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Actually Stevan Plinck is anything but sloppy!!! Plus he is teaching the drill so it is less free flowing than if they are just doing it!
Sorry Brian, but I don't agree. I've seen mr. Plinck on multiple videos and a lot of them are sloppy and not 'maha guru' worthy in my opinion. I'm not talking about free flowing but more about details in the movements he does.
Well in the Silat world there are a lot of opinions. Everyone is entitled to their own and with Silat players they will usually give it to you. The hard thing is understanding someone's motivation with all the back biting and political intrigue. The purging of top students in some arts, etc. Personally I don't care at all for that! All I am interested is skill sets. With Silat I love the lower leg work, off balancing, sweeps and throws! Stevan Plinck has a really good reputation with people I know. Those people in turn have good reputations and that is good enough for me!
Having seen him and others in multiple systems of Silat he moves nicely. Definitely one of the best to ever come out of the Paul De thouars line that I have observed. (observed a couple not so good recent ones) Just my opinion but like you I am entitled to it and feel very, very comfortable with it!
We are going to feel free to disagree on this one! No hard feelings!
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself to support your opinion? Maybe even share or point us to a better example of the drill? From my outsider's perspective, he seems to be moving efficiently and controlling the space well.
I am practicing silat/pukulan for a while now and have been around a couple of seminars of Pendekar Paul de Thouars. What I have seen from Pendekar Paul, even at his advanced age, is using subtle movement where a lot of details are important. What i see in the shown video is that he pulls the opponent in the wrong direction (towards him, so that a heavy opponent might fall towards you or it turns into wrestling), and he constantly makes extra steps to correct his balance. Perhaps 'sloppy' is not a good word for it in this video, that's more of a remark from other videos he made. Pulling your opponent in the wrong direction though is a no-no, since you will get in big troubles when dealing with a judo-guy.
Tiga, could you point out the exact time frame you do not like in the video so that we can carefully examine it. Watch the video and scroll along at the bottom of the moving bar and it will give you the time frame in the video. Then you can tell us and we will know exactly what you do not like in the movement.