Last Words from a Silat Grandmaster
In July 2018 I was lucky enough to be one of 12 Americans to travel to Malaysia and participate in the first Malaysian Silat Summer Camp. While there we had a chance to train with 6 Silat Grandmasters. It was an amazing immersion into their art and culture. One of those masters was Mahaguru Zahlan Man of Silat Kalam Utama. He shared some of his arts philosophies and although it was in some ways hard to follow, we all left feeling blessed to have met him and ready to return for more in the future. Unfortunately, we would never get that chance. In 2019 he died and the world lost a great master. In honor of his memory I decided to share some of the time we shared with him.