The UPSF has developed several amazing courses on Pencak Silat:

Understanding Tanding

This course our entry level course.  It is designed to teach you the basics of Pencak Silat sport fighting or Tanding as governed by PERSILAT (International Pencak Silat Federation).  This course teaches you the basics of being a judge in a Pencak Silat tournament. The 9 chapters includes a brief overview, valid attacks, Illegal moves, outfit, the arena, referees and judging, popular Silat techniques, rules of the match and more!  This course dissects real Tanding matches from international Pencak Silat competitions for a full emersive learning experience. 

Jury Training for Tanding

This course for individuals who would like to become a certified Juror for Tanding or Pencak Silat sport fighting. Once  you pass the exam you will be a certified Juror (Juri) under the USA Pencak Silat Federation.  The course is designed to teach everything you need to know to score Tanding as governed by PERSILAT (International Pencak Silat Federation). It dissects real Tanding matches from Pencak Silat international competitions for a full emersive learning experience.  The 13 chapters include: scoring, officials for Tanding, before the Pesilat enters the arena, match rounds and timings, Jury procedure for entering the arena, Athlete procedure for entering the arena, competition commands “Aba Aba”, procedures for jury verification, declaring the winner of the match, common actions needed for verification, awarding penalties, proper scoring in Tanding. Prerequisite:  Understanding Tanding

 

Tanding Training

This course is on Tanding or Pencak Silat Sparring. This course contains over 3 hours of detailed instructions on the most popular techniques used in Tanding. If you are new to martial arts, this course will get you started in an amazing martial art that is effective and unique. If you are coming from another martial art such as Karate, Taekwondo, Muay Thai or even Judo or Brazilian Jujistu, you will find these techniques easy to learn. If you are an instructor or a coach and would like to incorporate Sport Silat into your curriculum, or even develop a team, this course will definitely help you. In each video, we first show you the technique performed in an actual match executed by experienced competitors of the sport. Then, we will learn the technique by go into the detail of the principles and mechanics of each technique. Finally I will show show you how to practice and refine the technique, including some really cool drills.