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Battara · 10th January 2018, 10:26 PM

In the past 40 years or so, Indonesian pincat silat has infiltrated the Philippines and has even mixed into Moro martial arts.

Thus I am not surprised that later practitioners think that the korambit is indigenous in spite of evidence and older traditional guros don't even mention it.

10th January 2018, 10:26 PM	#7
Battara EAAF Staff Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 7,139	In the past 40 years or so, Indonesian pincat silat has infiltrated the Philippines and has even mixed into Moro martial arts. Thus I am not surprised that later practitioners think that the korambit is indigenous in spite of evidence and older traditional guros don't even mention it.