“It seems like a dance except for the sound of a collective shift from the air sticking stick” The story by the photography of the Karkisa Girish by Harinath Govindanthere is the time when it is the strongest survival.
Time that has obstacles and obstacles from nature and other living things hide in every corner.
How do you survive yourself if you are not armed with weapons to fight whatever happens? If we have to rewind this up to hundreds of years ago, one of the answers was the last.
Silambam, the best art tone used by the king, soldiers and even civilians as the foundation for sharpening skills in defense tactics.
Unlike other forms of martial arts that we discussed on these pages, this pre-date.
Is it too old to survive? We traveled to Chennai, Tamil Nadu in Hyundai Creta as part of our trip to reveal the story of Silumlam and understand a little more about the form of less well-known martial arts in India.
Arsenal, including everything from the sword that was revealed by the name of the word Tamil “Siambal” which was roughly translated the sound of the hill and nature.
One of the earliest across the form of art can be found in an aspect of 2500 years ago, from the famous Sage Hindu and Agathiyar Scholar.
Some believe it’s much older than that too.
About 522 AD, Bodhi Dharman recorded has spread culture outside India to Southeast Asia and even as far as China.
Centuries later, Silambam once again began to develop at the grassroots level in and around Tamil Nadu.
And one school like on the outskirts of Chennai was run by a very young Silambam artist, Tamil Selvin.
Interestingly he was the first in his family to take this martial arts form, or at least, he did not know anyone among his relatives who had.
“I was fascinated by him when I first saw someone doing it,” Tamil recalled.
“I immediately knew I had to learn this, not to teach or whatever except for myself.
It was very graceful, but strong.” After years of practicing around the northern suburb house, Tamil is now proficient in art that not only him Regularly in the events between countries and national (yes, it was also played at a national level now) He also started his own school with a simple cleaning between a group of houses that were dense on the outskirts of Chennai where he taught students, some of them were 5 years old.
While most of his students on the day we visited were school children, he said often had adults as students.
Even one of his students was a retired 58-year-old school teacher who always wanted to pursue sports but never had a boring opportunity to balance his family and life.
Students can be among 6 to 60 years.
It is hot and humid but students sweat with enthusiasm and full energy which is a must for a Silambam fighters.
Just like other martial shapes that we have seen on these pages, sticks are the most basic and early weapons for this martial arts form.
Turning it around their arms and body that seems soft, soon it becomes clear that training means they may not be as smooth with other children.
Students practice synchronous movements and almost look like dance performances except for collective sounds that shift from air cutting sticks.
“Some students take quite fast, some take time but we let them study with their own pace,” Tamil said.
“There is no time frame to study the basic form of art.
There is no level as said, karate.
This is sustainable training.
I would say I was still studying too,” he added humbly.
Karaet Tamil Selvin said he fell in love with this sport at first glance one difference we saw was a variation carried by this art form.
It’s more about one-to-one battle.
But if there is more than one opponent, the Silambam Warrior has several tools to play – like a fire ring, which is a burning torch wheel – a weapon in the hands of a trained artist.
Substantial precedent device.
Silambam is located in the same line.
Is the old method of something today people don’t enjoy practicing? Now, we don’t think so.
After seeing this young soldier or more precisely the artist, there is hope of light to shine across this kind of art form.
With people like Tamil Selvin solder the parade forward into an unknown.
Without fear of uncertainty, there will always be light at the end of this tunnel.
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Indian martial arts: silambam – ancient warfare
