Budo international Martial Arts Magazine Jul.-Aug. 2014 | Page 182

What is Panantukan Concept? Panantukan Concept "the unlimited fighting art" is my way of looking at unarmed self-defense. The name stands for "concept-based unlimited fighting". I did not mean to create a new system when I devised Panantukan Concept, I just came up with curricula, teaching methods, techniques and exercises for our SAMI trainers and schools. The unlimited fighting art Panantukan Concept does not exclusively focus on "dirty" boxing, it rather covers all areas of self-protection. What most people find so fascinating about the system are its varied and unlimited training options. We cover it all: from limitless boxing techniques to the use of all body weapons (open hands, forearms, fists, legs, knee, head-butts, shoulders), destruction concepts, infight training, third party protection, defensive against more than one aggressors, offensive concept, and very important! - unlimited, unrestricted defense. Why Panantukan Concept? Like for all our systems, we use the term "Concept" to make it very clear that Panantukan can be taught as an integral system. I share Bruce Lee's philosophy that one shouldn't allow oneself to be forced into fixed shapes, but should rather be able to adapt to necessities and to create something