

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